Enemy AI tactics & Features to spice up & toughen the game.

[ekarth22]

To the respected modders of this community, please consider my humble suggestions-

 

Kid full of vengeance

NPC citizens with family n kids should be visiting those recreational areas and campsites around lakes and mountains. You can kill the adults but not the kids and after 3 game days, that kid grows into a vengeful adult (Batman) and tries to assassinate you and other villians!

 

Water-runners.

There should be water-fetchers for each factions who come with pack brahmin and fill purified water bottles from lakes and rives. You can wait n watch till they're done and you kill them to loot 50-100 purified water bottles !

 

Hunt at the river

In the jungle if you're a hunter, you'd wait near the water sources for the kill.

All the animals visiting the lakes every once in a while. You can camp there for hunting. right now only the gekos do it.

 

More jelepeno pepper thanks to Vault 3

 

Geko meat is available so easily but you can't cook the Geko kebab because jelepeno peppers are rare like Anti-material rifles' ammo! I would urge the modders that in the Vault 3 you discover that vegetation research data. You give it to Followers of the Apocalypse and then more Jelepeno pepper and other veggies are available in NCR region and with traders.

 

Now for the combat,Please implement these tactics for NCR, Legion, fiends and Vipergangs

 

Medic in each squad with healing aura

Like the Paladin's healing aura in Diablo II, I would wish one guy in the enemy squad playing the medic. So long as he is alive the squad would keep healing automatically and gets ++ boost to hitpoints. So you've to eliminate him first.

 

Far Cry 2 like maim the enemy and ambush the Medic

 

In Far Cry 2, if you maim an enemy with gun or knife and run away, other enemies will come to rescue him disregarding their own safety and then you can snipe them too from a distance.

I would wish similar for Fallout Vegas. Although this would require considerable new animation but you can make do using the Cannibal animation to pretend that Medic-NPC is healing his injured squadmate! ;)

 

Squad leader with Offensive Paladin Aura.

like the offensive paladin aura in Diablo II, as long as this guy is alive the enemy squad's guns have more damage, and their Armour have more DT.

 

Diverse squads with LMG, grenade launchers, rocket launchers.

Each of their squad consists of 4-5 people. One of them is with grenade rifle or rocket launcher. So far I've seen only one viper gang near the Harper's shack effectively using grenade launcher tactic. Similarly one sniper, one heavy gunner with Light MG or Minigun in each squad to make your journey through Mohave lot more difficult.

 

MG42 nests

In Brother in Arms, the MG42 nests are so hard to capture without heavy firepower. The outposts of Caesar, Fiends and NCR should have similar stationary weapons, so well defended with sand-bags that you can't take headshots even with pipboy. Only a mininuke, missile or bayonet charge can deal with it.

 

Fiends that actually loot and plunder.

 

Major Dadhitri and other NPCs keep mentioning how bad the Fiends are, but we rarely get to see the fiends actually doing those unspeakble things.

 

Would be better if you make Primm, Nipton and Novac with lot of NPC citizens. And routinely either the Fiends or the Vipers raid the town, murder the innocent citizens, loot their corpses, do cannibal eating, in broad daylight, capture slave and what not, to depict the actual lawlessness of Mohave. That'd inspire more rage and prompt the players to kill more n more of them. GTA San andreas, you get a radio-message when your friendly towns are under attack. If you show up in time to save them, they'll reward you with discounts at shops, free food n liquor.

 

The Mob banks

Caesar and NCR have so many soldiers in their payroll, so there ought to be some paymaster or heavily fortified bank and minting plant where they're holding the salaries of these employees. I would wish a scene of Dark-knight where you get to rob this mob-bank wearing a hockey mask!

 

Fake currency.

You can craft fake currency just like surplus ammo. However you can only use it on low grade food n drink vendors and not some sophisticated arms dealers like Gunrunners or silverrush.

 

Prison laborers in NCR correctional facility

If an Enemy is maimed and left to die by his squadmates. You can use your stimpack to heal him and send him to NCR correctional facility to serve as a Prison laborer. They spend rest of their life growing vegetables, rearing animals, and you get to enjoy the financial rewards. If you find capture more enemies you can allot them to work in caves to dig out urenium and gold. You can use Uranium to create mininukes with Veronica or mint legion coins using the gold.

 

Vault 3 research institute

If you kill motor-runner and entire fiend gang in Vault three, you get to become the Overseer of Vault 3. You can invite NPCs to start families in that. They do research and craft sophesticated energy weapons and medicins.

 

apologies if some of these features are already available in some mods. If that's the case please tell me the link of such mod.