Madden NFL 10 Blog: Adaptive AI

[jimbo1215]

EA has just posted another Madden NFL 10 blog. This one covers adaptive AI.

Quote:

"In nearly every sports game that you’ve ever played, there usually comes a time where someone discovers some sort of gameplay strategy that is extremely successful (in an unbalanced way). Often times these are considered ‘exploits’ because they are either impossible or extremely hard to stop. You may find it on your own, or you may learn it from someone abusing you with it online, or you may even pay to find it on a shady website. Regardless, these exploits can often extremely hamper the replay value of a game because at some point, nearly everyone gets tired of doing the same thing over and over again and beating up the CPU by 100 points…and at this point the game typically comes out of the tray. Whether it’s an exploit or a “money play”, it’s all frustrating…so from the start of the cycle we knew that we wanted to create an Adaptive AI infrastructure in our football games. Two of our most experienced gameplay / AI engineers – Daniel White and Ryan Burnsides – took the reigns with designing and implementing the majority of this system so I hope this blog does it justice. "

[lightning_78]

Finally. Hopefully this should greatly reduce the number of cheesers and glitchers online.

[slvicick]

nice

[deltroy]

This is great news I love how it works online also!!!!

[Boucher]

wasnt expecting a blog today

i guess you can call it a

good friday

[roadman]

Outstanding!

The little things keep building up.

[GTheorenHobbes]

I'm no developer but I wonder how Adaptive AI differs from Liquid AI.

[Hotlanta]

Blog...? Friday...? Really...?

*Runs of to go read*