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Engadget: the secret sauce of Titanfall is Microsoft's cloud
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Maninthemirror
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http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/10/titanfall-cloud-explained/?ncid=rss_truncated
This article is both damning and hopeful of Xbox's future. Hopeful in the sense that the azure network is making netcode work well. Damning somewhat in the sense that despite offloading ai resources to the cloud. The graphical focus has not really delivered if the extra processing power was available. Would be interesting to see the 360 or pc non azure version
This article is both damning and hopeful of Xbox's future. Hopeful in the sense that the azure network is making netcode work well. Damning somewhat in the sense that despite offloading ai resources to the cloud. The graphical focus has not really delivered if the extra processing power was available. Would be interesting to see the 360 or pc non azure version
Infinite_Daremo
Member
PC has clouds too?
Design choice, not hardware limitation. Still, calling them "Advanced AI" is kind of a joke.
Zuhzuhzombie!!
Member
What I take from this article is that the Bone is so weak it can't even handle dumb AI.
DodgyGeezerFella
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There is nothing secret about dedicated servers.
Impossiburu
Neo Member
Yeah, everytime I see anything about "the cloud," all I picture are snake oil salesmen. It's just such a tough piece of tech to "prove" to consumers.
This quote was interesting, though.
This quote was interesting, though.
But they all use azure...
BigTnaples
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While I don't mind the grunts being stupid, as that is their purpose, I would like to see improved Auto-Titan AI.
Broder Salsa
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I'm not sure those dumb as fuck bots are a good showcase for SECRET SAUCE power of the cloud.
But at least it helps making the game prettier so our hardware doesn't have to use power on that. All that 792p, imagine what that would have been without the power of the cloud, or how low res the textures would have been...
Seriously engadget, that article is pure PR spin.
But at least it helps making the game prettier so our hardware doesn't have to use power on that. All that 792p, imagine what that would have been without the power of the cloud, or how low res the textures would have been...
Seriously engadget, that article is pure PR spin.
BattleMonkey
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Advanced AI? Not enough lolz.
It's a MP game, and the bot AI that is in the game is brain dead retarded.
It's a MP game, and the bot AI that is in the game is brain dead retarded.
Fart Stink
Banned
As much as I enjoyed the Titanfall beta and presumably will enjoy the actual released product, there is nothing about the game that screams next-gen--most of all, the visuals.
legacyzero
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Yeah, that would be my question. I'm not seeing the benefit, here. Just a few idiot bots standing here or there just asking to be shot.
Freedom = $1.05
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That is a real stupid cloud, then, because the grunt AI is dumb as bricks.
Basically this. Stoked for the game though, looks great.
it simulates the 'lag' of online players
So they used the immense power of the cloud..to purposely make the bots as dumb as possible?
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Not this stupidity again.
LOL. This has to be fake.
Dreams-Visions
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Was this written by PR or an actual journalist?
They've basically just marketized the hell out of server-side computation. You think the AI in MOBA's are done client-side? It's always been up to the server to calculate the placements and actions of the multiplayer NPCs.
I can't wait until later this gen when they start advertising "local cloud" and trying to convince people that your local computations are being done through your personal cloud.
I can't wait until later this gen when they start advertising "local cloud" and trying to convince people that your local computations are being done through your personal cloud.
This. Unless things were turned off in the beta I don't see how this is a good endorsement of this setup. If there is even something setup and they aren't lying their ass off. As much as I enjoyed myself I saw nothing advanced about the AI in the game. Nothing even close.
Have you ever played a MOBA? I don't see people asking Valve or Riot to make the Minions smarter.
The grunts are processed by the cloud?
Guess that explains the NEXT GEN AI
My thoughts exactly.
WoolyNinja
Member
Exactly - it makes no sense.
Also, anyone that knows how games run knows the AI can't run strictly on the server. If a game runs @ 30fps then the AI needs to run at least 30fps and thats impossible on the internet in its current state.
But maybe that is why the AI is so terrible in the game? Maybe they make a call to the server every 15 frames to get AI logic that by the time it gets back to the game is 15 frames old.
