Garganthropod's AI against range.

[idbeholdME 394]

Garganthropod has a strange behavior quirk when attacked from range. He works perfectly fine when engaged in melee, but when at range, he has a proclivity to enter this idle/taunt animation. When hit with any form of damage from range, the animation will reset. As long as you keep hitting him at range before this animation completes, you can pretty much lock him in place harmlessly. Once you get close enough or you let him finish the animation (not hitting him for its full duration), he will resume moving and attacking normally. The only thing he sometimes manages to do when stuck like this is summon the Scorpions. I tried looking into his behavior.txt definition:

Spoiler

newBehaviour = {
  name         = "Enemy_boss_scorpion",
state0="name=cScorpionKingAI,moveprob=40",
state1="name=cSpecialMoveAI",
state2="name=cCreatureIdleAI",
defaultState="cCreatureIdleAI",
setState0="condition=onEnemyNear,if_state=cCreatureIdleAI,feasibility=1000,state=cScorpionKingAI,fear_state=cScorpionKingAI,range=500.0",
}
mgr.createBehaviour(newBehaviour);

He is the only creature in the game that uses the "moveprob" parameter in its behavior. Could that be the cause? Or is the behavior.txt even relevant and is AI just hardcoded somewhere?

EDIT:

Here is a video demonstrating what I mean:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/wmq1weuxlxtzm7f/Sacred 2 - Ice %26 Blood 2023-07-12 18-27-20.mp4?dl=0

Edited July 12, 2023 by idbeholdME