How can I improve enemy pathfinding ai without waypoints?

[Flying_Fajita]

4 Pathfinding / Player Follow Examples (Platforming & Top-Down)

Ok, do you know how breadth-first search works? This uses a breadth-first search but then the AI does line-of-sight checks while moving, to determine the waypoint that is closest to the target but that the AI can still see from its position. Usually in a breadth-first search you would store some kind of direction value for each checked position that tells you the direction it was checked from, but this doesn’t store any direction values at all. Instead, the order in which positions are checked…

Scroll down, there is any-angle pathfinding without waypoints made by @thebrickccentric