(10-23-2012, 11:28 AM)Hirnwirbel Wrote: Yes, Amnesia depended quite heavily on the player willingly "playing along", that is, on him pretenting that the monsters were smarter than they actually were and that dieing was an actual threat (which it wasn't). But I think that's okay. Most games require some suspension of disbelief and if someone's trying too hard to break the game then he wasn't willing to immerse himself anyway

Still, a bit of AI improvement won't hurt, especially in places where their dumbness decreases immersion. (Pathfinding etc) But keep in mind - if the monsters become too smart they could also ruin the experience because they become too unpredictable for the person designing the level and fleeing or hiding from them could be too hard thus making the player die too often.

I mean think about it: Having the monster for example search every possible hiding spot in a room after breaking the door sounds awesome in theory. But in practise all it means is that you'll either have chase sequences all the time because the player has to jump out of his hiding spot and run or that the player will get killed every time he tries to hide somewhere. But if you make the monster so that it only ever searches the places where the player isn't, players will notice that what seems like intelligent behaviour is nothing but a facade.

Its a problem with stealth games in general. Most maneuvers from stealth games would be near impossible to pull off in real life because they depend on the enemies being somewhat stupid and predictable. If a real life security guard heard a suspicious sound, he wouldn't have a half-hearted look around and then simply forget about it. He'd search the whole damn place and he'd probably also have a pretty good idea of where he would try to hide if he was the intruder

(10-23-2012, 09:05 AM)Dutton Wrote: If A Machine for Pigs is an "Expantion pack" for Amnesia, woudln't it be wierd to release yet another demo?

Quote: Another thing which is a running occurrence is that they NEVER LOOK UP! They could save themselves a lot of trouble if they did that in their relaxed mode.

Quote: Though this would make the monsters even more scary, because that would force the developer to rarely use monsters.

Quote:Re-capturing the unpredictability that Amnesia gradually lost is high on
thechineseroom’s priority list. Enemy AI is being tweaked, to ensure
players can’t use their experience from the first game to tackle
problems presented in the second. “How perceptive are the enemies going
to be? How fast are they going to move? How do they react to sound?”
muses Pinchbeck. “We’ve played around with stuff like 360-degree
perception, just to try and stop the player from being able to predict
what’s going to happen in the game on the basis of what happened in The
Dark Descent.”

(10-23-2012, 01:07 PM)Kein Wrote:

(10-23-2012, 09:05 AM)Dutton Wrote: If A Machine for Pigs is an "Expantion pack" for Amnesia, woudln't it be wierd to release yet another demo?

You confused it with Justine. The latter is an example of EP.

(10-23-2012, 03:09 AM)darkely Wrote: I'll try to translate...

This is not my question but...

In my opinion the lighting and physics of the monsters need to be improved, the monsters ai is bad, one passed in front of me but did not see nor attack me. Another time I take cover with a box and they simply don't attack me.

Please don't be negative about my opinion.

(10-23-2012, 05:12 PM)CorinthianMerchant Wrote: Do you know what you need to improve?

Your grammar.

My now opinion...

IS My opinion now...