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7 examples of game AI that every developer should study
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One aspect would be Gaia, the server-side AI that seeds mobs into the environment and is used to trigger certain events based on player population density and location.
The other would be the free-form pathing it worked on so that the mobs wouldn't have to rely on strict/baked paths to follow and could respond to the 3D nature of the environment more easily.
It's kind of trivial to point out, but the game engine was built with the ability to sculpt terrain meshes that can overhang and fold over itself rather than relying on doodads to create all of it (as compared to more traditional terrain engines that use a height map for a mesh and then all overhangs are created through the use of placed models and doodads). This presented a few issues when it came to the traditional use of pathing where they treated the underside of an overhang as a walkable surface just as much as the actual ground, so there was a secondary mechanic given for the pathing to define reachable terrain, and the auto-pathing of the mobs actually figures out the rest in real-time rather than using a baked navmesh layer.
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Ignoring that this thread is apparently a 3 years old necro post, most of what's mentioned about AI is something that's been explored for a while now. Like the cover system in Division being something that was already explored previously by the likes of Company of Heroes. Guessing the original author was just commenting within their scope of experience.
Hardware for AI computing has leaned on the power of, well, your compute processes. It's been a while since most games and engines have leveraged or supported CPU in the same measure as GPU hardware, with very few games even taking proper advantage of the various multicore setups that would be able to crunch such things pretty well.
Just putting focus into better engine optimization should help that out as far as client-based runtime AI is concerned.
Philosophy of MMO Game Design
Would that be fun, is the question.
Philosophy of MMO Game Design
Example being, you can break all common mob/AI behaviors into different lists, in order to have a fully functioning mob, they pull one attribute from each list.
A standard mob type could have a predefined set of those behaviors, and most mobs of that type will tend to have the same ones. But they may also express variance where a mob may randomly spawn with a different behavior from one or multiple of the lists. Where a certain mob type may normally be known for charging head-first, perhaps this one likes try and flank them.
Another thing is use of AI to enhance the world itself. Such as global AI similar to the AI Director from L4D mentioned above, but given a greater role of tracking and shaping game events and encounters from a similar set of lists as you may have built for the mobs. Procedurally generating activities for the players that relates to their present quest activites, professions, skills, achievements, etc.
What that "chip" is doingm is it's a set of "tensor cores" on the Turing GPU that can take interpreted inputs like an image that's been reduced to numeric data, and hold a series of those to compare against. Basically a set of matrices for deep-learning AI to take advantage of.
That benefits things in gaming like using an AI during development to create blends and environmental interactions out of IK rigs and scripted inputs, or teach an AI "director" how to better understand narrative structure for procedurally generating mission activities/quests. Doesn't really help you build an AI that needs to "see" and react in real-time.
As far as real-time AI goes, best bet is having a strong CPU that can run many compute processes at once.
Personally think its just because eve is seen as the little random relative that only appears at wedding and births
https://kotaku.com/devious-eve-online-ai-finally-defeated-by-hundreds-of-p-1795555590
just one example.
They have been running different / older types of AI to my knowledge fro 10 years or so that started with the WH / Drones that used to be able to change ammo / defences depending on damage type or ships attacking it.
But being able to create its own defence force depending on its attackers takes it to another level for me.
They have recently had athe Drifters attack players in a non scripted environment throughout the universe to the point that alliances had to stop fighting each other to kill the pve rats that were ganging up against the players
I know im a bit of a fanboy, but EvE still head an shoulders above any mmo for its player driven content , and now AI driven content, this to me is how a sandbox should be, the devs start the work then the game itself decides with no direction
This post is all my opinion, but I welcome debate on anything i have put, however, personal slander / name calling belongs in game
where of course you're welcome to call me names im often found lounging about in EvE online.
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Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.- FARGIN_WAR
The mobs are told how to act and vary depending on met conditions,there is no secret on how to make AI,making it good is the trick.
I actually like Atlas creature AI,i know what it is doing but still i like it.
I can explain how it works and never really seen any AI like this before.
First the creature "checks"your stats/ability.If you appear too tough it will hesitate or even run and considering ti might be a predator,that is a neat offering.Normally an AGGRO moba predator,you know those creatures often with a red hue/highlight to let you know they are aggressive are almost always simple aggro scripts,no thinking,just attack.
A perfect example is in the water in Atlas.A Shark will definitely come out of nowhere and attack you if you are weak,no real threat to the shark but if you are strong,have a strong weapon,you might hardly see a single shark .
Other neat ideas involve mobs that change their habits,like going from all melee to all magic.Another is to have changing resistances,that is of course IF a game actually utilizes resistances.
So there are 3 layers,your factor,armor,resistances,weapons,types of etc etc,the mobs factor,it's layered scripts,active and reactive,and deep systems that do checks offensively and defensively.Just writing a simple script is not nearly good enough if the rest of the code is too simple or sub par.
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The type of script i detest is locked in handcuffed type scripts,those are to me very lazy work.Example are Bosses that have set resistance damage,so you MUST do exactly 10k dmg every 10 secs or it regens back to full health,yuck crappy script.
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For example, let NPC crafters use the same system players use and then buy and sell at shops, creating a fluid economy. I'd hesitate to have the crafters going out in the world to collect resources, since that would compete with players, but the resource acquisition could be handled behind the scenes. Perhaps even supplied by players themselves in some cases. Shop owners could have lives separate from their shop during off times, and so as to allow night owl players to continue to play, shops could have shifts. When the day shift guy finishes, the night shift guy takes over and the day shifter can do whatever he wants. Go to a tavern for a bit, do some shopping of his own, and return home for example.
The long-standing problem with NPCs in MMOs is that they're either set dressing, quest dispensers, or vending machines. If each could be made with schedules, likes, dislikes, needs, and a little bit of chaos, it could make for truly emergent play.
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