How Computers Play First Person Shooter Video Games

Last episode i talked about a computer that had been trained to play a first person shooter game, specifically a modified form of quake three. Now this time i wanted to talk about another element of what the researchers reported on in their paper. In addition to talking about how it was trained and what worked and what didn't, they also talked about how the strategies of the bots evolved. The system preferred home base defense, with camping the opposing base second, and team at following, originally a dramatically favored strategy.