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Fix the AI in “Aliens: Colonial Marines” With This Mod!

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Look, we all know how much of a dumpster fire Aliens: Colonial Marines turned out to be. Not only did Gearbox farm out the development to other studios while they focused on Duke Nukem Forever (yes, we know) and Borderlands 2 and pulled a bait-and-switch in the graphics with the E3 2012 demo and the retail version, the AI for the Xenomorphs is egregiously stupid. Well, at least for the last point, we can now fix it thanks to the modding community.

An Australian modder named James Dickinson aka TemplarGFX discovered the bug last year while working on his mod that would give the game a much-needed overhaul. Going through the configuration file for Colonial Marines, Dickinson found a line of code that looks like this:

ClassRemapping=PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachXenoToTether -> PecanGame.PecanSeqAct_AttachPawnToTeather

Because that last ‘tether’ is misspelled, this string doesn’t do anything. As a result, this instruction that’s supposed to let enemies know where they’re supposed to be fighting and how, doesn’t actually do its job. As Dickinson explains on his ModDB page for his project, this can be fixed by simply removing the extra ‘a’ that appears in that line of PecanEngine.ini, which by default you can find in the My Documents\My Games\Aliens Colonial Marines\PecanGame\Config folder.

Now obviously, this won’t be doable on the console versions of the game, but if by chance the game is up for sale on Halloween (or even sooner), it might be worth it to grab it and get this mod to give us what we all should’ve gotten in the first place.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.

A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.

Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.

Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”

“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.

“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”

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