Do computer games cheat? Do programmers give the CPU an unfair advantage?

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Originally posted by: CraigRT

Originally posted by: Lorax
mario kart cheats like crazy (both the original and the gc version)

LOL exactly what i was going to post

guess who gets the best powerups? the person in 2nd place.... guess who gets the worst powerups? the person in first place.

I was playing with my GF last week (GC version) and if i was winning by a visible length ahead of her, she would come back to win right in front of the finish line on the last lap, every time... and vice versa!!

totally stupid if you ask me.. gives you the powerups exactly you need to win.. totally sucks.

Yup, agree. 1st place gets you two coins or a green shell while last place gets you the lightning bolt. I'm good enough that I just wait for a red shell and keep it. Of course that brings up the BS of the computer blocking it with a banana peel or whatever else those guys can drop from the rear of their karts.

Edit: And jump super high to avoid road hazards such as their own traps, peels, shells.

 

[digitalsm]

Yes programmers give the computer certain advantages which could be called cheating. Its to make up for the fact of poor ai. And the fact that we dont have enough CPU power to have good ai. In every game the computer has the advantage in some form or another.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: digitalsm
Yes programmers give the computer certain advantages which could be called cheating. Its to make up for the fact of poor ai. And the fact that we dont have enough CPU power to have good ai. In every game the computer has the advantage in some form or another.

this is true, but my take (I'm not genius AI programmer either) is that once the game itself has a good physics/rules set built-in the computer should follow those rules at the minimum.

As for my player getting hurt for no reason that all that's the worst cheating I've seen. I can forgive the fact that the other player dunked the ball on me because there is a bio-rhythm feature where if the player is "hot" then he can do things he wouldn't normally do. But injurying a player out of the blue was low. Bad Visual Concepts programmers, bad bad bad.