Hireling AI

[xman26]

WHY THE &(*#^$&%@ ARE THEY SO *&#$%$# STUPID? SERIOUSLY, FIX THE AI SO THEY JUST STAND IN A TRAP AND TRY TO HEAL THEMSELVES!!!!! MAKE IT SO THEY MOVE AWAY FROM THE TRAP!!!! WE AS PLAYERS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO TOGGLE THE BEAT FEAT BUTON TO GET THEM OUT OF THE **** TRAPS!!!!!!!




The (*&%# are my typings.

[Jakarr]

Cruise Control for Cooool

[Xilraazz]

I was doing one of the new quests last night with my 12 monk and the level 12 dwarf hireling (fulgan moren or something) he should be named f'n moron.
i have like 50 ac and heavy fort so i don't die when a mob looks at me funny but he stood there and just let me get beaten to death instead of healing me, both on act at will setting and guard me setting. after fighting like 5 mobs and being under half life he just stood there with about 60% SP and followed me around, i had to change him from guard me to act at will before he would heal me, but then had the same issue the next fight.
he would also stand there if he had aggro and let the mobs beat him to death instead of heal himself even though he had plenty of sp.
my wife on her pally was using the level 12 fvs hireling name started with a T and was having a similar issue. hireling getting ranged by archers and she just stood there until she died, over 60% sp and didn't cast a heal on herself.

[AZgreentea]

I've noticed that some hireling behavior is instance specific. About half the time the "no heal" thing only happens during that summon. The other half of the time, the cleric hireling is just stingy with the heals, waiting until I am a very low % to toss me one.

Now the trap thing is something they do when getting beat down too. If the fighter and Barb hirelings are taking a lot of punishment, they will make drinking pots a priority. They will even wait until the (invisible to me) cooldown on the pot ends so they can drink another, before they will decide what else to do. Often this means they ignore many other commands.

I wonder if the Devs can change the priority on the command buttons, so that the hireling will drop ANYTHING else they are doing (even at the cost of their own life) to obey the command?

Oh, and part of having a hireling is knowing how to play them. They are a lot more like a tool to use in the quest than they are a second player.

[fabhpk]

I always loathed the stupidity of the hireling in Neverwinter Nights 1. I thought no hire could be stupidiest than those.

I was wrong...