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Posted by: SPARTAN Roy
Posted by: Hylebos
Posted by: SPARTAN Roy
Exactly what you said. It should be better in REACH. I hope it is. I also hope a bungie employee sees this and realizes to change the problem now before it's too late.
You say this as though they were stupid and didn't realize that Ally AI in Halo has been terrible.
Look, Joe Staten confirmed that in the game you will play as a spartan in a squad of five spartans. He also said that the gameplay felt like a squad based shooter, but without the extra baggage of a squad based shooter.
What do I infer from this? Well, in squad based shooters, one usually issues orders to your squad mates, correct? But that seems to fall under the "extra baggage" catagory. So I'm assuming that the AI are smart enough to cover you and assist you in combat based off your individual actions.
It makes sense that they must work on the Friendly AI. If you have spartans as team mates, and they are driving you off cliffs, the entire "magic" of the game will be destroyed, the illusion shattered. If you hate your spartan team mates because they keep getting in your way, you really won't want to play the campaign at all. So for Reach to work, the ally AI must be nailed perfectly. And Bungie wouldn't even begin to program the game if they hadn't gotten the AI right yet.
Likewise, if you have smart friendly AI, you also need very smart enemy AI. Why didn't Bungie put Elites into ODST? Because they didn't want to spoil the suprise of course. No more "if there is a box, I must climb on top of it only to get shot and fall off backwards" for the sanghelli race anymore.
I'm guessing they've been wanting to do a game about the Battle of Reach for a long time now, just waiting for the right moment. They wouldn't risk killing one of their favorite ideas. Believe.I certainly hope that your SPARTAN AI teammates are a smarter AI then you're original NPC ally AI. I don't mean anything against Bungie on this but I just want his to be known. I know and hope that the SPARTAN Allies AI will be smarter then others just so it's more realisitc. THey are SPARTANs. But What I really am focusing is on the marines not as much as the other NPCs.
I feel that the marines in the Halo games so far have acted less then humans or As a human only drunk. lol I know we aren't as smart as the Covenant but I do believe that us humans can think quicker and more intelligently then the marines do. I want the marines to be more statistic and to think of what to do. I don't care if I have to hear them out loud saying," ok, Rick and bill you take the left flank and Will and I will take the right." I just want them to do it...
Actually that would be pretty sweet if hey did say that out loud so they sounded like they have an idea. lol
That would be way better than crappy one liners every second. That is the one thing I hope Bungie gets rid of in Halo Reach, NO MORE CRAPPY ONE LINERS...I mean they're caught in a war with an alien race, I don't think I would be shouting "When you gonna start fighting Split-lip" or "You look as ugly as my mother in law" when I've got ten of them shooting at me. I'd rather hear "Take cover", "Get down", "Elites coming up the left flank", "Banshee inbound!!!" and stuff like that not only during cutscenes (I swear you only hear them shout the REAL USEFUL stuff during cutscenes). The marines in the game talk like they're big and tough when they could barely hit the broad side of an Elephant
By the way..."Sniper's on the roof", "Jackal sniper in the window", "Sniper is on the third floor" would have been really useful from Marines in Halo 2 on Legendary....