#WE NEED TO GO DEEPER AI CREW CODE#

The company’s “Rich Presence” SDK enables game studios to hook their games into Discord to provide player status information as well as options to join or watch your friends.ĭiscord has always been able to tell you when your friends were in certain games, but it has then expected you to work with your fellow players to set up a party or separate multiplayer session. I spend more time in Discord than I do in Steam these days, and the social platform has introduced a new tool for game developers to better serve players like me. Once that gold bit is explained well enough, I think we'll be on track to have bots pick it up without making a raucous.Interested in learning what's next for the gaming industry? Join gaming executives to discuss emerging parts of the industry this October at GamesBeat Summit Next. I'd be cool with that as long as we can visually show in-game that when someone picks up gold, everybody gets the exact same share (and the share doesn't divide with more players).

I know it's also been suggested that bots be able to pick up gold as well. Yeah we can probably do that without too much trouble. Oh - almost missed one of the suggestions. Medpacks, syringes, wrenches, swords, and the like are all planned for the bots though! Turns out it's just a super suuuper hard one to solve. well, Valve never solved that problem even with Left 4 Dead (bots will never use a pipe bomb in L4D). It will take a really rough amount of rewrites and new logic to get them able to do arm pointing in the way that your player can, and making strategic decisions about where to throw a bomb.

One caveat to this is that we don't plan to have bots that carry shooting items (guns, chem kit, dynamite) unless it's something the community desperately needs. We don't ever want bots to be able to pick up items in caves because we will neeeeeeveeeerrrrr hear the end of the complaints about a bot stealing an item, BUT we can definitely get that diverse crew built out in a way that suits you as well. When it's a tough strategic decision for people, you can imagine how much you have to consider when writing it for a bot.īots with different items - totally planned as well! So the way we want to approach this is by allowing you to add in different bot types when add them to the lobby.

#WE NEED TO GO DEEPER AI CREW CODE#

I'm going to have to work pretty hard to figure out even safer power distribution logic - it went through 3 rewrites and is about 1200 lines of code now just to do what it does, and the other iterations were pretty dang unsavory.īots loading torpedoes - totally planned and my bad! I thought I could get that done before Saturday but as I said above, power management logic turned out to be a beast. They also can make some strange power decisions when you get off a console, for instance. We've been working on failsafes for this but there are probably still places where it's not all in place (I just realized that I forgot that failsafe in the power management task).

I think what you're seeing from time to time when they're just sitting there is that they got themselves into a pathfinding situation that they couldn't work themselves out of. There are definitely some bugs and generalized logic flaws with the current bot priorities.

We need to go deeper ai crew