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Has anyone got any ideas of how the allied AI will work.

I watched the barney video, and some of them seem to follow you, but in the strider video they just seem to run around doing their own thing.

Do you think you can give them simple orders ala HL1 or are they completely self reliant. From what i've seen it looks to be some of the best friendly AI ever, they actually seem to be fearful. One covers his face while running for cover as a strider shoots at him. If that isn't scripted then it will be so amazing:eek:

Also, do you think there will be multiple barney's or just the one?
 
Dont know if HL2 support ordering (except for the Ant Lion pheromone thingie, hehe), but you can bet your ass mods will.
Keep in mind, its Gordons game, I dont think he's the ordering type.
 
I think Valve's idea is that you wouldn't need to give your AI orders, they'd manage to act in an intelligent way themselves.

I've noticed at the end of the Strider video when the guys shouts "Get the Hell out of here!" they both actually run away, this happens as soon as one of your friends gets impaled. I think they were reacting to their friends death. Which is cool.

There is only one Barney.
 
I don't think youll be giving many orders. Gordon doesn't speak, so your only chance at orders would be hand signals which you wouldn't see of course. Just wouldn't make sense to me

Mic
 
It wouldn't be very good AI if you had to tell them what to do.

And in the strider video they run around and do their own thing in what seems to be a very intelligent, structured and organised way.
 
Just hearing them shout "Strider!!!!!!!!!!" in the steet gives me goosebumps. In fact just thinking of that scene gives me goosebumps. Strange huh? I must be a total fanboi or something :) It'll be wonderful seeing the smart AI reactions to things.

From what i've seen it looks to be some of the best friendly AI ever, they actually seem to be fearful. One covers his face while running for cover as a strider shoots at him. If that isn't scripted then it will be so amazing
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Actually I think that's similar to the HL1 scientists doing their 'scared' animation when there's fighting going on or there's a weapon pointed at them. So you could say it's a triggered response to the environment, part of the AI, so: unscripted.
 
Originally posted by Chris_D
It wouldn't be very good AI if you had to tell them what to do.

And in the strider video they run around and do their own thing in what seems to be a very intelligent, structured and organised way.
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That was probably a scripted scene(where people start running away). But I could be wrong. And the AI's highest priority is to survive. Run away, shoot. Run away, shoot and etc...
 
Oh Crowbar... The obsession needs to stop. At least stop sharing it, please.

Edit: Yeah, in the Strider video the NPC's were wonderfully frantic, although they'd seemed more composed before. I can't WAIT to play that bit. One minor thing - they spoke in American accents... What happened to City17 being in Eastern Europe?
 
what the hell are you talking about CrowbarOfDoom?
 
Crowbar, you know very well what/who I'm talking about.

Oh I see. You deleted the post :) Probably for the best.
And no, Barney's scene is not scripted as was stated in the gamespy e3 vid.
 
Looks like he edited his post out to nullify El_Chi's post.

Ah, so he did.
 
Well Abom|nation, it was to do with his MasterMind special topic. The sordid little subject he keeps making threads about. Poor fellow.

Right Tredoslop: Crowbar posted something to which I replied along the lines of: "Oh please for the love of all things Holy make it stop." He then deleted the post and acted oblivious in the hope of making me look silly, whilst Private messaging me what a suitably sordid follow-up post would have been.
Check hgis avatar to work out what he was lusting after. He makes me laugh, he really does.:cheese:
 
Originally posted by El_Chi
Well Abom|nation, it was to do with his MasterMind special topic. The sordid little subject he keeps making threads about. Poor fellow.
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What a surprise. Sigh :/
 
Oh good Lord I'm a Prowler... Oh deary me... Aaah! It's like some terrifying on-line pubertinous metamorphosis!! Aaah!
 
Originally posted by El_Chi
Well Abom|nation, it was to do with his MasterMind special topic. The sordid little subject he keeps making threads about. Poor fellow.

Right Tredoslop: Crowbar posted something to which I replied along the lines of: "Oh please for the love of all things Holy make it stop." He then deleted the post and acted oblivious in the hope of making me look silly, whilst Private messaging me what a suitably sordid follow-up post would have been.
Check hgis avatar to work out what he was lusting after. He makes me laugh, he really does.:cheese:
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Lol, bad CrowBarOfDoom!
 
Originally posted by El_Chi
Oh good Lord I'm a Prowler... Oh deary me... Aaah! It's like some terrifying on-line pubertinous metamorphosis!! Aaah!
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Hey, if you think you have it bad- look at me-i'm a hydra, I don't even know what my body looks like.
 
i doubt it was scripted, probably the AI, sweetness
 
Originally posted by Tredoslop
Hey, if you think you have it bad- look at me-i'm a hydra, I don't even know what my body looks like.
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Well, I'm going to have a personality crisis because we don't know what the Prowler does - simply that IT LOOKS LIKE A GIMP.

<Throws an adolescent strop>
"I WISH I'D NEVER BEEN REGISTERED!!"
 
Tredoslop, not to cast aspertions on your fine self, but in this thread alone you've shown yourself to be adept at phrasing homosexual attractions and nonce-spotting... Veeeeerrry interesting.
;)
 
I'm not gay.
Edit: And if I offended you, El_chi, I'm sorry, it's just the way I am. I hate gays-it's against God, and I'm Christian.I wasn't saying you were gay. U said, I love you, but not in that kind of way.So, I assumed the word was like.
Edit: CrowBarOfDoom deleted his post. This is really gonna look bad.
 
someone said above that gordon doesn't speak, and if he gave orders it will have to be hand signals! LOL LOL LOL LOL.

he does speak...BUT BUT BUT. You don't get to hear him. What i mean by this is...

in OPPOSING FORCE, at the start the general guy says "WHATS YOUR NAME SOLDIER".

then the person you are would say his name, then the general says "SHEPARD! that is some sort of dog name" or somethin like that.

so basically the ppl at valve, prob want the player to say his name for him, and the general replays.

so if you give orders in hl2, like "cover me" maybe you push a button, and the man jus replays "ok i will cover you"
 
Originally posted by Tredoslop
I'm not gay.
Edit: And if I offended you, El_chi, I'm sorry, it's just the way I am. I hate gays-it's against God, and I'm Christian.I wasn't saying you were gay. U said, I love you, but not in that kind of way.So, I assumed the word was like.
Edit: CrowBarOfDoom deleted his post. This is really gonna look bad.
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I'm not gay either - you didn't offend me in the slightest. I hope you didn't think I was insinuating you were gay. I wouldn't want to insult you.
Personally I have nothing against homosexuality whatsoever and I think people should feel free to express love for other people as they wish (as long as the other person in consenting and of a legal age, of course) but this probably shouldn't get into a religious debate right here on this thread. (Genuine question though - what is your standpoint on lesbianism? And when I ask that, I'm honest-to-God serious-as-cancer serious)
And Crowbar seems to have developed a taste for deleting potentially embarassing posts. Interesting one, that.:cheers:
 
Originally posted by Tredoslop
Hey, if you think you have it bad- look at me-i'm a hydra, I don't even know what my body looks like.
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hydra: the blue thing that impales the guy at the end of "tunnels" movie
 
Yeah but that's water, I think - we're not sure what the thing controlling the water looks like.
 
Originally posted by El_Chi
I'm not gay either - you didn't offend me in the slightest. I hope you didn't think I was insinuating you were gay. I wouldn't want to insult you.
Personally I have nothing against homosexuality whatsoever and I think people should feel free to express love for other people as they wish (as long as the other person in consenting and of a legal age, of course) but this probably shouldn't get into a religious debate right here on this thread. (Genuine question though - what is your standpoint on lesbianism? And when I ask that, I'm honest-to-God serious-as-cancer serious)
And Crowbar seems to have developed a taste for deleting potentially embarassing posts. Interesting one, that.:cheers:
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Lesbianism?Well, I put religion first, so I would have to say, I'm against it.
 
Originally posted by El_Chi
(as long as the other person in consenting and of a legal age, of course)
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And actually exists. Not naming anyone in particular here.
 
this post has turned into...

your gay, No your gay...Hay your gay, NO wait YOUR GAY!

man ppl ppl ppl it is jus a forum come on.

jus remember, when HL2 comes out, get the ppl who disagreed with you, called you gay and what ever jus Kill each other on the MP part!
 
Originally posted by CrowbarOfDoom
That was SO aimed at me
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Yeah Crowbar, cause you didn't bring THAT one upon yourself.

your gay, No your gay...Hay your gay, NO wait YOUR GAY! - commando
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Oh no! What happened to my gay!?
(The old ones are the best)
 
soz whoops lol ... well leave the best till last i thought. give u the honour of saying it.
 
I think those freinds aren't really freinds. Just civilians or vigilianties because when you see them they arrive in the streetcar and you come from an elevator.

My biggest problem in that scene is that someone is driving a streetcar... but where did it come from? You can't drive them backwards and the track is pretty messed up but ti moves just fine.
 
Well, as we see in the Barney movie, you DO fight alongside the rebels/guerrillas/resistance. Just cause you didn't arrive with them, doesn't mean you can't JOIN them.
And I had been wondering the exact same thing about the tram. I guess it just reversed to where it let people off because SURELY it couldn't have come out of the Citadel?
 
I'm sick of calling them friends/allies. I'm going to call them the White Coat Resistance.
 
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