I would say to first take a look at any moment on planets where "the enemy is moving against each other". Try to watch them without triggering their aggro. Then understand that in that moment, that is the extent of the AI's "environmental understanding" if that makes sense. Sure things will vary if we were able to command them accordingly. But after watching for a while, ask if one still thinks this is something that can be implemented, or can make sense in content that is designed for 3 human players to co-ordinate together. I don't think it would work for anything labelled endgame initially. Too mechanical, and probably too much work for Bungie too watch over and see how it's learning. Dungeons and Raids would be a no-go by the time you hit a boss, I'd imagine. So, again, probably a lot of work needed. Now unless WQ has some AI revamp around the corner that we don't know of, then that's different, and will be interesting to see. But I'd like to think it's just a new input or two being put in and the attack style being different to have things [i]feel[/i] overall new. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just bring back the memory of Timur ,then you can make any redbar enemy your friend for 30 seconds

How would this work? This seems like a lot of work for little to no effect, +that would make too many bugs and possibly content soft locking bugs

There already is AI guardians, you should see how many we encounter in trials and crucible in general, the bots are all black usually have stompees and behave the same, they can be in packs of 3 or in individual groups.

This is a very interesting idea. While I do think that it would be great, it would be very hard to do, especially since the AI is pretty bad at fighting itself. Having 2 of the races fight, wether fallen against vex like on Europa, is very bad to watch. It could be 10 minutes before they killed a single enemy of the other side. Also, on another note, it’s very hard to simulate how people interact with each other. Coordinating supers for example. Strategies for certain bosses, or even having a hunter use invisibility on all 3 people at the right time would be super hard to program and put in the game. If Bungie could somehow do this, I would be completely down for it. Sorry for the big walls of text

You raise a very interesting point. Just to add my 2 cents here, nothing more: I honestly do believe they thought about it but then change the idea to AI enemy guardians instead because of the "make friends" to play end-game activity pillar they have. As far as I know, the social aspect of MMOs is the main reason people stay long term in a game and would they further break that, maybe people would do less lfg and so on. Also, still thinking about it, if we could have AI guardian, people would then start requesting specifying which set of guardians and slowly but surely people would load up activities with their AI team and no more with other people. That's why I don't think it won't happen on end game activities. On the other hand, when server numbers are low, they could use ai guardian to speed up matchmaking, or provide very low KD player a fun experience. Cheers,

Would the game really be all that good at performing everything that guardians can do? Especially the Titans. That would definitely be some AI right there.