Poll: “bots” in custom games?
Sounds good
Sounds terrible
Maybe
I don’t know what “bots” are…
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From what I understand about the forums here, I’m supposed to post this here right?. Is there any possible way for 343i to add “bots” to custom games on Halo Reach? It’s not that I don’t want to pay for Gold Membership for Xbox Live, it’s just that I don’t like playing online all the time. Sometimes I like to just relax and play custom games with my girlfriend, problem is that it’s not very fun playing slayer with only two people. Yes, I do play Firefight but that gets kinda boring because of the lack of credits gained from offline play (I don’t really care for firefight matchmaking). Also, I would like to test out my custom maps but none of my friends play Halo Reach anymore and I think that bots would fill that hole.
The title does not discribe your thread very well. But nonetheless Bots in custom games are cool(and defenetly doable). However for an AIs to move around you need so called “waypoints” points in 3D space where the character is supposed to go. And follow the waypoints to the the player(or whatever). This is called “path finding”.
If AIs are available in custom games there is going to be tens of thousands of code running at some point in the game(of course that is depending on how many AIs) and tons of extra variables to keep track of. And if AIs are to move around properly the maps has to be designed around them. It is going to be a big challenge both for 343I, the Xbox and the engine.
EDIT: As you said you want to test it out on your map that is properly a bigger challenge. Maps created in forge are(apparently) already really expensive and shreds the frame rate to pieces sometimes. Big maps created in forge are alone really expensive(I could imagine(since the frame rate drop)) if AIs are going to be added the performance would properly be under acceptable.
I could imagine that this will be possible in the near future.
The game has been out for almost 1 year already and I don’t think they are gonna put in something new like bots in Reach. It’s not necessary. If you want to play against bots firefight is the closest thing to what you’re looking for.