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dem's Puck AI

Goalie AI for practice mode. The config located at Puck/config/PuckAIPracticeConfig will allow you to set default spawning and difficulty details. There are also commands that can be used.

/goalies {difficulty}

The difficulty can be hard, normal, or easy. This will spawn both goalies at the same level of difficulty.

/goalie {difficulty} {team}

The difficulty is the same as above, and team will be red/blue. This will allow you to specify the difficulty of each goalie if you want to.

The difficulties only really change how much they move in relation to the puck change locations, or how frequent. Easy goalies will take a large difference to pivot and get in a position to block the puck. Normal, less, and hard goalies basically move very quickly across the net getting in position.

No stick movement or anything(yet), they just will get in an optimal position to block your shot.

There may be more in the future(chasers, defenders at specific zones?), but for now I'm taking a break on this it was really really difficult lol.

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It's now theoretically working with servers and the client won't need the mod(though they can have it installed for their own practice sessions and it should be fine). I had a local server set up for my own testing, so I had my client/server separation, but only had myself to test with. In theory that should be enough to verify the server -> client synchronization, but I'm not sure how it will perform with more players.

The way the bots will work on servers is that if the goalie position is open they will automatically spawn in immediately. The goalie position will still be freed up for players to take if they wish. If a player does claim the goalie spot, the bots will despawn the instant the players have entered the game(so there isn't an open net in the 10 second period where they're waiting to spawn. Difficulty of the bots is set through the config like before.