Rocket League managed to combine soccer with cars and became one of the most acclaimed free to play video games today. However, it has against him that in competitive matches there are bots cheating, powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
AI is supposed to have been empowered to help humans improve many fields and industries, collaborate in scientific research, and even entertain netizens in a good way, but that it is being used for cheating is terrible.
According to a report published on the website of vandalPsyonix, the studio that developed the game, announced through a statement that “is aware that some players of the car and soccer title use a trained AI bot to cheat in competitive modes and thus easily beat other users”.
This coincides with the complaints of some players on social networks, who claimed that they were having a hard time winning in Rocket League, against “too skilled” rivals in online modalities.
How does this AI-powered bot work?
The report cites a Eurogamer report that explains how this bot powered by artificial intelligence works and recalls that it is common practice in online video games to train bots to win.
Experts believe that the trained bots have faced each other for a certain amount of time in local matches and are called next. Several players have reported that some users are making use of this artificial intelligence to cheat.
next allows the vehicles to have a great possession of the ball and the users who use it are easy to identify because they do not use aerial movements. From Psyonix they assured that they are “actively investigating solutions”.
