DXX-Retro
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Add robot behavior
I was wondering what it would take to bring some interest to cooperative (single player). I'm multiplayer person with interest to face other pilots and I don't find any joy in fighting robots. Primary reason is poor AI, which makes robo games boring since it comes down to 'going through the nest filled with mindless campers' - thats my feeling. Yet there is one particular AI which brings some hope - Thief bot. The way how it is able to move across entire level is unique. Yet there is no way to set multiple behaviors for 1 robot so it can be thief or any other(not even worth mentioning). There is my suggestion for enhancement: Leave thief's moving, 'decision making' unaltered, just give it a weapon and make it fire upon you instead of stealing - fire some and run away as it already does. Arming it with homers and vulcan (or gauss) would make a challenge especially with several of those in the mine.
That's going a ways into 'mod' territory. Apart from CTFC (which I owe to Jinx), I don't want to think about adding entire game modes in 1.4.
Let's save that stuff for the future.