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  • Subject: No Halo Bots?
Subject: No Halo Bots?

Why did Bungie say that it was impossible to make multiplayer bots? Isn't it kinda like firefight? Just make them stronger and give you the ability to add and delete them at will.

  • 08.22.2009 5:20 PM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

did they say that? if they did, I THINK it has to do with the engine having trouble synchronising them over long distances. Try playing Tsavo Highway with an American and a New Zealander - literally a frame a second

  • 08.22.2009 5:22 PM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

Because then you wouldn't need to whine at your friends to buy the game so you could play multiplayer. You'd just be able to play with the bots all the time and less games would be bought. And that just won't do. Money makes the world go round.

  • 08.22.2009 5:24 PM PDT
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FF : you fight AI, not bots.

bots = player that are computer controlled (think : unreal tournament / quake 3 bots)
AI = the enemies you fight in sp, they're far weaker than you (think : grunts / jackals / brutes / elites / etc)

  • 08.22.2009 5:26 PM PDT

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i dont think they could make cause halo is an system then other what about things like hlg? JLG? and other stuff.

i think the bots will totaly trip or something cause u can reach new speeds(with jlg and hlg and other tricks). and stuff.
also i think like bots moslty have maps in it so they know were they can walk and stuff but if u forge and then put stuff in the normal way it wont work right?

Tell me if i am wrong

  • 08.22.2009 5:36 PM PDT

Posted by: NL Beer
i dont think they could make cause halo is an system then other what about things like hlg? JLG? and other stuff.

i think the bots will totaly trip or something cause u can reach new speeds(with jlg and hlg and other tricks). and stuff.
also i think like bots moslty have maps in it so they know were they can walk and stuff but if u forge and then put stuff in the normal way it wont work right?

Tell me if i am wrong

Plenty of games in the past have made bots that move and play just as freely as the player does. Preset paths are a thing of the past

  • 08.22.2009 5:40 PM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

Posted by: Sam Les Paul
Posted by: NL Beer
i dont think they could make cause halo is an system then other what about things like hlg? JLG? and other stuff.

i think the bots will totaly trip or something cause u can reach new speeds(with jlg and hlg and other tricks). and stuff.
also i think like bots moslty have maps in it so they know were they can walk and stuff but if u forge and then put stuff in the normal way it wont work right?

Tell me if i am wrong

Plenty of games in the past have made bots that move and play just as freely as the player does. Preset paths are a thing of the past


Yeah, but all games use path mapping. If you add stuff to the map, The entire path grid has to be recalculated to include the object.

  • 08.22.2009 5:47 PM PDT

Posted by: llamalizard
Posted by: Sam Les Paul
Posted by: NL Beer
i dont think they could make cause halo is an system then other what about things like hlg? JLG? and other stuff.

i think the bots will totaly trip or something cause u can reach new speeds(with jlg and hlg and other tricks). and stuff.
also i think like bots moslty have maps in it so they know were they can walk and stuff but if u forge and then put stuff in the normal way it wont work right?

Tell me if i am wrong


Plenty of games in the past have made bots that move and play just as freely as the player does. Preset paths are a thing of the past


Yeah, but all games use path mapping. If you add stuff to the map, The entire path grid has to be recalculated to include the object.

Hey eggman. But nowadays the technology implemented in the game automatically re-adjusts.

  • 08.22.2009 5:51 PM PDT

I wish I was still legendary.

Posted by: Sam Les Paul
Posted by: llamalizard
Posted by: Sam Les Paul
Posted by: NL Beer
i dont think they could make cause halo is an system then other what about things like hlg? JLG? and other stuff.

i think the bots will totaly trip or something cause u can reach new speeds(with jlg and hlg and other tricks). and stuff.
also i think like bots moslty have maps in it so they know were they can walk and stuff but if u forge and then put stuff in the normal way it wont work right?

Tell me if i am wrong


Plenty of games in the past have made bots that move and play just as freely as the player does. Preset paths are a thing of the past


Yeah, but all games use path mapping. If you add stuff to the map, The entire path grid has to be recalculated to include the object.

Hey eggman. But nowadays the technology implemented in the game automatically re-adjusts.


Ah, ok...I was basing that off oblivion mods anyway. You had to go through, generate a pathmap, put all the nodes at the right height, delete the ones outside the playing area or under an object...

  • 08.22.2009 5:56 PM PDT

what was the reason behind your symbol? Or is there even one eggman.

[Edited on 08.22.2009 6:02 PM PDT]

  • 08.22.2009 6:01 PM PDT

Posted by: SinPkr
i dont see why not. after all they use bots too test the maps.

actually they use AI's but they're basically the same thing...

  • 08.22.2009 6:06 PM PDT