Can you go into greater detail about the ATV Fast Forward? The AI work looks pretty nice. Also, what was that area that was shown?asked by Semphus Freithorn

The ATV Fast Forward this week was the continuing development on AI subsumption, specifically the perception system. There's text on the thing, so you can read what each line does. But the blue line is where they can hear you, and that's where they think you are based on hearing. The yellow line is where they see you, where they actually physically know you are. The red line is where they saw you but they can't see you now, so this is where they're thinking you are based on where they last saw you and what they can hear and stuff. It's very cool, it works on multiple levels. As far as the actual level, I don't know what the level is. It's a gas station.

So the big challenge for any AI: it's very easy to make an AI that will always get you. People are like, oh, the AI is stupid. The great challenge is to make AI stupid. If I'm a computer, I'm like, okay, X is Jared, and Jared is always this. I can always know where to shoot him. I can get him every time. The goal is to simulate AI characters who have some limits to their perception, who make mistakes, but then are still challenging.

They make the mistakes, but they have corrective measures so they can adjust for that and stuff. It's very cool, the work they're doing on the AI stuff, which I believe is being spearheaded primarily in Frankfurt now. So it's super exciting. That day when we have all the AI in ArcCorp, that'll be a great day, and it truly feels like a living, breathing place, and you can go through and watch everybody's little individual stories going on.

To be more specific, that level is the vertical slice level for Squadron 42, where they basically take a vertical slice of the entire game that has every little aspect of the campaign and have it in one level just for testing purposes. So it is a gas station where they basically have all the different Squadron 42 features jam-packed.