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The necromancer AI needs a buff! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/pixeldungeon@lemmy.world
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I walked through a doorway and saw a necromancer adjacent to me in the prison. As I stepped back out, the necromancer followed me through the doorway and summoned a skeleton on the other side of the doorway (never seen either of those things happen before). Instead of moving out of the way it was stuck zapping the skeleton that was doing nothing until I killed the necromancer!

I'd upload a video, but Lemmy keeps giving me an error message.

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[–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It is somewhat intended that their logic is exploitable. I'd rather the player be able to consistently outsmart them than always getting forced into fighting both a necromancer and a skeleton.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I'm not opposed to the idea of having intentionally dumb AI, but seeing a necromancer with its back turned to me on an adjacent square zapping its minion in another room came off as a programming error more than anything else and was kind of immersion breaking imo.

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