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Any interest in replacing the current "AI Vision" slider with "AI Alertness" or "AI Senses" and having it control both hearing and vision? |
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I'm torn. On the one hand it makes sense to combine them and it saves space in the menu. But on the other hand, vision and hearing are not equally weighted as it stands now. The current default for Vision is "Forgiving". I don't think the current default for sound would be suitable for that option...it's actually at "Challenging". Hearing has a greater impact on gameplay than vision as well...if you bump hearing up beyond where it is now, it will become nearly impossible to KO guards on loud surfaces. I can imagine someone wanting Hardcore vision, but not necessarily wanting Hardcore sound. I guess I'm leaning more towards keeping them separate, but my reasons aren't very strong if I'm in the minority. |
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Thinking out loud ... Existing maps fall into two categories: 1 - Those w/o location entities experience the correct sound loss. 2 - Those with location entities experience the incorrect sound loss. Starting in 2.02, both categories will experience the correct sound loss. If we want "Forgiving" to mimic the incorrect sound loss, we only want that to affect the maps in category 2; if we apply the same "Forgiving" factor to both categories, the maps in category 1 would be broken. So the solution has to take this into account. |
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They wouldn't be broken, but they would be easier than they are currently. The sound settings have to be consistent, so there's no way to avoid making some maps easier or harder than they are now. |
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Since we don't have room on the menu for any more options, how do you want to handle the addition of AI Hearing? |
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One possibility is to break the Gameplay menu into two submenus called General and Difficulty. Difficulty would include AI Vision, AI Hearing, Lockpicking, and Combat Difficulty. General would include the rest. Another possibility is to push the squiggly dividing line up under Audio/Video/Gameplay/Controls, making room for two more options. We use one for AI Hearing, leaving one more for the future. |
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Of those I think the sub-menu idea is preferable (more future-proof). |
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I'll implement the sub-menu design. For now, I'll make the hearing factor a multiplier of the AI's visual acuity, which is the simplest approach. Considering these values: Nearly Deaf - 0.6 Forgiving - 0.8 Challenging - 1.0 Hardcore - 1.2 Like we did with the AI Vision setting, we can adjust this during beta testing. |
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Divided the Gameplay menu into two sub-menus: “General” and “Difficulty”. Added the “AI Hearing” slider to the “Difficulty” page. Created four levels of difficulty: Nearly Deaf = 0.6 Forgiving = 0.8 Challenging = 1.0 (default) Hardcore = 1.2 These multipliers are applied to each AI’s audio acuity. We can adjust them during the 2.02 beta test. Rev. 5948: AI.cpp SysCvar.cpp SysCvar.h Game_local.cpp Rev. 13789: mainmenu_defs.gui mainmenu_settings.gui mainmenu_settings_gameplay.gui devel/release/Darkmod.cfg *.lang |
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