Star Citizen added 200 million dollar NPCs with encampments and everything! 
Voice acting on-par with AI
Nonsensical dialogue about how "we all die someday" 
NPC exits the conversation by walking through the MASSIVE "campfire" 
Comes back later, walks deeper into the fire to his death 
This alerts the other camp members who start running in terror except for one man who pulls a handgun and does the chicken dance on his friends's corpse 
Also the ground is flickering the entire time. 
Man, I kept pausing it to type this post but somehow more happens.
Mort from Family guy also pulls a handgun at some point then does the chicken dance on the corpse, but he was too close to the fire and burned to death
I believe g*mers call this a resonance cascade?
Finally, the camp's borrowed security from CHOP warms his balls on the burning corpses of his compatriots before also burning to death.
The player loots his rifle then looks to see the remaining survivors tweaking out while doing squat exercises.
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Life sure is tough in space world.
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I'm surprised they didn't go with NPCs powered by an AI language model tbh. Would be on par with the feature creep and wanting/having to add newer stuff to an already ancient project.
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I can taste the salt from redditors already if they decide to use AI gen in their game
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it'd probably take longer to invent all the guard rails for a model than to use existing NPC code stuff
so perfect for this game
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Would unironically push me to buy this game tbh. Although I don't see how LLMs can be implemented in a way that doesn't result in them blabbing about random out of context stuff or getting stuck in repeating loops.
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It wouldn't be a deep system, but I don't think it'd be that hard to implement. When you meet an NPC have the system roll dice for a few traits (maybe this is an "abrasive" "farmer") and then just generate dialog based on the traits when the player talks to them. Add a pool of information that NPCs in a certain area know about (this town has X features and Y current events, etc)
Doing this plausibly would require faking some traits, since characterization would be generated on the fly. Maybe a randomly generated character says he got into a fight with his wife, but that doesn't mean he truly has a defined home or wife. I think the problem with Roberts and his minions is that they would insist on finding some convoluted way to actually simulate everything, which wouldn't work, even though the players just want a bit of flavor to make the world feel alive.
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You have to save that for the next fundraising event.
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Dunno what the rest of you cute twinks are whining about, this looks sweet as frick, just like Oblivion
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I used to be a fricking space man until I took a fricking laser to the fricking knee.
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Nearly billion dollar budget by the way
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I still don't understand what this game is supposed to be about besides the obvious: no refunds, paypigs!
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FREE SPACE-PALESTINE
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We really need a non-political
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why would people of space be hanging out in the wild like s.t.a.l.k.e.r.s.
ain't they got ships
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And you are telling me that each NPC costs 200 million dollars? Crazy times man
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LOL that looks like wet and steaming dogshit compared to the demos they show
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Finally, gaming can recreate Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius. I've waited my whole life for this.
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Yeah, but his hand goes into the gun in order to pick it up.
They're focused on different things. If you just focus on the positive and ignore the negatives, this is literally the greatest game ever made.
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The jank is real
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Once again my respect for the fairer s*x makes me look like a complete r-slur
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