Brain em up

[KREGA]

Certain monsters could be more intelligent than others which would allow them to use strategies and such like falling back and regrouping theyre being slaughtered and perhaps they could prioritize like targeting the most dangerous player or maybe the weakest?

Dont know if it could work but it would be exciting though!

Thoughts anyone?

[pjbenkis]

To a point, they showed this in the gameplay footage a couple times. The skeleton archers used the skeleton soldier tpyes that had shields for cover. There were also the summoner cultist types that stayed back to summon more powerful monsters.

I know that the gameplay footage was completely scripted, but you also have the Goatman (Kahzra) Leader who led them into a trap.

Again the footage is completely scripted, but Bashiok said that they didn't show anything that could not be put into the game.

While it was an event made for the presentation it could definitely be worked in to the actual end-product. We try not to spend time on anything that can't be incorporated in some way. If there's a mockup or some cool flavor added in somewhere to show something off, we want to build it so that it can actually be used.

http://www.battle.net/forums/thread.aspx?fn=d3-general&t=306004&tmp=1#post306004

[NKlint]

To me smarter monsters = more fun.

I wouldn't like to see them retreat too often though, that could get annoying unless you could ensnare them so they couldn't run away as fast. That said, I wouldn't like to see them mindlessly swinging their weapon at me with abandon.