It’s AI is actually really interestingly implemented. In most games involving stealth the AI knows where you are but is programmed to ignore you if you’re crouched in bushes or something. But in alien isolation it genuinely doesn’t know where you are, there is a master control AI that does no wjere you are and it directs the xenomorph to your approximate location, but then it has to use its AI to look for you.
I’m not quite sure what the advantage of doing it that way is but it’s certainly an interesting approach. Of course it’s not an original approach, left 4 dead did it decades ago but it is rarely done this way.
I’m not quite sure what the advantage of doing it that way is
If I had to guess, it just kept the programmers from being super lazy about it. If the individual enemy AI doesn’t have exact coordinates of the player, it actually has to move around, search a space, potentially manipulate the environment, and possibly fail to find the player, versus doing what is effectively an idle animation while waiting for the player to step out of cover.
It’s AI is actually really interestingly implemented. In most games involving stealth the AI knows where you are but is programmed to ignore you if you’re crouched in bushes or something. But in alien isolation it genuinely doesn’t know where you are, there is a master control AI that does no wjere you are and it directs the xenomorph to your approximate location, but then it has to use its AI to look for you.
I’m not quite sure what the advantage of doing it that way is but it’s certainly an interesting approach. Of course it’s not an original approach, left 4 dead did it decades ago but it is rarely done this way.
If I had to guess, it just kept the programmers from being super lazy about it. If the individual enemy AI doesn’t have exact coordinates of the player, it actually has to move around, search a space, potentially manipulate the environment, and possibly fail to find the player, versus doing what is effectively an idle animation while waiting for the player to step out of cover.
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