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thismeintiel on 27 April 2014
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Machiavellian said:
thismeintiel said:
Keegs79 said:
Titanfall supposedly use the cloud for A.I. and they hyped that up. I played until I became a 2nd generation pilot. I don't notice the A.I. being special in any way. I am tired of the hype of the cloud. I have a bad enough time keeping a consistent connection with netflix time to time. Its ridiculous to think they will get that much "noticeable" power on the XB1 utilizing the cloud.

Exactly.  In fact, the AI bots are basically canon fodder and not really smart opponents.  It was basically a way to hype up the cloud when it was something that could have been done on local HW.  In truth, even in the future (when we have faster, more stable internet), it will still be much easier to just do it with local HW.  Just imagine how powerful the next round of systems will be by then.

First, the AI were never suppose to be smart.  They are exaclty what the developer want them to be which is canon fodder.  What Respawn stated is that the AI runs server side instead of client side which when those routines do not have to be calculated by the client machine.  Anything that runs server side frees up resources on the client machine.

The problem with most of your points is the fact that we pretty much run a lot of stuff based on a online connection like Multiplayer games, MP only games and MMO.  There are millions of people that play MMOs where you are dependant on a constant connection and that number keeps going up not down.

They could have done dumb, simple AI with the One if they chose to.  It was just a way for MS to hype up the cloud.  And guess what, if Titanfall 2 comes to the PS4, they'll probably be using the HW to do it, not the cloud. 

You keep living that dream where EVERYONE has internet, and that internet is 100% reliable and fast.  And where people are just going to be okay with giving up their consumer rights, just so a company can make an extra buck or two, and I'll live in the real one.  The one where the console that didn't care that not everyone has internet and tried to take away consumer rights is getting stomped.