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Moriendor
Fri Oct 29, 2004 6:26 pm
#1
Sorry to put it this way but the AI in JtL is complete and utter BS. I did some imp missions from Bestine tonight. Fine. I can live with the fact that a starter ship(TIE)is not uber. I can alsolive with the slow rotation, roll,slide, whatever.
But I can't live with the fact that enemy ships can not only blast THROUGH asteroids BUT can even get stuck INSIDE them to blow me apart w/o me even having the SLIGHTEST CHANCE to attack back or even target them properly. This is BS.
It's the same crap as in the ground game where, if you use an area of effect attack (like /strafe2) inside a dungeon, you can aggro mobs that are on the floor below or above you (or on the same floor but not even close to your line of sight).
The line of sight stuff is just as messed up in JtL as in the ground game, if not worse.Devs, please, please fix this crap. I want to at least be able to target and attack space mobs and not get blown to pieces by mobs that are either stuck between or inside asteroids.
Those asteroid chases could be TONS of fun but they aren't at the moment because I keep bumping off the asteroids while NPC ships can not onlyperfectly fly through them as if there were no obstacle at all but can also shoot through them as if there were nothing between them and me.
Please... feel free to let the NPC AI cheat as much as it needs to (quicker rotation, sliding etc.) but don't give them the advantage to shoot from an impossible angle or from behind obstacles. I've been shot down a few times tonight and every incident was linked to the AI not playing by the rules. Every AI kill happened within asteroid fields where I never even had a chance to fight back. Please fix it...
xRavX
Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:36 pm
#3
I have been fighting in asteroid fields for the past few days now and have not have any problems...except running in to the occasional rock.
The enemy ships fly around the asteroids, I shoot them and asteroids block my lasers. They shoot back, the asteroids block their lasers. I actually find the AI (at least the Tier 1 and some Tier 2) too easy.
One major problem I have is grouping with friends in space, whenever I get to space they are always "out of range" and even if we are in the same location, they are out of range and invisible to me. Weird but hopefully it will be fixed soon.
JadenStriker
Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:46 pm
#4
Huh? Your having trouble fighting the NPC's in space?
I know the free ship iscrude for a ship, but I found the NPC's unbearably easy to kill, even some more powerful NPC ships. Huh, I guess I should be glad all that messing around with FPS games is likely what helped me in the long run.
Oh well, hope it goes better for ya. Get a few other FPS games and go player hunting in the multiplayer modes of them. It shouldn't be too long after messing around with that till you start owning the space NPCs.
Iceman-KG-
Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:49 pm
#5
Where are you having these problems? I askbecause I haven't had such problems around asteroids either.
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