Originally posted by Marshmallow_Fox:

I don't think you're aware of the world of hurt this task would be for anyone trying to implement sensible AI partners into a survival game of this nature.

This isn't like an Age of Empires game where it's simple pathing and tasks on a 2D plane, and even in those games, the AI very often gets stuck, picks the worst or impossible path to reach a destination, or needs to continually be manually controlled because they forget what they're doing or can't figure out how to get there.

Daikatana

Is Daikatana *really* the example you want to give for doing anything right in a video game?

Or I hope the subtext is "It could be as bad as Daikatana."

Im definitely not interesting in automation

I don't think you're aware of the world of hurt this task would be for anyone trying to implement sensible AI partners into a survival game of this nature.

This isn't like an Age of Empires game where it's simple pathing and tasks on a 2D plane, and even in those games, the AI very often gets stuck, picks the worst or impossible path to reach a destination, or needs to continually be manually controlled because they forget what they're doing or can't figure out how to get there.

NPC's we can control go against the storyline.

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

NPC's we can control go against the storyline.

True, but it's not like the story line is the big deal of this game. They could introduce a non-story mode with all the same features and it would still be the same game.

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

NPC's we can control go against the storyline.

Did you know the devs actually make up the story? They can change it to suit whatever gameplay improvements they want.