The AI Behind Circuit Bees

[@FortyFourTomatoes]

I once saw some bees fly back to where their hive was and preparing to go back into the idle stage until they saw it wasn’t there and became angry

[@martinelechi9832]

Looney Tunes type behaviour

[@omegadragons321]

"man guys that was a real jackpot o' flowers we found" *"guys where the f**k is our hive"*

[@leovillant768]

@@omegadragons321 *THEY STOLE OUR FUCKING HOME MAN*

[@matt_plays9128]

@@omegadragons321 LMAO

[@yeetuszilla1663]

What disappoints me about them is that in the bestiary, it mentions how if they can't find their hive long enough, they fall from exhaustion. Something that doesn't exist in-game, and could add strategy to collecting them

[@luclegrand2834]

It's supposed to take hours or day, i'm fine with it. What's more disappointing imo is that they are said to attack all living creature, but in phase 3 only players can be aggroed

[@A.please_insert_witty_text.M]

It would be neat if hiverunning would be a sort of risk/reward decision you can make early in the day. So you could choose to steal a hive and have the bees throw a fit and roam the map for the rest of the day (as it is right now, they're way too dangerous for that). Killing mobs seems interesting, but they'll probably be way too good at just purging every living thing from the map, which could be cool, but considering a lot of people would always take the hive means you'd see other mobs way less. (maybe they could just kill Tulip Snakes and Manticoils)

[@Thug-Hunter]

​@@luclegrand2834They kill Tulip Snakes when they collide

[@gneu1527]

​@@A.please_insert_witty_text.Mthey could kill unsafe enemies with HP

[@A.please_insert_witty_text.M]

@@gneu1527 Sure they could, but would that be good game design? Ideally you want to make sure players have to deal with pretty much all the monsters (although it can vary based on your moon preferences). If you allow Circuit Bees to kill any killable outdoor entities, it creates the problem of a large number of players (most experienced players would probably never pass up on a hive, if possible) pretty much never having to deal with Eyeless Dogs, Baboon Hawks, Forest Keepers, etc because they ALWAYS take the hive and end up purging the map of non-bee life. Not to mention, it would be more interesting if the bees could actually work together alongside other mobs so you can get in tricky situations, as opposed to "here is a death cloud which is the only threat on the map, just don't go near it".

[@Dummydude]

The AI Behind Alter Ego's upload schedule

[@ultimazillarex1076]

That video would be at least an hour long.

[@snick7340]

His upload schedule has 3 phases

[@agmass]

didnt you already make this joke then edit it out later dummydude…

[@RaVen99991]

Real

[@Coolpig551]

It isn’t bad compared to some peoples

[@LemonyLemoner]

One time a beehive spawned on the side of a steep hill causing them to lose their hive immediately

[@Goldfishi_ez]

They've spawning under old birds and glitching into the void, they then go into a frenzy, and be an asshole

[@xann2681]

Cant rly happen cuz they spawn on nodes, which are always on valid ground, would only happen if the game glitches out or spawning objects bugs them, like sleeping old birds

[@LemonyLemoner]

@@xann2681 the game might have glitched out then like you said

[@creeperboom9813]

As someone who sucks at the game, knowing how to avoid these when other people are grabbing them is very helpful

[@dinoaurus1]

Just bring the hive onto the side of the ship with the bees and grab it as youre leaving. No need to deal with the bullshit roaming bees

[@gamerek9546]

You can just run through to take 10 damage as well

[@GabrielDP007]

There's one more important thing about the beehives, the price of all beehives on the moon will always be the same (For some reason).

[@appalacha7278]

Good to know

[@ethanforsythe589]

thats not true. beehives vary in price even on the same moon. stop spreading misinformation

[@vaelophisnyx9873]

This does not hold true with mods, keep that in mind

[@transorm987]

@@vaelophisnyx9873 You can say that about almost anything...

[@gimpscam9976]

@@transorm987yeah fr wtf were they trying to prove? With mods anything is different. Yuh durrr

[@TheDoomMaster]

Can't wait for Roaming Locust AI

[@detrelletrapp5028]

Lmao

[@epicgamerzfail4575]

Personally I want manticoil next

[@gabrielewilson4678]

i want the ai behind toy robots honestly

[@ekal3_YT]

i want manticoils too

[@gneu1527]

That'd be horrifying

[@Imirui]

2:57 Technically they take 4.4 seconds due to how the health system works. They take 11 hits to kill (not 10) because your health will regenerate a point in the time it takes them to attack a 2nd time after your critical injury. When you get critically injured and are below 20 health, you regen health until you reach 20. Because the bees attack 2.5x per second, you have enough time before the next attack to regen 1 point of health to 11, making them take an extra hit.

[@junker3724]

Fox: my weapon is my tongue Coilhead: speed Old bird: rockets Bees: your stupidity

[@hmm6152]

real

[@TBNRcharlie0511]

Same with dogs

[@Nosretep]

​@@TBNRcharlie0511 Dogs: You're keyboard

[@TBNRcharlie0511]

@@Nosretep just make sure it’s not clicky

[@therexagon8752]

@@Nosretep membrane keyboards:

[@m7bgc44dx]

AI behind Circuit Bees: See player = CHASE CHASE CHASE CHASE CHASE CHASE

[@sdfggdfg5fgdfg]

they have a front and a field of vision that he didn't mention

[@A.please_insert_witty_text.M]

​@@sdfggdfg5fgdfgoh wait they do? Is it the same as Mask Hornets?

[@sdfggdfg5fgdfg]

@@A.please_insert_witty_text.M irc yes. doesn't really help that much but It's not a readius like he said

[@hanyuuhiiragi3544]

The funniest thing I've ever done was try to get bees on March, fell in the water and died (taking the hive with me) and the bees were frenzied for the rest of the round. I nearly killed everyone, but we still laugh about it

[@tonerdziek]

0:10 didnt know "giosuel is playing *lethal company* " was related to circuit bees

[@princesscadance197]

Man, I remember my first encounter with Circuit Bees. Rickety metal bridge, the only experienced player in our team of four charges ahead to scout the surroundings, leaving *three newbies* alone as a group. Out of line-of-sight and out of prox chat range, one of us makes the bridge collapse, bringing all three of us down, beehive at the bottom of the bridge, one player dies on impact, another is critically-injured from the fall, and the third is being chased by bees. The veteran among us was confused to leave for a moment, only to come back to a collapsed bridge, one player dead, another critically-injured, and the third being chased into the horizon by bees.

[@DARKNESS_DFL]

One thing I've never noticed before is that when circuit bees hit you, you get a little bit of stamina.

[@tentrix8505]

Apparently that happens anytime you get damaged. I just learned that from another one of alter ego's videos, one of the 55 tip videos I think Edit: it's at 1:28 in their "55 MORE Things You Didn't Know about Lethal Company" video

[@amazingbloodmoon2688]

Another thing, if a Bee hive spawns in a strange location, (like another commenter said a steep hill) or a old bird spawns on top of the bees, they will immediately go into Phase 3 and start patrolling the map as the ship lands. This is very uncommon but happens the most frequently on Adamance from my experience.

[@Looona_fan]

Now we need an ai behind wandering locusts.

[@woologic09]

I've noticed the intros for the videos have gotten much more fun than rather purely informational, the beginning scene in the Barber video was fantastic.

[@gabrielewilson4678]

3:56 we call this the "I'm getting stung and don't feel so good" dance.

[@Balagnugnes]

Now we need ai behind the tentacles behind the wall

[@bojouka6552]

bees can also now be killed by running them over with the company cruiser, but only while they are not attached to their hive. So in the unlikely situation where you have frenzied bees roaming the map and a cruiser, you can try running them over to kill them.

[@therexagon8752]

this also applies to old birds

[@Thug-Hunter]

Isn't it got patched?

[@therexagon8752]

@@Thug-Hunter no

[@A.please_insert_witty_text.M]

It'll probably get patched if it hasn't already. The Cruiser currently effectively does a /kill on anything it hits quickly enough from my limited understanding. Edit: The Cruiser is reportedly a buggy mess and the way it kills things might be inconsistent and weird.

[@SpinosaurusStudios_]

BEES!!! FROM THE HIT MOVIE BEE MOVIE!!!

[@userxudos]

As someone who is “new” to the game, I have seen beehives up to 200 and more

[@Hectic28]

either someone had some kind of mods or it was just a client-host desync.

[@RiccardoBernardi-h7v]

4:43 i have a really funny clip about this part here

[@zaaniha]

"Beehives are conductive :("

[@RiccardoBernardi-h7v]

@@zaaniha "i don't think the beehive is conductive" - me to my friend before he got struck by lightning while trying to bring the beehive in the ship

[@luckntpotato7751]

A good trick about beehives is that if you scan on the terminal during the loading phase like before the seed pops up over and over again. You'll see like a certain amount then after a certain period of time, more items will be added to the total item count in the scan terminal and those are the beehives.

[@Chronoboost_]

Client side mods can also have a "detailed scan", showing if there are hives or not. This works with vanilla clients.

[@sdfggdfg5fgdfg]

@@Chronoboost_ so do many other mods like infinite stamina and control company

[@ghostamster]

aint no way bro hit the whistle whistle at the start 😭😭😭

[@Kerffus]

Casually against wall with suspiciously bee shaped pocket and glances side to side

[@A.please_insert_witty_text.M]

@@ghostamster The whistle of "I'm not paying attention to my surroundings and may or may not suffer the consequences of doing so".

[@andresaltamirano7970]

I've always wanted to know the biology and physics of how the bees can send electrical shocks between each other

[@therexagon8752]

build up absurd voltage in the form of static electricity by rubbing then release it like a flying capacitor ig

[@A.please_insert_witty_text.M]

You really should read the bestiary, they tend to have a lot of background info about the creatures, with some exceptions of course.

[@andresaltamirano7970]

@@A.please_insert_witty_text.M good idea, forgot bestiary exists

[@JustMatchmaking]

According to all known laws of electrodynamics, there is no way a bee should be able to generate electricity. Its wings are too small to properly generate the current needed to get it's fat little body to power lethal level of static conduction. The bee, of course, generates electricity anyway, because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

[@timohelsing7372]

Can't wait for AI of shop capsule

[@nightrunner823mcpro2]

I like how they're conductive, that's a really nice little detail

[@Keksbutter123]

You can also put the bee hive inside the car. Since the update 55 it`s possible to put any items inside the car, stick the car to the magnet, and leaving the moon. This would result in any items still being inside the car the next day so that you could always put the items into the ship the next day, if there were too many monster around the ship. But any entities (except the players) are left behind on the moon if being in the car and starting the ship so that you get a bee hive without circuit bees without bringing it inside the ship. This information may be useless to some people but if you put a bee hive too close to a ships wall the bees can damage the players inside the ship so it might be practical to put a bee hive in the car instead onto the side of the ship.

[@ethanforsythe589]

there is also a few ways to drop the hives on the ship so they count as collected but are still outside so the bees wont be angry, removing the chance of losing a hive

[@shibainu2528]

I still remember the first time I grabbed a beehive. I was with a friend, it wouldn't chase me no matter how close I got or what I did... I eventually ran out of patience and just grabbed it, then started running. The plan *was* for me to lure the bees away while the other person grabbed it, I don't think the other person was ready for the change of plans though. Even when they made it back to the ship and closed the door, the bees went *through* the door as I jumped on the back catwalk.

[@Slimeboy0]

AI behind roaming locust is next

[@Alnoots]

I was literally just thinking about if you made a video of these the other day. Happy to see it

[@Aguyp]

Looking forward to the ai behind the fox

[@Chris_Tootoo]

Enjoying the more lighthearted comedy in the Video, it’s nice to see.

[@Theverachic]

Surprised you didn’t mention the ‘Wurps’ tech ( scaling the side of the ship and dropping the bees off to count them as collected).

[@keisuwu]

It would also be good to mention that when you aren’t carrying anything, you can still outrun the bees in frenzy mode. You can walk it in circles and get your stamina back up until you can sprint again.

[@adicsbtw]

As a note: for anyone who may have previously seen bread's strategies on collecting bee hives without having to bring them inside, this got patched in the latest update

[@caniszalupus1746]

uh, no? literally just tested it. if anything, there are more options now, since you can put bees on cruiser

[@adicsbtw]

@@caniszalupus1746 I was trying it earlier and it wasn't working at all, so I though it was patched

[@PolygonalGaming]

man even with this knowledge ill still be out of stamina within 2 seconds

[@lychezr]

there is also a very rare thing, if the hive somehow falls off the map or fails to spawn (as what i think of it) the bees will always be in frenzy phase and aimlessly fly around

[@GooberTheGamer13]

waiting on the AI behind the players 💀💀

[@M3G4T3RR4]

The other day, me and two friends landed on Vow. I did the trick where you spam the ship scan to see if beehives spawned on the map, and found that none did. We walked out of the ship and saw circuit bees flashing in the distance. They spawned without a hive and were in a constant berserk phase. I assume it was a glitch, but I thought it was interesting to see and deserved to be told to someone.

[@SansJT-w6x]

2:05 why then bee was frenzy mode when i put the bee in front the ship

[@daxosnessus825]

so excited that the old intros are back

[@CerbverbAnimates]

Do not run the beehive across the spaceship because the circut bees will attack your teammates. The teammate: *Casually dancing while being attacked*

[@CheekyCookie]

Zeekers should add “insect killer”. Or just a flame thrower :)

[@Chespin11]

Bro I NEEEED Ai behind eyeless dog, I feel like he atacks so randomly

[@LunLunatic]

I remember once I encountered a bug where the bees spawned about 25 feet away from their hive and just never got aggravated.

[@RegularBiscuit]

frenzy may also occur in rare circumstances when the player taking their hive places it on ship, and they do not find it. this can lead to team wipes

[@TrapsterJ]

Shoutout to Giosuel getting his spotlight in your intro, he timed his moment

[@KittiesRCool]

I dunno if you know this, but giosuel has started playing Lethal Company

[@RyanLarrua]

Bro wake up alter ego posted a new video

[@serenavessalius7233]

Me playing lethal company: "I wonder when alter ego will make a video about the AI behind the circuit bees" The next day: This video appers magically in my "for you" page

[@hgbguy]

2:03 i feel like i often have a problem on march when i put bees on the back if they take too long to path up the ladder they can frenzy that gets me a lot of the time.

[@Emforus]

Bit late for this one but, if you drop off the hive at the front right of the ship on March, make sure you retrieve it very quickly. There's a cliff on the way while the ship is flying off and it will knock you down, either killing you outright or leaving you behind. Had that happen a couple of times, once solo. It was not a good time.

[@theploomun]

that guy on the right bottom of screen aka intro part "Playing Lethal Company" got me flipped upside down

[@Default_user-x7m]

WE WANT THE BLOB IA🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🔥🗣️

[@k1moi]

a long time ago some circuit bees spawned without their hive and they literally killed everyone the moment we ran out

[@xavens0]

i kinda hoped you would add a small part where you show a trick that bread uses, where you jump on top of the ship with the hive from the magnet side and drop the hive down to have it collected

[@BEN1801-GK5S]

I love your content. It's awesome! Keep going!

[@mcawesome9705]

here's a fun peculiarity regarding circuit bees: normally, they damage you for 10 hp however, if you're critically injured (i.e: fell below 10 hp), they will instead kill you directly this typically ends up having the exact same effect. however, if you somehow get astronomically (un)lucky and escape them at 1 hp, but then get attacked by them again 18 seconds later, you will just die instantly despite having 19 health. turrets have a somewhat similar quirk, where above 50 health, they deal 50 damage, but at or below 50 health, they kill you directly. makes me wonder if these were the first things that were programmed, cause as far as i'm aware, there's nothing else that checks what your health is to decide whether to damage or kill you.

[@rafasr0]

I wanted videos like this explaining Phasmophobia Ghosts!

[@GameRaptor64222]

We need an Ai analysis for the player ngl

[@Brambrew]

We got Circuit Bees before Ghost Girl???!!!

[@AtakheIikopteri]

video idea: make a shorts series like this one but with mechanics. explain items moons cruiser ship upgrades etc.

[@F8isRIPPIN]

I've had them go into frenzy many times when the hive is taken far away to or behind the ship.

[@roest7770]

giosuel during this vid: *Playing Lethal Company*

[@mroofity6594]

4:16 Actually had a weird run regarding this, where I managed to get the beehives onto the side of the ship before dying brutally to them and my friend immediately taking off. We the routed to a diff planet(Offense) and when we landed, my friend saw the beehive was still on the side of the ship. Wonder if I had just managed to get it inside enough to count or if the game was just being goofy there lol

[@Box-bp3wx]

Sometimes bees will just go into frenzy for no reason

[@NeRo_Axal0tl]

AI behind Ego's skill

[@phoenixrose1995]

has an interesting bug happen. had a nest spawn in where you could easily walk to it, but the circut bees somehow couldn't path find to it. so upon spawning in the beez were in insta frenzy mode. i had to pick up their hive and drop it somewhere to stop this bug lol

[@ldkwhattonameme]

I herd from somewhere that you can use the cruder to “kill” the bees and it will deactivate them but not get rid or their sprite because they have no death animation, I have not tested this myself I have just herd this from someone once

[@ChickenC172]

Found out the flash bang makes frenzy bees stop chasing.

[@buthter]

wait so can bees die to worms

[@TheLastThunder]

Alter Ego: i can explain the ai of everything Ghost girl: really? 💀

[@sunxbunny8631]

Another way for the bees to enter frenzy mode is if somone someone grabs the beehive and the bees lock on to a different player then the one who has the beehive grabbed (ik because it happens to me and my friends alot from just playing the game)

[@literatemax]

Sometimes they start as aggro and never return to their hive. You can see them aggro moving around with electricity before the ship even finishes landing...

[@MageDawnStar]

Phase 3 happened to me once without interacting with their hive because it spawned inside a pumpkin

[@Popo-zj5rg]

Now we need ai behind the turret

[@YueYukii]

something stranged happened the other day on march where i wanted to pick the hive and enter one of the fire exits. I died trying to enter and the hive was just at the door. My teammate went to do it and o though the bees would be on the hive but we saw they were roaming instead.

[@AshBlossomWorshiper]

Why are they conductive?

[@fuzz6663]

Its in the name

[@Jeb.07]

Something you forgot to mention is that they recharge your stamina a little every time they damage you!

[@UnknownRage419]

Remember to not approach any teammates when you are carrying a beehive If the bees see another player they might retarget to them, and since your carrying the beehive, they will go into frenzy mode while chasing your teammate This will cause problems to literally everyone so just make sure to tell your teammates to stay away when you're collecting hives

[@CarlosGarcia-ks3ff]

Giosuel is now playing Lethal Company

[@deadpocke]

The AI behind Alter Ego's profile picture

[@eibbaj4879]

One good thing to note is when circuit bees sting you, it will replenish some of your stamina back. I don't know why but it does

[@GAMER32231]

thats with all damage not just bees

[@wildwolff]

One time I landed on March and found a gold bar inside the facility and as I was going back to the ship with just the gold bar, a swarm of circuit bees flew over the big hole in the middle of the map and over to me and killed me instantly. I still don't know why they were aggrod because I was solo and never touched a hive lol. I have the clip saved too

[@TheEldritchGoose]

The frenzy stage is different now, I think

[@Paperclip321]

the single largest run ender of my entire time playing lethal company

[@omegadragons321]

its 3:23 am for me rn but you know i gotta watch ur videos

[@Space_Anomalies]

I'm not sure if this was patched but bees AI's turn off at 11:50pm. Meaning you can pick up hives and they won't harm/chase you

[@Froggy_VR]

Can you do an "AI behind random teammates" video? I have a hard time understanding most of them.

[@zephyr_haru]

I guess I'll wait for AI behind Eyeless Dogs

[@xboxcreeper]

I have a question: when the bees are in frenzy if they find another hive would they go to the different hive

[@Yuti640]

Holy crap Giosuel is playing Lethal Company

[@theonedarkend4521]

Babe, wake up. Alter Ego posted peak content

[@utterash]

After you do the rest of the lethal npcs are you gonna do content warning?

[@Realpefson95]

Also, if the bees manage to hit you your stamina will increase a bit

[@jjandjacks7928]

Question, do you plan on making a video containing a bunch of the less interesting mobs in the game, like manticoils, roaming locusts, and masked?

[@straferthesluggo3096]

Please do Masked next those guys are so fascinating