Xbox One Xbox One AI Plays While your at work?

[Damnlag]

So I'm watching Xbox E3 right now after getting off work and just watched the Forza Motorsport 5 briefing. The guy says that it learns how you play, how you race, where you play dirty and how you attack corners. So that when your at work/school, your still racing your friends and people around the world.

I'm curious to see how internet providers react to this and how quickly they drop my connection because my Xbox is required to be connected all the time and its playing while I'm not really playing. Better hope you don't have a limited package with your ISP LOL

 

[Joker99352]

I sincerely doubt that you actually have to be online for that. It's more like the games on Facebook where you "play" against people when you're offline and they're online. It's just a saved batch of settings that they apply to the AI when someone else is playing. I don't know if I like the idea of a computer taking liberties with my name, but there it is.

 

[Khronic]

I think what happens is that you play, the AI takes notes on how you play, and then saves your "profile" on how you race. Then when someone plays, your profile is used as one of the AI that they are racing against. It seems like a pretty cool idea, I think it may make save files really huge though.

 

[ozadin]

Wow, that's actually pretty interesting! I would love to play against AI's that actually give a challenge. This feature is pretty unique, and I have thought about it being implemented in certain games.

 

[Joker99352]

I think what happens is that you play, the AI takes notes on how you play, and then saves your "profile" on how you race. Then when someone plays, your profile is used as one of the AI that they are racing against. It seems like a pretty cool idea, I think it may make save files really huge though.

Well if the Xbox One is always online, chances are the information comes from a cloud service. That way the person playing doesn't have to download the "profile" in order to play against it. The person whose profile it is just has their information saves on the server like anything else, and that's that. That's just my thought, though; I may be wrong on that.

 

[JasonPL]

Well, I think it's just really a step up from "ghost" times. Sounds interesting that you earn XP for people playing against your "ghost". It would be cool to be first on the leader-boards and get a ridiculous amount of experience from just having that time.

It doesn't sound like something I would use, but it is interesting.

 

[Damnlag]

Wow, that's actually pretty interesting! I would love to play against AI's that actually give a challenge. This feature is pretty unique, and I have thought about it being implemented in certain games.

Thats what I was thinking. Its aimed to give single player more of a challenge to race actual people such as your friends and how they race. How do they cut corners and how aggressive are they when racing. May be the hardest difficulty and I hope I complete the achievements before someone better than me beats me badly lol

 

[BlackSolaris]

Seeing how everything is connected nowadays, and how the console requires that 24 hour confirmation thing i think that it's normal next step to take, with the whole cloud technology.

 

[Joker99352]

I don't think you should be able to gain too much experience just from your saved data. That takes the challenge out of leveling up (whatever the purpose is), because you literally don't have to do anything to earn it. I know you have to set the stats to begin with, and in that sense I think it's an interesting idea, but the amount you earn should be somewhat limited so the best players don't just shoot to the top without giving anyone else a chance.

 

[HickJ]

Just better hope your dog or cat don't accidentally press any buttons while you're away. You'll come back and find your score has decreased drastically!

 

[macfuzzy89]

I was really amazed by how they described this feature for Forza 5. I'm sure more and more games will implement similar versions of the "Drivetar." Technology is getting crazier and crazier. I will be snarky and say that the evolution of this will probably be "You can play the game without ever playing the game! Ever! Just pay us for the game and go to work or do whatever! It plays for you!" Our ability to multitask is about to level-up. ;B

 

[FordGTGuy]

I was really amazed by how they described this feature for Forza 5. I'm sure more and more games will implement similar versions of the "Drivetar." Technology is getting crazier and crazier. I will be snarky and say that the evolution of this will probably be "You can play the game without ever playing the game! Ever! Just pay us for the game and go to work or do whatever! It plays for you!" Our ability to multitask is about to level-up. ;B

Drivatar has always been a Forza only technology and Turn 10 has never shared technology with anyone except for Playground Games, outside of Horizon 2 I don't expect you to see anything beyond similar attempts at Drivatar.

 

[smerfy]

Drivatar has always been a Forza only technology and Turn 10 has never shared technology with anyone except for Playground Games, outside of Horizon 2 I don't expect you to see anything beyond similar attempts at Drivatar.

Be prepared for a lot more innovation like this on the AI side in xbox one games with the implementation of offloading computations to the cloud. A bunch of people called it hocus pocus and a PR gimmick, but this is one of the real world applications we can expect to see

 

[Daylight]

I like Forza and it looks amazing, but I'm pretty much car dumb. All the games at launch sound good.

 

[Damnlag]

Just better hope your dog or cat don't accidentally press any buttons while you're away. You'll come back and find your score has decreased drastically!

Your Xbox is not required to be on to do what this is meant to do. Your not actually racing other people, gaining or losing anything from it. Its just your style of racing getting used by an AI on a friends race.