The AI are odd to me. I can either put my brain in a box mid-air and be entirely safe, using dummies with snipers that last until the end of time, or I can buy some big-ass robot with a machine gun and get mowed down in a matter of seconds by desert eagles if I get too close. There's no in between, and I think this is because the game's AI is lacking so things just die really quickly to increase threat.

Is there any way to get them to, you know, snipe me with their sniper instead of waiting until they can just bludgeon me to death with it?

Not really, at the moment, the AI is special with a capital RETARD, so your best bet is: theese guys viewtopic.php?f=61&t=17905&start=15 they have a special bit of sparkly magic that makes them hunt the nearest opponent.

Another thing about the AI is how they tend to kill each other if put too closely together... frying each others' heads off with jetpacks, randomly gibbing on contact, etc... this makes it hard to put many enemies in one spot.

I find it quite funny seeing them tumble around with out a clue, however on the last mission (assualt on preci- dummy 13) the AI are clever as to when they have spotted you they are clever and pick off you inside the base, before mounting a assault on your base.


Also, yeah, I won that mission because they killed themselves... somehow :3

maby you could make a lua script that will alter the units perceptiveness if an enemy unit is within a certain range?
it would be a good temp fix, assuming that you can access perceptiveness via lua.

That would make AI snipers pointless?

no, that would make ai snipers work.
meaning, the ai functions normaly close range, normaly medium range, but if the player is within a set distances, about sniping range, then the ais perceptiveness perks up to the necessary level. a clone with high perceptiveness that i made once, could shoot down ds's from half of flat zone large away, using a peacemaker. but that would make the ai too op. but if you have it raise to the proper level depending on distance, you could get a good sniper who isn't omnipotent all the time.

Guys, there's going to be an AI update function for actors next build, Dan said so himself.
You can do it now, but you also have to go to the extra hassle of disabling the current AI's idiocy.

oh data
you so noncommittal

Oh ♥♥♥♥ scratch that come back in 3 years, no AI update till then.
I love how he's just going to leave the current cpp AI in its current state by all indications.

Indeed. I almost don't want B24 to come out because I gather it will just bring in more questions about why X content that wasn't ready and why it won't be until Y time has passed.

I tried making advanced AI, but the function self:IsWithinRange(actor.pos) doesn't work yet, so its impossible to make enhanced AI that knows how to use sniper rifles, etc. We'll just have to wait for the next build.

That function isn't hard at all to recreate. You can get a HeldDevice's SharpLength, and you can easily check distance. You could even do a terrain check with some raycasts.

I'd like some craft AI that will avoid gently floating into open gaping holes in the surface of the planet to their death, as well as avoiding one another in the air to the best of their ability.

They already sort of avoid each other in mid-air.