I think I’m like 4-5 hours in and so far I’ve slogged through snow really slowly with some fucking assholes I just want to shove down a mountain.

When does it get good? Do I ever see the sun?

2.0 changed the game mechanics completely

Just playing through Phantom Liberty is worth it IMO, especially if you get it on sale

And EU is pounding Apple to get 3rd party app stores on its platform.

Meanwhile at Sony:

The problem with a battle pass is that you pay for the chance to maybe get something.

If you can’t play or don’t pay well enough, it’s wasted money

With a loot box you get something right now. It might be shit but at least it’s on your account

The ate paint chips and crayons

Right now, but we can all see where it’s heading

Then you need to make sure 200 devs disable all AI features or get disqualified from awards with “no AI” clauses

VSCode autocomplete is literal AI now, they don’t have intellisense

Others will follow, making “no AI” software really difficult to prove

And a spouse who wants together time. Also other hobbies than gaming.

The only thing I consistently do over a 100 hours a month is sleep 😅

I wish I could hit 100 hours of playtime a month.

Still cheaper than buying a gaming PC by far.

I have zero special interest in AI, what pisses me off are weird vague rules.

If all copied code ever is plagiarism and must be reported, the whole world would grind to a halt as we need to lawyer up and rewrite everything with verified clean room protocols.

There are finite ways to solve problems with code, how can anyone prove a piece of code is actually written by them and not AI generated or copied from SO or a blog if they all look the same? There is no audit trail, nobody recorded their coding sessions with cryptographic signatures to prevent tampering.

What I’m getting at here is the complete impossibility of proving a piece of code is man-made and not plagiarised, copied or otherwise generated.

And if it’s impossible to prove something is man-made without a doubt, why have vague rules against code that is not?

So if you ever copied an answer from Stack Overflow, you always put full attribution to that segment of code giving full credit to whoever wrote it?

So it’s plagiarism all the way down? All software ever is uncopyrightable?

But what is “my code”?

If I solve a problem but it turns out later I had read a solution to this problem somewhere and inadvertently copied it. Is it my code?

If I use a Jetbrains provided built in template for a function and just fill in the variables, is it my code?

What if I just accept it as is, still my code?

If I copy a solution verbatim from Stack Overflow or a book, is it my code?

If I iplement a well known algorithm, is it my code if it looks exactly the same as a billion other implementations of the same thing? Can you tell whether I wrote it or just copied someone elses code?

What if Intellisense autocompletes a full function, is it my code?

What if the autocomplete is powered by a LLM, is it my code?

Can anything except a full clean-room implementation on a computer with no internet access be “my code”?

Please tell me, as you seem to have this thing nailed down. I work with this stuff every day and I’m mostly in the dark about where the line between “my code” and “too much autogenerated, no copyright or even copyright ifringement” goes.

It’s not me saying it, it’s the lawyers. The jury is quite literally out own where the copyright lies on AI generated content. The only definite verdict has been that the AI itself isn’t it.

But whether it’s the one who created the model, prompted the model or the ones whose data was used to teach the model 🤷🏻‍♂️ Wibbly wobbly timey wimey

I get regular briefings about this at work, because we have really good lawyers who actually read contracts of the services we use. And have banned multiple ones due to … creative copyright clauses in their contracts.

As for your “generated code is plagiarism” argument, do you have any precedents on that because I’d be interested in reading the verdicts? If true it’s a massive game changer for many industries and open so fucking many companies to lawsuits.

I have one ready to use but it’s trained with company assets and thus not something we can share or legal will have an aneurysm from how stupid we are being 😅

“Replace tools, not jobs” is the best way to use AI.

And also the one that works the best both for people and businesses.

Replacing jobs feels cooler for bosses though…

It’s a weird gray area. Nobody really knows where the limit is. The current consensus is that for a fact the “AI” can’t own a copyright to anything.

How smart can an autocomplete be before it takes away your copyright? Does using snippets count? How smart can the snippet engine be at filling the template?

If I ask AI how to solve something but write the exact same code myself, is it mine?

It If I grab code from stack overflow, does it make it mine?

This one here: https://www.scenario.com/

Also at least Rovio has had an “AI” art asset pipeline for years now, even before ChatGPT. Their ML unit is well over a decade old. And it’s specifically tuned for their own style: https://youtu.be/ZDrqhVSY9Mc

I’m not talking out of my ass, I work with this shit daily.

The problem is that Chinese, Indian and Turkish developers couldn’t care less about western AI purity tests and will blast past any competition who does.

Unless Captain AI Planet stops them, the cat is out of the bag and not going back.

If you want to run a AAA live service game the amount of content you put out every X weeks is how you make money. And the one who can keep up the best amount/quality ratio will always win.

The average gamer won’t care if the latest Gooner F2P or FPS game DLC is AI generated, AI assisted or lovingly hand crafted. They’ll throw their money at it anyway…

Not in general but for this at least? Maybe?

What about AI based autocomplete in an IDE, would that disqualify a game from this specific award?

It’s not a fantasy 😆 It’s an actual product everyone can use.

Sandfall Interactive further clarifies that there are no generative AI-created assets in the game. When the first AI tools became available in 2022, some members of the team briefly experimented with them to generate temporary placeholder textures. Upon release, instances of a placeholder texture were removed within 5 days to be replaced with the correct textures that had always been intended for release, but were missed during the Quality Assurance process

Sauce: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-19/the-low-cost-creative-revolution-how-technology-is-making-art-accessible-to-everyone.html

Not exactly a massive AI slop problem, right?

Can we put our collective pitchforks away for this case at least?

This time yes. But the rule ban any and all AI use during development. It doesn’t matter if it’s in the final product or not.

No no. The rules didn’t say “art” it was ALL AI use for the whole duration of the project. Planning, emails, research everything.

Not a single drop of AI is allowed.

So any game whose developer has used a recent version of VSCode will be disqualified in the future? VSCode has a GenAI autocomplete turned on by default.

One single question about an API to ChatGPT and your game is out.

Use Photoshops generative features for a marketing asset: out.

You get how insane the rule is?

You can only qualify it you write your game in vanilla vim with no extensions and graphics must be drawn in an old version of Gimp? 😆

They used AI for placeholder art.

It could’ve been literally Mickey Mouse downloaded from google images and still be fine. None of it was supposed to be shipped.

Big AAA studios have a person or team whose only job is to make sure that doesn’t happen. Smaller studios don’t.

So if I train a model from scratch using only my own art is it still bad?

Games were made by a single person not sleeping for a week.

But people expect more now and one person can’t do it fueled just by passion. The other people want to get paid now, not when the game is released.

Limiting the tools people can use to make games is ableist, elitist and just stupid.

It takes less time for the actual in house artists to use GenAI with a dataset trained with the company’s own style to generate “bulk art” than it takes them to manage an outsourced company doing the same thing.

Sauce: work in gaming, just talked about this with our art producer.

The outsourcing work is literally “make this texture we made ourselves by hand look like it was snowing” type of shit. You can use GenAI and have it done in 30 minutes or spend 2 hours talking back and forth with the outsourcing partner in 10 minute intervals over a week - interrupting your flow every time.

One builder only uses hand tools, other uses power tools.

That’s the difference, nobody is hiring less people because the tools are better.

You need someone to blame for the bugs 👍🏻

Foviated rendering is a massive thing, usually only done in the expensive stuff.

It gives you a pretty big FPS boost because the device doesn’t have to render stuff the human eye can’t see anyway

Young generations and mobile players are on bedrock

Everyone else plays Java where you can easily self-host a server

And they finally added copper items 😂

Tried multiple times on different devices, no luck

Why call some drone in an outsourced call center?

Find out the home addresses and numbers of their C-staff and board. Call them, send them physical letters. Picket their homes.

Not at the same scale as mobile traffic

Bluetooth by definition doesn’t go much past 10-20 meters

But hey, at least universities aren’t woke anymore, right? /s

It’s by far the least scummy of all online shooters.

I still have multiple to unlock and I have no issue paying for them. I have way more money than time to play.