What map type was this? I know I've had troubles with npcs on the stairs in the Praetorian underground maps. They can navigate them but you have to babysit the morons. It's like the stairs are JUST below the maximum height to walk up (a pixel more and you'd have to jump), and it confuses the hell out of the AI pathing (Stair one; I might have to jump *move forward* oh, guess not. Stair two; I might have to jump...)
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Stairs? STAIRS? I was on an ITF yesterday and Imperious got stuck on a RAMP! |
Originally Posted by Roughtrade
Bloody Frell!
Can someone please teach NPCs how to frelling walk up and down stair cases? |
Paragon City Search And Rescue
The Mentor Project
It was one of the 'science lab' maps of Pretoria. The mission specifically was the one where you drag the Doctor back to Maxine and then fight off a couple waves of ghouls. It's a Resistance mission. Most people do the 'Cutter Cain' arc from the Loyalist, and that removes the NPC who gives this mission out of the game.
But I've run into it on most all Pretoria maps with stairs or ramps. The underground sewer ones, like the second one from White where you have to babysit four cops. I've tried going up the stair side, going up the ramp side, going slow, going fast, they bumble and stumble along.
The mission yesterday just really ticked me off. Only one damn NPC and the whole point of the mission was to lead him to the back of the map. I waited at the top for him and when he seemed stuck I ran halfway back down. At which point he ran up to the top and before I could get there he ran down again and got stuck. I went to the bottom and tried leading him up a second time by sticking to the side and he got stuck anyways on a different place. That's the point where I got out a watch and hit the timer function and timed how much longer it took him to get up. Went to the top and just a little bit back and waited. I figured at least a minute and a half of my time had already been used and it took him three minutes and forty two seconds to get up on his own.
There really has to be something that can be done about this.
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Yah, but you want him getting hung up and left behind until the bloody idiot figures out it's footstomp THEN handclap, not the other way around.
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Originally Posted by Ironblade
Stairs? STAIRS? I was on an ITF yesterday and Imperious got stuck on a RAMP!
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"SARS, Bird Flue, 9/11, Anthrax in the Mail, Mad Cow Disease. Pope John Paul didn't die, he preboarded." - Christopher Titus "5th Annual End of the World Tour"
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Amen to that, since I'm usually the fastest zoning on a team I always try to get in the last mish first, then I take Impy over and introduce him to some mobs off to the side and leave him to have fun.|
Originally Posted by Roughtrade
Yah, but you want him getting hung up and left behind until the bloody idiot figures out it's footstomp THEN handclap, not the other way around.
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I can't think that I've ever run an ITF where Impy was an asset instead of a liability... nowadays I always ditch him right off.
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My friends and I have taken letting him follow us and trying to keep him alive as long as we can. Someone called it the "Impy mini-game". Best we've done so far is to keep him alive until Romulous had rezzed twice. It makes things quite a bit more challenging. |
Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome
Amen to that, since I'm usually the fastest zoning on a team I always try to get in the last mish first, then I take Impy over and introduce him to some mobs off to the side and leave him to have fun.
I can't think that I've ever run an ITF where Impy was an asset instead of a liability... nowadays I always ditch him right off. |
Can you tell we've run the ITF a few too many times?
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Have you every watched enemy NPCs wander all over a smooth hillside to get to you? And it doesn't even have to be a steep incline.
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Originally Posted by Roughtrade
Bloody Frell!
Can someone please teach NPCs how to frelling walk up and down stair cases? |
Teams are the number one killer of soloists.
Bloody Frell!
Can someone please teach NPCs how to frelling walk up and down stair cases?
Escorting Doc Stefford to Maxine and he took over five minutes to reach the top of the damn stairs.
Seriously. I know pathing can be a tricky thing but someone's gotta fix this. Or stop putting stairs in missions with escorting objectives.
"SARS, Bird Flue, 9/11, Anthrax in the Mail, Mad Cow Disease. Pope John Paul didn't die, he preboarded." - Christopher Titus "5th Annual End of the World Tour"