Creating an AI to play Rocket League

welcome to the inferior version of carball, which is on sale for $944.99 on Steam by the way. Today we will pick apart this terrible game in an attempt to make AI that can help me get out of bronze.
0:00 Intro
0:49 Kickoffs
2:59 Ball Prediction
6:54 Striking
9:13 AI vs Psyonix All-Stars
12:08 Aerials
15:56 Egg's Revenge
Discord: / discord
RLBot Website: rlbot.org/
Chip’s Notes: samuelpmish.github.io/notes/R...

[@Weezytrout101]

0:21 ... THAT'S ME!!!

[@IN-pr3lw]

Weezy outta here

[@iron5169]

Yoo it’s the legend himself!

[@ProtoCJ]

Sweet

[@eddykidplayzyt]

Real

[@fiveninenowNOW]

'Fucking Gerwin' 🤣 anyways was that actually you or was it an ai?

[@Uncle_Yam]

There should be an annual rocket league tournament where programmers do their best to program the best AI, and they're all pitted against each other EDIT: Apparently this already exists it's called the RLBot Championship 😁

[@shadowyzephyr]

There is

[@monkeman1293]

@@shadowyzephyr what's it called

[@the_player_2]

@@shadowyzephyr what’s it

[@Noah-gw9cg]

It exists: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gajJmnR7rrl0jM0

[@rob4187]

@The Old Fossil It’s the RL Bot Championship

[@Tommy50377]

13:33 Oh my God, you just intuitively explained what the cross product actually does in a way that makes sense to me. Thank you so much, everything just clicked

[@b2stud]

Glad I could help :)

[@kalvinpearce]

Such an underrated channel!! Love the depth you go into in your videos whilst still making them extremely entertaining. Really great style. Can't wait to see what you do next

[@b2stud]

Thank you!

[@fireflowergaming3572]

Dude I absolutely love your videos, amazing job man! Definitely bring a lot of light into CS and machine learning, at least for me, so thanks!

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

CS?

[@fireflowergaming3572]

@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 Computer science

[@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072]

@@fireflowergaming3572 ahh

[@imvirpil]

This is so well presented. The flow of the video, editing, 3D environments & animations, the overlay graphics, as well as the jokes. All of it so freaking good.

[@b2stud]

It always makes me smile to read comments like this. Thank You!

[@Darxeal]

I'm actually so happy that you made this video! With the release of RLGym and success of reinforcement learning bots, the love for hardcoded has been rapidly dying out. It's understandable because ML is easier to get into. But it abstracts you away from a lot of interesting concepts, many of which you beautifully presented in this vid. As someone who has been making hardcoded bots for a long time (including the ones that are playing at 0:40 :D) I'm familiar with most of the concepts, tho I think you simplified or skipped some important bits, but I completely understand why, those animations and editing must have already taken a crazy amount of time and effort! And you explained them in such a great and entertaining way. Those "inside the car" animations were so funny! :D tldr; thanks for giving hardcoded some love and for making this, great job!

[@matejnovosad9152]

"It's understandable because ML is easier to get into." this is simply false lol.

[@colinbrown7947]

@@matejnovosad9152 The difference is you can treat machine learning as a block box for the most part once you set up the inputs and outputs, but hard coding algorithms requires a much deeper understanding of the game. If they were coding every aspect of the neural net, I'd probably agree with you, but Im sure they are using a very nice library where they can define inputs/outputs and structure, and then just tell it to train.

[@matejnovosad9152]

@@colinbrown7947 There is a very good reason why there have not been ANY silver level ML bots until recently(a year ago) while there have been silver+ hardcoded bots since 2018... Yes, you can treat it as a blackbox, once you create infrastructure for it which is the hard part...

[@colinbrown7947]

@@matejnovosad9152 fair enough, gotta say I'm only aware of the rl bot community, haven't ever been a part of it

[@Darxeal]

@@matejnovosad9152 yes, creating RLGym was hard, but now that the hard work is done, all you have to do is clone a repo and tweak some rewards

[@Ratzmutz]

Wow! Coming into the video I expected just the standard "haha i gave a car eyes, now look at funny neural net" approach to this, but this was really really well done! Also just the right amount of detail/simplification to maybe get new programmers into this!

[@jerry3790]

Hey no shame on neural network devs. There’s actually a lot more that goes into them than you think.

[@jffrysith4365]

... how can you shame people who use neural nets, they're the most complex thing I know about. also, it's still way to complicated for new programmers to complete, you will need to understand key-board inputs, how to build a simulation etc.

[@sasdagreat8052]

@@jffrysith4365 It's moreso the fact that hardcoded bots are easier, specific, and more fun to understand, while AI-trained bots just use the same mathy techniques that're always abstracted to the layman as "training go in, SSL go out"

[@cacaman1391]

@@sasdagreat8052 isn't that more efficient though? I know nothing about coding of neural nets

[@LendriMujina]

⁠@@cacaman1391 It's more efficient, but it isn't as fun to watch or participate in by itself. Like a microwave. Also, the core methods tend to work very similarly for every objective. Also like a microwave.

[@kaj4867]

These are probably the best "let's make / explain something and also have it be really entertaining" videos I've seen, incredible.

[@bronzecomeshome9517]

My favorite Rocket League experience was when the bots on your team would just drive the ball straight into your own goal over and over, so you were fighting them harder than the opposing bots. Quality design.

[@TheDreamChicken]

9:52 i think the most impressive part of this video is that the bots managed a low-five I don't even have a post goal "celebration" yet

[@YT7mc]

Your videos are so high quality. Very clear, always interesting, a wonderful video throughout. 10/10, keep up the good work

[@b2stud]

This makes me so happy to see. Glad you liked them!

[@Lensquik]

@@b2stud What's the font you used in the thumbnail?

[@b2stud]

@@Lensquik I use Myriad Pro

[@Lensquik]

@@b2stud Yeah i figured in the meantime it was Myriad Condensed.

[@camwoodstock]

Literally got so excited to see the return of the "PUT THE RAW CHICKEN IN THE SALAD" joke.

[@b2stud]

Me too

[@spraytanamous5822]

Love the little animations! Your narration is amazing too :)

[@vicsan2.750]

Honestly it's just nice to see someone who knows what he's doing this well. Also, the teaching quality of your videos is phenomenal and they're extremely fun to watch too. Keep it up buddy! I always hope you videos lasted longer but it's obvious that they take so much time and effort to make.

[@jayceearrboy]

I subscribed for the AI content. Was pleasantly surprised when it crossed over into my other universe of Rocket League content. Good to see you branching out into the very deep pool of Rocket League. Godspeed on your coding endeavors 💚

[@schnitzelmike727]

6:38 I laughed so loud, the other people in the house thought that I cried

[@firestartech]

Are we not going to talk about how b2bot (2) and b2bot (3) had a little celebration at 9:48? He didn't just create a bot, he created a sentient one.... xD

[@OP3MK]

Ur videos too good man, I've rewatched them atleast 10 times

[@0267tommyhawk]

I cannot comprehend how much time it takes for you too do these videos but I absolutely love them. Keep up the great work mate!

[@Dr03210]

This type of " AI content" is quite refreshing, ik there are other old channels out there which also does these type of things, but as an enjoyer of this type of content, It's exciting to see there's a new channel thriving in this type of content. I'll be subbing to make sure, I won't miss more of this.

[@Petal316]

6:36 oh my GOD you got me DYING the execution was just PERFECT OMFG

[@Patashu]

This is a great dive into the physics and framework of making the AI, and very well presented! I'd love to see another deep dive into HOW it makes decisions (e.g. when and where it decides to go for the ball, how it plays defense, etc)

[@dehvana7484]

Great video! The accuracy of the coding scenario at 6:38 is what really sold it for me tho!

[@Jagi125]

That was refreshing after all the neural network approaches. Would love to see a part 2.

[@josylosy5035]

I have been eagerly awaiting your next video ever since the last one you uploaded, but honestly, how do you even make such a well thought out and thorough video in only 5 months? This is like... insane. Great video, and I will be here when you upload your next one - that's for sure.

[@kawcco]

This video has such a high production value and eloquently explains all of the relevant physics topics. Great stuff!

[@shaun5657]

Bro you're so underrated. This is the beat rocket league educational channel ever

[@andrewmoore8657]

These are by far my favorite programming-related videos - incredibly well done!

[@TUTOSANDROIDtutorialesymas]

This is amaizing, the animations kept me so entertained and were so funny, and you actually went in depth instead of skipping the important stuff. insta sub.

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[@RiimukiviMusic]

Oh my god, this is informative AND hilarious. I learned new things and enjoyed it thoroughly. Well done!

[@poofloof8771]

Not sure if it was intentional, but i loved the way they did a little high five 9:49

[@b2stud]

The bots don't go for high fives, but the unintentional high five was pretty cool, so I made sure it was in the shot ;)

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[@b2stud]

Thank you!

[@wrongwayscout]

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[@b2stud]

Thanks for stopping by

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Easily the most underrated video I've seen this month! Thank you for such great content

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[@Smokasaurus]

The most amazing thing about all of this is knowing that the human brain performs all these same predictions using previous knowledge and imagination without us even thinking about it.

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[@AkaRetribution]

3:13 that dude pacing back in fourth in net has the exact preset I used to use when I was like gold to Plat... Obviously someone else could have been using sky blue hypnotics and tidal stream. but its just kinda funny to me. Also the video was great! I love how you explained how the world of rocket league works!

[@error-42]

Entertaining, simple to understand while not dumbing it down! Good job!

[@hakanates1188]

wow one of the best content I have ever seen in a while, eventhough I have never played rocket league I watched every second of the video. This is so interesting!

[@ygreaterr]

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[@georgebreahna5564]

You put so much work in these videos, it almost feels wasteful to not have some more in depth, long-form ones going into the nitty-gritty of reverse engineering or ML to capitalize on the process of making them. There surely is an audience for this, and more uploads are looked kindly upon by the algorithm. Any dice?

[@b2stud]

I would love to make longer and more technical videos but even ones that don't include crazy animations take a very long time to make. We will see

[@prime_comando]

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[@saadabdk1143]

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[@adrianovianawerneck472]

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[@danitorres124]

It was so AWESOME, to see a bot performing an aerial with more precision that a ton of players, myself included! Also nice joke with brazil lol

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[@jangdepiyush]

Great video man. Never played rocket league but got a lot of info on the AI behind the scenes. Thanks from a fellow future AI decoder.

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6:37 I love this.

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