New NPCs

skidz · Post by **skidz** » Mon May 29, 2006 12:21 pm

Zombine

Houndeye

BullSquid

Gargantua

Alien Grunt

Human Grunt

Hunter
Screenshots Soon!

[JSC][GU]PREDATOR · Post by **[JSC][GU]PREDATOR** » Mon May 29, 2006 1:06 pm

AWW DUDE THAT IS AMAZING!

how did you do that? hl1 was made by siera and hl2 was made by steam, it is 2 completely different programs well done!

maddios · Post by **maddios** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:33 pm

Hl1 and Hl2 were both made by Valve. Hl1 had Sierra as a sponsor, and Steam is a program Valve uses to distribute games. HL1 was made ON a program that I forget the name of, and HL2 was made on the Source Engine.

skidz · Post by **skidz** » Mon May 29, 2006 9:02 pm

We have the Gargantua working, and the Tenticle.
Leeches, Alien Grunts, and a lot of other stuff has been ported. No models for them, the code is there just in case someone wants to use them. We use a system of model replacment and sound replacment so you can have your own NPCs or Weapons.

[JSC]AnarchyLives · Post by **[JSC]AnarchyLives** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:54 am

man those NPCs are insane but for some reason i can't see the Gargantua or the Combine Assassin. Are they up there or no?

skidz · Post by **skidz** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:09 am

The gargantua doesnt have any screenshots currently :p

And the Combine Assassin isnt complete, and probably wont show up till after we release the public beta.

Power-Mad · Post by **Power-Mad** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:49 am

Damn... I have begged and moaned a long time hoping someone would make a functioning combine assassin. It is the one thing I'd been heartbroken over sense half life 2 release.

Ah well. I'll have to wait til it's finished to see the dual weilding, combine flipping, kung fu kicking insanity.

skidz · Post by **skidz** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:58 am

Power-Mad wrote:Damn... I have begged and moaned a long time hoping someone would make a functioning combine assassin. It is the one thing I'd been heartbroken over sense half life 2 release.

Ah well. I'll have to wait til it's finished to see the dual weilding, combine flipping, kung fu kicking insanity.

Ive seen it working in the beta somewhat, they were pretty cool but also somewhat broken.

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:53 pm

Personally Skidz I'd try to update all of the Creatures AI. Nothing more of a pain than wtaching a coltigore run at you and then when you throw the nade it runs away.

Power-Mad · Post by **Power-Mad** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:50 pm

You should try to get the original grunts in. Just update their model a bit so it's not so low res.

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:31 pm

Hell no. Keep the Ai from HL2. It's much mroe intelligent and is capable of thinking outside the box. In a way. Otherwise you'll just see the following in game

*man throws nade*
*AI scatters*
Everyone picks them off one by one.
rinse repeat

Now if you keep it the same, and maybe tweak it jyst a bit here's what happens.

*man throws grenade*
*AI picks it up and chucks it back at your ass*
Everyone on the players side dies. People now have to think strategically to kill the soldiers.

No rinse no repeat, and people have to use their head and come up with a better strategy.

Power-Mad · Post by **Power-Mad** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:44 pm

I don't know what half life 2 you're playing but half the AI ain't even smart enough to run from a damn nade, much less throw it back.

10 out of 10 people I talk to agree, half life 1's grunt AI is better than half life 2's combine AI. the few who say otherwise can't even give anymore than some bullcrap denial of a reason otherwise.

Here's how a battle runs down with half life 1 AI:
Enter room, enemies scatter for close by cover, start's laying suppresive fire, and throws a grenade if you try to hide behind cover.

Here's half life 2:
Enter room, enemies run around shooting at you, some try to throw a grenade, some run so they're half covered by a box, and they all die very quickly as you run directly at them.

Mixon · Post by **Mixon** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:19 pm

Power-Mad wrote:Here's half life 2:
Enter room, enemies run around shooting at you, some try to throw a grenade, some run so they're half covered by a box, and they all die very quickly as you run directly at them.

Yees... I must say that it is hard to make good AI in mods. When playing HL2 i were confused about how good soldiers behave. Since playing the mods i thought "Geez! Is it really this AI, it's weird". Let's hope that our boys behind mod will do their best to the AI.

Chandler · Post by **Chandler** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:29 pm

hmmm you also seem to forget because of the AI's fire rtiggering, They shoot uin bursts. At least the combine shot all of their ammo. Cept the elites they would triple burst, thenretreat if you didn't die and shoot a 'ball

Oh and they also seem to stay ion one place when shooting at you

Power-Mad · Post by **Power-Mad** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:34 pm

Are we able to edit NPC health, damage, names and such?