There was a guy down the street from me who was in a force field. Can't remember his name but he had a black and white striped shirt, white face paint and he didn't speak that much.
Imagine if, in the near future, as well as a testing period, FPS developing houses have a 'learning period'. In this time there would be extensive testing of all maps/modes/mutators with just bot games. Over, say a one week period, the bots are left to their own devices, fragging 24/7, developing their algorithms on a daily basis as to become more and more adapted until at the end you, hopefully, have a very intelligent bot.
All you need are a little 'human' boundaries - +/- percentage of aiming error, +/- path deviation distance etc. defined at the start and you're set.
With my experience with bots from various FPS games on several platforms is that the bots autoswitch to the most powerful weapon and stick with it until they die and/or run out of ammo.
The result? A close quarter battle where the bot is trying to snipe you from four feet away when he has a shotgun in his inventory. Or a map with copious amounts of one weapon becoming a single weapon map (Rocketfest, Sniperfest etc.)
If a bot can select an appropriate weapon based on a multiple factors than it serves to add to more realistic bot gameplay. Have I just popped in to a dead end? Then the bot should bounce grenades into my little enclosure. Am I clearly running for the flag? Then the bot should line the corridor with bio sludge to hinder my efforts. Am I flying through the air from a rocket jump? Then the bot should try and place a rocket at my landing spot as well as/instead of trying to continually fire rails at me.
but you fail to realise that the way that Microsoft is doing it is the more logical and efficient way.
I want to play games on Xbox Live. I pay for a years subscription and get a headset and two games. Basically the subscription is free at that kinda price point. then a buy a game I want to play online. I pop it in the tray and bam, full broadband only multiplayer with matchmaking, friends lists and voice chat and virtually no cheating(with the opportunity to go straight to MS when exploits etc. arrive). All for virtually nothing.
I want to play online for the PS2. I buy all the stuff I need, headset, adapter, memory cards etc. I buy some games I want to play online. I then subscribe to some or all of these game companies to play online. Now I have various monthly outgoings to several companies. I depend on each game publisher to provide decent, fast servers.
They have discovered that the British Isles are tilting, with the north of the country gaining altitude and the south of the country 'sinking'."
London is already overcrowded enough without all of the Northeners rolling downhill towards us!
When people cry over the spilt milk that is privacy invasion, I often wonder why they make such a fuss. If a company is selling data about thousands or millions of its customers to a third party, individuality is lost as the advertisers etc. want data in bulk.
I wouldn't care if my viewing details were whizzed off to some number crunching machine somewhere because at the end of the day I have nothing to hide (although if, hypothetically of course, I were watching too much Will and Grace I might be keeping something in the closet, as it were)
If you don't like it, don't listen, if people don't listen, they won't be able to get advertisers, if they don't get advertisers they don't get money, if they don't get money, they go out of business. Problem solved!
The one downfall with voting with your wallet is simply, Joe Playstations outnumber us geeks and have no idea or even concern about subjects such as these. In an ideal world consumers demands will be met but while people still reproduce, more and more people just take what they are given.
My parents have started listening to a UK radio station called Magic FM (105.4). I think that the the DJs have to bring in their own records because there is a painful amount of song repetition, and we're talking golden oldies here not pre release Christina Aguilera fodder that's shoved down your throat.
My mum likes it because 'there's none of that headbanging music'....:)
I find that there's too much Reality TV on these days (jeez won't this bubble burst already). I don't want to see people in tears when someone comes and breaks into their house. I don't want to see a gameshow with backstabbing and double crosses to win money.
All I want is an escape from day to day life. Comedies like The Simpsons and even Friends are a cool way to blow half an hour of boredom and I actually end up feeling a little happier at the end.
As for radio, I would only listen to it in the car, I can't listen at home because I find that it's just not enough stimulation. Since I have grown up with TV and now I'm using the Internet, my body is used to both visual and aural stimulation.
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I am assuming the name for this site is derived from the only remaining use for CDs?
The tri-breasted mutants are sabotaging the equipment to use as air filters in their cyber punk cities.
There was a guy down the street from me who was in a force field. Can't remember his name but he had a black and white striped shirt, white face paint and he didn't speak that much.
Imagine if, in the near future, as well as a testing period, FPS developing houses have a 'learning period'. In this time there would be extensive testing of all maps/modes/mutators with just bot games. Over, say a one week period, the bots are left to their own devices, fragging 24/7, developing their algorithms on a daily basis as to become more and more adapted until at the end you, hopefully, have a very intelligent bot.
All you need are a little 'human' boundaries - +/- percentage of aiming error, +/- path deviation distance etc. defined at the start and you're set.
With my experience with bots from various FPS games on several platforms is that the bots autoswitch to the most powerful weapon and stick with it until they die and/or run out of ammo.
The result? A close quarter battle where the bot is trying to snipe you from four feet away when he has a shotgun in his inventory. Or a map with copious amounts of one weapon becoming a single weapon map (Rocketfest, Sniperfest etc.)
If a bot can select an appropriate weapon based on a multiple factors than it serves to add to more realistic bot gameplay. Have I just popped in to a dead end? Then the bot should bounce grenades into my little enclosure. Am I clearly running for the flag? Then the bot should line the corridor with bio sludge to hinder my efforts. Am I flying through the air from a rocket jump? Then the bot should try and place a rocket at my landing spot as well as/instead of trying to continually fire rails at me.
but you fail to realise that the way that Microsoft is doing it is the more logical and efficient way.
I want to play games on Xbox Live. I pay for a years subscription and get a headset and two games. Basically the subscription is free at that kinda price point. then a buy a game I want to play online. I pop it in the tray and bam, full broadband only multiplayer with matchmaking, friends lists and voice chat and virtually no cheating(with the opportunity to go straight to MS when exploits etc. arrive). All for virtually nothing.
I want to play online for the PS2. I buy all the stuff I need, headset, adapter, memory cards etc. I buy some games I want to play online. I then subscribe to some or all of these game companies to play online. Now I have various monthly outgoings to several companies. I depend on each game publisher to provide decent, fast servers.
Damn that's a tough choice!
Does this 'babel' format have any relationship with Babelfish? Please don't tell me it's used to translate books into different languages!
Harry's Potter take ups his sword to slain the evil Mould a Wart
They have discovered that the British Isles are tilting, with the north of the country gaining altitude and the south of the country 'sinking'." London is already overcrowded enough without all of the Northeners rolling downhill towards us!
By a similar process we can calculate that 99% of all ocean-front homes are pirated Yarrr. There be many a pirate on the high seas.
they have Hand in the Palm of their Hand?
Just pop one in a pack of smokes and you have an instant James Bond-esque spy camera!
I think he should stop playing and move to spherical entertainment immediately !
Spheres = Balls
Playing = Playing
That concludes your 3 week course about playing with balls
In stores now!
Not a guy but a girl would you believe?
News just in George Lucas has plans to introduce a special edition webcam for only 10 bucks more.
Yeah we're really brutal over here. Just the other day Big Brother got the contestants dressed up as cub scouts.
Who modded this as funny? I think it's rather informative.
Southpark would be better suited.
Oh my God! They kicked Kenny!
You mean he can't play with his balls?
When people cry over the spilt milk that is privacy invasion, I often wonder why they make such a fuss. If a company is selling data about thousands or millions of its customers to a third party, individuality is lost as the advertisers etc. want data in bulk.
I wouldn't care if my viewing details were whizzed off to some number crunching machine somewhere because at the end of the day I have nothing to hide (although if, hypothetically of course, I were watching too much Will and Grace I might be keeping something in the closet, as it were)
If you don't like it, don't listen, if people don't listen, they won't be able to get advertisers, if they don't get advertisers they don't get money, if they don't get money, they go out of business. Problem solved! The one downfall with voting with your wallet is simply, Joe Playstations outnumber us geeks and have no idea or even concern about subjects such as these. In an ideal world consumers demands will be met but while people still reproduce, more and more people just take what they are given.
My parents have started listening to a UK radio station called Magic FM (105.4). I think that the the DJs have to bring in their own records because there is a painful amount of song repetition, and we're talking golden oldies here not pre release Christina Aguilera fodder that's shoved down your throat.
:)
My mum likes it because 'there's none of that headbanging music'....
I'm all for music diversity too, from A1 to ZZ Top , it's all good.
I find that there's too much Reality TV on these days (jeez won't this bubble burst already). I don't want to see people in tears when someone comes and breaks into their house. I don't want to see a gameshow with backstabbing and double crosses to win money. All I want is an escape from day to day life. Comedies like The Simpsons and even Friends are a cool way to blow half an hour of boredom and I actually end up feeling a little happier at the end. As for radio, I would only listen to it in the car, I can't listen at home because I find that it's just not enough stimulation. Since I have grown up with TV and now I'm using the Internet, my body is used to both visual and aural stimulation.