I wonder how you are not talking about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoUDVNjDUSw
Seems like Microsoft wants to bring us the future of competitive video gaming. They are studying the possibility of integrating their Copilot AI inside Overwatch 2. It seems to be some kind of voice assistant to guide us to improve and learn the game quicker.
It can help us during the hero selection to give us a good pick based in our teammates selection/current map/previous picks, it can give us a little resume of our games after each game, so we can know what we did wrong and what to improve, and even give us some tips in-game after we’re dead, like explaining why we got killed so fast and what we could had done.
I wonder what are your thoughts on this?
I’ve been seeing that Microsoft is being reluctant to really add it since some people may consider it cheating or unfair.
I think this kind of integration would not be bad at least in Quick Play. This is the future. Is only a question of time to have a game with this kind of AI integration.
They’ve already walked back on it after blizzard teams said they weren’t keen on it. Citing possible cheater problems.
But, an AI based tutorial mode that walks you through the basics of each mode, map and hero that you have to go through on new accounts (also as a training mode for older players if they wish to do it)… On paper is a very good idea.
Microsoft is shoving Copilot into everything at the moment to see what sticks - not just in gaming, but in all parts of their business. Some of it turns into shipping products, much of it doesn’t.
This seems like an example of another part of Microsoft testing Copilot with various Microsoft IP. If this ever ships, it’s more likely to be an Xbox feature (applicable across multiple games, included in the Xbox dashboard/overlay and probably paid-for as part of Game Pass) than something built-in to Overwatch specifically.
Could be interesting but i don’t see how it’s going to be able to train it as most advice isn’t objective and AI needs a decent about of good data to be trained well.
Microsoft can do one with their AI Co-pilot shenanigans. They should be focusing more on making an OS that actually works for consumers, instead of shipping half baked products to everyone then expecting them to do the work for them, by fixing stuff. I’ve lost so much respect for Microsoft lately it’s unreal.
Like mentioned above-if it’s only for the tutorial then that’s fair enough. In actually gameplay? Absolutely not. There’s zero need for it, they’re just trying to force in a half baked idea without even thinking about the consequences.
If they decided to use AI for bots that could be interesting. They’d have to work out a way to make them realistic enough on their accuracy, otherwise people might realise why it’s so stupid in movies that computer controller laser guns actually ever miss!
You already could do this by just taking screenshots of the game and feeding them to analysis on chatgpt.
Costly over time, and not really useful, but it can be funny for a bit.
Make it talk like a drunk pirate with a raspy voice and there you go.
However having it for helping new players to get into grips with the games could work quite well.
Kind of funny they are discussing adding AI gameplay assistance. I think was back in 2018 a third party app came out that did something similar. Was even endorsed by a pro team as a training tool. Blizzard designated it as cheating software and effectively shut the project down.
Isn’t learning the whole “fun” part of the game? I’m not a fan of the idea that basically reinforces counter-swapping with little-to-no thinking involved.
Like why even play the game if someone just gives you all the correct answers and makes all the decisions for you.
Also, the first ten seconds of that podcast had someone glazing Assassin’s Creed Shadows. I’d rather they stay away from anything video game related.
Starting to wish I had bought the pro vision when I updated my gaming rig to a 4K system on Saturday, but i needed a good mobo so had to go for the “cheaper” version of Win 11 (Pro version is £163 here in the UK, home version £120-or $211 and $154 respectively)
It could be interesting. I sometimes use it while using Bing and its generative answers are mostly helpful and always seem upbeat and friendly. I think it would be cool for new players. Definitely needs an option to disable it thou.
