I am an enormous fan of watching the AI struggle one another, whether or not that is spawning demons in Dwarf Fortress’s Enviornment mode or carting round a suicidally incompetent safety guard in Half-Life. Enter CacoFrendo, a mod for the unique Doom that permits you to pet the Cacodemon till he turns into your pal and fights in your aspect.
“does ur coronary heart ache each time u squeeze the set off on one of many lovable tomato boyz?” reads the outline on the ModDB web page. “nicely now with the facility of ‘Cacofrendo’ you dont should! merely pat the Caco on his pretty little head and watch the blossoming friendship take maintain!”
You may see the pat-to-befriend methodology in motion on this tweet by the mod’s creator:
NEW MOD
I current
“CacoFrendo”
does ur coronary heart ache each time u squeeze the set off on one of many lovable tomato boyz?
nicely now with the facility of “Cacofrendo” you dont should!
merely pat the Caco on his pretty little head and watch the blossoming friendship take maintain!#doom pic.twitter.com/wa2k2g01Az
— Connoisseur_of_Toilet_Wine💛💙 (@GoldenAxeDoom) July 19, 2022
There are most likely two distinct classes of AI fights I take pleasure in. One is the place you crest a hill and encounter a struggle between two enemies. Maybe they’re additionally your enemies, however they’re preventing each other for their very own functions. There’s little in video games I discover so evocative, or which renders a world so instantly convincing, as an unscripted rumble between NPCs. It is the entire motive I like Stalker – and a pleasure on which Jim as soon as waxed at size.
The opposite class is the Half-Life safety guard, the Brogue monkey, and now the Doom Cacodemon. Escort missions are clearly garbage, however make it optionally available and systemic and abruptly I will undergo huge ache to maintain an fool NPC alive. That is the enjoyment on which Alice O wrote extra lately in ‘What’s Higher?’. (In the end deciding that air management was higher).
For those who additionally wish to attempt fruitlessly to maintain a Cacodemon alive after which really feel sorta unhealthy once you fail, then try Frendocaco on ModDB.