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Sleight0fDeath
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4 years ago

Questions about BF2042's Portal Mode

So concerning BF2042's Portal Mode I have a few concerns about how much actual control I will have and how that control will be implemented. I would like to hear from someone working on the Portal mode so that I can get my facts straight and continue my pre-planning (yes I have been working on the details of my portal server and experience since 3 months prior to release) and plan for anything else in the event something unexpected happens.

Q1) I've heard that the AI used in BF2042 is based off of data from previous Battlefield titles to better stimulate actual players while a server is being populated. Does this mean that the AI we will be playing against is catered towards specific difficulties like a plateauing difficulty curve or does it mean that the more we play the more difficult the AI becomes sort of like a Procedural Learning AI?

Q2) We are able to set team size and restrictions in Portal with AI filling in the gaps for players while the server populates. As a creator am I able to lock a team so that it only consists of AI players while forcing players all into one team?

Those are my main 2 questions, if anymore do pop-up I'll either add them in as edits or reply to the EA manager that gave me the initial answers 

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  • Jesse165's avatar
    Jesse165
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago
    @Sleight0fDeath #1. No idea and not sure if they even can answer that specifically.

    #2 However is a confirmed YES! We can put the AI on one team and players on the other to create a PVE mode 🙂
  • Sleight0fDeath's avatar
    Sleight0fDeath
    Not applicable
    4 years ago

    Thanks for answering my 2nd question, though the answer to my first one is pretty crucial as it could help me create the type of experience that players can learn, grow, and have nightmares about potentially. If the AI is a procedural learning one I’d have to ask whether the learning is based on a player to player basis or if it’s just a general one, hence that last bit.

  • carsono311's avatar
    carsono311
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    @Sleight0fDeathAccording to this interview with Ripple Effect’s Justin Wiebte, the AI soldiers will have difficulty levels or settings. As such, I would not expect them to behave in progressive or synergistic ways. At no time have the devs mentioned anything about active learning systems and I sincerely doubt they would implement something like that.

    The intent of the AI soldiers is to backfill servers, not create Terminators or hacklords. I sincerely doubt EA DICE want to field a bunch of complaints about the AI soldiers being too difficult…

    https://mp1st.com/news/battlefield-2042-ai-bots-will-be-really-hard-to-tell-apart-from-humans-says-devs

    *Edited for @EA_Atic

  • carsono311's avatar
    carsono311
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    @EA_AticI edited it for you… lol.

    So are you implying they are progressive in some way? I mean, I understand and would expect them to redeploy with Stingers if you / we are killing them with aircraft, however I would not necessarily consider that “learned” behavior…

  • Jesse165's avatar
    Jesse165
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    I think Atic pretty much just confirmed that they are using the machine learning to a degree.

    Will be very interesting to see how they behave in the beta and with the Portal modes we create in the full game 🙂

  • DeeCay_DK_81's avatar
    DeeCay_DK_81
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    4 years ago

    Mark the year 2021 as the year I created a platoon in BF2042 and filled it with 99 AI BOTS as their abilities, skill-level & insane level of gamesense was unprecedented to any other human Battlefield player on the face of the Earth!!

    Dice will have to shut-off the servers in order to stop this Platoon!

    Platoon: (BOTS)

    REQUIREMENTS FOR JOINING: (not being a human being)

    SKILL-LEVEL: over 9000

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