The awful IA Colonial Marines is solved with a single letter

You may remember a few years ago that Aliens: Colonial Marines came out, but despite the tidal wave, the game simply could not cut it, mainly because of a dull AI.

But imagine our surprise when we discovered that one of the main problems of the game ended up being repaired through a very slight repair, no, we are talking of a letter .

The game went on sale last week for the lowest price of $ 3, which prompted some fans to try the game again. But that's the addition of a fan patch that attracted the most attention. , providing a number of fixes to video and game problems.

Now here's the fun part.One of these fixes came with the discovery of a typo of a letter that resul TED in the behavior of terrible AI in the game to start. There had to be an attachment system, but the word ended up appearing as "teather". That's right, someone badly programmed this line of code and it's surprisingly where some things went wrong with the game.

So what is it happened when a moddb user named jamesdickinson963 noted the problem and then addressed it? According to him, the game "controls the tactical adjustment of the position, patrol and zoning of the target." When an xeno is generated, it is attached to an attachment zone. fight, a xeno will have to move to a new tie (like the one behind you) to flank or disperse so that they are not clustered, etc. With the spelling error, well, you get a suave AI.

Some players noted with the fix, the AI ​​of the game now features a significantly improved AI behavior, with the monsters coming to players from high attack positions, as well as from hide multi-monster dots and flanks. That's not to say that the graphics are better, but a step in the right direction.

What we are trying to understand is how Gearbox Software missed this error. Granted, he has not released a patch for the game since 2013, as he switched to projects like Battleborn and his new 1-on-1 shooter he's working on right now. But, man … a line of code has really made a world of difference.

If you want to try the game, it's only $ 3 more at Fanatical and you can download the patch to go right next. As for you console owners … sorry, no solution for you guys at the moment.

Aliens: Colonial Marines is now available for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.

( Hat at ArsTechnica for the scoop!)