- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Hunt3r
bots would be awesome. does anybody remember Perfect Dark? bots MADE that game. you could have an 8 on 8 with only two people. i thought it was cool. bots are a must, because they would make xbox live better, too! think about it- each xbox could take control of an eaqual # of bots, and there would be less info going over the lines because the AI could be translated into simpler commands. for example, instead of Xbox1 telling Xbox2 where a player is going, it says how that player is going to get there, and what it will do to respond to whatever. if an event happens and this gets interupted, XB1 would just send a quick correction in the same format as the original. this is opposed to constant correction generated by a human (unpredictable) player. bots would eliminate lag. (if programmed correctly). I'm pretty sure the bots would fall out of step too fast. AI reactions of different people's versions of the bot can differ. The situation isn't EXACTLY the same for bots on different machines because of network lag, so you'd end up with problems every time a bot does two imcompatible things on different machines. Even if you could get around that, you'd still need a central machine to handle the bots' AI: bots should have a little bit of randomness so you can't predict them. Any halfway decent bot should make choices based on probabilities defined by its code so you don't know exactly what it'll do. Bots will have to be a single-machine-only thing for those of us who don't have Live access.