Gate AI Complacency (v0.8.2) — Dofense Steam update #174429

Hi all, I have been thinking about some changes to the Gate AI algorithm in order to make the gameplay more fun and not unreasonably mean. I tried one simple change yesterday and it worked quite well. This morning I refined it further and made it more fluid. Here are more details on all the changes. Gate AI Complacency The spawn strength of the enemy Gate is now adjusted according to the status of the cores. If the enemy units have captured a number of cores and they are in the process of carrying it to the gate, then the gate becomes more complacent about victory and starts cooling down. This results in the reduction of spawn strength. This gives the player some chance to recover from a bad situation. If he succeeds in freeing the stolen cores, then the gate starts becoming more agitated and regains its spawning power. This mechanism allows for interesting tug-of-war mechanism between t...