Patch Notes: Smarter Foes

No more door griefing (always on)

Foes no longer stand in doorways. Guards and enemies step off a door's threshold and out of its mouth, so a crowd can't seal a building or a dungeon door.
Clicking a door works even with a guard in front of it. If you're aiming at a door, a peaceful guard standing in the way no longer eats the click. Hostile foes still take it, so you can always swing at someone attacking you.
The indoor watch spawns inside, spread out. Guards called into an interior appear past the threshold and spaced apart, instead of stacked on the door.
Foes are aware of each other. Guards, bandits, dungeon foes and wilderness encounters now push apart across groups, so mixed crowds no longer stand inside one another.

Trees, crates, barrels, statues and solid decor block sight. A foe can't see you through a tree trunk or a stack of crates.
They also stop missiles, both ways. Your arrows and bolts hit the cover, and so do theirs. Area spells still burst where they land.
Grass, flowers, small clutter and see-through props aren't cover. Felled trees stop being cover.

Attack turns. At most two melee foes and two ranged foes attack you at once. The rest hold a ring around you, circle and wait their turn.
Knowing when to strike. Melee foes step in when you're open (after your swing, while casting, drinking, turned away or staggered) and back out after their own blow. A patience clock means nobody waits forever.
Backing off. A hurt foe gives ground and circles before coming back.
Fleeing. Animals and cowardly people run at low health. Guards, undead, daedra and constructs never do.
Archers and casters keep their distance. They back away from a closing melee fighter, fight when cornered, and look for a clear shot instead of firing into a crate.
Applies everywhere (dungeons, streets, interiors and guards) when Enhanced AI is on. With it off, foes behave exactly as in classic Daggerfall.

Tougher foes have a special attack with a wind-up, like the world boss's but smaller: level 10 and up, or elite foes.
Three shapes, one or two per kind of foe:
- Lunge: a long lane ahead (beasts, swordsmen).
- Sweep: a wide cone in front (brutes, blades).
- Slam: a disc just ahead (giants, atronachs, daedra lords).
Readable and dodgeable. The shape glows dim on the ground through a short wind-up (0.7 to 0.9 s) and flashes when it lands. Step out of it and it misses. A hit does 1.25x to 1.75x a normal blow.
Used sparingly. Each foe has a cooldown of 8 to 15 seconds, and only one foe near you winds up at a time. Casters, spirits, small and flying foes don't use them.
The ground marks follow slopes and fade into fog.

The Sigil Broker is now held prisoner by Dagon's Faithful. She waits in a cage at the faithful's rite circle, near the breach, from the omen at 17:00.
Kill every one of the faithful, including the Summoner, to free her. You have to do it before the breach opens at 20:00. When the last of them falls, her cage door swings open for everyone online.
If someone else already killed the Summoner, killing the rest still frees her.
You can talk to her from any side of the cage.
If the faithful are still standing when the breach opens, they pass into it and she stays caged for the night.
Once freed, she trades until midnight, even if the Warden falls early and the breach collapses.

Everyone online is disconnected once when this update goes live, and reconnects.

TACT: Smarter Foes - anti-grief doors, cover, tactics, telegraphed blows by @Lattymoy in #540
BROKER-CAGE: the Sigil Broker caged at the faithful's rite, freed when every one falls (relay world154) by @Lattymoy in #542

Full Changelog: app-v0.1.5701...app-v0.1.5719