They aren't touching the AI.
News NPC AI, Engineers and Bi-Weave shields....
- Thread starter Zac Antonaci
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They aren't touching the AI.
Ubi maior, minor cessat
As it should, I felt like the AI was finally in its place among other commanders, and i didn't have beta to experience and test them out. I never really understood most of the complaints except the bugs and the lack of consistent rewards, that should've had priority instead of ridding modifications all together. I mean, all you need is a fair share of alpha, learn the weakpoints of each craft, observe your enemy and pick your engagement. Is that not combat and tactics?
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so back to old crap when you could farm npcs while watching stream from other monitor... Sorry but to me this is very sad news. I do admit that I might be bit more experienced but I didn't have any issues with current AI, didn't matter that all pirates etc where elite, it was fun change, I had to work to win them, with this after I get my ships modified it will become very very boring and that way takes reason to play this game.
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Hope so, ideally I'd like to see a system that keeps track of how many human commanders are using engineered modules and what is being used and then have the AI mirror similar numbers.
Thanks for the feedback FD
This ^^
Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
I sincerely hope they don't.
Removing Engineered weaponry (that may be the source of the "rate-of-fire" bugs) will hopefully deal with a significant part of the issue.
You can chek it Zac I've been killed by NPC just 5 times since early Beta, the last time was by a BOOSTED NPC which tear me to rags in seconds in a Vulture, while I'm in a well fitted Python.
Thats right mate.
Ok then, if whiners forced FD to nerf the NPC i officialy declare becoming a griefer. If they dont want new NPC then they get me. From now i am opening fire to everyhing what i meet. Better stay on mobius or solo folks.
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Robert Maynard
Volunteer Moderator
Like any working compromise, I expect the aim would be to upset as few as possible - or upset everyone as equally as possible (as not everyone will get what they wanted with the change).
Will NPC engineered weapons return in the future, perhaps a gradual reimplementation
It will have no observable effect.
But it is tooo scary !!!!!
And the money (CRs) spent on the rebuy of the ships destroyed by bugs will not be returned ?
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No, the NPCs are still improved. We're just taking a tactical approach to identifying what's causing the unbalanced issues. It could well be bugs or Engineer weapons but we'll keep you informed as we know.
Some nice ideas from people asking about the NPCs keeping some engineers weapons. It's certainly not something that we would rule out in future. Once we identify where the issues stem from we'll have a better idea of what's right for balancing.
This is exactly what a fair few folk will want to hear. I had no problem with the AI skillset improvement, but the massive hike in their weaponry was causing a fair few issues and this should help out the newer or more casual players until the balance can be further looked into. Great work guys, as always. Thanks for the updates as well Zac and team.
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I Carry a Deadly in combat rating and if that is the only factor that is going to allow for NPCs to carry mod weapons then im against it, myself and many others are NEVER going to use mods ever! I dont find it a gameplay style i enjoy so to keep things level mods should only be available to NPCs when its target also has them
You have to report support ticket for that.