Enemy Behavior

It's been another 2 months! We've been working on a number of things:

• melee combat 2.0

• interactive PCs

• switching to another animation system (again)

• enemies AI

• tutorial

We will be showcasing them a bit later.

For now we just wanted to show the current state of how the enemies behave.

• The enemies rely on seeing and hearing things.

• We want the game to clearly tell you if you've been spotted. So we made a visual and a sound indicator for AI's suspicion meter.

This is how the suspicion meter works:

• Enemies will have different health, speed and sight-hearing radius. Also they will behave differently when it comes to melee:

  • the Heavy is a fan of uppercut

  • the Mask is a fast-kick guy

  • the Mall Guard doesn't actively seek trouble, but when it finds him - he uses the baton.

• They will shoot at you from different types of guns.

• they will react to other guards being down AND they will wake them up (if still alive) - a feature that existed in early Splinter Cell's but that was removed in later games

Different types of guards have different weak points for the shocker - more on this here.

• we did a couple of iterations on pathfinding and waypoint system. It took some time to figure out how to make AIs walk through the doors.

• Plus, each guard now has their own inventory. The door in this video requires a certain keycard. The guard has it, so he walks in freely. Which means, if you neutralize him - what's his becomes yours, and you would get the keycard!