Friendly AI / Civilians

[merry fog]

I would love to have task that involve ai civilians or friendly ai.
Find a civilian trapped or in custody by the enemy and bring it to a safe zone, or Local task involving helping civilians rescue their stuff from a specific house or around some area and bring it back to them, but no just in the task menu, interactive AI who you can see and talk with.

[low juniper]

According to lore, civilians were evacuated.

[merry fog]

Maybe some civilians were captured, or not civilians, let say, friendly soldiers being hostage alive

[dusky edge]

We're all friendly soldiers in PVE 😄

We can role play 😄

[neon horizon]

The reality is, if you put "friendly" or "neutral" NPCs in-world then people are just going to kill them.

This is doubly true if you make them important for any quest or progression-related reason.

From a game design perspective, it's far, far easier to simply say "there are none" than try to deal with the ramifications of them existing.

[dusky edge]

Hes right really, there will be a few who will ruin things by just going on murder sprees every time they get in a server

[cedar nymph]

You can find the captured civilians in HP Bunker.

[cobalt sphinx]

Personally I would love to see something like “AI Civilians” implemented. I get the lore perspective. I get the gameplay challenge. I don’t think either are reasons to abandoned this concept altogether.

[novel pumice]

They’d all be dead by now….

[cobalt sphinx]

Nah.

[neon horizon]

The "lore perspective" is "a decision the devs made". So it's not like they "abandoned the concept" so much that they made a concerted decision to go in a different direction.