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Image taken from Starcraft2.com
AlphaStar is ready to steal your points on the EU server!
Starting today, players will be able to opt in under the versus tab and battle the AI on the 1v1 ladder (if you are lucky). Multiple agents will be playing anonymously to test their skills against the human race.
The AI is now able to play all matchups and can play the current patch. Matches against Alphastar will affect your MMR. You can alter your opt-in selection at any point!
Get the full info and read the FAQ here.
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This is cool beyond belief. I wonder if it only will learn the gameplay part or if it will learn ladder BM part as well.
Imagine an AI that not only will manner mule you but tells you to go fuck yourself as well.
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Great news, i hope it's not the older version that did beat mana, that could see every spot on the map where it had visión at all times, and could even spot the blur from invisible units the same way.
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On July 11 2019 02:59 Rantech wrote:
Great news, i hope it's not the older version that did beat mana, that could see every spot on the map where it had visión at all times, and could even spot the blur from invisible units the same way.
Nope, they adjusted it and it seems more fair now.
Q. How does AlphaStar perceive the game?
A. Like human players, AlphaStar perceives the game using a camera-like view. This means that AlphaStar doesn’t receive information about its opponent unless it is within the camera’s field of view, and it can only move units to locations within its view. All limits on AlphaStar’s performance were designed in consultation with pro players.
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What mmr range can the alphastar anonymous players be found? I doubt that researchers care about wins versus beginner players.
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On July 11 2019 03:03 ImmortalGhost wrote:
What mmr range can the alphastar anonymous players be found? I doubt that researchers care about wins versus beginner players.
I guess they will rank up naturally, starting from placement matches.
But officialy there is no information about this afaik.
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So the war against the machines has begun...
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Great to hear that AlphaStar can play all 9 matchups now, it sounds like the team is making some nice progress. Hopefully there will be a big showcase or showmatch at Blizzcon.
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Czech Republic12129 Posts
Sarah Connor needs to tweet this 
SkyNet is coming!
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Russian Federation395 Posts
wow this is awesome!! I'd love to see some of the games 
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i wonder how they adjust AlphaStars performance when matching it vs a bronze and vs a GM
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i dont like this and choosed the opt-out option. I like to play versus other humans
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I only play opponents whose mothers I can insult when I lose.
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Northern Ireland25694 Posts
Brb changing my ID to AlphaStar for intimidation factor
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Imagine, if they made a tournament alphastar vs the world, similar format to gsl vs the world. Pick the best 8 players and fight for the human race. If they win they get 50 k.
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Very interesting. And they've adjusted the APM cap, so we hopefully shouldn't see AlphaStar spike to 1000 APM and simultaneously micro stalkers all over the map during big fights anymore.
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Bot/hacking report threads will be swarmed with new posts 
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Canada2719 Posts
I thought MaxPax has been terrorizing the ladder for a while now
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I would be all about this, but against Mana it looked like a primitive micro bot - controlling 50 stalkers across 4 screens at once - ended up losing a game to him walking it's army in and out of its base over and over again because it didn't have vision of his camping warp prism.
I also don't play on EU...so I guess I don't even have the option.
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I would be all about this, but against Mana it looked like a primitive micro bot - controlling 50 stalkers across 4 screens at once - ended up losing a game to him walking it's army in and out of its base over and over again because it didn't have vision of his camping warp prism.
There was definitely something wrong with the AI in that last match, but overall the description of AlphaStar as being just a primitive micro bot is very unfair. I think the matches against TLO prove handily that AlphaStar has high level reasoning and decision making ablity, and understands well how to play Starcraft 2 in a comprehensive manner.
It will be interesting to see how the new version does on the ladder. It apparently has more mechanical limitations than the version that went 10-0 against TLO and Mana in the non-public matches.
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