Radiant AI Rocks!! Town Revolt!

[Cole]

So I put on my grey fox helmet...am level 24..decided to kill a few guards..

I killed about 3 guards, next thing I know I see like 8 coming at me. I run into this small tavern and get a guy with a glass warhammer to like me. He helps me kill about 3 that came in. A guard runs out and me and him follow out. Next thing I know we've got like 4 or 5 towns people and a bunch of guards all killing eachother. They wern't even attacking me. There were about 13+ guards dead after it was all done... I'll post screenshots later when I get fraps up, but a girl named luckless lucina died in it...may we all remember her.

 

[OCybrManO]

I don't remember how it got started... but, on Kamikazie's computer, I saw the Mage Guild people at the Arcane University start a war with the local guards. Then, when Kamikazie tried to help the guards quell the uprising he got kicked out of the Mage Guild for killing a fellow member. That was interesting.

As for my own personal experience... the only funny/interesting thing I've noticed is the fact that invisibility helps me hide from blind people.

 

[Sainku]

On a certain mages guild quest a skeleton followed me outside into town. Some guards and citizens helped me kill it. I was happy because I had little health, but one of them must have hit the other and it eventually led to just about every civilian outside being killed.

 

[WhiteZero]

Me thinks you just got April Fooled

 

[Icarusintel]

Here's a funny story - I was supposed to be following Baurus to the sewers, but the guy is slow as molasses. So, we're coming up on the Imperial City and all of a sudden I see him cast a speed spell on himself and start running on the shore around the city. I figured maybe he knew a shortcut, so I tried to follow him as best I could. After running halfway around the city I finally see him attack a mudcrab. Now, there's no way he could have known that mudcrab was there. Then we had to walk all the way back to the front gates. What a dumbass. True story.

 

[Sainku]

Baurus is pretty enthusiastic about his mudcrab killing from what I remember. He seemed to shout "THIS ONES MINE!" every time we came across one in the sewers. Maybe he has some kind of mudcrab detection enchantment.

 

[Kamikazie]

I don't remember how it got started... but, on Kamikazie's computer, I saw the Mage Guild people at the Arcane University start a war with the local guards. Then, when Kamikazie tried to help the guards quell the uprising he got kicked out of the Mage Guild for killing a fellow member. That was interesting.

As for my own personal experience... the only funny/interesting thing I've noticed is the fact that invisibility helps me hide from blind people.

still trying to find out wtf is going on...and yes, the guards are still picking fights with the Apprentices and Scholars...D:

 

[DeusExMachina]

The Mages know something. The guards must keep the conspiracy quiet.

 

[Puzzlemaker]

still trying to find out wtf is going on...and yes, the guards are still picking fights with the Apprentices and Scholars...D:

I need to get this game.

 

[Reginald]

I need to get this game.

Understatement of the year?

I guess my best example of the radiant AI was when I hid behind a member of the Fighter's Guild (I assume... he was wearing armour but wasn't chasing me...) whilst an archer guard was shooting at me. Every time he shot at me, he hit this guy and it stated a big fight. But I had to run rather than watch because the guards were after me still.

 

[Danimal]

I wonder what would happen if I planted stolen goods in an innocent person's store...

 

[Laivasse]

Benny Hill Oblivion

I was wondering whether to create a new thread for this, but I figure it fits pretty well into this thread as an example of how awesome the Radiant AI is. It's long but stick with it :thumbs:

It was a starry, twilit evening, and I was hanging around outside the west gate of Skingrad, near the vineyards, trying to figure out what I should do first - find Martin or get my Vampirism cured.

That was when I noticed Shameer acting very oddly. He was sneaking along the side of the stables towards the stables guy (I forget his name) who was munching away at something, sitting on a bench. I figured whatever Shameer was doing was pretty stupid, since he was in plain sight of me, at least 1 guard, a couple of vineyard workers, not to mention the guy he was supposedly trying to sneak up on - and after all isn't he meant to be some kind of cool-headed professional archer/trainer?

Anyway Shameer reached the guy and then stopped and straightened up. I figured he had reconsidered whatever he was about to do. That was until I walked up to them both - Shameer gave me a cheerful look, went back into sneak mode, and made a couple of jerky movements towards the stable guy. The next thing I know, the stable dude starts shouting "Guards!! Thief!!! MIND YOUR POCKETS" One guard ran down from the gate, some blows were exchanged between he and Shameer, and then Shameer ran off into the vegetation, with the guard in hot pursuit. 'I'm not going to miss this!' I thought - I pulled out my crappy silver battleaxe, and the Chase For Shameer began!

I quickly invoked my Vampire sight to get try and keep track of the participants. The stable guy joined in the chase briefly but then got lost somewhere along the way. The chase took us through someone's livestock paddock, at which point - perhaps due to some mystical unseen motive or long-held grudge - a sheep decided to join in the chase. I tailed the pack and nearly lost them until the point where Shameer decided to dive for cover into the nearby Cursed Mine. There was no way I was going in there by myself, since I was in no mood for a bloody dungeon, so I waited to see what the guard did. Well, bless him, he charged right on in there. I can't remember what the sheep did but most likely he was right there with us - that was one up-for-it sheep, seriously.

So I charged in after the guard, and materialised inside only to see 3 or 4 faces turning transparent and vanishing just as I arrived - I realised I had just passed a bunch of people on the way out in a hurry. Trying to pick up the pace, I turned around and ran back out only to find that 2 or 3 bandits from the mine had now joined in the chase.

Off we went again, charging through the darkness. We'd charge over a hill; we'd charge through a vineyard; the guard would loose a few arrows; we would all stumble into a pond and back out again. I had no idea who was at the head of the pack or who was chasing who any more. I had no ****ing clue who the sheep was chasing. To make matters worse, I kept firing up my Vampire Sight (Hunter's Eye/Detect Life) to try to keep everyone in sight - this skill makes nearby lifeforms glow so you can see them through solid objects, but it also reduces everything to a steely blue glow, so I could see a bunch of glowing blurs running after eachother but I had no idea who was who any more.

Every now and again we would all catch up with eachother and I would just charge in with my axe, laughing my tits off and swinging wildly. My blunt skill sucks, my FPS are pretty damn poor and I couldnt tell anyone apart with the vampire sight on, so as far as axe-swinging goes you couldn't really get more random tbh. There was the odd 'oof!' and 'argh!', but those cries were well mixed with others like "I'm on YOUR side!", "BAAAA" and "That's TWICE you've hit me". I'm pretty sure maybe 70% of my swipes ended up somewhere on the sheep, which also got briefly stuck in the pond in an extra-comic interlude.

Eventually after one last showdown, the guard, myself, and the sheep stood victorious over Shameer and a few dead bandits. I might be wrong - it might just have been flukey timing - but I'm nearly sure the last bandit went down to some kind of power charge from the sheep. My reward at the end was some great entertainment, a couple of free silver arrows pulled out of Shameer's neck, and the chance to discover what had caused all of this in the first place - a stolen piece of corn, lying unwanted in Shameer's pocket....like some kind of metaphor for the cold futility of life....

MORE STUFF LIKE THIS MUST HAPPEN. How awesome. I found one of the beggars dead inside the city a few days ago and wondered what had happened....if it was as funny as this I'm dead sorry I missed it. Radiant AI....I dunno about sophisticated but it's propah hilarious when it gets moving.

 

[ktimekiller]

sounds fantastic

 

[Danimal]

I haven't had anything like that happen to me so far. Wow.

 

[Cole]

Laivasse, thats true radiant AI at work.
An NPC is told he is hungry, he can either buy, hunt, steal his food. He can decide whatever he wants...

To bad for this NPC they chose to steal, got caught, got pwned by a sheep.

 

[AmishSlayer]

I still want some kind of mod to unlock any restrictions that are set upon the AI. I want the equivalent of turning on the "Pedestrians Riot" code in a GTA game

 

[OCybrManO]

Yeah, I was thinking of that exact same thing right before I read your post.

 

[Mutley]

I read in a preview along time ago they had to calm it because NPCs would kill each other and quest characters. So it is possible.

 

[VictimOfScience]

Seriously. I am sorry they turned down the AI so much because of the hilarious consequences during testing. Those stories were drop-dead hilarious!

I just finished one Daedric quest and the NPC AI certainly helps you "complete" that one, though in a distinctly c*cked up manner you might never expect. Very clever and resourceful some of these folks are...

I would REALLY like to see some more random weirdness though. These stories are priceless! :thumbs:

 

[OCybrManO]

I saw some impressive Radiant Artificial Stupidity yesterday. I attack a guard, spawn something to fight for me, move out of his reach (like on top of a rock), and go invisible. Obviously, he can't attack me. That part worked. Now, for the stupidity... although he is getting beaten to death by one of my summons, he doesn't even acknowledge its existence. He just keeps staring in my direction, standing still, and yelling threats at me. I did this with two different guards. So, it's not an isolated incident.

 

[Rupertvdb]

I'm hoping some patches come out to perfect things.

My funny story occured when two guards were on opposite sides of a wolf in the wilderness. They both had arrows and decided to shoot it at the same time, missed, and hit each other. They then got angry and started shooting arrow after arrow into one another while the wolf just started running between the two attacking each of them until it spotted me and came a-lunging. I dispatched mister wolf and turned back to find both guards looking like weird arrow trees and running towards each other with swords out. One guard got the upper hand, killed the other guy, and then came over to the dead wolf and just stared at it. I left him alone to mull things over.

 

[Shakermaker]

My shadowmere and I got held up by a highwayman. I got off and knifed the dude so hard he fell of the bridge we were standing on. Suddenly my horse runs away, all the way down to the corpse of the robber. It kicks the body and comes running back to me. Feisty little steed.

 

[CookieCuttah]

I saw a sheep outside of one town and a guard was standing right next to it. So I saved and took out my handy-dandy FISTS. So I start with a good sneak attack right in the arse of the sheep, blood spilling all over the guards face . He just stares as the sheep turns around and begins a long fight. A lot of dancing and jumping ensues as I eventually dispatch the creature with multiple smacks to the face. So the sheep goes "baaah" one last time and falls over in its own puddle of blood. The Guard comes over and checks its pulse TWICE then looks at me with a look of "You bastard." Then he goes back to his post and just stares at the body. So I drag the body slowly away as he stares at me, soon enough I drag it far enough and he just stares at the sky once more, then I dragged it to him and he stared at the dead sheep again. Then he said something along the lines of "You're handy with a sword eh?" and I was like "Wtf?"

 

[Sui]

Haha, that was hilarious Laivasse.

 

[Kamikazie]

I saw some impressive Radiant Artificial Stupidity yesterday. I attack a guard, spawn something to fight for me, move out of his reach (like on top of a rock), and go invisible. Obviously, he can't attack me. That part worked. Now, for the stupidity... although he is getting beaten to death by one of my summons, he doesn't even acknowledge its existence. He just keeps staring in my direction, standing still, and yelling threats at me. I did this with two different guards. So, it's not an isolated incident.

i had an incident to somewhat the same extent...i was running away from a guard, summoned a skeleton, went invisible, and the guard didnt acknowledge he was getting his ass handed to him by the undead

 

[$kelet0r]

Laivasses's story would sell more copies of this game than an entire week of advertising - awesome read :thumbs:

 

[Shakermaker]

What's up with these guys? I found 'em on one of the rooftop terraces in Bravil. They were gulping one bottle after the other, non stop. Couldn't get a quest out of them. I am guessing they are skooma addicts coz esp. the guy on the left looked very scruffy.

 

[CookieCuttah]

I already killed one of the skooma addicts in my game. Well, rather a guard killed him. I smacked the short guy in the helmet and he went aggro on me (obviously) but apparently no one had seen me punch him (It was night), so I ran to a guard and he didn't care about me, then the dude comes behind me and smacks me with his big mace. The guard gets pissed at him and chases him off somewhere, I found his body come morning, next to the other skooma addict, apparently he had crawled back for a last sip.

 

[Bad^Hat]

I'm hoping some patches come out to perfect things.

My funny story occured when two guards were on opposite sides of a wolf in the wilderness. They both had arrows and decided to shoot it at the same time, missed, and hit each other. They then got angry and started shooting arrow after arrow into one another while the wolf just started running between the two attacking each of them until it spotted me and came a-lunging. I dispatched mister wolf and turned back to find both guards looking like weird arrow trees and running towards each other with swords out. One guard got the upper hand, killed the other guy, and then came over to the dead wolf and just stared at it. I left him alone to mull things over.

Similar thing happened to me just outside of Bruma once. I was heading to the cave to confront the fake vampire hunter dude (and getting preoccupied with stalking the wildlife) when I hear the whizzing of arrows nearby. So I cross over a hill to see an imperial archer firing at a yet-unseen assailant (it must have been snowing pretty hard at the time). Naturally I draw my bow and let one fly, only to hear "Hey, I'm on your side!"

Edit - Overheard some interesting RadiantAI conversations aswell...

Guy1 - "Hello, how are you doing?"
Guy2 - "Great! How about you?"
Guy1 - "Fantastic, thanks for asking!"
Guy2 - "Good day!"
*both do a 45 degree turn and then back to face one another again*
Guy1 - (in a seething tone) Oh, it's you. Hi.