Silly TDM Screenshot Thread

[simplen00b]

Not really a screenshot but a mish mash of nonsense I took out of my speedrun-ish videos.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKLR2eexC4Q

That really shouldn't have made me laugh but it did. Particularly liked (i) the technique of continuing to hit AI even after they were KO'd; (ii) the sweet ickle spider (at 4.45). It looked like it was begging! While you were clubbing it to death.

 

Re the two AI from the first sequence (Score to Settle) - I guess they weren't on the same team - or something??? Seemed odd that they didn't both gang up on him at once.

[Springheel]

It looks like there were some pathfinding problems in that section of the street. There were small spots where the AI acted like they couldn't reach the player, but take one step forward and then they could.

[RJFerret]

Overzealous monsterclipping typically. There are a few other FMs players can exploit like in that one. Lack of providing monsterclip terrain is another possible reason (if not near decorative objects).

 

The solution is to limit monsterclip to the size of the objects, and not run it to the sky when not appropriate. That part is easy to see. The harder part is realizing if ground patchwork got too high over the underlying brushes and requires a supporting step of monsterclip underneath, since lowering a vertex in one spot might raise surfaces in another.

 

The only way I know is to test heavily by running around with an AI chasing you all over, coming from each direction and watching to see if they stop to pull out a rock to throw at you or run around something you expected them to follow straight over.

[Springheel]

harder part is realizing if ground patchwork got too high over the underlying brushes and requires a supporting step of monsterclip underneath,

 

It's likely that.

[simplen00b]

I had something similar at one point playing nuThief. Got spotted by a guard, so I ran and cowered in a corner - the guard saw me, came right up to me with his sword drawn, and then (for no reason I could see) suddenly backed off and started throwing stones at me. He did this a few times, then on the third or fourth approach decided he could thwack me after all.

[At0mic]

Playing "Home Again", I very sneakily went up and blackjacked Mr. Bier while he was sitting down. For some reason he flipped and landed in a perfect handstand (well, back of the hands anyway):

 

 

[Deadlove]

 

Not silly, didn't know where else to post it. From FM Lich Queen's Demise.

[Airship Ballet]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnfAtyuGWJw Edited April 20, 2014 by Airship Ballet

[Sotha]

Looks like grayman has done some tactical AI improvements recently:

 

"Tango down."

"Squad, protect the VIP."

"Storm the front! Flashbang the room, then assault! Go Go Go!"

 

 

 

This was very lifelike situation I encountered when I tested AI getting up from sleep by fleeing AI. I bashed the nobleman dead, let the noblewoman find the body. She freaked out, ran away and came back with these boys. They gathered tactically at the door before going in. I was utterly amazed, but was able to get a screenshot of it. They cannot see me because of notarget.

 

 

[Lux]

PROTECT THE QUEEN AT ALL COSTS!!!!

 

 

hahaha..

[Xarg]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOIkv_3fAYc&feature=youtu.be

 

Zombies make terrible human shields, as it turns out

Edited July 25, 2014 by Xarg

[STiFU]

That's because they are not human as in human shield. ;-)

[Xarg]

That may be true, but it also seems they aren't filled with anything, look at that thing flopping around like a ragdoll (pun not intended, but I'm totally going with it), like it weighs nothing. Perhaps their mass is broken?

[Springheel]

How much would you expect a zombie to weigh? They're mostly skin and bones.

[Xarg]

After a quick googling, the skeleton plus the skin, I'd expect 15-20kg, plus a few more for whatever muscle remained. Call it 25kg?.. and having worked a job where that was a unit of weight I hefted around regularly, I wouldn't expect to flip it around like a large, rotting sock puppet. Especially at the distance it was being held, which would exert a fair amount of torque on the spine and arms of the person swingin' them around. Buut fantasy is as fantasy does, it just seems a little odd that the zombie was that easily moveable.

[Paralytik]

After a quick googling, the skeleton plus the skin, I'd expect 15-20kg

This is one of the wierdest things I've read in a long time.

[Xarg]

You missed the discussion about member frobability, then...

[Paralytik]

http://youtu.be/mDqsgbtpDLk

[SeriousToni]

I had a funny moment when KOing a sleeping ai last night

[PranQster]

I had a funny moment when KOing a sleeping ai last night

I was just about to post an nearly identical screenshot. LOL. I will anyway.

[PranQster]

Here are mine from LSTL:

 

Edited January 5, 2015 by PranQster

[SeriousToni]

Wow you really punched them into their pillows!

[Sotha]

Sometimes, when you put two AI on the same RIT network they can do surprising things. That's the main idea of the RIT: increase unpredictability.

 

I was noclipping around my map, looking for errors and testing stuff when I saw these two AI getting all cuddly. Prolly they thought they had some privacy from their creator and had a soft moment. Even an AI needs some love, right?

 

 

 

 

 

[Melan]

Should I even ask?

 

[esme]

not a TDM screenshot but I didn't know where else to post it

 

from https://twitter.com/afilina/status/695066872744669184