I'm wondering if Thousand Land might be where fromsoft started doing this type of AI. It centers around AI driven units that carry out tasks kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYPMaId4erGfd8k Another possibility is that they weren't satisfied with the AI of early armored core games, where enemy cores could have some huge number of configurations and having to manually make finite state machines for all of them.

this could do with a revisit, i've checked out the models and animations of re1 remake and i'd be curious to see how they achieved yawn's tail effect, its most likely using some kind of cloth simulation but i can't be sure, the snake's tail isn't animated, and is always pointing straight

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After shadow of the erdtree the idea that ds1 bosses are hard is laughable

six years in the making? This deserves more recognition than it has gotten, especially for covering one of the most influential and groundbreaking games of all time

Not that it took a lot of time but it was pretty wild to hear someone introduce *dark souls*, as if it wasn't already a matter of course, I kind of appreciate that.

From lore videos with Vatti to obscure details with illusionary wall, and now a deep dive into the code that makes this game so unique with your video. Thank you for time and effort you poured into this video, it really shows. It seems like no matter how much I learn about this game over the years, it just keeps getting better and even more impressive.

I heard that the token idea grew out of watching kung fu movies, where the bad guys always wait their turn to get their butts kicked.

truly one of the melon of all time

With a few more 'feature's' this game could have sold millions not thousands, a bit more like city skylines with roads and more decorations would make it more replayable.

Fantastic video.

32:20 "At least on the normal difficulty". Sorry, what do you mean by that?:)

This was fuckin sick man!

I think this is the best game of the trilogy easily.

It blew my mind finding out there's a mobile port

Huh…Ceaseless Discharge has attacks. Who knew? Great video! I really enjoyed this deep dive into the AI.

remastered ds1 looks so bad T_T they still haven't fixed the broken leg animations during rolls lmaooo

Lautrec fights way differently than solaire ive noticed

So, the alien species has 4 senses?: Sight Hearing Touch Heat

Peak Horror, survival, stealth, and story-driven game.

no boss battle fights the same way twice? might i introduce you to the dragon rider from ds2?

So what is the Dark Souls of AI? 😉

"the _ability_ to lose your accrued souls at the point of death..." lmao

The one exception is dark souls 2, of course it fuckin is. It was a weird time ok, we try and forget about it. Its best if people just don't mention it.

how can you explore somenthing that almost nonexistent.

Plz do the ai of tom clancys the division the lmb soldiers tactics are si cool

I recently wrote a paper for uni about AI in video games, it was for the Philosophy of AI and mostly geared towards phenomenology (Enactivism & the Intentional Arc) though I cited your video and info graph in 'How AI is actually used in video games'. Thanks for making such great stuff!

Oh lords I think I just got why sometimes the Godskin Noble in Elden Ring will immediately jump into the rolling animation even if you interrupt it or the start up animation. Usually, getting interrupted must trigger the "perform rolling attack goal failure", forcing the Noble to go back and start a new set of goals. This is how most enemies in general work. An enemy may then try to use the same attack it got interrupted preforming, but it'll start the attack pattern from the beginning. In the case of the Noble, playing the wind-up animation again. But for whatever reason, every so often, the goal will not fail when interrupted (like with a stance break), and Noble will immediately go into the rolling attack animation almost like a jump-scare, since it doesn't replay the wind up.

This game is up there with F.E.A.R. in terms of horror game AI

As an indie dev trying to make a soulslike, this video is a goldmine of information for planning out enemy and Fauna AI systems

Very interesting video! This sounds much like how a combination of a behavior tree (allowing for hierarchical tasks) and a utility system (for randomness) would work. Is this different from that combination in some way?

God I won’t ever get how like, the game we play can just be read by lines of code. Straight up magic. But fascinating to see behind the curtain

An interesting side effect of characters being more likely to block in Sekiro is that leashing them feels rather different. The miniboss who whistles wolves into the fight is a good example. He infuriated me a couple times, but pulling him away to the edge of his 'zone of interest' means he will just mostly get stuck blocking your attacks. I think O'Rin does similar...

The fact that Monolith dipped their toes in fps games as varied in tone as FEAR and NOLF....is amazing. Such wild swings are practically unheard of in today's times. Companies today are shit scared to dip their toes into anything remotely "wild" and experimental....least they rock the stockholders boat. AAA gaming today is utterly bland and soul less.....and it doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon. At least we can go back to these wild games that scratch that itch.

This is a phenomenal breakdown. Thank you for doing the research to get here!