:DDDDD

not sure if srs

the fuck this was on the Huffington Post? I know they aren't a real news site but still.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/01/qu...ostpopular

"Alas. As we suspected (see our note at the end of the original story), it appears that this wonderful tale was too good to be true. We've been tipped that the original post was actually a joke, and that it was subsequently taken too seriously by the Internet - and, well, us. Apologies for those who found hope in the tale, but we still feel there may be a lesson in it for humanity, somewhere. Put down the guns, Quake 3 aliens, robots and killing machines. All you need is love - and a taste for viral internet humour."
Why would they ever assume something from 4chan was real?

i want to believe

I read the headline and was very hopeful :(

They must have missed that line :

The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood.
Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

What the hell huff po?? How could they take that seriously.

Because of the Reason?

Worth a read, thx.

Server IP, demos or fake.

Moral of the story? Peace comes in two 256mb packages.

http://www.t3.com/news/quake-3-arena-player-l...find-peace

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/01/qu..._hp_ref=uk

Hmm no.

Quite disappointed actually, I'd have loved it to be true :))

:P

fake as hell, and i got some proofs to back it up... sadly its written in polish

It doesn't have to be real, it's a witty story with a witty meaning.

lol

how old are you again?:>

Obviously fake. Still giggled a lot!

Not so funny if you saw wargames 20 years ago.

reminds me of the UT Austin Hoax that some guy designed a petri-dish brain that learned to play quake 3 xD.

even tho it's fake. gud read.

[23:05:50] <@sponge> huffpo was the first apparently
[23:05:55] <@sponge> i've seen 3 or 4 "legit" news sites also pick it up
[23:06:15] <@sponge> one even got a comment from graeme devine
[23:06:27] <@sponge> http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadge...83852.html

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/352192259418103809

Stock Quake 3 bots don't use neural networks, folks.

Or at least they made Carmack believe that they don't.

The core idea seems plausible, maybe an expert in game theory can confirm whether or not this is acutally possible.

But of course as mentioned Quake bots didn't use a neural network or have a learing funcion. (Hard to believe at least gamers didn't know that.)

Also "forgetting" about the server for 4 years and all the rest just sounds too much like a made up story.

log files maxed out in file size, so no more combat messages could be logged, therefor bots stopped moving

or

magic

good read :P
here's another story:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/uxpil...zation_ii/

Artificial neural network ROOOFL!

Q3 Bots weren't even tested properly. They are just a side joke from the beginning. The bots don't learn, they copy your moves, like rocket jumps, but fail miserably at it.

Q3 bots are the hugest fail in quake history.

-When they don't see you after respawn, they often stand still until they do
-They don't care for guns
-Accuracy is unhuman retarded - either way too low or waaay too high, but irritating at any time (some bots got 99.5% acc on MG, on huge distances -hellooo build-in aimbot)
- reaction time and general behavior is completely unhuman and stupid
-They are so fucking slow at times, getting stuck on invisible obstacles, taking some weird retarded routes at some parts of the map, never changing it
-they jump for no reason, as they can't strafejump
-they dodge grenades like grand masters, but are oblivious to grenades bouncing from walls


While QL bots got better, I think since the CPMA bot code was used or smth., these points still all apply! Yes they go for items now (still not guns), but so unhuman, time them to the millisecond even when they could not know the time. That's plain cheating. Otherwise still copletely retarded.