# Any chance of improving enemy AI?

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**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** pc\
**Created:** [December 10, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/any-chance-of-improving-enemy-ai/47772 "2018-12-10T05:48:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![VadimAleks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@VadimAleks](https://forums.funcom.com/u/VadimAleks)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 5:48am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/any-chance-of-improving-enemy-ai/47772/1 "2018-12-10T05:48:12Z")

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Lonely enemies do not react when I shoot them with a bow from a long distance. The reason is not in the distance. If someone else is standing next to the enemy - he sees “hey, someone has just shot an arrow in my friend’s ■■■” and runs to look for this “someone.” But if the enemy is one - he does not respond to shots until he dies.

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**Author:** ![Grymm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/user_avatar/forums.funcom.com/grymm/32/17609_2.png) [@Grymm](https://forums.funcom.com/u/Grymm)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 7:50am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/any-chance-of-improving-enemy-ai/47772/2 "2018-12-10T07:50:27Z")

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I wish the last batch of enemies had taken that approach with me…I my poor character looked like a pin-cushion… 😃

It would help of you say roughly/exactly where you experienced this as things can be very variable.

_Were you solo or on a server? If on server, was it modded or not?_  
_What level are you and what bow (and arrows)?_  
_Were you in a group of players?_  
_Whereabouts on the map (a named village/location?)_  
_Had someone/something else also been attacking the NPC(s)?_  
_Day or night?_  
_Was this part of a Purge attack? (doesn’t sound like it)_

In many cases you just have to accept that FunCom have to try to balance the AI and game at a more general level than we would sometimes like. If you are maxed out, most arrow shots can just one-shot an NPC. Your arrow could have stunned/knocked the NPC back (stands still). You could be way too far back and outside of the NPC ‘notice’ radius - it knows it’'s got an arrow in its face, but cannot work out where the damned thing came from.  
Lots of variables. Be thankful - some NPCs can really pack on the damage and may even bring a lot of friends. 😉

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**Author:** ![TheLOLxd2](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/user_avatar/forums.funcom.com/thelolxd2/32/13250_2.png) [@TheLOLxd2](https://forums.funcom.com/u/TheLOLxd2)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 8:36am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/any-chance-of-improving-enemy-ai/47772/3 "2018-12-10T08:36:30Z")

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A more direct answer is that they are very much at work with AI, see 📙[Upcoming features](https://conanexiles.gamepedia.con/Upcoming_features#List_of_upcoming_features) _and_ that it is very helpful to get in-depth bug reports and suggestions on their appropriate subforums 😃

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**Author:** ![VadimAleks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8c91f0/32.png) [@VadimAleks](https://forums.funcom.com/u/VadimAleks)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/any-chance-of-improving-enemy-ai/47772/4 "2018-12-11T01:18:45Z")

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After today’s patch, only 1 of the NPС out of 5 reacted to the shot and ran to me. The rest stood still while I shot them.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/funcom/original/1X/8d85ca8a66fb78fa7574e255b50aa722d634177b.png) [@system](https://forums.funcom.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://forums.funcom.com/t/any-chance-of-improving-enemy-ai/47772/5 "2018-12-18T01:18:53Z")

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