So... The AI is going to be fixed right?

Fallout 3 the enemies just ran at you headlong and didn't take cover or use any tactics at all, I would like to see some actuall shooting mechanics like enemies taking cover or something

Videos have shown that the combat AI has improved drastically. Mutants are aggressive, Nightkin hide, etc.

I sure hope so, it would be nice to have some actual variety when stumbling across some raiders. In Fo3 they did pretty much what you stated, although in the subway tunnels they did hide behind columns from time to time.
Maybe the AI should act differently depending on what difficulty you're playing on...?

It wasn't well done, but i'm almost sure human A.I do take cover sometimes in a shooting in F3

not once sadly, they either run at you guns blazing or run away and cower in a corner.

The deathclaw ai doesn't seem to be fixed according to the new vegas diary 2. It was just running away but kept on running towards a rock. The other ai also look like they'll be getting stuck while trying to run.

I will die if it isn't fixed.... they wont release it with that "Oblivion AI" right?

I have such high hopes for this game I don't ever want to see it with such shoddy AI, I want it to flourish and waste my life away.

please dear god let this be fixed ;_;

This happened to when I spent time fighting a group of about 4 more of humans.They usually use cover but sometimes spring back up to rush towards the player.

... doubt it. If they can't code NPC AI to go up a ladder...

The trouble is 'AI' isn't something that marketing men can use on the back-of-the-box to sell games. It's easier for Beth/Obsidian to extol the virtues of 'shooting big guns in a post apocalyptic world', than it is to pour resources into combat AI. The idea that the Nightkin will have superior AI is doubtful- sure they'll use their cloaking devices, but I bet they still charge straight at you, albeit in an near-invisible fashion....

I'm not a fan of the idea of assigning graded AI to difficulty levels - it gets boring fighting 'dumb' enemies even if you're after an easy challenge. Keep the difficulty tied to enemy HP/damage etc.

In an ideal world, ghouls would remain in the shadows, flitting between cover to outflank you. Mirelurks would have patrol patterns, distinctly territorial and protective of their brood. Deathclaws would seek the high ground, looking to surprise their foes with death from above. You wouldn't think this would be that difficult to code, and it would add a bit of unpredictability to the gameplay. But I see no evidence of any effort to allocate distinct AI routines to different enemies in the vids I've watched so far.

/sigh

I just pray that they wont mess this up, the same AI would be a huge setback for the game.

I hope the AI is better but it wouldn't matter to me if it isn't

I feel the same.I wouldn't mind the AI being better and more tactical enemies but it won't matter if the AI is the same or improved.

The problem is in playtesting they found out players dont like ai smarter and sneakier then them. And as most gamers actualy have the gaming skills god gave a deranged pile of cat barf....

LOL! even the best AI is generally worse then the average gamer by a good amount. Also although im sure this game is gunna be great, Obsidian does not have a great track record as far as gameplay is concerned, so i highly doubt they will have made the perfect AI and then learned recently during play testing that they should just scrap it. I have a feeling we are going to need to deal with the same AI from fallout 3. I mean, from what we have seen Obsidian is already using a lot of other things from 3, why not the AI too.

Well you haven't been paying attention then. I see them using cover all the time.

Corrected yer post

yeah the AI in Fallout 3 wasen′t bright, but not as stupid as the OP points it to, enemies tend to run to cover sometimes even crouching. Frankly most stupidity was more like how a raider in junk armor and a kitchen knife still bull rushed you even when you where wearing power armour and a flamer and sometimes enemies with grenades could toss them when friends where up Melee you.

Frankly the AI was ok for me.

Apathy. It will be the death of yeh. Wont you feel at least a little short-changed if the AI in New Vegas employs the same stale 'rush' mechanic as its aged predecessor? It's not that big an ask of Obsidian. If they can spend time re-working the reputation system, re-jigging the dialog system, that they can't spend at least some of their resources re-thinking the AI. Combat is afterall the biggest element of the game. Not even trying smacks of immense laziness on their part.

I don′t see how it would short-changed, the AI wasen′t to bad, I seen more stupid enemies.

An AI improvement would probably create a MASSIVE increase in popularity for Fallout.

I think a better idea would be to base the AI off of the enemies Intelligence stat and what faction they're in, not the difficulty level. Most raiders are probably a bit below average in intelligence, and don't get military training, so they should take SOME cover, but not react well to flanking or anything like that. NCR troops, on the other hand, have more training, so they get into cover faster, react to enemies trying to flank them better, communicate enemy locations better, etc.

Wow, i'm not sure if I'd be okay with a delay if they were working on the AI.

I never really minded the AI in Fallout 3...It looks better in New Vegas, but not so much to be a selling point. The one thing I could never stand about the Fallout 3 AI was that it made Melee combat really really frustrating. They would always run backwards while shooting at me and I had to burn a whole lot of Stimpaks at the beginning of the game.

Only thing I didnt like was being spotted too easily ,even at night .
And then getting hit accurately by any weapon from quite long distances.