I was just complaining about this in a thread about the new Nvidia GPU line.

We're gonna get 30 real FPS with 240 from frame gen... so is the future of FPS games or anything that demands split second timing just... being completely unable to tell the difference between network lag, or your own GPU hallucinating that a guy you just shot at wasn't actually there?

... Well apparently the answer to that is not only yes, but also, all players will have built in aimbots and automacro scripts, I mean uh, predictive input.

We are literally just going backward toward advanced aim assist.

Used to be a crutch for the difficulty of fine controls on a controller, now its a crutch for we have no idea how to actually develop a game that runs at 4k60, and can be played with affordable hardware.

I look forward to Call Of Duty 28 being marketed as an idle autobattler, presuming you pay for the ultra elite premium tier battlepass that grants you the ability to unlock ultra elite premium predictive input.

We could make great games, or we could spend our time crowbarring AI into places where it isn't needed and no one wants it.

Jesus, people, they're not asking ChatGPT to guess who wins.

This is rollback netcode. This is literally just rollback netcode, plus a buzzword.

Neural networks are sixty years old. All that changed recently is how hard we can train them.

And this application is where neural networks should be downright magical: given complex events, you need a simple answer, and approximate guesses work okay. If the network is wrong... you roll back. Just like we already fucking do, with the lag-reducing prediction written by human beings.

The real thing to get worked-up over is - fuck software patents.

I hate patents.

Offline single player, amd occasional local co-op is all I need.

People's obsession with online play drives all this.

Somewhere at Sony:

Let’s patent rollback, but with AI.

So the plan is to reduce input lag by...

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...using a tool that's notorious for being extremely computationally expensive. Surely that will improve performance.

Same basic idea as the “negative latency” that people made fun of Stadia for.

Oh great, so I'm seeing this now, where we'll have controllers that will play the game for you. And this will go over nicely in esports and the competitive scene...not.

Not hopeful for the next generation of gaming.

That’s thinking outside the box but ultimately counterproductive for the average player. I’m a hot mess and in the heat of action, I’ll press the wrong button for the action I want. If my controller was trained on that data, there’s a good chance that at some point it will fuck me when I was going to hit the right button.

I bet the fighting game community LOVES this idea. No, wait. Wrong word. Loathes. That's it.

I usually hate this patent fuckery, but maybe this is a good thing. Using ai like this is stupid so patenting this would limit companies doing it.

Rejoice children for you can now actually be correct when you cry out "the game won't let me win!" Because it hit X when you were going to hit O lol

Prior ART - MOSH already predicts outputs when packets get dropped

So now they want AI to play games for us. Come on let's get it going stuff we don't want to do.

Rollback latency