Computer Stomping Contest

On October 18 2008 06:12 Raithed wrote:
hold it, gotta kill the PC until it dies?

On October 18 2008 06:27 EsX_Raptor wrote:
No

The computer will play the same game everytime as replays record the exact position at which time, of each unit/building/critters in the game.

In other words; they don't mess up.

On October 18 2008 06:46 Xeofreestyler wrote:


lol what
replays dont record positions
they record actions

On October 18 2008 06:46 Qatol wrote:
Didn't Leg say that the pros used to try and kill off terran comps in the fastest time with just 1 probe? If anyone can do that one, I would be interested in seeing it.

On October 18 2008 06:24 Empyrean wrote:
I thought replays with Computer players always messed up because their actions weren't recorded and so the Computer just played a different game each time?

On October 18 2008 06:54 never_toss wrote:

Yeah, but if the actions of the computer can be determined by a computer (no matter how random its supposed to be) if you store the random seed, you can replicate the random behavior. For example, everytime i build my game, I have a character that will run either right or left. I had a seed of "1", and everytime i ran my game, it ran to the left. When the seed is changed to the date/time/milisec, then thats random.. so in other words, the replay somehow stores the seed.

Back to topic, this sounds like an interesting contest.. though i would have to think about something clever before i play the pc .... hmm....