i believe so, no need to worry about making the screipt then, its not much of a necessity though, Sven (i dont know if you know him CopperCube AI (take cover) by 5v3n) has done something similar, only problem is that the enemies have snappy rotations from one path node to another, and i think they only attack a TPS Actor he made, if they were smoother , it would be better :)
but yeah,you are right, creating the illusion too might help!
looking forward to your shooting game 😁