#Mimic variants : Voices & AI

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brittle ruin
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I love the Mimics, the way it represents humans in a twisted way is awesome. The design is awesome, but i feel there's something missing with the Mimics that would make them so much more threatening : Personnality.

The fact that the Cop yells "You peasant !!!" feelt like he's fricking angry, racist, and wanted to shoot my ass down so bad. I'd love if they give him more voicelines, like insulting the player, yelling orders to freeze or to put his hands up.

Same for the other variants. What would be the best personnality trait that would make them agressive, deadly, and unique from one another.
The soldier should be the mindful one, like cold threats and tactical talk.
For the shotgun guy, i think give him a sadistic, almost psychopatic hunter vibe would be best, it would make him more creepy and make you feel like his new prey. For the sniper i thought not give him too much voicelines, since he's quite far anyway. Plus, the silent type would be best, like "Got you..." or short sentences.

And it would be better if the AI reflected that mindset (and gameplay wise it would be better since you'd have to adapt) :

  • The cop would rush you up to close range, to the point of reloading right in front of you like a moron.
  • The soldier would be methodical and stay on medium range while taking cover when reloading.
  • The shotgun guy would try to flank you up to medium/close range and shoot you down only to run away to cover for reloading.
  • The sniper would stay perched, at long distance, well in view without moving too much because he has the high ground and his bullets hurts like hell.
snow hound
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The ai voicelines are placeholders

brittle ruin
snow hound
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Yes

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I hate the ai voicelines

brittle ruin
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You know the art direction is basically AI generated-like

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It would be fitting with the theme.

unique nest
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They're too goofy

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The itr1 ones are way tuffer

brittle ruin
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Disagree. I find them annoying after a while.

unique nest
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Stuff like that

snow hound
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more cool voicelines

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no ai

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hate the ai

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fuck ai

brittle ruin
unique nest
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AI is the best

snow hound
brittle ruin
zenith jewel
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I think their voice lines should include something melancholic and tragic, to remind you who exactly are they mimicking:

Police mimic is, well, soviet police officer from a small and calm (before the incident) city of Pechorsk, who's likely never in his life encountered armed opponent (or if he did, that's probably the story of his life that the whole city knows: how this guy once stopped an armed criminal and got a medal for it or something).

Soldier mimic is likely an unlucky soviet conscript who got sent to deal with Pechorsk incident amongst others like him, and died there for nothing.

And shotgun guy is mimicking some old grandpa living there before the incident, who only used his trusty double barrel for hunting and maybe scaring intruders off his property.

unique nest
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I would love different personalities and characteristics for mimics

rancid inlet
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I miss the high pitched screams when you nail one. I always found it very unsettling in ITR1

unique nest
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Also huge pause

bold bay
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It would also be kinda cool if you were close enough to a mimic and they pick up on something you said they could play it back to you i think that would be fun to not only mess with you but cause confusion between teammates

fiery forge
river dove