I may or may not have abused enemies’ courtesy for not attacking off-screen. It gets pretty ridiculous when a single, obvious enemy, like a boss does this.
Dookieman12@piefed.social 1 day ago
In Enter the Matrix for PS2, there are two levels where you’re riding in a car and have to shoot the enemies chasing you. For some reason, the enemies are only programmed to shoot when you’re looking at them. So you can just look at the ground the whole mission and you’ll win, even on hard mode.
balgruuf@nord.pub 1 day ago
Chozo@fedia.io 1 day ago
There's a few games where enemies have this sort of behavior. I know that in Breath of the Wild, enemies with bows and arrows will have significantly reduced accuracy if they are not within the camera's line-of-sight. This is so that the player isn't constantly getting shot by off-screen enemies they can't even see.
You could exploit this by finding a group of horseback Bokoblins and getting them to attack you, then pointing the camera directly at the ground. The Bokoblins will circle around you and fire arrows near you, but rarely ever landing on you. You could then pick up the arrows they've fired off the ground, which was an excellent way to farm free arrows.