Petition: Bring back mob AI!

[syntaxlies]

would be nice if some mobs only ran from you when you were in active mode. This way you couldn't engage them without sneaking up on them. It would actually be kind of annoying but would add some depth to the game.

[Delmontyb]

I did like this, I didn't like how goats were everywhere and thus would all swarm you...

I hope they bring this back to some extent.

[Raze]

Curious Galagos are no longer curious. I should not have to wear a big yellow hat to have a monkey follow me. Please re-implement.

[Arximiro]

Agreed, this was a nice touch to have on the environment. Please bring it back and enhance it to encompass more monsters.

[Kio]

I could do without the mice running away when you weaponskill them, that was always a little annoying.. but I greatly miss the others, I really liked that touch of detail

It was slightly annoying, I agree. But I sort of saw that as part of the challenge in fighting that particular mob. It kinda offset the ease of defeating mice with the extra effort required to attack them.

Also, as someone mentioned within the thread, I think "scaring off" curious mobs by having a weapon drawn is a brilliant idea. For those who don't wish to collect a troop of monkeys at their feet as they explore, they could just run about with weapon drawn and gain no attraction.

[Raziel]

I can dig what you're saying! My only thing is the following of certain types... they get in my camera shot and annoy the crap out of me... so yeah drawing ones weapon should eradicate curiosity haha!

[Jynx]

I just wonder what the developers motivation was for changing some of the other mobs that were not curious but would alert you before attacking. What reason could they have had to remove those behaviours? Did the developers think that being able to skirt around efts in a dungeon was so bad they had to universaly change their behaviour?

[Razor]

I like the idea of active mode "scaring off" curious monsters and think it would be really interesting for it to work both ways. have a couple curious aggressive monsters that only check you out and follow you but don't attack... unless you draw your weapon. Would definitely spice things up.

[origamikitsune]

Mobs that follow you and run away when in active mode

Mobs that warn and eventually attack

Mobs that watch you when you are near

Mobs that do not aggro while in passive, but aggro if you are in active

Mobs that use defensive abilities but do not aggro

Mobs that "smart" link (example, you fight a nanny; only one billy goat will link thus raising difficulty, but NOT creating endless chains of links.

Mobs that weakness

Mobs that aggro yellow/red health

Mobs that aggro only at night

Mobs that aggro only at day

...on a full moon...

...in certain weather...

Mobs that run away when you use a weapon skill

Mobs that aggro DoW, but not DoM or DoM but not DoW (Or DoM at night, DoW at day, whatever)

That's just off the top of my head. Some of them from 11, some from pre-AI nerf, some new but found in other games, some already in the game. So many ways to spice things up. And that's not even getting into combat AI...

...Mobs that actively try to bind you and run away to /ra... but that's another thread.

[TessaJalloh]

signed this, i didn't like curious AI so much because of how far they followed you and how closely, but the rest of it i loved, gave a sense that these mobs were somewhat alive.