AI has infiltrated online Rocket League

The day has finally come. Being called a bot is now officially a compliment instead of an insult.

Plats are so unpredictable that even nexto gets confused

the ai has gone rogue it's like detroit become rocket league

"Would I be able to play like a bot?" "Frankly, I don't think I've ever been more qualified for anything in my life" 🤣

Damn its actually scary that people will just create accounts with these AI and just destroy the competitive list. You would have hundreds or even more of champ level AI in all ranks. Not only it would make the experience for players worse, i just cannot see how companies could do anything against these bots if they alrady have trouble against cheaters.

Sunless 2 momths ago: Suddenly gets better Now: Nexto taking over Rocket League I knew bob wasn't human.

As a member of RLBot, I am glad you highlighted the fact, that hacked Nexto is probably going to be the only bot to worry about for a long time and that means Psyonix has time to deal with it.

This is our computer chess moment! The real question is whether Pros will use bots in their training scrims to come up with new strats or play styles.

I encountered a bot like this in my Diamond lobby in duos. It’s impressive to see how far technology these days has come. One thing I noticed about this bot was how it seemed to almost “ball chase”. What’s even more interesting about this bot is how after the game it messaged me on Xbox just to let me know how awful of a teammate I was

Kinda scary to think that we could have played against bots without knowing

One of the things I'd like to mention is that Nexto was designed to play as good as possible, not as human as possible. If you gathered enough replay files from players of different ranks, you could train bots that are designed to act and play like different ranks. If you really wanted, you could cherry pick the best plays from the best players and design a bot that can consistently play like a pro at the top of their game It's not going to happen soon, but it will happen eventually, and I'm not sure how much you can do about it Another option is combining the two techniques and actually training another network called the discriminator that is designed to tell the difference between bots and humans, which could be used to make it blend in even more

something interesting I notice about nexto from a programmer and game developer perspective and AI enjoyer is that nexto will often prioritise height over power especially when its being challenged, to make sure it gets past its opponent. we should take notes

A better methodology would've been to tell the players that they would play 3 games against grand champ players and to get their opinions after each game, which is more in line with a normal ranked experience. Although they would surely still suspect Nexto, it would've less obvious and closer to reality. But that's just a small detail, nice video man

I think a good tweek to this experiment would be to just put them in 3 games and tell them that something will change from game to game. Then, have them guess AI or human at the end so that they weren't already hyperanalyzing each game for that specific thing.

It's official, we've lost. The bots will take over now. We will all be bronze now.

“The true answer to your question is. Who will stick to a rule 1?” Haha love the vids sunless❤

The outro really had me thinking about the future of online gaming.. Great video!

phenomenal video sunless, I am really interested in the programming behind nexto and what it means to the game as a whole. I think if the right person has the right motivation, this could be a giant threat to online play.

I gotta admit, recently you upload quite good videos. I really enjoy the mix between plain entertainment and the ending in which you got more serious. Keep up the good work <3

“It’s not as robotic like as you might thi- that was a pretty calculated flick” 4:35