On: Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

[aaomidi]

With the advances in AI, I really hope coop vs AI gameplay will be made better.

[oblio → aaomidi]

I don't think there are any advances in real time AI. We're still stuck with the same bad AI from the late 90s.

Oh, or if there is better tech, nobody really uses it, everyone focuses on multiplayer because $$$.

[pohuing → oblio]

The world's best starcraft players got smashed by Deep minds AlphaStar a while ago. The only way to win was by limiting the apm. Turns out with perfect control you don't need very complex strategy.

One of the games if you're interested in an anaylsis: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nbiVbd_CEIA

[oblio → pohuing]

To be frank, I don't care. That was a custom built AI for a special event. What I'm talking about is industrial strength, cheap, fast, smart, <<immersive>>, ubiquitous AI available in normal games with hundreds of thousands or millions of users playing at the same time.

Call me back when that kind of tech is included so that I can play against it when playing a $30 mid-range (not AAA, not indie) especially RPG game or any type of team game (Dota).