How do you make advanced combat AI?

[dozkiuVII]

I am currently working on an AI system where the AI pressures the player by attacking, parrying, and even rolling.

An example:

I already have the combat system down, my problem is I don’t know how to recreate the movement where the NPC approaches the player or even backs up at times. Any ideas on how this was made?

[dthecoolest]

AI?

Don’t you mean IF statements?

@dozkiuVII

even backs up at times

If enemy player is doing a light attack, 50% chance to block, 50% chance to dodge.

For more advanced you can use Machine learning which is basically just learning which one is more effective based on input data.

More examples, and a link to behavior trees to organize that If else behavior.

How could I create smarter swordfighting NPCs?

For this usually the strategy is to approach the side of the character that is not holding the sword like circle strafing, then you can add difficulty some bots do this while others don’t for “smartness” I believe you can do something simple like detecting and running away from a lunge if the distance is far away then going back in to try for an attack, or instead of going straight to the enemy and attacking have a random chance to stay a radius away and wait for a chance to attack. Also I b…

[dozkiuVII]

Alright, thanks! Just one question, how would I make the NPC move to the side of the player that is attacking? My first thought was to use :MoveTo() then offset the position of the character for a bit but I couldn’t quite figure it out.

[taedevv (backwoods)]

Use :MoveTo() and offset the position

[darkarai1234 (Firekeeper)]

Sorry Im working on a similar thing rn so I have a question for you. With machine learning what are some conditionals to run for finding which is the best option because for the past 2-3 days I haven’t been able to think of any good conditionals to make the ai decide whether to block or dodge.