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Extending AI Behaviors

Enhancing an enemy character’s behavior in a multiplayer game is a great way of making it more challenging and exciting for players. It can also help create a more immersive experience, as enemies become smarter, faster, and stronger. By introducing new abilities or changing existing ones, you can make your game stand out from other similar titles on the market.

In this chapter, you will learn how to add improvements to your minion’s AI behavior – this will involve creating some sort of communication between your hero character’s stealth abilities and the undead minion sensing system. Additionally, you will learn how to make your opponents communicate and cooperate with each other, in order to give your thief a hard ...

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