The Fry-Team has been around for 18 months, and has expanded to 46 from 18 people in August last year to 46 as the technical support team for all games in the company. If the world's five major R&D studios of herring, Henggong, Salmon, He Luo, Shark and Dace, plus a platform Jiang Gong Studio, are the foundation of the company, then Ye Shenxi and Xia Qingyu's definition of the fry group is the leader of the future game.

By the beginning of this year, the herring officially defined the fry group as: Virtual orld Exploration Division. The level of the department has not been improved, because there is no room for improvement, and it has always been the department directly managed by Ye Shenxi.

This is the official scientific name, and the name Fry-Team is still in use.

In addition to technical support, another more important task of Yu Fry is to develop new game technology, expand new ways of playing, and bring players an unprecedented and extraordinary experience. They are the secret weapon of the herring network, and they are committed to promoting the development of interactive experiences for the whole company and even the entire game industry through revolutionary technology.

Specifically, in the past year, in addition to the original game screen ability improvement, battle network optimization, hardware potential mining, action and facial capture technology research and other work content, they have added a new research direction that needs to invest many years is neural network-like networks, deep learning and AI players.

To put it more bluntly, that's ...... Advanced bot bar.

In the games that can be seen on the market today, many of the so-called AIs are very rudimentary, and they are all planned settings, rather than the result of automatic "thinking" by the computer.

For example, some monsters, there are two skills, after the skill is configured, the behavior of the monster only needs to be controlled by a few fields, skill CD time, release priority, gone. The final effect is which skill of the monster is CD first.,Which blue amount is enough to hit you.,If both skills can be released.,Just go according to priority.。

Silly.

It's more complicated.,When you get to the boss.,The number of skills becomes more.,Add a few more control fields.,And then a hatred list or something.,Determine the object of attack.。

If a more advanced NPC sets up the behavior tree, the designers need to define all the behavior details of the entire AI, and when a situation occurs, they will jump on the nodes of the behavior tree according to the specific situation and take corresponding behaviors.

Most games today use this framework, and the enemies in Nobody Survive are as flexible as the players feel a little bit more flexible than the real person because of the large number of behavior tree nodes and the rather complicated branching of the designers. The same is true for the human-machine battle mode for novice players in Eternal War.

What Yu Fry is doing now is to let the AI learn combat skills, tactics, learn to recognize enemies and complex environments, and so on in the process of non-stop game matches. The significance of this is to let it learn to play games, and provide experience and data for future game development and improvement of Qingyu.

Qingyu Network is currently the first game company to enter this field, including EA, Activision, Yubi, Ren Jile, not to mention Tenghua and Huang Yi.

At present, this AI has a very Chinese and beautiful name: Laifu.

Xia Qingyu thought of mechanical butlers when he talked about AI before, Jarvis in Iron Man and the like, they were all butlers anyway. Chinese housekeepers, what else can they be called besides Laifu.

Now more than 40 people in the fish fry team, all of them are on the second floor of Building C of the Herring Industrial Park, Ye Shenxi came here at this time, accompanied by the supervisor Temkin Baker, to visit their latest research and development results.

Currently created primarily for action-adventure and shooter games, Rifle is now available for simple gameplay in Paradise Lost.

Different types of game AI are completely different, don't imagine that one AI can work on Eternal War, No One Survives to Paradise Lost.

When Ye Shenxi was still in North America before, from the first Rifles who could participate in the battle in "Paradise Lost" in September, he has completed more than 3,000 games in it until now, and if you count the battle records of the internal R&D members who have seen it, it is more than 10,000 games. Sometimes it's a real game with the employees of Henggong Studio, and sometimes it's a fight between itself and itself, which can be regarded as a battle-hardened.

However, what is more embarrassing is that in the current battle with the employees, they have only won a few games, and they have never been bright, and the few that have won are either that an opponent drove his own car and overturned and hung, and won innocently, or after they fought for their own blood and ammunition, they came to the fortune of the fisherman.

Of course, it's now in a sealed state.,Otherwise, no one in shooting games can compete with AI.,Marksmanship is already invincible.,All ballistic calculations,Muzzle stability,Pressure gun or something,It can be absolutely accurate.。

Ye Shenxi now seems to be playing a game next to him, if you want to look at it from the perspective of a third party, it is very vegetable, sometimes you will stand in a daze and don't know what to do, and the choice of guns and equipment will also fall into contradictions, but looking at the personality, it should be a light and breezy worldly master, run when you hear the sound, and lie down when you see a figure......

It's really deep learning, and I've learned something from Henggong's group in the past few months.

Ye Shenxi shook his head, can this group of people teach something good?

Baker also thought that the boss was very dissatisfied with the effect of AI, and explained that Rifle is still very imperfect, and it is still learning, and the streets are full of behavior tree programmers, and there are few neural network talents, and even fewer meet the requirements of herring.

There is no precedent for the version production process, and the team is still exploring.

And the boss yourself said that we make games, not the strongest AI, but the AI that is fun, and the difficulty of this is really great.

A lot of reasons or bitter water began to spit out.

Ye Shenxi looked at Baker, I didn't find that this old brother stuttered so smartly before, so he was relieved and said It's okay, it's okay, take your time, the company has always planned to use this project as a profit point, don't forget the original intention, our goal is to explore.

Baker was relieved.

When the game was over, Laifu won the final victory, which is natural, this game was originally 100 Laifu themselves in the fight.

Then Ye Shenxi sat down and prepared to start the official game.

This person's dish is a dish, and the equipment and style will never lose, playing an internal test match, and bringing his own mouse and keyboard for gaming. Of course, it's not to pretend to be forced, it's really painful to play games with the ergonomic keyboards of this group of programmers, and he can't find the keys accurately. It's a great productivity tool, but it's good for fun.

The intranet server has been open, and Ye Shenxi asked Shan Jie to gather the other 96 employees on Yubao (Qingyu's internal instant messaging software), not all of them are members of Henggong Studio, but employees from various departments of the entire Funan headquarters who have actively signed up. I asked the leader again, and the leader was ready at this time, and then instructed to create a room, and the rifle was ready, and then everyone entered the game together.

At this time, the version of "Paradise Lost" is completely player-oriented content, and there is less than a month before the official launch, during which time Henggong will of course continue to develop new things, but it will not be added to the game again, and will be put into another subsequent version number, and will be added after the game is launched.

There will be multiple versions of a game, and several versions will run in parallel at the same time.

As long as it is added and changed, no matter how young it is, it is possible to produce new bugs, which may be simple or troublesome, and it is not very controllable. So in the period before the official launch of the game, the only task for the current version is to optimize, including stuttering, graphics, and network aspects, and then find unknown bugs and fix known bugs.

The character has already been created, so I skipped the process of naming and pinching the face and matching the appearance, and went directly to the birth island.

This game is open in a four-row mode, and the group of four people here is, Ye Shenxi, Shan Jie, Laifu, and Xia Qingyu who is far away in Huangpu.

Ye Shenxi was very satisfied with the speed at which the scene was refreshed, in order to test the effect, he deliberately used a computer with a mid-range configuration, of course, the picture quality was also medium.

There is a short stay on the birth island, the main purpose is to allow everyone to prepare for the game, and also get familiar with the ballistics of firearms through the various weapons placed on the table, the attack range of cold weapons, etc., and if it is a random match when the players are in a group, you can also use this time to greet and greet, a little familiar, so as not to be embarrassed when fighting.

"Paradise Lost" has a built-in call function independently developed by herring, which has long been used in "Eternal War", and the technology is also very mature, and the herring fish network does not want to develop a voice platform like YY, so it is not a voice plug-in bundled in the game, but directly built-in, convenient, fast and easy to use, very popular with players.

Xia Qingyu is also the first time to deal with Laifu face-to-face, and can interact with it through voice, but Laifu currently does not have a voice output module, so it can only "type"......

And at this time it can only recognize English, in terms of speech recognition, English is much simpler than Chinese, first of all, there are so many dialects in Chinese, of course, this can require Mandarin, although many people's Mandarin is not very standard. But even if it is standard, a difficulty in Chinese for speech recognition, polyphonic words, this point needs to be established by Lyfu himself, according to the meaning to determine which word polyphonic words are. And then there are tones, participles in Chinese, which are difficult and need to be overcome.

Moreover, in the field of English speech recognition, Qingyu Network can cooperate with foreign giants like Nuance to obtain some technical support, and there are also domestic ones, such as iFLYTEK, but the accuracy and applicability need to be improved.

"Hello, Laifu." Xia Qingyu said.

"Hello." Rifle replied.

Chen Xiaofan stood behind Ye Shenxi and raised his eyebrows: "It's okay." ”

Ye Shenxi didn't want to say anything to someone like him who was uninformed, what could be done with such a simple interaction, didn't this girl use the Apple phone herself, Siri has been out for more than four years.

Chen Xiaofan is just the first time to see such a high-end thing in research and development around him, and his awareness that he is also an international giant is a little weak.

"You're going to protect me." Xia Qingyu said again.

"......" Laifu stopped talking, beyond the scope of his understanding.

"It's so stupid......" Xia Qingyu said.

"Please don't curse, be a man!" Rifle said.

Xia Qingyu also had nothing to say, and established a tone of disgust.

……

The game officially began, the nominal captain was Ye Shenxi, but it was Xia Qingyu who gave the order, her strategy was very simple, just shoot, X** hit, beat people when they saw them, kill people and cross goods, and block the road to make money.

Paradise Lost is now a map, a standard multi-ecological fusion map, with cities, towns, fields, forests, swamps, mountains and mines, coasts and islands, and the terrain is very complex...... No, it's abundance.

The team of four chose the game's Uptown to skydive, which is the most prosperous area with the most buildings and the most abundant supplies, and the chance of refreshing powerful weapons is higher than in the wilderness.

After looking around in the air, in addition to their group, there were two other groups of eight people who also chose this area as a foothold.

The three living people immediately ran to nearby shopping malls, supermarkets and police stations to find props and weapons to defend themselves, and prepare for the street fighting that could come at any time. Laifu is the most experienced "person" here, before thousands of rounds are not in vain, the first time to run to the vicinity to find the vehicle, he will still distinguish the vehicle performance, terrain adaptability, power, blood volume and other parameters, and then choose an off-road vehicle to drive to the vicinity of the three, just about to stop, "Ding Ding Ding ~ Ding Bell ~" The sound of the bullet and the body colliding began to sound.

Laifu's operation is still very passable, first, type for help in the team chat channel, "Help!" ”

secondly, the location of the enemy is marked on the map;

Third, without stopping, he directly began to flee in the direction of Xia Qingyu.

The three operations were completed almost at the same time, as for why it is the direction of Xia Qingyu, the first is that it is the most familiar with Xia Qingyu, at least just now there were two greetings, the second is through calculation, analyze the distance of the team members, the time when they can join the battlefield, and then judge the sum of the equipment of the team members, Xia Qingyu's combat effectiveness is the strongest.

It's actually a bit of a cheat, but it won't get the enemy's data, and it will be improved step by step in future versions, allowing him to think about decisions in a completely human way.

Ye Shenxi and Shan Jie also quickly rushed to this side, and they didn't run far either, and soon joined the battle.

This time, the 100 accounts are all named after numbers from 001 to 100, and no one knows who is on the other side, otherwise where would the employees dare to play freely, and who would dare to kill the boss, which would be a big rebellion.

"How many people are on the other side?" Ye Shenxi asked.

"Three."

"biubiubiu~" There were two more gunshots in the distance.

"Well, four, sure." Xia Qingyu changed his words.

"Poof...... The RPG you picked up there? Ye Shenxi looked at the weapon Xia Qingyu was carrying on his shoulder, and almost sprayed.

Is Xia Qingyu's character so good, in just a few minutes, he actually found an RPG, and the refresh probability of this weapon is very low, although it is not that there is absolutely none, but ordinary people really can't meet it.