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    Player Jynx's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Firon View Post
    I'm sorry it hardly anything awesome about any of the mobs A.I. efts or w/e going into active to attack you was not awesome it just let you get away from them...
    Yeah it's so much better that nothing even looks at you anymore and just has a 1000 yard stare..../sarcasm.

    It may have not been the best AI ever but it's the best I've seen in a MMO for monsters to actively target and track you, follow you with their heads, be alerted to sound and acting realistically instead of a blind monster...attacking everything that makes a sound.

    They were baby steps that probably had plans on expanding but once again the playerbase over-reacted to the launch shunning anything and everything to do with the game to hop on the "I hate ___ train" and the Mob AI was nixed when it was a feature that could have been so much more with a few tweaks.

    I'm still not sure why next to all behavioural traits were removed, I can understand the curious AI but everything else should have stayed intact hell most of them were athstetic more than practical, like the red crabs who would rear up on there legs when someone entered near their agro range.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jynx View Post
    Yeah it's so much better that nothing even looks at you anymore and just has a 1000 yard stare..../sarcasm.

    It may have not been the best AI ever but it's the best I've seen in a MMO for monsters to actively target and track you, follow you with their heads, be alerted to sound and acting realistically instead of a blind monster...attacking everything that makes a sound.

    They were baby steps that probably had plans on expanding but once again the playerbase over-reacted to the launch shunning anything and everything to do with the game to hop on the "I hate ___ train" and the Mob AI was nixed when it was a feature that could have been so much more with a few tweaks.

    I'm still not sure why next to all behavioural traits were removed, I can understand the curious AI but everything else should have stayed intact hell most of them were athstetic more than practical, like the red crabs who would rear up on there legs when someone entered near their agro range.
    Your making it sound like more than what it was every mob already tracks you with trier heads and stuff. The crab stuff was ok but how many of them did you normally encounter during the game? Cause last time i recall they were all 70+
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    Player Jynx's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Firon View Post
    Your making it sound like more than what it was every mob already tracks you with trier heads and stuff. The crab stuff was ok but how many of them did you normally encounter during the game? Cause last time i recall they were all 70+
    I encountered

    Marmots
    Funguar
    Wolf
    Antelope
    Qiqrin
    Efts

    all the time in the game. While a few had special agro mechanics that even when extremly high level allowed you to be around them if you had 2 brain cells to rub together.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jynx View Post
    I encountered

    Marmots
    Funguar
    Wolf
    Antelope
    Qiqrin
    Efts

    all the time in the game. While a few had special agro mechanics that even when extremly high level allowed you to be around them if you had 2 brain cells to rub together.
    none of that stuff made the actual fights more fun tho... Except fungars now that's good mob A.I but the rest was just shity aggro mechanics. Also Effts aggro you no matter what if you moved or not. I would love to see better A.I but what we had was shity.
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    Last edited by Firon; 04-08-2012 at 11:43 AM.