My rewrites clean up a LOT of weird/misleading behavior anyway, so I'm gonna push this regardless. Someone else will have to figure out another way to reimplement braking friction though -- we can't use it as is because it prevents being able to bump people.
Lv. 1: Ranges from x0.75 to x1.0 (never speeds up, only slows down)
Lv. 5: Ranges from x0.875 to x1.5 (completely average)
Lv. 9: Ranges from x1.0 to x2.0 (never slows down, only speeds up)
- If they're already turning in one direction, they are more likely to steer in that direction for objects
- Bots have to want to turn in 1 direction for a few frames in a row before it'll let them
Prevents twitching & makes them less indecisive in general
Instead of the spacing being completely difficulty dependent (which would cause them not to rubberband to 1st place if they were any difficulty lower than 9), it's based on their difficulty & overall race standings & a little bit of port priority instead. This enables you to see a pesudo "rival" even when every bot is the same difficulty.
- Bots can roll & use eggboxes now
- Bots can be "tricked" by eggboxes and treat them like normal items, depending on their difficulty and how many normal items are around them.
- If exploding and in 1st place, they'll slow down to try and find someone to explode next to.
- Item usage is difficulty dependent, and thus far more aggressive for the rivals
Thing type 2004, adds a map-defined point for bots to gravitate towards or away from.
Angle: Changes radius, defaults to a 32 radius (or 64x64 area) without.
Ambush: When off, makes bots steer towards. When on, makes bots steer away.
Parameter: Changes how much the bot steers away/towards this point. If 0, defaults to 2.
(also, made bots ignore strong offroad if they could take a shortcut)
Rather than trying to steer away from walls (and failing), just pull the predicted point back and make the radius stricter.
Not an ideal solution compared to what the other method was trying to go for, but this has a better success rate -- and even in cases where false positives come up (like many instances Ezo pointed out), they will no longer be incapacitated by it.
