Oh but I had to get this out now, given we have quite a few treats between now and xmas. Patrons have voted for a bunch of stuff and we even have some more of those pesky 'industry exclusives'.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R's Alife system predates Left 4 Dead (Albeit barely) which seems to use a similar mechanism to those you described for Assassin's Creed - out of sight AI switches to a less demanding AI mechanism but otherwise continues to exist. I find Alife extra fascinating as - while Assassins Creed tends to be open world now without distinct levels, S.T.A.L.K.E.R's was still heavily level based, and these Alife agents (Both human and wildlife) could freely wander between levels. You could watch a guy walk through a level transition, then find him on the other side going to wherever he was going prior.
Please look at the AI of Risk of Rain 2. It allegedly mixes the director with a timer to increase difficulty and makes for an awesomely chaotic experience.
I am still incredibly annoyed whenever the director AI spawns a damn jockey or a charger just behind a door or wall two feet near you. It gives you little to no chance of ever detecting both special infected which is unfair in my opinion
@@cass7448 unfortunately we will never get a sequel cause Sega says that they almost hit break even for the game. they game was not profitable enough to go for a sequel ;-;
Another game that deserves a mention is Rimworld with it's AI Storytellers, where you can choose from Cassandra Classic, a standard director that maintains a level headed approach when it comes to ruining your day by gradually increasing the pace of events, Phoebe Chillax who will keep things relaxed and won't throw too many disasters at your colony, or Randy Random who just wants to see the (your) world burn, there have also been many custom made Storytellers by the community.
I think the STALKER franchise was the first to use a living world AI system like in the new AC games. It was pretty cool, AI could encounter each other in the world, trade, fight, or just simply say hi as they walk past. They could hunt, search for artifacts, take over outposts, and some mods even enable them to complete quests independently of the player.
Knowing too much about how the AI in Alien Isolation works does mess with the experience. I usually save crossing open areas or doing tasks for right after the Xeno has buggered off because the fear meter got too high.
Sadly I don’t think the AI in Phasmo is that advanced. They just do some preset things and have a set chance to do things. At least back when your comment was made. Made they’ve made It More advanced since then
A friend and I like to "speed run" expert L4D1. It's wild how the director tries to screw you over if you go too fast. Sometimes 2 Tanks will spawn during 1 level, other times 2 Tanks will be active at the same time.
the good thing is that the director follow the rules of the game it will not right up kill you, it will just do what it can in the rules it can follow, is the player running can i spawn a tank? does he keep runnig? im allowed to spawn another tank? how much should i wait before i can spawn another one and so on, he trys to screw you but he follow rules and thats what i love about it, he also is not trying to kill you cause he can give you medkits and give you long breaks he just make sure the game is experienced the right way.
Not necessarily a criticism of the (good) video, but I'm kind of surprised you didn't mention Resident Evil 4. They used a director in a similar fashion to L4D to keep skilled players engaged and help dial back the stress for players struggling with the difficulty and QTEs. It's almost like an accessibility slider that does all the work for you. GMTK did a wonderful video on it and I think about how many games could benefit from a similar implementation.
The Vermintide series is also a good example of AI director as afaik its similar to the one in L4D. There's fixed/predictable events but most of the plays is different between sessions.
Creating complex and balance AI director can be very challenged in development. It works well to offer different and dynamic experience to players going from pint A to B scenario. Hope to see more games apply full potential of AI director.
I wouldn't even call it a "philosophy". I would call it the most straightforward approach to tuning/controlling what's going on in the game to ensure players are in the state of flow, ideally at all times. It's also kind of a complete opposite to systemic design/approach, in that in systemic/simulationist approach one would simulate the elements in the hope of getting interesting emergent situations, but with a director one just decides to create an "emergent-looking situation" from top-down - "okay, I want to make player face this. what are the requirements? what elements and systems in what configuration do i need to spawn where for the emergent-looking situation to work?
This is the first video I’ve seen from this channel, and I’m already liking it It looks really well made and edited while also having some humor in it Great work (Oh, and a little nitpick, but I think you messed up the number in the thumbnail, it says “06” when it’s supposed to be episode 56)
Kind of curious about how RE4 did its AI. It tried to maintain what Mikami called 'flow', and from the sound of it, it would have needed a director to do that. Probably a more rudimentary example but it's one of my favourite games, so I'm interested in learning more about how it works internally.
Doing an episode on Payday 2 would be interesting. The AI in that game has a ridiculous amount of hidden features that you don't really notice at first glance, like, the police being scared and running away if you shoot at them, or hit them but don't kill them, or, the whole way they react to hostages verbally and delay the Police Assault as a result
The Director AI is the worst. I remember playing L4D/2, on any difficulty at random gameplay, it will continually trigger Incoming Attack, not event trigger or those blockade. It's just when you are normally traversing across a map. High HP? Incoming Attack. Low HP? Incoming Attack. Just clear a horde? Incoming Attack. Just inside safe room and bar not lifted? Incoming Attack. Just exited safe room? Incoming Attack. I thought it's just for that map, nope, it's the entire campaign--or rather the lobby. I had to quit and create another lobby. Once again, I thought this was exclusive to console, nope, it's also on the PC.
I have been playing Left 4 Dead 2 for years now accumulating hundreds of hours and is one of my fave game. Every playthrough is a unique experience no matter how many times we've played the same map.
I don't know if is me but, sadly to advance in Valve games, you should be some a kind of a mediocre player until the point to the A.I thinks "Hmm i should have to help this player", and that's bad, because if for some reason you manage to discover a way to advance quick (L4D), or make easy money (Dota) or make a good strategy (CS), or practically being a good player, you reward to be a experimented player is: fuck you! get stuck, you don't gain nothing for know all the quirks of the game, and items, lore, last patches, because anything you do, will be overshadowed for what the director thinks is "fair"... Yeah fair to the stupid flow of the game, but i don't want that, i want to know my invested time and experience actually serves to ME, to something i can actually exploit in MY benefit, REAL benefit. Don't get me wrong, i love L4D 1 and 2, and DOTA 2, there are great games, but is really discouraging when you invest so much time, and get nothing in return or something what you don't expect.
Very very interesting, thank you for sharing all these informations Btw. I dont know if this was intended, but Id like to watch your playlists from the first to last episode. The way you sorted at least this one is from last to first and I cant change that manually as a viewer.
Different NPC's spawning in different sectors was in games since GTA 3 or maybe even the 2d ones. Virtualization where NPC's are active but not spawned has been at least since Stalker Clear Sky. You could track them via the map while they went around their business even across completely different and unloaded maps and meet them if you want.
Yep, "S.T.A.L.K.E.R."'s A-LIFE system really nice! But I think it's not about "balancing" gameplay like a "director" systems mentioned in the video, it's more about raw AI simulation experience.
There is something about Director AI as a concept that makes me puke... It babysits your experience and kills emergence somewhat... systemic gaming should be the future. Director AI feels related to AI cheating & jump scares...
I can see your viewpoint, on the other hand, very large, open games like far cry 5 obviously profit from such a system. Rather than viewing it as an experience babysitter (you're the action star all the time, gotta toss stuff your direction) its a rational way of handling content and interaction at all in a very large sandbox environment where more and more happens procedurally rather than scripted. The key is to not make it seem like you are the action star (unless you aim towards the simple crowd) but use the director as a means of achieving huge diversity within a large but naked playing field. L4D is kinda unique though, and the director is kinda the gimmick of the game (is why i installed it, and the guns feel good). I agree it could suck if it became the norm, unless of course it was terribly well hidden.
@@megalonoobiacinc4863 I guess to me learning is an important part of playing a game... Thats why I like games that have realism and are more like simulations. To me fun is derived from that... Director AI, everything is designed/linear etc.. short cuts that and just throws sugar/dopamin moments at you. It's like a Marvel movie: Emotional sugar not interlectuall depth... GTA Online pisses me off because it is 95% simulation and then something like the spawning system, player icons on map and other gameplay arbitrariness break that totally. Fun should be emergend not planned and it has this weird being treated like a dog/rat kind off feel to it. Director AI feels like a business decision not a product optimization... to sell more candy and have positive hooking moments for players fast... who cares if they get sick of it after they bought it 4 weeks in.... next DLC promises the next hit... its hedonistic gamedevelopment?!
0:43 For the life of me i cannot find the console command that let me see the zombie locations (the white dots when they are idle) and all that information as the player move. I'd would love to see how the game react to my actions.
I'd definitely like to hear more about Rocksmith. I used to play my guitar a lot but now I mainly just game, so some inspiration to get into rocksmith would help. The only reason I never got it was because I wasn't sure if it would be worth buying the peripheral for
talking about AI and not digging into Stalker franchise? C'on, you really need to do your research how Stalker was built (and how the AI systems are crippled in order for the game to work).
I'm assuming that system you mentioned in newer Assassin's Creed games that has AI characters remember you and such used the same or similar system that the Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor/War did with the Uruk generals? It sounds very similar at least.
What about how left for dead the director changes the map routes and health spawns. Is it entirely random what route it picks and if not can you "trick" the director to get a desired outcome?
it does waht it can, its not supossed to cheat and don't allow the player to have skill tho, it does spawn hordes and mobs but it don't cheat then, if the player have the skill to kill the hunter it will kill the hunter.
Been watching a lot of your clips with great interest as they have fundamentally helped shaped the various AI we are employing in Project Titan. We have a multi-tiered GOAP based system that broadly follows the chain of command within the game and feeds down to a number of behavioural trees on each of the units for more tactical decision making. We are also using a few directors to manage the overall consistency of pace and threat and A* for solving a range of navigational problems... I would love to get the development of our game on your radar as it combines, what we think is a fairly unique mix, of real time strategy element along with features more at home in action games -if you get chance, have a look at the TH-cam and Facebook pages for it and I am more than happy to have a conversation around any areas we could expand or refine.... Keep up the awesome work! :-)
ensuring players play along the rules, huh? i wonder what speedrunners think of that 😎. sounds like could make for some pretty interesting interactions.
I like Back for Bloods director much better. Having that much variety in gameplay like playing in the dark or fog, birds, different variety of zombies makes for a great gameplay experience. They just need to tone down the spawn of special infected a little lol
But Tommy, it's not even Christmas! You need to stop spoiling us like this! Always a pleasure to see an AI 101.
Oh but I had to get this out now, given we have quite a few treats between now and xmas. Patrons have voted for a bunch of stuff and we even have some more of those pesky 'industry exclusives'.
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I think L4D’s Director is a big reason why that game was so much fun.
"This design choice is the sole reason why you can play L4D2, 11 years later, and not get bored immediately."
- The Act Man
@@reptiliannoizezz.413 honestly left 4 dead is better than call of duty zombies. L4D is the best zombie experience I’ve had
"Was so much fun", that game is still fun. 2 is just better.
"was"? it still is!
the Assassin's Creed series AI director evolution would be a pretty interesting video
I really want you to do the STALKER A-Life system now :P !
I like how you've done another video on Left 4 Dead's AI director after the game has become popular again due to the recent update.
Its been a very long time since I've played a game and went, wow thats great ai
If you haven't, look into AI Dungeon
it is an interesting project that I find enjoyable
where are my vermintide bros when the elf runs ahead and the ai spawns 3 assassin rats
S.T.A.L.K.E.R's Alife system predates Left 4 Dead (Albeit barely) which seems to use a similar mechanism to those you described for Assassin's Creed - out of sight AI switches to a less demanding AI mechanism but otherwise continues to exist. I find Alife extra fascinating as - while Assassins Creed tends to be open world now without distinct levels, S.T.A.L.K.E.R's was still heavily level based, and these Alife agents (Both human and wildlife) could freely wander between levels. You could watch a guy walk through a level transition, then find him on the other side going to wherever he was going prior.
Why hasn’t there been another game like L4D where the director decides the path of the player depending on different circumstances?
I imagine it ups production time and cost quite a bit, but it would definitely be a great idea to expand on.
wow... 12 years later and left 4 dead still looks great
I love this channel. I have not gotten around to binge it, but big thanks to the Scotsman in apparent charge
This channel deserves more views and subs tbh
Resident Evil 4 does some difficulty adjustments on the fly to help-challenge the player.
Fascinating. Like commented and subscribed 👍
singleplayer strategy games are in serious need of a director AI to provide more challenges if you are already steamrolling
Please look at the AI of Risk of Rain 2. It allegedly mixes the director with a timer to increase difficulty and makes for an awesomely chaotic experience.
I'm not gay, (kinda,) but I can listen to this man talk all day.
I am still incredibly annoyed whenever the director AI spawns a damn jockey or a charger just behind a door or wall two feet near you. It gives you little to no chance of ever detecting both special infected which is unfair in my opinion
Do you have full captions enabled? That should help at least a little bit.
I love this
I'll determine how much cocaine is in my game, thank you
GET TUDA CHOPPA
I’m claiming m AI director to be the worst....
if it were upto me, you can keep talking about alien isolation ai all day every day
I second that
I third that
Forth that
Damn it I want a sequel so much.
@@cass7448 unfortunately we will never get a sequel cause Sega says that they almost hit break even for the game. they game was not profitable enough to go for a sequel ;-;
Another game that deserves a mention is Rimworld with it's AI Storytellers, where you can choose from Cassandra Classic, a standard director that maintains a level headed approach when it comes to ruining your day by gradually increasing the pace of events, Phoebe Chillax who will keep things relaxed and won't throw too many disasters at your colony, or Randy Random who just wants to see the (your) world burn, there have also been many custom made Storytellers by the community.
Maybe I'm just the luckiest person alive or maybe I just don't play long enough, but I always pick randy and it feels pretty normal
@@nomad5544 You're definitely lucky, Randy is the embodiment of chaos.
@@nomad5544 I have the same experience. I think we're just too good c;
Wow, that cocain comment...
I'm waiting for Bobby Kotick to prove me wrong.
yeah, I had to rewind to make sure I heard that correctly. xD
@@Knuckx117 Oh I heard it correctly the first time, but still listened to it twice more just for the laughs! :D
there might not be that much cocaine but the heroin, oops, I mean, Adrenaline shots, make up for it.
I think the STALKER franchise was the first to use a living world AI system like in the new AC games. It was pretty cool, AI could encounter each other in the world, trade, fight, or just simply say hi as they walk past. They could hunt, search for artifacts, take over outposts, and some mods even enable them to complete quests independently of the player.
I always love to hear anything about L4D’s AI director.
This is great! I'm actually working with valve for my PhD looking at the director, it's a great piece of design.
How's that coming along? Wishing you the best of luck!
Is it Cthulu?
The mention of AC Odyssey's NPC memory and Witcher's spawn trees intrigued me. Do you have any recommendations for further reading on either of those?
Love this channel. Keep up the good work!
Knowing too much about how the AI in Alien Isolation works does mess with the experience. I usually save crossing open areas or doing tasks for right after the Xeno has buggered off because the fear meter got too high.
Have you thought about looking at Phasmiphobia? I'd love to hear a break down of the AI in that game.
Sadly I don’t think the AI in Phasmo is that advanced. They just do some preset things and have a set chance to do things. At least back when your comment was made.
Made they’ve made
It
More advanced since then
gas station explode
zombie: not my problem
start the lift
zombie: ok you ask for this
*Thousands of gunshots*
Zombies: I sleep
*Like 5 crows croaking*
Zombies: REAL SHIT?!
A friend and I like to "speed run" expert L4D1. It's wild how the director tries to screw you over if you go too fast. Sometimes 2 Tanks will spawn during 1 level, other times 2 Tanks will be active at the same time.
the good thing is that the director follow the rules of the game it will not right up kill you, it will just do what it can in the rules it can follow, is the player running can i spawn a tank? does he keep runnig? im allowed to spawn another tank? how much should i wait before i can spawn another one and so on, he trys to screw you but he follow rules and thats what i love about it, he also is not trying to kill you cause he can give you medkits and give you long breaks he just make sure the game is experienced the right way.
Not necessarily a criticism of the (good) video, but I'm kind of surprised you didn't mention Resident Evil 4. They used a director in a similar fashion to L4D to keep skilled players engaged and help dial back the stress for players struggling with the difficulty and QTEs. It's almost like an accessibility slider that does all the work for you. GMTK did a wonderful video on it and I think about how many games could benefit from a similar implementation.
I would be interested in learning a bit about the AI storytellers in Rimworld.
I wanna see that!
Sounds like I'm about to be recruited for the Thieves Guild
The Vermintide series is also a good example of AI director as afaik its similar to the one in L4D. There's fixed/predictable events but most of the plays is different between sessions.
Creating complex and balance AI director can be very challenged in development. It works well to offer different and dynamic experience to players going from pint A to B scenario. Hope to see more games apply full potential of AI director.
I wouldn't even call it a "philosophy". I would call it the most straightforward approach to tuning/controlling what's going on in the game to ensure players are in the state of flow, ideally at all times. It's also kind of a complete opposite to systemic design/approach, in that in systemic/simulationist approach one would simulate the elements in the hope of getting interesting emergent situations, but with a director one just decides to create an "emergent-looking situation" from top-down - "okay, I want to make player face this. what are the requirements? what elements and systems in what configuration do i need to spawn where for the emergent-looking situation to work?
Please cover the AI of Phasmaphobia! it's such an interesting game with such a smart AI
I like films, but the roasts on the film industry were 🔥
This is the first video I’ve seen from this channel, and I’m already liking it
It looks really well made and edited while also having some humor in it
Great work
(Oh, and a little nitpick, but I think you messed up the number in the thumbnail, it says “06” when it’s supposed to be episode 56)
Kind of curious about how RE4 did its AI. It tried to maintain what Mikami called 'flow', and from the sound of it, it would have needed a director to do that. Probably a more rudimentary example but it's one of my favourite games, so I'm interested in learning more about how it works internally.
The first minute of this is just straight roasting other media and I’m here for it
Doing an episode on Payday 2 would be interesting. The AI in that game has a ridiculous amount of hidden features that you don't really notice at first glance, like, the police being scared and running away if you shoot at them, or hit them but don't kill them, or, the whole way they react to hostages verbally and delay the Police Assault as a result
The Director AI is the worst. I remember playing L4D/2, on any difficulty at random gameplay, it will continually trigger Incoming Attack, not event trigger or those blockade. It's just when you are normally traversing across a map.
High HP? Incoming Attack.
Low HP? Incoming Attack.
Just clear a horde? Incoming Attack.
Just inside safe room and bar not lifted? Incoming Attack.
Just exited safe room? Incoming Attack.
I thought it's just for that map, nope, it's the entire campaign--or rather the lobby. I had to quit and create another lobby. Once again, I thought this was exclusive to console, nope, it's also on the PC.
Can anyone recommend any resources that expand on the 'virtualization' of NPCs mentioned in this video? Not finding much in my searching. Thanks!
I have been playing Left 4 Dead 2 for years now accumulating hundreds of hours and is one of my fave game. Every playthrough is a unique experience no matter how many times we've played the same map.
Follow those rule eh tell that to those speed run people do solo run
I love watching the player get Rochelle killed by the witch behind the text starting at around 3:00.
I don't know if is me but, sadly to advance in Valve games, you should be some a kind of a mediocre player until the point to the A.I thinks "Hmm i should have to help this player", and that's bad, because if for some reason you manage to discover a way to advance quick (L4D), or make easy money (Dota) or make a good strategy (CS), or practically being a good player, you reward to be a experimented player is: fuck you! get stuck, you don't gain nothing for know all the quirks of the game, and items, lore, last patches, because anything you do, will be overshadowed for what the director thinks is "fair"... Yeah fair to the stupid flow of the game, but i don't want that, i want to know my invested time and experience actually serves to ME, to something i can actually exploit in MY benefit, REAL benefit.
Don't get me wrong, i love L4D 1 and 2, and DOTA 2, there are great games, but is really discouraging when you invest so much time, and get nothing in return or something what you don't expect.
Very very interesting, thank you for sharing all these informations
Btw. I dont know if this was intended, but Id like to watch your playlists from the first to last episode.
The way you sorted at least this one is from last to first and I cant change that manually as a viewer.
Risk of rain 2 has an excellent example of a director, with it's credit system for the director. This is an excellent video altogether.
considering the og thief series is one of the games with the best ai im baffled you havent covered them yet
Don't forget to like the video
I feel like Stalkers ALife system should have been mentioned. Any chance of a video on that?
Would be sweet with a video about Black & White's creature AI
Aside from Vermintide, World War Z, and all zombie/horde games for that matter utilizes some sort of Director AI
thats why this game is not boring because it will random spawn zombies unlike other games u know where the enemies are
Here before notifications catch up!! Will watch the video later :)
Great video. That game looks like a freaking nightmare to me. No thanks.
Different NPC's spawning in different sectors was in games since GTA 3 or maybe even the 2d ones. Virtualization where NPC's are active but not spawned has been at least since Stalker Clear Sky. You could track them via the map while they went around their business even across completely different and unloaded maps and meet them if you want.
Yep, "S.T.A.L.K.E.R."'s A-LIFE system really nice! But I think it's not about "balancing" gameplay like a "director" systems mentioned in the video, it's more about raw AI simulation experience.
What game is it from 10:28? With the bow.
You sound like Dr. Glen Pierce from superliminal
Direct all you want just don't startle the witch 😱
Your voice overs are so precise and informative.
Director AI isnt even real AI.
L4D'S director system is such a smart way of keeping things action packed
There is something about Director AI as a concept that makes me puke... It babysits your experience and kills emergence somewhat... systemic gaming should be the future.
Director AI feels related to AI cheating & jump scares...
I can see your viewpoint, on the other hand, very large, open games like far cry 5 obviously profit from such a system. Rather than viewing it as an experience babysitter (you're the action star all the time, gotta toss stuff your direction) its a rational way of handling content and interaction at all in a very large sandbox environment where more and more happens procedurally rather than scripted.
The key is to not make it seem like you are the action star (unless you aim towards the simple crowd) but use the director as a means of achieving huge diversity within a large but naked playing field.
L4D is kinda unique though, and the director is kinda the gimmick of the game (is why i installed it, and the guns feel good). I agree it could suck if it became the norm, unless of course it was terribly well hidden.
@@megalonoobiacinc4863 I guess to me learning is an important part of playing a game... Thats why I like games that have realism and are more like simulations. To me fun is derived from that... Director AI, everything is designed/linear etc.. short cuts that and just throws sugar/dopamin moments at you. It's like a Marvel movie: Emotional sugar not interlectuall depth...
GTA Online pisses me off because it is 95% simulation and then something like the spawning system, player icons on map and other gameplay arbitrariness break that totally. Fun should be emergend not planned and it has this weird being treated like a dog/rat kind off feel to it. Director AI feels like a business decision not a product optimization... to sell more candy and have positive hooking moments for players fast... who cares if they get sick of it after they bought it 4 weeks in.... next DLC promises the next hit... its hedonistic gamedevelopment?!
0:43
For the life of me i cannot find the console command that let me see the zombie locations (the white dots when they are idle) and all that information as the player move. I'd would love to see how the game react to my actions.
there is apparently a link to a page with the console commands in the description, white dots might be z_debug
You had me at “... a lot less cocaine...” 😂
I'd definitely like to hear more about Rocksmith. I used to play my guitar a lot but now I mainly just game, so some inspiration to get into rocksmith would help. The only reason I never got it was because I wasn't sure if it would be worth buying the peripheral for
talking about AI and not digging into Stalker franchise? C'on, you really need to do your research how Stalker was built (and how the AI systems are crippled in order for the game to work).
I'm assuming that system you mentioned in newer Assassin's Creed games that has AI characters remember you and such used the same or similar system that the Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor/War did with the Uruk generals? It sounds very similar at least.
If i'm not mistaken, Resident Evil 4 also uses an AI Director. I would love to see you break down how it works. Great job as usual!
Try to look a-life system in stalker franchise, it simulates behavior of npcs all across the game world( works best at call of pripyat and mods)
What about how left for dead the director changes the map routes and health spawns. Is it entirely random what route it picks and if not can you "trick" the director to get a desired outcome?
L4d's ai director always fascinated me
I'm surprised there was no mention of Risk of Rain 2. Despite that, great video!
please explore the session director for rocksmith, it sounds interesting
Would be cool to see how system works in games like Diablo
Been a while or is it just me?
One way or another, it's always nice to know one of your favorite creators hasn't merged with the great A.I in The sky!
It's been.... a good 6-7 weeks since the last video.
But - for reasons I can't talk about just yet - I'll be back... very soon!
4:07 The mask slips🍀
L4D2 AI really struggles to slow down a group of players sprinting through the level I feel, wish it had more capabilities to slow people down
it does waht it can, its not supossed to cheat and don't allow the player to have skill tho, it does spawn hordes and mobs but it don't cheat then, if the player have the skill to kill the hunter it will kill the hunter.
.. i wish i was punished for doing exactly what im suppose too lol 🤷🏻♀️ try dark souls? lol
Been watching a lot of your clips with great interest as they have fundamentally helped shaped the various AI we are employing in Project Titan. We have a multi-tiered GOAP based system that broadly follows the chain of command within the game and feeds down to a number of behavioural trees on each of the units for more tactical decision making. We are also using a few directors to manage the overall consistency of pace and threat and A* for solving a range of navigational problems... I would love to get the development of our game on your radar as it combines, what we think is a fairly unique mix, of real time strategy element along with features more at home in action games -if you get chance, have a look at the TH-cam and Facebook pages for it and I am more than happy to have a conversation around any areas we could expand or refine.... Keep up the awesome work! :-)
ensuring players play along the rules, huh? i wonder what speedrunners think of that 😎.
sounds like could make for some pretty interesting interactions.
>101
>topic is something only used a dozen or so times
I like Back for Bloods director much better. Having that much variety in gameplay like playing in the dark or fog, birds, different variety of zombies makes for a great gameplay experience. They just need to tone down the spawn of special infected a little lol
.. youre the only one lol
I could listen to you talk about ai directors all day. Your videos are so informative and brilliant!