assassin’s creed origins npcs

In an interview with Play magazine, Ashraf Ismail, the game director for Assassin’s Creed Origins has revealed new information about how the AI behaves and functions in the upcoming game. There will be thousands of NPCs, all of whom have their own daily life cycles and go about it even when the player is not looking. This leads to dynamic and realistic behavior patterns, and some interesting emergent gameplay. “We created a new AI framework that actually allows us to have thousands of persistent people living in this world,” Ismail explains, noting that all of the AI – all of the human and animal NPCs that inhabit the sprawling Egyptian space – are “virtualised”. That is to say, they function away from the immediate gaze of the player. “NPCs actually have a life out in the world,” wh...