Dota like wave IA

[Krazny21]

Hi guys, im working on a map and im trying to implement a minion wave on it. I made one and it works really weird, many times the units just decide that they dont want to attack-move to the point i ordered and they return to base. I made a trigger that goes every 5 seconds that reminds them to attack-move but sometimes they ignore it. What am i doing wrong? and what should i do?.

 

[Tasyen]

There is that action "remove guard position". Use it on the wave units when they are created or for the player owning them.

 

[Krazny21]

There is that action "remove guard position". Use it on the wave units when they are created or for the player owning them.

Sorry i couldnt find that trigger, where should i search for it?

 

[Tasyen]

It's in category AI of trigger Editor Actions.

 

[Krazny21]

It's in category AI of trigger Editor Actions.

I tested the trigger and it works better now but ocassionaly they try to return to base, its very weird.

 

[Dr Super Good]

They can lose their current order if stunned. DotA and such maps periodically re-issue the attack move order to the next path waypoint to prevent this.

 

[Krazny21]

They can lose their current order if stunned. DotA and such maps periodically re-issue the attack move order to the next path waypoint to prevent this.

I try that aswell, every 5 seconds i order them again to attack move, and in that case they move to the desired point for a sec and then they suddenly decide to return to base.

 

[Tasyen]

I remember something: If your Minion wave player is not used they use hostile creep rules and return quite often.

 

[Death Adder]

You can detect when the units receive a "stops casting", "stop" or "move" order and re-order them to attack move again, this way they will only turn a around a bit before almost immediately continuing wherever you wanted them to go.

The only problem with this is if they become idle, e.g. from a stun. But there's supposed to be an "a unit becomes idle" or whatever event that's been recently added with the new updates.