Hey guys, I just posted a reply on one of the update patch notes, and I wanted to quote it here just to bring it to people’s attention and possibly even Illfonic’s attention to see if this could become a thing. I just wanted to see what you guys think about it:
“(I am so glad that they added custom private matches to the game! Now, the only thing I would wish for is an AI predator. Now, I’ve seen this controversial topic in a lot of forums. However, I honestly think it would be a good idea to implement this into the game since my internet gets kicked off sometimes out of nowhere, sometimes even multiple times throughout the day (I’m sure everyone’s does), and I think it would be cool to add some sort of offline AI predator to play against in the meantime while waiting for Wi-Fi to start back up again. Now, as I was saying, this has been a controversial topic in a lot of discussions. For example, programming an AI predator would be a lot of work and would take away time from all the other important things needed to be worked on. But that doesn’t necessarily mean this AI predator should be “believable” or even remotely advanced, it just would be cool if you would play against an AI predator while you are offline, even if it is the worst AI yet, at least its something to do in the meantime. Does anyone feel what I’m saying?”)"
“(Also, if they do work on an AI predator, it doesn’t even have to be any time soon, let’s say they wait until the community starts dying down and there’s not as much people to play against, say, in the next couple of years, it would be awesome to add an AI predator because you would have something to play against, once again even if it is in no way advanced or adaptive, at least it gives the community something to do. I also think it would really encourage sales in the long run, and overall it would just make a lot of people happier, especially if they don’t have access to the internet at the moment. Now, you wouldn’t want to make this Predator too advanced because it might keep people from playing against other real players. That is why it would be best to leave it feeling a little “generic”, so that people wouldn’t resort to that unless they had no internet and that way it will keep as many players online as possible. Honestly, I think an AI predator is inevitable. I mean, come on, they already added custom private matches to the game. I think there’s only one thing missing if you know what I mean, and developers don’t usually add that much customization unless they are very committed to their game. All-in-all, an AI predator would definitely add a lot more “customization”.)”
edit: I’m getting a lot of comments asking what the point of an AI predator would be and I just came to say…ok, I never wanted one because of internet or Wi-Fi issues or any of the reasons stated above, that is just me trying to persuade people that it would be a good thing but I guess it didn’t work. The only reason I wanted an AI predator is so that I could practice parrying. Yes, that’s it. I just want the predator to run towards me, and start slashing when it gets close, no need for ranged weapons or any special tools, so that I can try to parry it. If the coding sucks and its easy to kill the predator, I’ll just turn its health up to 10,000% in the settings, and that’s that. It is kind of selfish of me to try to come up with reasons that aren’t even the motive for me asking for this type of thing, but I didn’t want people to know about my secret :/
edit 2: another thing is that whenever you are in game playing against a real player predator it is hard to practice because whenever you try, before you know it, you’re dead, so it’s kind of hard to practice parrying against real players since the combat encounters only last for a short amount of time before you either die, or your other teammates shoot the predator. So, it kind of makes it hard to practice, but idk…I just wanted a neverending parry spar with an AI predator lol
edit 3: let’s be honest, I just love this game so much, my biggest fear is that the game will die down after a while, and there won’t be as many players, and therefore not a lot of people to play against.
