On Thursday, March 27, Alien: Isolation’s gameplay programmer Vinh-Dieu Lam revealed details on how the AI of the game’s featured Alien will react to what you do while trying to survive in Alien: Isolation .
As reported by Total Xbox , the Alien will react to various things such as torch beams, meaning that shining a torch onto a wall–even at a great distance–will not only attract the Alien, but it will also cause it to investigate where the source of the light was coming from.
” The torch doesn’t just magically attract the alien if you use it but it makes it more likely the alien will see you, ” Lam said. “ If you shine it down a corridor and the alien sees the spot where it hits even if you are a long way away, it will come investigate and work out where the torch came from.
” Our warning to [previewers] about the torch was because they were hiding and looking out, shining the torch [from] the cover they were hiding behind, ” Lam continued. ” And [they] were surprised it found where they were because it saw the light on the wall. ”
What’s more, Creative Assembly, the game’s developer, are thinking of utilizing rumble feedback on all platforms–last- and current-gen. The developer will also be taking advantage of the new updates to rumble functionalities on current-gen consoles.
” We’ll have rumble feedback on all platforms that support it, ” reads a post on the game’s official forum by Mark Angus, Alien: Isolation’s lead audio designer. ” The next-gen platforms offer up some interesting updates to the standard rumble functionality that we’ll look to take advantage of. ”
Alien: Isolation was announced back in early January. The game will be dropping on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3 and PC later on this year.
Source: Total Xbox .
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