Just wanting to know how smart the hive mind is planned to be. Will killing synapse creatures cause smaller nids to panic/run or die. How do you simulate hive intelligence in a video game?
very good question i think they have not even made anything for the nids yet and that they wont be ingame until very late closed beta or even after this! i think nids will form little hordes with a leader and this one leader is the only thing wich get directed by the hive mind the hordemembers will follow this leader and attack everything in range and if you kill the leader, the other nids will have some secs (10-20) of confusion, attacking each other, fleeing or just running around + a defence debuff after this time a new leader comes out of the ground or whereever it will come from this will be repeated until all nids of this horde are gone
I want to know how smart they plan them to be not if their plan is implemented into the alpha client because I don't think they're that far in development.
the tiranids are supposed to attack the strongest faction: so they are really stupids, instead of attack the weaker and absorb the bio mass they focussing on the strong one who are better capable of defending. losing a sinapse creature is more like they revert back to a beast/sagave state, yes also suffer a big shock but they continue to attack (and maybe they attack each other).
You could also say they're making sure the strongest faction doesn't get stronger to keep all factions fighting each other and ensuring the 'Nids get an easy meal.
I think the devs said they will randomize what they do. Ie: Leave your base too long, they may swarm up from the 'underworld' and attack it, OR, they might chase after a group of marines and fight them. There are many things they could do, as for on the battlefield they may just swarm up on you like a zerg rush.
I don't care if the grindmeat of the Tyranid swarm is as dumb as bricks, but I'd definitely like to hope that the meta-game of the Tyranids is a terrifyingly sophisticated AI that can put a significant challenge on all of the factions at once.
