Chocobo Companion AI is Awful

[Fyrebrand]

OMG, something seriously needs to be done about Chocobo Companions. It is easily the game's worst feature, and proabably one of the worst-implemented features in all of MMORPGs. And not just for the shoddy AI the Chocobo has, but because it's also completely incompatible with the rest of the game. Can't summon mounts with it. Can't queue in DF. It's like the people who coded Chocobo Companion had never even heard of FFXIV.

I swear when SE introduced the choco companion system, they mentioned that the chocobo would be controlled through "gambits"; I was hoping this would be similar to the system used in FFXII as opposed to the simplistic mess they have now.

FFXII's Gambit system is seriously amazing. If any game has to have some kind of pet/ally AI, I want this to be the standard. Dragon Age has a similarly excellent system.

Don't forget the way chocobos react on those leves where you have to /soothe something to pacify it. I always put it on healer mode because it's screwed me a few times on ones where one death means failure.

This is exactly what came to mind for me when I saw this thread. What gets me is, if you Sleep a target, the chocobo will stop attacking it. So, it's perfectly easy for them to script the AI so that it recognizes certain status effects and lays off if an enemy has a specific status. When you /soothe a monster, it gets a "pacified" status or something like that. How hard is it to just apply the same behaviour to that, as it does to Sleep status!? I may not be a professional game designer or programmer, but I'm pretty sure this is not rocket science.

[Ilenya]

OMG, something seriously needs to be done about Chocobo Companions. It is easily the game's worst feature, and proabably one of the worst-implemented features in all of MMORPGs. And not just for the shoddy AI the Chocobo has, but because it's also completely incompatible with the rest of the game. Can't summon mounts with it. Can't queue in DF. It's like the people who coded Chocobo Companion had never even heard of FFXIV.

I most certainly can summon a mount with my chocobo out. It's called using the right mount calling option and not the roulette.

[Coatl]

You can only summon the chocobo mount if your have your companion out.