Xbox developer tools are on the way for AI NPCs and more.
Is this like the supposed cloud assisted destructible buildings that were supposed to wow us to death in Crackdown 3? But instead we got another severely watered down xbox 360 “copy and paste” game for the Xbox one?
Oh man, please don’t remind me of that disappointment.
On the other hand, I felt like “Drivatars” from the Forza series were decent. They at the very least felt a bit better than the static randomly generated drivers. I’m sure others may have had different experiences though.
Guess we’ll see how it turns out though.
Tying a game feature to the cloud is so moronic. You’re forced to either require an internet connection, or make the feature not affect gameplay at all. Not to mention the continuous cost of cloud compute
I’m most looking forward to a jump in general NPC intelligence and ability. I just want to exist in a world where I can ask an NPC to do “quests” for me, so I can run my shop in peace.
Or just ask them to move out of the way, or tell them to go a specific direction when their path finding fails.
You can do that without ai
And still it is not really a thing, hopefully ai can fix it.
You can do that without ai
And yet, it would be far more dynamic - not to mention easier to implement - if it were powered by an LLM.
The dialogue stuff is pretty interesting at least. As long as the models needs to run in the cloud and not on-device, I don’t see it catching on - but who knows in a few years?
milo?
