Fight, flight, freeze

[honest stone]

Fight:
The NPC becomes aggressive and defensive, triggered by threats, when cornered or insulted.

Flight: When the NPC tries to escape or avoid, this happens when there are overwhelming odds and loud noises like gunshots, explosions, screaming.
Freeze: The NPC just, freezes, then become immobile, silent, from sudden danger, a traumatic experience like exposure to open flesh wounds, blood, physical trauma.

Customization Ideas:

**Personality profiles:**Some NPC's are naturally more prone to flight, others to fight, based on the NPC experience (Civilian, soldier, ect)

Stress Meter: NPC's build up stress, once a threshold is hit, their response activates.

Enviromental Cues: Loud noises, eerie atmospheres with a lot of exposure to open wounds, ripped flesh, it pushes them to a reactive state.

Gameplay Impact

When the NPC's hit a certain point in the "Stress Meter" they could run, lash out, or freeze.

Players could learn to read the NPC's body language and use it to their advantage (Yes, war crimes)

Adds emotional realism and unpredictability.

[crisp whale]

Hmm, I really like the reading-body-language-part, what exactly would we as the player look out for when observing the npcs?

The flight mechanic would also have to choose either a random path or like more one that biases more to their spawn

[honest stone]

Shaking for the most, trouble in physical movements like handling weapons, reloading, combat

[crisp whale]

I ain’t animating that lmao

Shaking yea

[honest stone]

lol

[crisp whale]

But then fumbling without them looking glitched out is hard

[honest stone]

true

[crisp whale]

They could also throw themselves on the ground when suppressive fire hits and depending on how stressed they are they duck from fire further from them

[crisp whale]

We have to expand on the exact cues that trigger an increase in stress

So

• bullets flying/impacting nearby
• nearby allies getting killed
• near explosions
• ai spots hostile

Things that reduce stress:

• ai kills enemy opponent
• allies nearby reduce effects of stress-heightening effects (kinda passive buff)

A funny thing can happen when an ai loses sight to an opponent-

It could either think the opponents are retreating, reducing stress massively, or

Maintain stress level (stay cautious)

I’d say it should be random

[wooden current]

Maybe like trying to find a place to hide in like a building or behind a tree or smth

[crisp whale]

That’s insanely hard to code but kinda yea

[wooden current]

Still possible tho lol

[crisp whale]

Bruh

[crisp whale]

It takes AAA ai dev teams a while to do this

So with only 2-3 people on beyond dedicated to ai work this means serious work

[wooden current]

Yea ur right, i’m just messing

[honest stone]

so, killing an opponent shouldn't reduce stress, it would go against the "blood" thing

if they lose sight of the opponent they stay tense

[crisp whale]

If they kill their opponent

[honest stone]

Yeah, you wont feel that relaxed after killing someone to make a difference

[crisp whale]

My point is that with reduced stress, ai gets more cocky and confident

[honest stone]

true

[crisp whale]

With more stress they get fear and run away

So they won’t run away after just killing an opponent

[honest stone]

youre right

[honest stone]

man this aint getting stonks

[final turtle]

really neat AI intelligence for big maps i must say scott

[honest stone]

ig

[crisp whale]

It’s very vague I must say and a very big and complex system

[honest stone]

Didn't we already speak abt this bro

[crisp whale]

Yea and it obviously didn’t help a ton

[honest stone]

Chillax bro

[crisp whale]

You are the one who was sad about the lack of upvotes, I am just trying find a reason

[honest stone]

I just wanted to bump my suggestion lol

[crisp whale]

There are posts that are good and that bumped that reach into the 30s, even higher. The numbers steadily grow because it’s a good post.
With not so popular suggestions the number still grows but at a much slower rate.

Don’t compare absolute numbers, compare increase in upvotes in a time frame.

This will lead you to the conclusion that bumping is pointless, since the good posts get bumped aswell and a lack of bumping is not the problem of this post

[honest stone]

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[final turtle]

https://tenor.com/view/serbian-war-soldier-millitary-salute-gif-19396203

[worn tendon]

I forgor what game it is but i know there is a game that makes it harder to reload when stresses