0004981: "Scared" bosses in open terrain

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0004981	Valley 1	Balance Issue		Oct 23, 2011 2:49 pm	Oct 24, 2011 8:46 am

Reporter	Smiling Spectre	Assigned To
Status	closed	Resolution	duplicate
Product Version	0.529

Summary	0004981: "Scared" bosses in open terrain
Description	In every fight with giant amoeba (that happens quite frequent for my L7) at outside they use the same algorithm: goes maximum distance from me and stuck here. Well, it would be even handy, if not that fact that I cannot reach it at all - even with Riding the Lightning spell my spells cannot reach it. Actually, in previous versions amoebas was smarter: they goes not "absolute maximum" distance from me, but "maximum harmful distance", so they can be "lured" if run far enough from them. No more. It seems, something broken in AI now. :) Also, as I see now, "mini-amoebas" behave very similar: it goes to corners of screen and stuck here. In case of upper corner this point actually off-screen (see screenshot). (Yes, I know that I can reset height of bosses, leaving chunk map. But it is too... glitchy? :)
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Internal Weight	New

Kronic Oct 23, 2011 3:26 pm reporter ~0016988	Wooden platforms are my solution to this. Just make yourself a path to the boss.

Armanant Oct 23, 2011 4:52 pm reporter ~0016989	Yeah I get this too, I thought I had reported it a while ago but apparently I haven't. It is irritating, especially when 4 giant amoebas will just pile up into a corner in their attempts to get as far away as possible (not hard, as if they don't move there's nice 'safe zones' of where their attack patterns never hit..). Just how many ranks in intimidate do our characters have??

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Oct 23, 2011 2:49 pm	Smiling Spectre	New Issue
Oct 23, 2011 2:49 pm	Smiling Spectre	Summary	"Scaried" giant amoeba bosses => "Scared" giant amoeba bosses
Oct 23, 2011 3:26 pm	Kronic	Note Added: 0016988
Oct 23, 2011 3:53 pm	Smiling Spectre	Summary	"Scared" giant amoeba bosses => "Scared" bosses in open terrain
Oct 23, 2011 3:53 pm	Smiling Spectre	Description Updated
Oct 23, 2011 3:54 pm	Smiling Spectre	File Added: Boss off-screen.png
Oct 23, 2011 4:52 pm	Armanant	Note Added: 0016989
Oct 24, 2011 8:46 am	tigersfan	Relationship added	duplicate of 0004961
Oct 24, 2011 8:46 am	tigersfan	Internal Weight	=> New
Oct 24, 2011 8:46 am	tigersfan	Status	new => closed
Oct 24, 2011 8:46 am	tigersfan	Resolution	open => duplicate
Apr 14, 2014 9:29 am	Chris_McElligottPark	Category	Gameplay - Balance Issue => Balance Issue