oh wow.
Apparently, the adaptive AI for these things is so good that a level 50 nearly won a professional Super Smash Bros tournament. No really:
It happened over the weekend of November 23rd-24th at a weekly tournament in Richmond, BC called VSB Weeklies, which is hosted by the local FGC (Fighting Game Community) organization Canadian Joysticks. The tournament was held at an arcade and billiards center called ESpot , and it is open to anyone of any skill level.
This weekend was one of the first to have Super Smash Bros. for Wii U as part of the tournament, with other games including Ultra Street Fighter 4, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, and Dengeki Fighting Climax. As it was the new game at the tournament, a “very vanilla ruleset†was drawn up, comprised of three stocks, no items, the timer set to eight minutes, and stages limited to Battlefield, Final Destination, and Smashville, and any other rulings that were agreed upon by both players.
According to tournament attendee Daze Tioseco, who often speedruns Super Mario 64 and plays Smash Bros. on his Twitch channel, Waveshine—the Fox Amiibo—was “just there.†It’s a mystery to him and everyone else at the tournament who WaveShine’s owner and trainer actually is. Rather than have it sitting around doing nothing, another Smash player at the event called TGDHamster came up with the
idea of entering WaveShine into the bracket, saying that “it’d be really funny,†so he and a few others chipped in $5 each to make it happen.
The first surprise came as WaveShine knocked out a competitor called “CanErick†in the Losers Round 1 of the Smash Bros. tournament, as Daze captured in a tweet.
It turns out that WaveShine is a level 50 Amiibo, which is the current level cap, that constantly adapts its playing style to outwit its opponent. If a player held back defensively, WaveShine would notice this and start firing lasers from a distance and would reflect any returning projectiles with frame perfect timing. On the other hand, if a competitor played aggressively, WaveShine would perform frame perfect rolls and spot-dodges, and would also run back in to punish any end lag from an attack you committed to with a grab or an up smash.
“It also started punishing unsafe landings and whiffed aerials with up smash, as well as unsafe hits on shield (powershield -> upsmash out of shield) which was devastating,†Daze told Siliconera. “It even learned how to wall-tech off of the stage if it was ever hit into it, in order to avoid stage-spikes and recover. It was a pretty impressive AI.â€
And Daze should know considering that he, too, was eliminated by WaveShine in the tournament. In fact, much to everyone’s laughter and disbelief, WaveShine won its way up to the Losers Semi-Finals where it was only knocked out by Firefly, one of the region’s best Super Smash Bros. Brawl players. You can watch the match here (1:33:06). It was Firefly who ended up going on to win the tournament, so considering that, it seems WaveShine ended up outdoing most of the humans players at the tournament.
Oh wow. Looks like the AIs really are taking over, they're nearly winning video game tournaments now!
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/26/story-fox-amiibo-nearly-won-super-smash-bros-tournament/
Apparently, the adaptive AI for these things is so good that a level 50 nearly won a professional Super Smash Bros tournament. No really:
It happened over the weekend of November 23rd-24th at a weekly tournament in Richmond, BC called VSB Weeklies, which is hosted by the local FGC (Fighting Game Community) organization Canadian Joysticks. The tournament was held at an arcade and billiards center called ESpot , and it is open to anyone of any skill level.
This weekend was one of the first to have Super Smash Bros. for Wii U as part of the tournament, with other games including Ultra Street Fighter 4, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, and Dengeki Fighting Climax. As it was the new game at the tournament, a “very vanilla ruleset†was drawn up, comprised of three stocks, no items, the timer set to eight minutes, and stages limited to Battlefield, Final Destination, and Smashville, and any other rulings that were agreed upon by both players.
According to tournament attendee Daze Tioseco, who often speedruns Super Mario 64 and plays Smash Bros. on his Twitch channel, Waveshine—the Fox Amiibo—was “just there.†It’s a mystery to him and everyone else at the tournament who WaveShine’s owner and trainer actually is. Rather than have it sitting around doing nothing, another Smash player at the event called TGDHamster came up with the
idea of entering WaveShine into the bracket, saying that “it’d be really funny,†so he and a few others chipped in $5 each to make it happen.
The first surprise came as WaveShine knocked out a competitor called “CanErick†in the Losers Round 1 of the Smash Bros. tournament, as Daze captured in a tweet.
It turns out that WaveShine is a level 50 Amiibo, which is the current level cap, that constantly adapts its playing style to outwit its opponent. If a player held back defensively, WaveShine would notice this and start firing lasers from a distance and would reflect any returning projectiles with frame perfect timing. On the other hand, if a competitor played aggressively, WaveShine would perform frame perfect rolls and spot-dodges, and would also run back in to punish any end lag from an attack you committed to with a grab or an up smash.
“It also started punishing unsafe landings and whiffed aerials with up smash, as well as unsafe hits on shield (powershield -> upsmash out of shield) which was devastating,†Daze told Siliconera. “It even learned how to wall-tech off of the stage if it was ever hit into it, in order to avoid stage-spikes and recover. It was a pretty impressive AI.â€
And Daze should know considering that he, too, was eliminated by WaveShine in the tournament. In fact, much to everyone’s laughter and disbelief, WaveShine won its way up to the Losers Semi-Finals where it was only knocked out by Firefly, one of the region’s best Super Smash Bros. Brawl players. You can watch the match here (1:33:06). It was Firefly who ended up going on to win the tournament, so considering that, it seems WaveShine ended up outdoing most of the humans players at the tournament.
Oh wow. Looks like the AIs really are taking over, they're nearly winning video game tournaments now!
http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/26/story-fox-amiibo-nearly-won-super-smash-bros-tournament/
