Noisemaker arrows and AI Hearing

[snatcher]

Setting "AI Hearing" to "Nearly Deaf" renders the noisemaker arrows pretty much useless. I am not sure this is the preferred outcome.

[datiswous]

I never tested this, but yeah the effect of the noise arrow should not be affected by the AI hearing.

[Dragofer]

I also find broadheads and thrown moveables quite impotent for distracting AIs - unless they go right past the AI's heads the response isn't much more than a "huh", on "challenging" hearing. They sure made a racket in Thief.

[snatcher]

I am sure it all is more complicated but perhaps the hearing setting should be linked to the "player's presence" and nothing else. The rest can be then fine-tuned and volume and propagation remains the same in all difficulty levels. In the end, causal players don't want to be heard (or seen) without much effort but still venture in the same world.