Blackrose: Greedy, lazy, or just stupid?

RaveWinger · Post by **RaveWinger** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 3:49 am

Blackrose stupid? More like bad A.I in the game...

Duskino · Post by **Duskino** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:28 pm

RaveWinger wrote:Blackrose stupid? More like bad A.I in the game...

Agreed :P The AI in the game isn't exactly the greatest, that's for sure...

'Cause then we could go on about the characters getting stuck behind rocks, trees, even a small mound. You have to be incredibly stupid to manage that.

Deimos · Post by **Deimos** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:20 pm

What really annoys me are the characters that just stand there and wait for you to attack before they do anything. And I'm not talking about Wavemasters. Balmung (and several other characters) will not go after monsters unless they come too close or you charge at them first. It isn't a problem most of the time, but whenever I have to hang back and cast spells, Balmung quickly makes himself useless. -_-

Cyral · Post by **Cyral** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:24 pm

I hear that... most of the time I own pretty much own the monster all by myself.. and pretty much they ever do is just stand there.. and get exp the easy way...

kboy7 · Post by **kboy7** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:11 pm

I understand there. I do ALL the work exept for the wavemaster.

krono7 · Post by **krono7** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:15 pm

blackrose takes forever to get one hit on a monster but it does alot of damage when she does and elk is just awesome and kills as much enemys as kite does

Duskino · Post by **Duskino** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 12:09 am

Really? They usually run into battle before I do. o_o The moment "BATTLE MODE" flashes, they're running.

krono7 · Post by **krono7** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 12:46 am

yea mine do too but i think he was talking about how long it takes for them to attack

Deimos · Post by **Deimos** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:22 am

No, I mean that they'll actually stand still and do nothing. Certain characters are more agressive than others. BlackRose and Moonstone, for example, always charge as soon as "Battle Mode On" appears. Balmung always waits for me to do something or for a monster to get close before he attacks. What happens a lot of the time is this:

-Portal opens, spitting out a bunch of mage-type enemies.
-BlackRose charges, while I stay in one place and attack with magic.
-Monsters run from BlackRose.
-Since BlackRose chased the monsters away, Balmung doesn't move.

kboy7 · Post by **kboy7** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:33 am

Well what I don't get about Blackrose is that if you are fighting a monster with physical tol. she says "I guess physiacal attacks wont work" and she still hits it? what is up with that?

Deimos · Post by **Deimos** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:41 am

Horrible AI, again. Everyone does that.

krono7 · Post by **krono7** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 3:43 pm

yea that happens with me too^__^

kboy7 · Post by **kboy7** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:17 pm

You think they would have at least done something about that when they created the game right?

Deimos · Post by **Deimos** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 7:23 pm

You would think, but they didn't fix it, for whatever reason. Perhaps they were pressed for time and couldn't improve the AI any more. Or maybe that's as good as they could possibly make it. They might even have made the AI like that to challenge the player a little more.
I donâ€™t know much about developing games, so those are just guesses.

kboy7 · Post by **kboy7** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:12 pm

Deimos wrote:They might even have made the AI like that to challenge the player a little more.

Maybe, that is what I would guess or, like you said, they were pressed on time.