2023 is going to be the year of weird
Every month everything gets weirder and that includes the world of gaming I have a feeling the year 2023 is going to be the year of weird which is saying a lot why oh you’ll see just stick around for a few minutes’ and today on game ranks the weird gaming stories of January 2023. Starting off you know how in Metal Gear Solid you can hide in a cardboard box and AI powered guards seem unable to understand that you’re there anymore well guess what that’s how it is in real life to a writer of an upcoming book on artificial intelligence by the name of Shaw shank Joshi posted an excerpt from the book talking about how Marines who were tasked with helping an AI robot improve its AI eventually got tired of their task and decided to try to defeat it, so they parked the AI robot in the middle of a circle and played a game whoever can reach the robot from a long distance without being detected is the winner so pretty much all of them did it, so it’s kind of like an eight-way tie like different methods used we’re doing cartwheels legit holding branches and quote unquote acting like a tree, but the best one was the Metal Gear Solid method in which one wears the box and approaches is now here’s the thing I will say this is a foolhardy method of defeating the robot because the point was to teach the robot right well now the robot probably knows something about cartwheels and cardboard boxes still they defeated AI by literally hiding under a cardboard box like Solid Snakebeautiful absolutely beautiful .
At number nine what seems to be the most passé argument now loot boxes is something that EA apparently wants in its latest beta of their new game skate why I don’t know because I’ve gone ahead and basically counted loot boxes out why because World governments are just like you know this is a problem we know what gambling addiction is like and selling a video game that includes gambling that isn’t labeled as gambling is a big problem various governments have acted to differing the harshness, but it’s gotten to the point where European Parliament which is not a country but rather a collection of countries being like okay we gotta take action against loot boxes I don’t know why somebody would be adding in loot box stuff while this stuff is happening but according to EA the loot boxes are not paid which I guess is okay because it’s not really what everyone’s problem with Luke boxes are which is that it’s real paid gambling but still I just don’t really understand with the total hatred of loot boxes why anybody would put it into a game sometimes EA just makes some very strange decisions.
At number eight Lost Ark decided to ban a bunch of players for being inactive so lost ark has kind of a bad bot problem, and they’re trying to do everything they can to bring that problem to heal so to speak, and they really pissed everybody off by going to the extreme length of just Banning inactive accounts permanently Banning inactive accounts, so it uses steam’s anti-cheat to do this as well which leaves a mark on a steam profile and just to be frank Lost Ark launched huge and then a lot of players kinds of dropped off, so this is a lot of people who just gave a game a shot and ended up getting a mark on their steam profile just for you know not playing Lost Ark any more it notes that you were banned for cheating from Lost Ark which not good it’s hardly shocking that lost ark got review bombed for this one, but they did it’s gonna take time to know if it really messes things up for lost ark it’s still a pretty big game but also that really pissed people off we’ll see.
At number seven EA lost about 60 percent of its Madden players saves due to a data corruption issue for anyone who played it or logged in during a 22-hour period a few weeks ago and that pretty much ends trust like if you’re going to have all of your franchise saves on a cloud storage setup they all need to be backed up because if you can’t recover most of them who the hell is going to want to play franchise mode which is what was affected and also the main thing that people want to play on Madden just a bad month for people doing stupid crap with their servers honestly can you imagine wanting to play after your save was just annihilated in an online game where ongoing statistics are important I would not be happy, and I would definitely lose my motivation to play.
The game at number six uh WWE 2K 23 the last few years hasn’t been the Next Generation and guess what this one is not going to be a port this year 2023 is not going to be a port of the Next Generation version it’s going to be a port of the PS4 and Xbox One version that version is the one that the PC players are getting the same version that Nintendo Switch is gonna get is what the PC players are getting as if the PC can’t handle the PS5 and Xbox series version that’s insane cannot believe that is a thing people were pissed last year we’re several years into this generation of consoles and the PC version which is technically the most powerful most flexible Hardware mean I’m as angry as everybody else and usually play the WWE 2K Games like I do play them, but I don’t play them on an ongoing basis I play them for about a month when they come out, and I like playing them for about a month when they come out, but I don’t play them on PC because this is what is excellent It’s so, so dumb it’s its doing this again this year maybe it shouldn’t be shocking, but it is coming.
In at number five I don’t know if you’ve paid attention to the day before, but wow is that an interesting story long story short a completely unknown Dev with a not great track record of small scale games that very few people played decided to make the most elaborate survival MMO and everything they’ve showed off of it makes it look incredible it’s also one of the most wish listed games on Steam often times the number one the lead Discord moderator for the game who had very recently announced an upcoming gameplay reveal has now publicly said they’re not sure if the game is real and that the mod team has seen no gameplay now this game a massively multiplayer Zombie Survival game with incredibly detailed environments and mechanics supposedly launches in about five six weeks I don’t think I have to explain how this one’s weird or really the entirety of the day before is weird.
At number four guilty gears strive a very popular 2D anime fighter if you’re not familiar with Guilty Gear is getting hacked it’s not the first time it’s been hacked either uh see there’s this thing with online games they have to store a bunch of data for players to interact with each other and Guilty Gear strives method is called R code a few years ago hackers figured out how to use it to crash games by changing players names in the middle of a match and apparently uh they just stop doing it for a while rather than arc system works the developer of Guilty Gear strike fixing it because hackers have recently been using it again, but they’ve also figured out that they could not only crash games in the middle of a match by changing people’s names but also that they can force people to send chat messages of their design so let’s say I’m a hacker and I want a certain player to continually tell people that they munch on turds I could do that honestly whatever arc system works did to stop it the first time apparently wasn’t enough, and it’s actually kind of Staggering that it is basically the same problem as several years ago, and they’re just like all right well let’s start exploiting it again.
And number three war zone 2.0 the latest version of the Call of Duty Battle Royale apparently has had a glitch for a while where if you’re in a helicopter it might just explode for no reason the problem is apparently there’s just like some random hit box something that happens I don’t know I look at it, and I’m like why is the helicopter blowing up it looks like it’s hitting something, but it’s not I’m not really too deep into war zone sometimes I play it, but it doesn’t seem fixed and this was early in the month that this became a controversy and that’s
that and number two, so everybody’s favorite car soccer game Rocket league has had a big old problem with cheating basically by having a bot that was trained with machine learning psionic hasn’t fixed the problem or stopped the use of these Bots or anything apparently they’re actively investigating Solutions, but machine learning Bots are uh scary good at this game apparently like I said psionic the developers Act actively investigating Solutions, and they also told the developer of the bot RL gym not to publicly release any more bots of this caliber until they get the situation under control, so basically they publicly said please stop and that’s uh the action’s been taken it’s not like super effective apparently because uh yeah even if they did stop publicly releasing bots of this calibers psionic worded it uh this one is still there and they haven’t done anything about it so I don’t know .
And finally at number one a twitch streamer rigged up an EEG machine uh I’ll try to say this word correctly but if I don’t excuse me on that EEG stands for electroencephalogram basically a little thing with a bunch of sensors that brain researchers use to record mental stuff uh she repurposed this thing to play Elden ring using your brain I don’t know how but pericardial is just thinking the controls to this game, and it’s working I mean look at this IMAGE what is that how does that work like she’s saying the things out loud, but I think that’s for the sake of telling the person watching what’s about to happen it’s wild it’s absolutely wild if this is a thing that people can control games with in the future that’s gonna be cool as hell that’s all I’m gonna say like start a company pericardial you will succeed if this is something that is viable .
