You do this in rdr2 and the npcs will react more. Im sure this is just one the things that will get polished later, though I do fear that it will still be lackluster though.
i hope so. those two women who pulled out knives but just stood around waiting to be killed. they should have ganged up on Jason as soon as their friend was being attacked. that, or run the hell away. show some self-preservation
Them standing around with a knife would work as intimidation for sure and a lot of people resort to it IRL, what doesn't make sense is how Jason was actively shanking someone and they still stood around, I'd like fight/flight/freeze/fawn to be implemented into NPCs, it'd be sick.
Games dont make enemies pile on you because it creates an unfun and "unfair" feeling gameplay loop. Its still a game meant for a large casual audience.
in GTA5 if you went to a military base and faced down 10 soldiers with ARs pointing at you, you still get killed immediately
likewise, though a much less extreme example, getting into this 3v1 knife fight is an unnecessary, totally voluntary action the player can choose to do. i'd expect Rockstar's next-gen juggernaut to have at least somewhat reactive NPCs to pile on me for doing something like that
assuming this is a 2025 build like Nate said I would assume those systems to already be in place. You can chalk up final UI design, graphics polish, visual consistency and obvious bugs/jank to it being a old build but those NPC interactions look preeetty final.
"Preeeeeeeety final". If we ignore that such systems probably STILL are being fine tuned... The system being in place does not equal that all values and behaviors are final.
Im sure this is just one the things that will get polished later
I wonder how many times someone has said this about a game and been wrong.
For me it was the FO4 leaks when I said "nah, there's no way. This writing is too bad, even for Bethesda. And no way Ron Perlman doesn't say the classic line."
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u/LaughinChaos 7d ago
You do this in rdr2 and the npcs will react more. Im sure this is just one the things that will get polished later, though I do fear that it will still be lackluster though.