Re: Lighthouse waypoint project -
09-05-2007
Thanks for the feedback.
in reply:
(1) I will be on the lookout for that allies sticking point.
(2) What you describe is a common problem in Fritzbot. When you sneak in you dynamite objectives that the bots do not view as active yet. In 2hide and Ammodepot I tried adding a defuse only action that was active from the start of the map, but the bots are still not brilliant at reacting to it if at all. What I can do is add roams to try to make the engineers periodically check on things but it robs bots from the defender's front line.
(3) Alas Bot behavior at high cliffs etc. when under fire is just plain kamikaze. They ignore waypoints when fighting and fake brushes feel, well FAKE. That is why I said on my web page that this map may never go past beta. It is also why I scripted in the ~sea level rear dynamite entry.
(4) I might be able to prevent them moving sideways or backwards with fake brushes but I can't prevent them falling on the main entrance ladder.
(5) In work not posted I tried moving the bots to focus on the cracked wall but both the bots climbing and defending end up jumping to their deaths. I may just have to allow the wall to be blown and make the allies defend from the inside.
(6) The doors may need a little tweaking and I could route a few bots to the second door of the spawn, but the door by the gate will still be a bottleneck (I could also route maybe a CVop through the ~sea level rear door but the length of the path disadvantages the allies).
Unfortunately I stopped working on this map because my changes started making things worse. I spent a day adding a model for the construction materials at the rear door and tweaking the clips and then misc stuff including the cracked wall. But then in testing some of those actions would become contrary to the logic in the Aiscript and I could not figure out why. So I will have to diff every thing, revert and the add them back in a bit at a time. Time consuming so its been pushed down on my list Sorry.
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