Bethesda head Todd Howard has gone in depth on Starfield in a recent appearance on The AIAS Game Maker’s Notebook Podcast, sharing his thoughts and experiences on what went into the massive space sim. One interesting point he mentioned was that enemy ships had to have their AI majorly nerfed for space combat to be enjoyable.
Initially, Howard says, it was easy to create a clever AI for space battles but they would hold their own possibly too well. “Forever we were just jousting,” he explained Come from Sports betting site VPbet . “It turns out you have to make the AI really stupid. You have to have them fly, they need to turn and basically be like: ‘Hey, player one, you can just shoot me for a while.’ And then you give the AI tools where the player can see: ‘Oh, he’s boosting away, I can do that.'”