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Halo 2 Artificial Intelligence Explained

Posted by Zonk on from the aliens-think-like-peepul dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Stuffo has an interesting interview with Bungie's lead AI developer, Chris Butcher. Butcher explains in detail how the enemies in Halo 2 think and exactly why they do the things they do."

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  1. Sounds like a good approach by ex_ottoyuhr · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've long suspected that the proper way to handle game AI, and game development in general, is to model things in a manner as similar to the real world as possible... It's also nice to finally have a self-preservation instinct in game enemies...

    Does anyone know if Far Cry used a similar approach? Its AI struck me as very close to Halo's in a lot of ways. (Then again, the whole game was like that...)

    And is the server messed up, or is this a first post? :)

  2. AI by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It is interesting to see how much work is required to get something that simulates 'common sense'. Note how much 'tagging' was required to get a character in a controled environment from point A to point B in a logical manner.

    Now take your average FPS player. He is able to look at the terrain without these tags and make a coherent game plan. Leave one tag off of an object, and that AI player is suddenly trying to do something impossible and not able to make a decision to try a different tact.

    AI has certainly improved. I can't even begin to guess how many single player games have been destroyed simply because I found an explotable AI weakness. What will make AI really good is when it can adapt strategies when it has consistently lost.

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    1. Re:AI by mrdogi · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Humans 'tag' as well. We just do it much faster (with experience) and have years of experience to help with that tagging, both in speed and in richness of tagging. Although, I suppose we also get superfluous tagging ("What idiot painted that box yellow?") to distract us a bit.

  3. Re:[partial] article without popups by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just go for the printable version. The whole article on one page. No popups either, because I'm running firefox.

    http://stuffo.howstuffworks.com/halo2-ai.htm/print able

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