Demon AI?

[Yukichin]

I know you can set your demons to auto-repeat an action. However, I was wondering, will they, like, heal you if you get low, or use different attacks? Or simply just do the one action they're assigned?

[Wiseman4545]

I know you can set your demons to auto-repeat an action. However, I was wondering, will they, like, heal you if you get low, or use different attacks? Or simply just do the one action they're assigned?

They'll only do the action you assign. Though if you set them to a healing skill they will wait until you're sufficiently hurt to heal you.

[Yukichin]

Hm. That's kinda crappy, but I guess it's better than nothing. Thanks!

[Hydra]

Well...you can get to the command menu faster with R2; instead of using R1.

[Elizabeth]

If there's ever another Devil Summoner game I hope they tweak the AI some more because I think it's really stupid that I have to order my demon to heal me when I'm the red. If a demon has a healing skill I think then it should be used automatically because I'd think most players would be going for a healing item or wanting their demon to fix them up.

Sometimes I'm so absorbed in battle I neglect looking at my HP so the AI doing that would be nice.

[unknown]

I think Atlus didn't want players to complain about the demons wasting unneccessary MAG due to potential bad AI and opted to have the player command the demon to heal when needed.

It's the lazy way out, but maybe they'll make it a bit more like Devil Summoner 1 where you can tell your demon to do general things like physical attacks or magic attacks, heal/support, etc. (kind of like in the .hack R1 games), in the future.

[Elizabeth]

^...Or maybe they could go back to turned-based where it's impossible to get players mad about the AI unless they take the P3 route. I'm really getting tired of my demons dying because they're too stupid to block or I accidentally let up on the L2 button too early.

[unknown]

^Pretty sure the Raidou games will always be action RPG, but any new cyberpunk Devil Summoner games will probably be turned based...I hope.