Grundbegriff on 29/12/2001 at 00:46
Post your screenshots that illustrate the, erm...,
limits of AI. Here's an example:
<img src=http://pantheon.yale.edu/~dcbyron/screenshots/aimoment.jpg>
twisty on 30/12/2001 at 06:43
Sarcasm aside, one of the things that really impressed me about the AI in Deus Ex was how people would react to having things thrown at them, or near them. I've never seen that done in a game before. There were, however, some really bad moments in AI. I'm replaying it at the moment and have been trying different things out without saving: In the lucky money club, for example, I decided to kill all of the bodyguards. No-one seems to mind and just wait patiently for their turn to die.
Burt on 4/3/2002 at 21:39
So?
Every game has flaws... not even Thief is perfect, I can think of a whole bunch of faults in the Thief AI...
stop whining, it ain't gonna make the AI any better.
-Burt
Amorpheus on 4/3/2002 at 22:06
I *love* holograms that run away from you. :cheeky:
ToolHead on 4/3/2002 at 23:16
Burt wrote:
Quote:
(...) stop whining, it ain't gonna make the AI any better.I don't see anyone whining.
And Grundbegriff: that was hilarious. :thumb:
Azal on 5/3/2002 at 11:45
This is really more of a "What the...?" caused by the programmers than the fault of the AI, but should still find a spot of its own in this sort of thing:
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Inline Image:
http://www.gsat.edu.au/~users/AZA/Deus_Ex/hongkong.jpg</center>
I should note that this conversation is going on right at the very top of one of the tallest building at the Wang Chun Market area (or whatever its called) and
not, as Max seems to think, in the Lucky Money Club.
And Max keeps the Komedy Gold coming with this zinger:
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Inline Image:
http://www.gsat.edu.au/~users/AZA/Deus_Ex/hongkong1.jpg</center>
tripwood on 6/3/2002 at 18:51
something happened to me that was pretty weird. yknow that fat dude in new york you have to protect from majestic 12 soldiers? for some reason he was invincible, and a security bot came around, and started shooting him relentlessly, while he was just putting his hands behin his head and crouching. he must have got at least a thousand bullets in himself but still kept on crouching. what a soldier. :thumb:
ToolHead on 11/3/2002 at 22:42
Two memorable scenes from a recent replay of DX: (no screenshots, I'm afraid)
Vandenberg - Gas: Something occured to me on the way to rescuing Tiffani Savage; what if I KOed her? I've never seen AIs attack other unconscious AIs. So my idea was as follows: Open the roof hatch to Tiffani's cell, tranq her and then deal with the guards afterwards without having to worry about them killing her. So, I trancqed her - and she ran out of the cell only to be killed by the plasma guard outside.
OK - fine. She found it hard to understand that I was shooting her little neck full of tranquilizer darts for her own good. OK - I can see how that might be misunderstood.
So, I dropped a gas grenade down the hatch to keep her from running away and then whacked her unconscious with the baton. Worked perfectly.
So there I was in the cell (coughing rather nastily on account of all the gas still in there...), waiting for the MIB to open the cell door to see what was happenening (and thereby getting the surprise of his life), when Jock announces that "A female just went down" and that he'll think of a way to break the news to Savage Sr.
Yes, that is one hell of a task, I can see. "Dr. Savage? This is Jock - you know, JC's pilot? I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your daughter is unconscious. She's alive, not in any danger whatsoever, and JC's taking care of her, but she's unconscious. I'm so sorry. JC did all he could. We'll just leave her here, shall we?"
That was a bit disappointing.
Sub Base - In one of the rooms in the first tower, I nailed a guard in the head with a thowing knife, wounding him. To which he responded: "Sergeant? Is that you?"
Now, I don't know how the sergeant in question generally treats his soldiers, but he sounds like a pretty nasty guy....
ICEBreaker on 15/3/2002 at 00:05
I think DX would have been even more fun had they taken into account of unconscious people. Only in a few places does the fact that someone is unconscious gets taken into account.
jim the hairy on 25/3/2002 at 16:21
Damn right. I cattle-prodded JoJo when he attacked whatsisface at the hotel. I was quite amused when later, in a fit of pique at Paul's getting himself killed for the n'th time, went back to the office and emptied a clip into his head as he lay there snoring. The place looked like a slaughterhouse, but he still registered on the HUD as "Unconscious"! (I reloaded; I'm not normally a cruel person).
