So then what are we working on to make AI behave better? We have realized that the one of the ways to improve AI is to make it "learn" by gathering player's racing stats. Billions of dollars were spent for research to make AI behave like people (not only in games but in general). Soon enough you will find out that these players are way out of you league and that you need to play with people like yourself.Ģ. Then imagine to have AI cars which are mean and despicable which are capable to pick you and chase you around until you end up being dead (many times) :). If you have time, try out our MP, and see what is like to play against FUN guys. Now interesting question is why can't AI be like real people?ġ. And you can change difficulty level any time during the single player campaign. For example if you finish the game on normal, you will notice that normal would not be challenging enough for you anymore, so this is the right time to change difficulty level. However this RB is "bounded" with difficulty level so if you become really good you will have no trouble to make easy victory and leave other cars for 20-30 seconds behind. So what happens in the game is that when player is too slow (still learning game mechanics ) AI waits for him to catch up, but as he becomes better AI recognizes that and uses their cars more efficiently.
Therefore we decided to adjust RB in the way that gameplay is more interesting for people with different skill levels. You had to learn to drive really good to reach 2nd or 3rd place and most of the players (beta was tested on +50K people) responded that this is just to hard. In beta version of the prequel we had more realistic AI which was almost unbeatable.
In simulation games RB is not that obvious as it is in arcade games like GGE. This is sort of one of the main features of the racing games. :)Īs for the SP, currently there is no racing game in the world which doesn't have some sort of rubber banding for AI or human players.
But that is not all since we are already working on many improvements for the AI since there is always a way to make it better. That's what we can say about how complicated our AI is and how good our network code is. We as indies have made things which AAA teams didn't do, but since we do not have strong brand name people just do not recognize all that stuff. All these bots function in all game modes including team racing (up to 4 teams!) which is (again) unique feature in the world of racing games. GGE has more options for configuration of games launched by dedicated server than any other racing game, and currently there is no racing game in the world which has online bots available. In MP we have enabled 3 different settings for RB to satisfy needs of all players (including option to turn it off completely). I suppose that you have tried RB in demo version?
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