Civilians a possibilty?

[bigbossmatt]

I'm not a modder but thought about this possibility conceptually.

Imagine in coop mode you had the AI only take certain kits. These kits have a civilian skin. Their behaviour is programed to be passive, to dwell in house and perhaps to have a pistol to fire when threatened (ie you enter a radius of like 3 metres and point your gun at them).

I can't see, with my limited mod skills how this wouldn't be possible. The possibilities seem endless. On MEC maps, civilians with RPG, with little to no skill at them firing on US Marines. In china, some families in their rooms...

If you kill one you could lose points if and only if they havent begun fire on you. If they are programed to do this rarely it would be cool.

Perhaps have crowds of civilians (children and women too) crossing roads in Karkand at certain times. Would be fun..

Any way the point of this post was to ask if in your better experience, and with the new coop modes, will this be something you think that modders will get into??

[Toxitron]

Re: Civilians a possibilty?

Yea man that would bring the game to a new level of dynamics. I always wondered why the Battlefields were completely deserted, especially in large urban areas. I would like to see this NPC theory acted upon.

[DasRoach]

Re: Civilians a possibilty?

alas this is a feature that has been wanted for a long time, but the game is limited to two teams per map...

this is a hardcoded issue and only Dice could implement more teams... sorry

[bigbossmatt]

Re: Civilians a possibilty?

alas this is a feature that has been wanted for a long time, but the game is limited to two teams per map...

this is a hardcoded issue and only Dice could implement more teams... sorry

But thats not my point.. With the new coop mode, the ai bots could be programed to take a 'civilian kit', all their behaviours programs to be civilianish. Somehow stop real people as spawning as civilians and the rest of this cocnept would be left to the modders to implement.

Why CAN'T it be done?

[grolsche]

Re: Civilians a possibilty?

Just because AI suddenly exist in co-op doesn't mean you can change all their behavioral parameters to make them act like civilians. You just cant do it. The reason you cant do it is because all modders have access to is a simple scripting language which does not provide enough depth to allow people access to anything internal to the game's inner workings. Any other engine, something like this might have been possible but it just simply wouldn't work in Battlefield. All you can do with Battlefield is make a clone of Battlefield but with different guns and vehicles. Thats all its really good for.