
What was Radiant AI, anyway?
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created: June 7, 2025, 1:22 p.m. | updated: June 7, 2025, 8:34 p.m.
We also have our first story about Radiant AI being “too smart” and causing problems (in offsite quotes #3, from Emil Pagliarulo):Okay, here’s the thing with Radiant AI… If you ask, “Can the NPCs do this?
Radiant AI misbehavior and a mysterious quoteThere is this one bit of text about Radiant AI shenanigans I’ve seen repeated verbatim throughout the years, but it’s never attributed to anyone or any source, so I don’t know where it comes from.
Radiant AI and GOAPLet’s talk (hopefully) briefly about Goal Oriented Action Planning (GOAP), another approach to game AI from the same era that occasionally gets compared to Radiant AI.
however, at least one fundamental difference between Radiant AI and GOAP: Radiant AI is not based on planning.
Radiant AI after OblivionThere’s a fairly common misconception online that Bethesda gave up on Radiant AI after Oblivion, and that it was never used in any of their later games.
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