On a serious note if anything this is a good reminder of what kind havoc could be created by AI in real systems, whether purposely or via bugs.
News NPC AI update
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On a serious note if anything this is a good reminder of what kind havoc could be created by AI in real systems, whether purposely or via bugs.
Very much this. Hope this is on the todo list, not to far down.
Skynet.. darn, i knew it.
Don't want to put a damper on this wonderful praise heading in Zac's (Lord praise him) direction.
But what the heck happened to the beta and bug testing. Was it just skipped on this one??
All hail to FD.
But what the heck happened to the beta and bug testing. Was it just skipped on this one??
All hail to FD.
I just had a terrible feeling..., seems like we, the community failed our job finding those AI bugs during 2.1 Beta. Am I right? Have we failed our purpose?
Luckily the brillant sir Mark Allen smacked those bugs for us!!
I'm so sorry for that dear Frontier. I promisse I'll do better myself during next Beta!
Luckily the brillant sir Mark Allen smacked those bugs for us!!
I'm so sorry for that dear Frontier. I promisse I'll do better myself during next Beta!
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Sounds like they got an apprenticeship with certain commanders used to hide in the structure of stations to fire on unaware players
All the ships can be manoeuvred much better than we can, simply due to our very human reflexes and processing/reaction/input times.
However, if you feel you have encountered a manoeuvre bug by all mean bug it on the support forums so it can be looked at.
Let's hope that the Thargoids weren't watching
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It seems that bug could be that complex that it didn't expose itself till release. Certainly players couldn't pinpoint this clear enough to make good reports and for FD to understand before mass deployment.I just had a terrible feeling..., seems like we, the community did a bad job finding those AI bugs during 2.1 Beta. Am I right? Have we failed our purpose?
I'm so sorry for that dear Frontier. I promisse I'll do better myself during next Beta!
I just had a terrible feeling..., seems like we, the community did a bad job finding those AI bugs during 2.1 Beta. Am I right? Have we failed our purpose?
I'm so sorry for that dear Frontier. I promisse I'll do better myself during next Beta!
Nope. This was not happening in any of the beta releases. This was introduced between the last beta version, and final release.
Hmmm...are we sure that "Zac" is really "Zac" and not one of the new AI...yeah, yeah, it's all fine now my pretties, I mean, valued members of the community...go ahead and launch...it'll be ok. You'll be safer now
Debugging is code is rarely simple, as errors are always subtle, and may manifest effects that show up far removed from the original error.This actually sounds way more complex than anyone predicted
Fixing code, in my experience, means spending hours tracing execution paths and sanity checking everything as you go, until you find the "+" where you should have typed "++"....
grnbrg.
I just had a terrible feeling..., seems like we, the community did a bad job finding those AI bugs during 2.1 Beta. Am I right? Have we failed our purpose?
Luckily the brillant sir Mark Allen smacked those bugs for us!!
I'm so sorry for that dear Frontier. I promisse I'll do better myself during next Beta!
If it was networking bug it was probably caused when they moved update to live servers or live servers have heavier load that cause the issue.
I'm sorry if I didn't catch it in Zac's update but are the uber npc's been removed from the game now or are we still able to encounter them until the bugfix is released?
I'm on Xbox btw but serverside changes are effective for both platforms no?
I'm on Xbox btw but serverside changes are effective for both platforms no?
I'm scared to leave my hangar now...Hmmm...are we sure that "Zac" is really "Zac" and not one of the new AI...yeah, yeah, it's all fine now my pretties, I mean, valued members of the community...go ahead and launch...it'll be ok. You'll be safer now
We don’t think the AI became sentient in a Skynet-style uprising!
Phew!!!
Wait a minute!!!