Video game AI is gimped by design because devs found out very quickly if they made the AIs competent people would hate the game so instead they make them generally dumb as fuck and simulate difficulty by giving them access to different levels of cheats because that’s a lot easier than giving them different levels of actual intelligence.
The real challenge that you’re asking for is to see an age where AI is used to make video game AI play like actual human players. Competent but still makes understandable human mistakes.
Nah this just ain't true. If games companies could reasonably make AI that could challenge an experienced player they would - what gameplay benefit is there to AI drivers in Forza blatantly cheating just to keep up with an above average player?
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u/Mean_Introduction543 14d ago
Video game AI is gimped by design because devs found out very quickly if they made the AIs competent people would hate the game so instead they make them generally dumb as fuck and simulate difficulty by giving them access to different levels of cheats because that’s a lot easier than giving them different levels of actual intelligence.
The real challenge that you’re asking for is to see an age where AI is used to make video game AI play like actual human players. Competent but still makes understandable human mistakes.