The computer knowing your every move on a strategic map and having ten times the resources is cheating, it is not actual skill let alone intelligence. In a first person or third person shooter, making a perfect aimbot AI that can track and see the player behind walls is not all that hard, nor is it realistic or fun. This is a common myth among gamers, but good AI in a video game is not AI that just defeats the player easily. Good AI is not necessarily hard to defeat. With that out of the way, lets discuss what we mean with good AI.
The Witcher and Kingdom Come’s AI systems are also a good example. It should be noted that NPCs’ are usually AI characters, but not all NPCs’ are indeed AI. In fact, even more esoteric techniques like STALKER’s faction commander or Left 4 Dead’s AI Director are AI too. Basically, characters that are not beholden to the player’s direct will and operate within the game’s rules or world are examples of Video Game AI. The bots in Counter-Strike are also part of this group. The different computer leaders in a game of Civilization are AI too.
Every single soldier in Call of Duty’s single player campaigns is also an example of AI. Every single NPC in Skyrim or Fallout 4 are a piece of video game AI. Instead, it is an advanced tool that serves to immerse players inside the game worlds or train them to be better at the game. Video game AI is not as complex as what we use in the real world to solve complex problems, nor must it be. It is not (necessarily) some complex piece of machine learning, advanced neural networks or highly tuned matrices.
Of course, we are referring to video game artificial intelligence, or AI for short.īut what is artificial intelligence? How do we know whether it is good or not? How does it work in a game? Why would it matter so much? Why does it seem forgotten? As awesome as this may be is one more concealed yet even more important piece of technology that seems to feature less, something that used to sit as a crown jewel at the back of the box of any would-be high-quality video game. Technologies such as physical based rendering or adaptive tessellation have been deployed to great effect and help make modern games look amazing.
Modern games have advanced in multiple ways over the past decades.
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