NPC Idea Thread

[DarthDie]

This thread is for ideas that you guys would like me(or someone else) to add to NPCS...so far I have made stormtroopers duck when their enemy fires....and I would like to get some more ideas to try and add. It doesnt necessary have to be about stormtroopers...but I would like it to be at least around gun totin' NPCS.

[Maxstate]

Damn this could prove to be fun, well I'd love to have them run away from me when I run at swinging my saber them, or make them get knocked down when they fall from a great height.

 

Also make them aim a bit less ******* accurately.

[Wytchking]

Perhaps make them work better in squads or teams with proper formations

[DarthDie]

@Maxstate: 1. Good idea...thats on my todo list now 2. make them get knocked down when they fall down high? 3. Alrighty.

@Wytchking: I hope to in the end make them work in teams(squads w/e) with formations...but dont know when I will know enough todo that...just think of the fun if they worked in squads(and they were smart)

[razorace]

The current NPC behavior for large falls is to crater and die. I'm not sure we need a intermediate behavior for medium distances.

 

As for running away from attacking jedi, I'd make sure there's a moral check instead of 100% occurance. I know there's already a moral check for running away so maybe you could just modify that behavior a bit. It might be easiest to make it so that gunner NPC's moral falls faster than normal when their buddies get killed by jedi attacks.

[thrillhouse222]

I think it would be really cool, if when you were using force speed and you run into a storm trooper... he falls over like getting hit in football.

[DarthDie]

Hmm..dunno what do you guys think? I think it sounds fun *Evil smilie here*.

[razorace]

DD, That would involve altering the NPC_touch (or touch_NPC) function.

[DarthDie]

Well I would have prolly done if you were like...(estimated) 10 away from them and they had force speed . But i'll look into that...im sure my code will be better that way.

[razorace]

Yeah, touch is only called it the players actually touched each other

[DarthDie]

Anybody know anything about Navigation routing?

[Maxstate]

We would need the new Force speed though, I'm not gonna use it just to know them down

[TheShaman]

Yes a new burst speed which progressively drains force. Not 50 or 10, but like 1 every 1/10 second or so, according to the level.

[DarthDie]

I think that force speed should continue to drain force... you keep moving with force speed and i think it should continue to drain then.

[thrillhouse222]

what about some better hand to hand combat syles? like kicks and flips?

[DarthDie]

?You mean make stormtroopers be able todo melee?

[Wytchking]

How about making them seek cover when they have low health and perhaps make them search for you if they see a dead body.

[DarthDie]

First one...good idea i'll put it on my todo list...second one, I dont understand.

[thrillhouse222]

I think he means... if you kill a storm trooper... and another storm trooper sees the dead body... he puts eveyone on search mod... like metal gear solid would do.

[DarthDie]

Ok...but only if they dont see you already right? But good idea...on todo list

[Wytchking]

DarthDie, is there any chance you could improve the AI of the bots as well while your improving the NPCs

[DarthDie]

The NPC's and bots are 2 different things...so no not while improving the NPCS.

[razorace]

DarthDie, is there any chance you could improve the AI of the bots as well while your improving the NPCs

What kind of improvements?

 

*The bots are more my department

[Wytchking]

What kind of improvements?

 

Currently the bots constantly attack fake (I think thats right) and never kick

Never use guns or force powers (as I have already said in a different thread)

and their bot routing is fairly pathetic and very predictable with with the bots using only a few of the many routes through even the basic maps (though I was going to try and help correct that over my half term in a couple of days if my laptop holds together long enough)

 

As for futher ideas for the NPCs perhaps make some of the bounty hunter NPCs, for example, have a chance of running wjen you draw your lightsaber (alluding back to Kyle's comments in your initial force training)

[DarthDie]

Not a bad idea...i'll need to check out the bounty hunter NPC(s) first though.