Penny Arcade - Comic - Demonic Tutor

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Penny Arcade - Comic - Demonic Tutor

Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.

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Lttlefoot

See also https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/11/29/distillation

Lucascraft

I've never played a Forza game, but from context in the other strip linked above, it seems that Drivatars are some sort of persistent online representation of players, even while they're offline?

palidine40

It can't even taste, it just likes the feel... excellent comic today

Overkillengine

Terminator x Maximum Overdrive.

Surely nothing can ever go wrong.

Preacher

Lucascraft wrote: »

I've never played a Forza game, but from context in the other strip linked above, it seems that Drivatars are some sort of persistent online representation of players, even while they're offline?

I mean kind of, they are in theory supposed to be kind of how your friends drive when you play single player. What it mostly means is you get to see Elki slalom into you to make damn sure you stay in fucking 4th place.

Zilla360

Yeah. In theory, your 'drivatar' learns from how you play/race and goes about building a behaviour model that imitates the player.

The implementations however, have differed over the course of the Forza franchise games.

Preacher

Zilla360 wrote: »

Yeah. In theory, your 'drivatar' learns from how you play/race and goes about building a behaviour model that imitates the player.

The implementations however, have differed over the course of the Forza franchise games.

I mean for me the wacky behavior of the drivatars is worth whatever mumbo bullshit that creates them. One thing I've always enjoyed about forza is most of the time outside of playing at the heighest difficulty drivatars don't just ride the lines damn near perfectly every race every time.

Ringo

PLA

Reminds me of the Armored Core 4 A.I.s constantly boosting everywhere at the highest possible speed.