Buddy

The buddy is a single player AI that provides cover fire for the player and it's initial rank is private. Their movement is quite frantic and will not survive long unless the player offers to protect their buddy.



Advantages

 * Having the buddy activated will offer additional help to the player when dealing with overwhelming groups of zombies.


 * The buddy can also distract other zombies so the player can be given enough time to reload or switch to another weapon.

Disadvantages

 * Pathfinding is not always perfect for example if the player's AI buddy is in another room while the player is facing in front of their buddy on the other side of a barricade, the AI will instead hug against the wall which will later result in the partner's death if not corrected soon.


 * AI buddies will frequently spend SAS cash or premium money on ammo, best to deactivate if the players wants to avoid losing most of their already earned money.