{"id":97,"date":"2005-04-04T07:04:49","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T13:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/04\/wandering-monsters\/"},"modified":"2005-04-04T07:04:49","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T13:04:49","slug":"wandering-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/04\/wandering-monsters.html","title":{"rendered":"Wandering Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, what&#8217;s with the wandering monsters?<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve seen this primarily with human-type mobs &#8212; Hellions, this past weekend.  A group will come wandering through the mish in this weird, crouched run.  Looks very bizarre (first time I saw it, it was a couple of Bone Daddies, and I though, hey, must be part of their magic juju).  If they run into you, well, then, they spot you and open fire.  If not, they go gliding on down the corridor.<br \/>\nFunny thing is, it appears to be contagious.  We saw one guy glide down a corridor, get caught in a mob that was waiting there, bounce around trying to find a way out, and then the whole mob turned wanderer and headed off.<br \/>\nSometimes the wandering will end up with guys stuck in odd places, or climbing the walls.<br \/>\nNow, WMs is not necessarily a bad thing (indeed, it adds some spice, and makes sense from a game standpoint).  But the way it&#8217;s implemented in the AI seems off &#8212; the movement looks <em>very <\/em>unnatural (they don&#8217;t run like mobs usually run, the sort of skate along in a crouch).<br \/>\n<u>UPDATE<\/u>: Aha.  Finally found <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Board=general&#038;Number=2467033&#038;Forum=All_Forums&#038;Words=crouch&#038;Searchpage=0&#038;Limit=25&#038;Main=2461067&#038;Search=true&#038;where=bodysub&#038;Name=&#038;daterange=1&#038;newerval=1&#038;newertype=y&#038;olderval=&#038;oldertype=&#038;bodyprev=#Post2467033\">a reference to this<\/a> in the Forums.  It seems to be legit (actually patrolling) activity, coupled with poorly chosen movement animation.  Maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what&#8217;s with the wandering monsters? I&#8217;ve seen this primarily with human-type mobs &#8212; Hellions, this past weekend. A group will come wandering through the mish in this weird, crouched run. Looks very bizarre (first time I saw it, it was a couple of Bone Daddies, and I though, hey, must be part of their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/04\/wandering-monsters.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wandering Monsters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}