"Call of Duty: Black Ops 3" gameplay has been improved with Treyarch's AI system and its newest robotic enemies.
The three-year development of the "Call of Duty: Black Ops 3" gameplay has made it possible for the developers to experiment on key features such as movement and fps combat. Express reported that Treyarch has focused on the AI system of the game.
Treyarch aimed to interlace the gameplay between human and mechanical enemies. However, an overhaul was needed so that the game could cope and adapt to players' new tactics and to introduce a wider range of abilities for the characters. Level engagement and replay ability seemed important in the game and may give rise to co-op teams taking on combat scenarios in various ways.
"Without a three-year cycle, we wouldn't have been able to take the kind of risks that we took on this game, frankly," Mark Lamia, Treyarch studio head, said in an interview with Official PlayStation Magazine.
"We would not have been able to overhaul our entire AI system that supports the kind of engagements in an open-playspace like we have. We would not have been able to overhaul our rendering technology to make it as advanced as it is to be able to render the size of environments or the volume or density of activity and art in it or effects in it in that amount of time."
Lamia explained that it was critical for them to develop the AI system for "CoD: BO3" in order to entertain the player at all times. The studio head for Treyarch also admitted that they wanted robotics and vehicles interplay with human players to change the game's dynamic and design.
"If we didn't have that time to work on overhauling the AI system and letting that mature and then having the designers work with that AI system, we wouldn't have been able to make the game like it is and allow it to be the kind of game where you cannot just play through it once, but go back and play with level-agnostic abilities and play it differently and stuff like that," he added.
