Got my copy on disc.... strangely enough it even ended up being cheaper. And yes, it's a perfectly legit copy. Mind this would be in India, not sure about its dvd availability elsewhere.
F.E.A.R is arguably one of the best FPS games around at the moment (least, I think so), so you should give it a try. There is a free muliplayer componant for it, F.E.A.R Combat, if you are on a budget.
Other than that...not really. Quake 4, judging from the demo, was dissapointing. However, you could try going old school with games like Half Life 1, Quake 2, and other classics. Sometimes its fun to go back to them.
1) Not kill itself by walking into hazardus terrain just because the target did.
2) Act some what intelligently during a fight (meaning dont run down an empty street charging like cavelry through musket fire).
From what I've herd the AI will choose self preservation over trying to kill you or an enemy. So they should be ok there. And from what I've seen of the videos the AI takes cover and works as a team. Thirdly FEAR's ai only had to worry about killing you and they would hunt you till your dead or you kill all of them. In STALKER they will run away if the fight is not in their favor or so we have been told. Just saying FEAR's AI is good at what it does but only has to do one thing. STALKER's AI has many more things it has to consider. Hunting, sleeping, aparrently the NPC Stalkers seek out artifacts just like you. So the AI of a specific Stalker is at work even when your on the otherside of the map. Where as FEAR's NPC AI is only working when your in the same room.
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Oh no doubt this AI has much more to do. I only site FEAR because its the only AI to actually pull off a damn good show in recent memory, beating even HALO 2 (as little respect as I have for that game, I admit its AI was good).
A side note: Fear AI pretty much worked for the whole level. Frequently you would have troopers litterally flank the entire map just to get you, though I do see your point about the STALKER AI. Hopefully the vids show the trueth...
After Oblivion's wonderfull AI display (read: pathetic....allies would frequently follow an enemy monster into a pit of lava just so they could kill it before the fire did...thus screwing up any chance of finishing a quest because one of those idiot NPC's was a vital character), I will be skeptical about this AI untill I actually play this game myself. Far as im concerned, the only game to have 'good' AI in the last few years was F.E.A.R, even HL 2 didnt have much in the way of AI, which is a shame given how good HL1 AI was for the time.
I only want the AI here to do the following:
1) Not kill itself by walking into hazardus terrain just because the target did.
2) Act some what intelligently during a fight (meaning dont run down an empty street charging like cavelry through musket fire).
I dont care about any eco systems or FEAR caliber stuff, just do those two things, and it should be fine.
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