Idea: Make co-op escapes possible with bots

[Salvatore]

How about a command where you can get a bot to do things like push the trapdoor button in Heights or kneel down near the vent in Indusrage? Offline there is no way at all to pull of those escapes besides cheating, so it'd help people like me who can't find a decent game with low-ping (sucks to be in Europe - all the games over here seem to be iGIB ) to try out these escapses with a clear conscience

 

[Matthew Leech]

thats a great idea, but i don't think something like that is even possible?

maybe so because we have some great coders.

 

[_Lynx]

may be triggering some prescripted UnrealScriptedSequences to make bots do what is required for escape?

 

[Matthew Leech]

possibly, or adding a command or something to the extent of "escape out of jail"
and then the bot would attemp to help you get out of jail

 

[TheSpoonDog]

It's easy enough without coding to get a player to be able to shoot a button, which triggers a bot script to go and do something. Only thing is, most escapes which are built this way were intended to involve more than one human anyway, so escaping is not too easy/frequent. I think, in the case of JB-Heights though, it would be reasonable as the escape isn't easy, is risky, and takes quite a long time anyway.

 

[_Lynx]

In Heights I'd made the bot to stand near the button, but it doesn't listen to orders when in jail. Anyway, when you'll get out you'll have ~20 health after 4 shieldjumps

 

[Wormbo]

Depending on the kind of escape route it would be possible to tell bots to try to escape. For example on Aswan when the escape route is activated (someone is holding the door open) bots could try to make their way through the spider-filled escape tunnel as well, even though their chance to actually get through are minimal.
The only thing required for this is a custom actor that makes them look for an exit even if there's no release in progress, which involves only a few lines of code.

 

[Timonator]

what would happen if there IS a release in progress? will the bots then try to escape through the escape route?

 

[Wormbo]

Generally, bots only look for a jail exit (primary or alternate) if there's a release in progress. Thes simply don't even try to find an exit if no release is in progress. However, if the escape route happens to be open during a release and that escape rout is bot-pathed, bots might consider using it to leave the jail instead of the primary jail door.

In the new version of Aswan I'm working on, the bots will also try to get out without a release in progress. However, it's probably more likely they step on every little spider mine in the escape tunnel than actually reaching freedom.

 

[ZedMaestro]

Do reduce the number of spider mines if you're planning on an update