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shanie, do games w Helldivers 2 has a Dungeons and Dragons-style GM behind the scenes
@shanie@kbin.social avatar

The comments section here is pretty funny.

This isn't "The Director from L4D", this is the human touch of direct influence of game balance globally without the need to release a patch or even a hotfix, and way beyond just how many bots drop at a time. If you want to compare it to something, it might be The Wizard from Oz, pulling the cranks to drive the facade.

If The Director wasn't dumping enough zombies in general, Valve would have to patch The Director to make it do so because it's restricted to its coding limitations. A human Game Master can run it only limited to the variables the devs give him. Open new planets for plundering, change the weather, accuracy of your calldowns, the options are as limited as imagination and time.

Saying this, I don't know why they would leave this all up to Joel, you'd think there'd be a team of 3 to bounce ideas off or something.

skulblaka, do games w Helldivers 2 has a Dungeons and Dragons-style GM behind the scenes
@skulblaka@startrek.website avatar

This is the most absolutely buck wild and inefficient version of this idea I’ve ever seen, ever. Director AI’s have existed over a decade, and have already been used to solve problems exactly like these. If I was Joel and was woken up at 2am to go drop a couple more bugs on Leedle III I’d tell my entire management team to eat shit and do it themselves. What the fuck. Who came up with this? This is half baked as hell

Sanctus,
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I agree who the fuck thought this was a good idea? What happens if Joel suddenly kicks the bucket or is injured? Why is this not an automated system that has the option of being manually adjusted? This sounds like a downgrade from L4D.

e8d79,
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No this is a reasonable approach. Arrowhead are a a rather small company of around 100 people and automating things is easier said than done. They also never anticipated the game to be as successful as it is so at the time it probably wasn’t high on the priority list. Now they pay Joel overtime (I hope) and can think about how to implement an automated script to adjust the game.

Goronmon,

Director AI’s have existed over a decade, and have already been used to solve problems exactly like these.

My knowledge of Director AI’s is that they control the individual matches, but this is about the campaign as a whole.

This person isn’t calling down a dropship on individual players, he’s controlling how the campaign progresses at a higher level.

catloaf,

It sounds like he also writes the events. The article gives the example of one part ending faster than expected, so he added a bit about the forces pivoting to mine the planets. A director AI can’t make stuff up from scratch. (ML-AI could, but it wouldn’t be very good.)

catloaf, do games w Helldivers 2 has a Dungeons and Dragons-style GM behind the scenes

They make this guy get up in the middle of the night to tweak some balance numbers? What the fuck?

BarrierWithAshes, do gaming w Remedy Entertainment buys Control series rights from 505 Games for €17m
@BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social avatar

I literally know nothing about this game aside from that it was on all the Steam Deck adverts I saw.

Hotzilla, do gaming w Star Citizen developer hit with layoffs amid claims of a "highly toxic company"

It’s a Ponzi scheme, right?

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CorrodedCranium, do gaming w Remedy Entertainment buys Control series rights from 505 Games for €17m
@CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

As for Control 2 and project Condor, both were announced back in November 2022. They are, however, likely still some significant way off, with Control 2 confirmed to still be in the the “proof-of-concept” stage last October

Sounds like we are still a ways out from Control 2.

While I did like the gameplay and environment of Control I really don’t think the story was all that memorable. I don’t know how they would out do the original.

Master, do gaming w Star Citizen developer hit with layoffs amid claims of a "highly toxic company"

They consolidated companies to the uk. Anyone who didnt want to live in the uk was let go. They did a similar thing to their Texas building years ago.

_haha_oh_wow_, do gaming w Star Citizen developer hit with layoffs amid claims of a "highly toxic company"
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You don’t say…

Nakoichi, do gaming w Star Citizen developer hit with layoffs amid claims of a "highly toxic company"
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Helix, do gaming w Nintendo shares drop following Switch 2 delay reports
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It’s a dip, not a drop. Maybe you want to mitigate the sensationalist headline.

peter,
@peter@feddit.uk avatar

What’s the difference? Is a dip not a drop?

Helix,
@Helix@feddit.de avatar

Generally, “dip” carries the connotation that there will be a rebound, or a return to the original position. A “drop” however would mean that this would hurt the company in the long run.

Zorque,

So calling it a dip is basically assuming something that is not yet proven true, while calling it a drop is merely stating what has happened so far.

Gold_E_Lox,

that’s not at all what op said??

these words contain contextual clues that allow an individual to hopefully understand a situation more clearly.

i think the stock market might be a bit too much for you at the moment.

Helix,
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Basically, stock markets are based on predictions. If it is likely a stock will continue to fall, it is called a drop. You can not know if it’s a dip or a drop in advance because rising and falling stocks are always relative to the rest of the environment. So calling it a drop would be not wrong, but an unlikely prediction.

conciselyverbose, do gaming w League of Legends free-to-play fighter officially named 2XKO

What a dumb name

Alteon, do gaming w SteamWorld Build underperformed, says publisher Thunderful

I’m sorry, but what did you expect? You can’t possibly think people that were massive fans of your Metroidvania game were going to suddenly love your city builder.

It’d be like if Call of Duty decided to build a Tower Defense game.

SuiXi3D,
@SuiXi3D@kbin.social avatar

And not even a particularly great city builder at that.

JoeKrogan, do games w 700 Ubisoft workers strike in France over failed salary negotiations
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

They should form their own company.

toasteecup, do gaming w Mother creator says "please talk to Nintendo, not me" about missing western launch

Nintendo? Make shitty business decisions? Never

SatouKazuma, do gaming w Nintendo shares drop following Switch 2 delay reports
@SatouKazuma@lemmy.world avatar

There’s a quote by Miyamoto Shigeru that comes to mind here. “A delayed game will eventually be good, but a bad game will forever be bad.”

RGB3x3,

Actually, I think the quote was “bitches be trippin’ if they think we gonna put this shit out before it’s good.”

SatouKazuma,
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LMFAO

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