[image] Heroes! We hope you are all well in this new year! We are cracking on with work on Vermintide 2, which includes the upcoming Chaos Wastes and, of course, continuing filling those hourglasses on the character select screen with new careers for the heroes! But this dev blog is not about eit…

Sounds great, will have to be put to the test, but it seems like a good job; I leave you, I have to see the new trailer for Total War: Warhammer.

[image] Patch Notes - Version 4.1.1 included in 4.2 which is coming sooner than you might think [image] Fatshark_Hedge: Patch 4.2 will be coming in the next few weeks Oof Time for me to take a break

While all of that sounds good and promising, I think I need to clean some space on my hard drive for new videos of bug reports :salt: :salt: :salt:

A very interesting read indeed! Making bots more reliable and also realistic at the same time! Sounds like a fascinating project… Will the bot for Kerillian be more prone to friendly fire? Would be more realistic :smile:

@Fatshark_Hedge Good news, thanks! I’m just a little concerned about the resources part. I think bots should take ammo unless the player is missing a reasonable chunk of it’s ammo (say, 30%?). It would be annoying to have to manually ask them to pick them up when a player is missing only a couple o…

To be fair, I think @Fatshark_Hedge might have meant 4.1.2 there, as we got the migration change the next day.

Thank you for Tweaking bots , i would love to see the results of your grueling work!

CTRL-F: bots pulling patrols :roll_eyes:

[image] Fatshark_Hedge: Navigation Mesh Cost Weights are used to help bots navigate around fixed static dangers, such as globe gas or lamp oil fires. So any change to that because right now they are completly blind to it?

Devblog: Bots in Vermintide 4.2

Warhammer: Vermintide 2 Announcements

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Oof

Time for me to take a break

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Devblog: Bots in Vermintide 4.2

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