- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
This is not a rhetorical question - I really want to know what everyone else thinks this means.
From the June 6 update:
Bart is busy doing automated take home networking tests, it's cool, we all take the boxes home and plug them into our networks and they just play games over and over all night, silently recording the results to our data mine server (unless they crash or get stuck).
So these boxes 'play' networked games all night automatically. How do they do this? I see only three options:
1) Hit buttons randomly
2) Follow scripts
3) Are controlled by AI
I don't see how the first and second options would produce valuable data - the goal is to test the levels and gameplay for bugs right? Which leaves us with option three, which leads me to believe that it is AI controlling the bots (as they must be called) which play all night on these test machines. Could this AI be used in the final product?
This is certainly not confirmation that any bots will make an appearance in Halo 2 multiplayer, but does anyone else think it at least opens the possibility?
Sorry to post another 'Bots?' thread, but I've literally been waiting over a week for someone else to point this out and didn't see it of someone did.