Supreme Commander 2 - AI modder "Sorian" hired by Gas Powered Games

Indy500 · 13 Sep 2009 at 00:57

Some good news for those of us eagerly awaiting Supreme Commander 2.

That's right, the Supreme Commander community's favourite AI modder is now a GPG employee

although this is probably not news to those who frequent the official forums

According to his blog and forum posts, he's been assigned to work on patching Demigod as well as development of SC2.

See here:

http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=39214

and here:

http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=22908&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=5075

The latest version of Sorian AI for Forged Alliance can be found here:

http://sorian-ai-mod.googlecode.com/files/Sorian_AI_Mod_2.0.0.exe

Release notes

Files Changed: 14
Files New: 0
Files Removed: 0

* AI will focus more on large builds.
* Raised T4 trigger threshold.
* Fixed code for keeping a CAP.
* Added function to check for inflated threat levels.
* AI will build more Energy Storage.
* When checking for assisting engineers, pods will no longer be counted.
* AI will use Air T4s more on 20x20 maps.

dreigns · 13 Sep 2009 at 08:29

that is cool he made some of the best AI which could do stuff that gas powered AI could not

Sash · 13 Sep 2009 at 08:44

Good stuff. Not played it personally but is always nice to see a modder be rewarded

Inazuma · 13 Sep 2009 at 09:12

He might be restricted now that he's been hired?

Kainz · 13 Sep 2009 at 09:49

Conrgrats to him, hope it goes well tbh. He did some amazing things with his AI mods in FA, sadly it couldn't overcome the fact that the ai foundation was completely crap in the first place so he could only do so much.

twist3d0n3 · 13 Sep 2009 at 10:55

i seriously can't wait for SC2, this makes it a lot more interesting if he has anything to do with the AI

Stelly · 13 Sep 2009 at 11:26

great news, now lets hope that Mech Warrior 5 makes it to release

Stelly

Indy500 · 13 Sep 2009 at 14:48

Inazuma said:
He might be restricted now that he's been hired?

His official job title's "Associate Content Engineer".

sorian said:
1) I am not only doing AI stuff. A lot of my work on SC2 has been coding campaign AI, unit stuff, research system stuff, and lots of bug fixes.

2) I was able to navigate 600 units at once across a map running a non-optimized version. Not only that, but I ran a fatboy right through the center of them going the opposite direction. I'd say the performance is better than FA.

3) The things people have been crying that the sky is falling about are not issues at all. The economy makes sense. The game is much faster paced. The way half baked experimentals are implemented is not going to break the game. All in all I think SC2 is going to be a lot better than FA.

Sounds good so far

Silent UK · 13 Sep 2009 at 15:49

This is really great new's, as one of the best modders of Supcom, his ideas and imput can only make the new game even better!

Flibbles · 13 Sep 2009 at 17:34

About time, his work is far better than that of whoever did the vanilla SC's AI.