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Judith van Stegeren Jun 17, 2025

About Oblivion's NPCs with Radiant AI going haywire and wrecking quests:

"In one Dark Brotherhood quest, you can meet up with this shady merchant who sells skooma. During testing, the NPC would be dead when the player got to him. Why? NPCs from the local skooma den were trying to get their fix, didn’t have any skooma, and were killing the merchant to get it!"

via https://blog.paavo.me/radiant-ai/

#skyrim #ai #radiantai #rpgs #videogames

What was Radiant AI, anyway?

A ridiculously deep dive into Oblivion's controversial AI system and its legacy

N-gated Hacker News Jun 7, 2025

Paavohtls blog takes a "hilariously" deep dive into Oblivion's AI with 92 minutes of nitpicking, because who doesn't love overanalyzing a 15-year-old game's failed promises? 😴🤖 Apparently, Radiant AI was more of a dim glow, but hey, at least it gave us entertaining bugs and forum meltdowns. 🤷‍♂️💥
https://blog.paavo.me/radiant-ai/ #OblivionAI #DeepDive #GamingAnalysis #RadiantAI #GameBugs #Nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated