Unfortunately it's not possible yet, but it might be eventually

It only works on Windows for now, hopefully I’ll get to porting to other systems at some point

Thanks! I think most of Ironhide's design decisions were intentional though; there's no way they didn't think about adding smart targeting. It's just a different preference in gameplay

@DanQZ True, as you said, they probably thought that this adds to the difficult and forces the player ato be more mindful of positioning and isolating certain types of enemies.

I think the games are balanced around the dumb AI, since you can to a certain extent manipulate enemy order using your units. However, that turns high level Kingdom Rush gameplay into a ton of "mitigate dumb AI" minigames, which I just don't think is fun.

​​​@@DanQZYeah, it's why the games are easier to beat, just by using towers that deal high damage to a single or multiple targets. Unique towers are not worth the effort to learn and use

Unfortunately not; I don't know how to do it atm and I dont have much free time to keep working on it. Once I can find some time, I'll try to do that!

​@@DanQZthanks

Yeah, there's all sorts of mods like all towers, and rebalancing mods, and mods with crazy new enemy waves and abilities. But those are, as far as I know, all numerical changes and reusing vanilla AI code. I have never heard of a mod that messes with AI before, so I think this a frontier of modding that nobody has ever gone down before.

@@DanQZ It is most insanely impressive as well, hats off to you for this work

@@kanseidorifto2430 Thanks dude!

I forgor that ability existed 💀 Whenever I get the chance to update the mod, that's definitely getting added, thanks for the heads up

@@DanQZ ah nice haha

oh, i also wanted to see them smarter, bc their totem targeting is awful - totems get wasted very often bc they are just being put on the first enemy (the closest to the exit one) that axe throwers see in their range somewhere on the path.. so instead, the totem of weakness should priorities to be placed directly at chokepoints (at the densiest, like necromancer's plague) and the totem of silence on the spellcasters

@@pauloneguy18 yeah definitely will be in the next iteration of this mod when I get the chance to update it

I hope so at some point! Unfortunately at the moment, I don't know how to do that yet and I don't really have the time to continue working on the mod.

That's a good idea to mitigate its overkill, but it unfortunately still means youre forced to make strange decisions based on bad ai. The archmage is by far best as a dps tower and not a leak catcher lol

​@@DanQZIts ability also needs to be changed. The tower with the strongest control ability in my opinion, but its ability is not worth it at all.

Too much work, just buff a tower damage to 9999 and call it a day😅

Voduke's Archives has links to decrypted game files which you can download, modify, then copy paste it into the steam .exe files using a program like 7zip. If youre interested in modding, Id highly recommend joining the server which I have linked in the description. There's a lot of people there who are very knowledgeable on all sorts of stuff.

​@@DanQZ do any mods work with the GOG version?

@@sandronecromancer I'm not sure. Tell me if it doesn't, so I'll know what to do for the next iteration of this mod

Thanks dude

Funny story, I did actually consider and discuss it with some people a few weeks back, but we had a hard time figuring out what could be in a "Smarter Enemies" mod but also still leave Kingdom Rush in a recognizable state.

They just walk straight to the exit instead of going the longest path

@@DanQZ waves that change depending on what towers you have build, forcing to diversify a bit? idk havent really played the game lol

​@@DanQZ send them to college

@@DanQZ oh that's easy. They don't show up.

At the moment I’m limiting the scope of the mod to just ai improvements, but I definitely plan to make a rebalanced version with buffed towers and heroes and enemies in the future

@ Oh, that’s great. And btw I saw your posts on the KR reddit and the one for the Archmage is one the best improvements. Hope you can expand stuff like reworking heroes to fit their roles better.

I don't know exactly, as I haven't looked into what exactly what changes Chaos Mode has. Even if it's not, a lot of my code goes kind of lower level than a lot of mods and so any mods which are mostly numerical changes can probably VERY easily integrate a lot of the major features of Smarter Soldiers, being tower targeting and barracks AI/targeting. Some of the changes I made, such as the pathfinding that I had to do (basically re-write the entire thing) to allow heroes to actually walk outside the track properly were pretty extensive, and can potentially take much longer.

@@DanQZ that's understandable, I've seen what's going on over in Vodukes modding server and I can barely understand basic changes half the time, so I think it's cool enough that you've changed their targeting this much

The description has a summary of changes, but I think the most visually interesting in the video are artillery and musketeer shrapnel shot targeting densest

​​@@DanQZOh yeah, I did notice that the mortar was way too smart lool. Nice vid :)

Most likely not, but my mod will of course be free :)

Unfortunately not; I was doing this at a library without headphones, and also I normally have the game sound off