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Offline JohnnyDmonic

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AI not using grenades?
« on: September 28, 2007, 10:50:28 PM »
I've written a few mecha with grenades in their inventory (mecha-scale grenades) and near as I can tell they're being ignored.  Is the AI not setup to handle equipment in inventory space?

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AI not using grenades?
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2007, 02:24:08 AM »
I don't think it is.
Though it might be the design file.
Have you checked if it works for a player character?

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« Reply #2 on: September 30, 2007, 09:17:21 AM »
Oh, yeah.  I've picked 'em up off of corpses and hucked 'em at the remainder.  Given that one of them is a mecha scale 'nuclear grenade', I've seen clear evidence that they work.

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AI not using grenades?
« Reply #3 on: September 30, 2007, 01:38:40 PM »
I want those...

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AI not using grenades?
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2007, 03:34:23 AM »
I'm guessing that the reason why the AI doesn't use grenades is because it's not looking in the general inventory for usable weapons. I would like to have some mecha which come with grenades as standard, but one problem is that once grenades are used they're gone and won't be reloaded at the shop. I considered making a special mecha-sized grenade satchel to conserve the grenade gear even if all grenades have been thrown, but that didn't seem like an elegant solution.

A second-best solution I thought up was to include mecha scale grenades at certain stores.

I'll take a look at the weapon selector. I'm planning to give NPCs grenades in GH2, so they better be able to use them.