I think a lot of people get the use of ai confused... A good ai doesn't mean the comptuer is going to make the best descisions all the time, a good ai is something that mimics "real people" in a game, and can adapt to how you play on the fly and change things up now and then. if all you want...
the beauty of the fear ai is that they react to far more, and they "do" a lot more. in hl2, the combine will see you, and shoot at you, hinding behind a box or two, throw a grendade to flush you out, and occasionally flank. In fear, the enemy will hear thigns, and see things and attempt to...
Also, the ai reacts better when they are set up into squads, but that has to be done with complex bindings or inside a custom map. Also, the ai will preform better if the map itself has good movement nodes set up for them (for pathfinding)
Yeah, and wehn I only had 512 megs, i could only run low-med settnigs, but with 1024 it was all maximum except for the water.
The centrino processor is a very good processor, its like amd's who don't depend so much on clock speed as much.
heh, i played rambo, hiding behind rocks, and dodging their fire, ducking, straifing... runnnig around them and in circles with the crowbar. WHenever they went to throw a grendade, I crowbar'd it back at them.
It was very intense, but also very fun.
The only time I died was when I thought...