Is PUBG Cooked? Krafton Brings AI Players to the Battlegrounds

[@mheineke1373]

They said theyre going to start using AI. We wanted it for anticheat, and not more fake players smh

[@bscott2941]

Yeah, I'd rather have a proper AI anticheat, not more bots to fill lobbies cus they know they don't ban hackers if they're spending money. Not to mention, still waiting on UE5 release cus that Sanhok map totally isn't optimized for even mid tier pc's.

[@jjjacer]

No kidding i have seen an uptick in cheaters in casual around 4am CST, brand new accounts that are full auto M16, wallhacks, and no recoil. report them but they dont get banned anymore.

[@lilabass]

Yeah man, i totally agree

[@truebrit3670]

It would be bearable if the bots know when they're cheated. That would clear out the cheats faster than any anti-cheat.

[@L5thGat]

Lmao pubg is a joke anyway bro the ammount of cheaters on that game Lmaoo especially esp is so easy to get on there is even free on sum discords

[@langer6969]

An AI teammate that talks is better than a human with no microphone that honks the car

[@rybricknell2477]

AHAHAHAH

[@CreativeHuckleBerry]

That's me, honk honk to victory!

[@jjjacer]

and then they team kill you as if you dont get in the car after they honk they get mad.

[@AlphamagnusCreations]

@@jjjaceror they immediately jump into the passenger seat and expect you to drive, like a toddler with a snack they can’t open. I’ve been knocking these d-bags, I don’t even care if I get banned for team killing, STOP DOING THIS!

[@holden_fella]

Heh. Seriously tho, I'd rather solo at a duo match than have some rando shout nonsense full volume and run off on their own little adventures.

[@mrhenry4907]

Its not a problem as long as theres a toggle that lets you disable auto matching with AI bots

[@stevannikolovski]

Yes but who stops others that match with AI to enter your game? NO AI switch to OFF yes but for AI altogether. No AI coplayers but also matched with others that choose so too.

[@Leon-mn8eo]

there is. its called getting friends and playing with them.

[@ghhhjj5160]

Aha, friends. I prefer to play FPP, but if I can find a "friend" at all, I'm usually forced to play TPP. I don't have any "friends" with whom I can arrange to meet up. If I'm lucky, I get invited as a substitute player, at least that's how it seems to me. And how are you supposed to find friends on such an extremely toxic platform? Either the casual player doesn't talk, you're insulted in Arabic or Turkish or asked if you're a n***er friend and then the person shoots you. O.o If you have any good advice, please let me know.

[@mrhenry4907]

@ghhhjj5160 i just play solo squads

[@markflood9755]

I would rather play against ai than cheaters

[@venous-gaming55]

Single player tarkov all the way

[@micke2943]

Im for AI players if they can spot cheaters, autoreport them and ban.

[@ncg_gusto8860]

The fact they aren't saying anything about the cheaters says so much.

[@Restlessmedic]

Hot take before watching the video: I would like to play against the AI instead of the current bots as I think it would provide a better gaming experience. I'm tired of playing against bots that get into a firefight with another bot, and when you hone in on them and take a shot, run into cover, then right back to the same spot you found them in, and back to cover in a loop while occasionally taking shots at you. Post video take: I don't like the idea of an AI teammate. If you want to play with others, join duos or teams and go have fun. Who knows? You may find a group of people that you work well with and can run team matches with each other. Having an AI player will kill the social aspect of it, and with Krafton seemingly not wanting to fix the cheating issue and going all in on microtransactions, that's one of the only things it has going for it.

[@unimaginative_artist]

AI players that recognize and target cheaters would be 🔥 tbh

[@DMM_Fan]

The New Era of Gaming is coming

[@aniketgonnade3869]

so they can develop AI bots and not AI anticheat.

[@AlphamagnusCreations]

It’s probably both.

[@IfReborn]

the goal is player retention not fair games. the bots will carry you to victory or keep you in check if you are a skilled player.

[@Leon-mn8eo]

well, if they were smart they wouldnt announce that shit. they'd just announce this bot. im sure one of the features put in would be something that detects cheats or flags a player as suspicious. kinda like those modern warefare dummies that were set up across the map. but they dont wanna tell ppl that.

[@afrankyj1986]

Can’t fix the issues at hand. Let’s add more. Makes sense.

[@WhisxBeerus]

This just gives the impression that they gave up on gaining and retaining players.

[@alltheflavors9673]

They know there's no way to keep players when the game is infested with cheaters so they are normalizing the replacement. Hate cheaters are probably lost anyway but the cheaters that want to have numbers and recognition are probably going to keep paying to appear in the cheating leader boards.

[@holden_fella]

@@alltheflavors9673 Oh there are pubg accounts being sold from 50$ up to 2000$ on craigslist-like apps. They're not doing this for leaderboards - it's a business.

[@JuniorSmith-truthseeker]

There's a whole untapped fanbase out there with players who have never played pubg they don't need to worry about retaining née players those who love the game will keep playing they should focus on gaining new players players that want drones and mines and stuff like this to be apart of the game they'd get way more players if they add new items that can help to combat cheaters like surveillance drones and suicide drones

[@Schtoopot]

Me: Res me AI: (Sprinting off across a field to res the enemy as I bleed out)

[@haroldbleemel8537]

This is probably 100% accurate!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Tshepard6987]

Same as a random duo

[@haroldbleemel8537]

@@Tshepard6987 No kidding!

[@billypilgrim2114]

Ai: Reconnoissance. You got it! *Jumps into the ocean and swims out to sea…*

[@philthemustardtiger]

Remember the BETA days? Man we had it good then.

[@mrnother]

Yeah … and Windows 98 was also such a great piece of an operating system. Can’t we have it back?

[@delevoyeguillaume9126]

Well... The game is designed to be played by 4 players. Communicating, creating shenanigans together, is what makes the game fun. But who can gather 4 friends very regularly when everyone has a job, a family, etc ? So far the only option when your friends are not available is either playing solo (turns into a horror game) or go for a matchmaking with random players. Most people play the random team mode like they're playing solo anyway, so I might as well play with 3 AI bots and get a better experience when my friends are not there. As long as it can be toggled off in the lobby I really don't see any problem.

[@PaulJohn283]

Good point

[@jwilkins1008]

with so many new games dividing everyone its difficult to get people to play the same game anymore

[@jacobwilliams676]

Sadly, they will probably listen and call out better than some teammates.

[@nickderby3822]

Hopefully this feature is missing from consoles like prox chat

[@EkKing-d3v]

I hope not 😂

[@tr3y_-799]

Well being that it is a partnership with Nvidia I would say this is for now exclusively for PC

[@generalgrudge]

I'll take one PUBG ally machine trained by the gameplay of The Average Sniper please...

[@jimboslice6367]

So finally a teammate that doesn’t TK me? Sign me up!

[@diveanddine]

Im for this ONLY if your A.I team mate can spot and ban potential cheaters due to auto lock or detecting ESP behavior. Im sure the crosshair vectors can be detected if they can "spot enemies" and for that matter how GOOD will they be able to perceive enemies at a distance

[@randoliof]

If I was ever teamed with a bot, it would definitely get TK'd Knowing Krafton, this will either be a huge disaster or totally unused by the player base. Or both.

[@paimei1651]

Would be more useful in a game like Ready or Not, but it looks like AI bots will be replacing the dwindling player-base. Just had a scary thought, imagine a cheater with a modded terminator AI bot.

[@papayaislife1133]

Why would anyone be bothered to make a AI bot to cheat for u theres no fun in that 😂 cheaters still wanna play just with their aimbot

[@paimei1651]

@@papayaislife1133 There are already undetectable AI bot cheats that play as your character for you using machine learning from a second computer.

[@alltheflavors9673]

Cheaters can now pay $1000 to own 50 AI players so they can finally win a match

[@GraffzNord]

Soon we'll have multiplayer games with no real people in it to avoid toxic behavior

[@TheJubess]

thats not why they did this. They have been pushing the teamfinder tools to make teamgames more accessible to people without pubg friends ( or when they are offline). But its probably not used enough because people don't like to talk to complete strangers most of the time. This would help. It could also help in areas with few players to get matches going.

[@ghhhjj5160]

And why dont talk to strangers? We are not five-year-olds on the street... ;)

[@krazyhorse9596]

Well. We had a good run boys. Longer than most. Ggs.

[@Kewickviper]

Is this an out of season april fools joke?

[@ghhhjj5160]

I dont think so. I'm sure this has already been tested without telling anyone.

[@imperativegaming23]

I feel like I've already had bot teammates. I've seen confusing behavior and pinging super random attachments.

[@dannyborke6551]

It is called noobs.

[@karlsavage7495]

Surely it will be a separate mode that you can just ignore & continue playing traditional solos if it's not for you? I'd imagine most people who play solo will opt for this; maybe give the AI mode a try out of curiosity but at the end of the day, people play solos for a reason. Makes you wonder who exactly this new mode is for?

[@amanux5955]

This is absurd

[@tw0pers0nalities]

is the 120mm AIO fan on his PC installed wrong? shouldn't the fan be mounted first to blow air through the radiator rather than pull air?

[@Halex1991]

Hope the ally doesn't leave the game when he dies early and has to watch how long it will take to revive the ally.

[@PizzaInGame]

I'm not surprised, I knew one day this would happen, i see rondo guard got buff i remember they're so stupid, miss a shoot, stand in the middle open space etc before we dont even need to hide, just walk behind the wall and youre safe but now, they shoot me when i drop on roof, like searching me, and they guard me, like waitting my teamates to revive me, WHILE hidding and peek behind a wall when i PING his location, he change his position,..!

[@fastbreakreport]

They'll do anything but make PUBG 2 lmao

[@frenchsnailbutter]

Who needs friends when we have... Al.

[@colegadohiphoptuga]

It may actually go unnoticed though, as I've noticed that many teammates don't consciously notice (if at all) when they are fighting BOTs, even call them "noobs"... It's depressing. Months ago, before I stopped playing, I had already noticed teams of BOTs in my matches (PC EU), but I never expected it to be said in the open

[@ghhhjj5160]

What time did you play? I think the number of bots has decreased quite a bit on our EU server.

[@seebarry4068]

Does this mean that you need an rtx card to play PUBG in future, as it didn't exist when this game released back in the day.

[@Gegi1033]

They just should bring back Early Access version 🤦‍♂️

[@michaelsingJiuJitsu]

Was looking at the 50 series gpu(s) last night when I saw something about this. Crazy how krafton is able to constantly come up with new ideas for this game but they seem to put so little effort into fixing the cheating problem. Maybe the cheating problem is impossible to fix so they are just trying to do what they can.

[@jcaashby3]

At this point it has to be accepted that cheating is something that most likely will never be stopped. Every single online game can be exploited.

[@annorome]

Why the PUBG devs do not have Multiplayer Missions for 1-4 Squads for every map to add a bit to the lore and depth of the game, is beyond me. It is all there already. They just need to provide some context and make good infil missions. 64 km^2 map (bigger than Skyrim, which is 37km^2), really good central spots on different maps: Mylta, Mil Base, School (Erangel) etc. Add cheater AI, which insta-headshots and you somehow need to kill it from AFAR, by first scanning the Military Base for NPCs.

[@blurboards1]

Curious if they have been slowly adding these AI players to public matches for testing? I’m not sure about this.

[@nolanfrank582]

“Hey teammate ping the nearest enemy location” …

[@YoGranDaddyEvil]

You know the feedback is bad when they turn the comments off for that video. Due to the crazy amount of cheaters, my clan and I have been discussing what other games we could possibly switch to. This latest update will only increase our desire to find a replacement for PUBG. They really are dumber than dirt at Krafton.

[@VMoonWood]

How about starting with something simple such as map selection? That would be a reason to play, again.

[@amandaburleson2035]

this is really cool, only if it is one human 3 ai squad vs other one human 3 ai squad. and if you lose a life you can take over control of a surviving ai member. this is cool

[@Smokez4Dayz]

This is the natural progression. Can’t wait.

[@PaulJohn283]

AI driving…scary! “No don’t stop there..” instantly destroyed.

[@ericsimoneau4818]

I mean it will be a differant lobby im guessing. Or only in duos.

[@JuniorSmith-truthseeker]

List of 5 things that will increase pubg popularity and bring new players: 1 drones both surveillance and kamikaze 2 Ev bag and ad that can be mounted on vehicles 3 Mines to plant and folded zinc you can attach to cars for more protection 4 Missile silos that are defended by advanced AI if you defeat them you get missiles that could take out a whole compound 5 More game detailing make blood trail a thing if you get shot it takes 5 minutes for you to stop bleeding so enemies can pick up your blood trail and track you also bullet to body and head should carry specific consequences if you're knocked by foot shot it should take time after rez before you start running nornal again head knock should take longer to rez and leave the player fuzzy for a few minutes after rez so can't use scope

[@jakevivlamore6204]

🤡

[@JuniorSmith-truthseeker]

@jakevivlamore6204 🤡?

[@FrankGsus]

This is how skynet accumulates combat strategy

[@TheAverageSniper]

😱😱😱

[@CARLOSRUIZ-pe3mo]

bruh in ps3 we play a game called flashpoint dragon raising you could control all the team if you wanted more than 20 soldiers it was the best game ever

[@jacekdyrda7031]

ok hear me out - we have a team of 4, but sometimes we're not all there - usually ending with 3 and 1 random player. As duos we also play with 2 randoms as the duos are the sweatiest and we play for fun. But with the main situation that we're left as a 3 - having an AI player like that instead of a random that lands by his own, even tough we clearly all 3 ping where we're gonna land - this would be a great addition. And only in terms of that he fucking listens to us - which would be a huge deal as the randoms are so freaking unpredictable. In this case scenario I would see it as a great thing!

[@yoGi0028]

This is just sad..

[@neilhatton1612]

Thank you average. Yay, I may finally get some decent team mate but I have my doubts.

[@longwelsh]

These AI sound better than some of the arseholes I’ve played with today.

[@ComeCorrect0403]

Why don't they just create a Pubg2, which is well over due, put it on Unreal Engine 5 and add a few maps. Release it and itll naturally build the players base. The main reason people dont play on console is because the launch was horrendous

[@grahamwilkinson6902]

Your reaction during the footage 😂

[@TINK_UZ]

I just played on Sanhok where bots helping each others

[@El_Dr_Tacco]

What up averagesniper🖖. I remember when the entire lobby were obliterate by an super AI (including you 😅). This gonna be nuts😮😮😂😂.

[@MW2DAYZ]

yep the way things are going i will be in a nursing home before I’m 35😩😫

[@Gremlin2427]

I like to be sneaky in solo squad and having AI teammates would probably just give my position away to other players

[@Blockallaces_TTV]

and they still don't have chat in game KEKW

[@hjnter-v8w]

Probably should fix cheaters, get rid of scoped ars, the bullshit multi crates and self revives for a start

[@cocoralf]

I don’t mind the idea of starting to explore the addition of AI bots. If they can listen to commands from voice chat and, after some training, perform above average, it could be a nice feature. The usage and strategy would still be entirely in the player’s hands, so it wouldn’t provide an unfair advantage I guess. Plus, it could be fun. For instance, you could have a team of three players and one AI bot for tasks like scouting or reconnaissance. I don’t know-I’d try it out first before criticizing it. I also agree there should be a toggle to opt out of playing with AI, and that current bots are so stupid it also makes no sense having them... the way they loop around is pathetic.

[@snakei01]

Cool I need a friend to dance with me in the waiting lobby 😂😂😂

[@kglocknotstock]

Sounds like a good step into the future of gaming , I hope we can play Pubg till 2050

[@djdufunk]

i play solo so this concern me right?

[@yellowwducky]

Well, as a strictly solo player, I don't care much - it wouldn't make me start playing on a 'team' if it just meant I got a bot buddy but would be fighting against likely real (and probably more effective) teams of people. So I will stick with solo which is, for me, what it is all about.

[@VhinmelvsPhotographyTV]

Why don't use AI to improve anti-cheat ?

[@tankgojet2468]

The bot in the solo game is getting more human like i noticed recently.

[@monkeyboy9896]

If it ever comes it will be a separate game mode guaranteed 💯 A single player experience. Everybody in the match will have an a I teammate.

[@rybricknell2477]

I think this is amazing - and pioneering these technologies is essential for them to mature into those AI generated games we've all been dreaming about the past few years. Sure it'll probably be janky but you know it's KDR will be better than most of the peanuts you find yourself dropping with, mic muted etc

[@Balistixs]

I'm pretty sure the game has been listing to us for awhile, ever notice when you ask for something like say muzzle break, within a few seconds you find what you need? It can't be just a coincidence? 😂

[@ACTUALS1LVER]

What’s going on at Krafton, people need sacking asap

[@LigmaLove]

I wonder how they will handle a player in ghillie

[@newchapterjesse]

We need servers that cost 40$ a month that will make AI hackers not want to waste money

[@The-Lone-Stranger]

The game is moving forward. It has to or it will eventually die. I see no reason for this to not happen and personally would welcome it as an option instead of being put in random squads of 7 years olds, getting wiped by team members who decide to kill you mid game or those that play as a solo in a squad game. Improve AI on the current bots as well and make them harder to kill

[@kayakfishza]

These AI bots have been playing with us for a while already.. when you report a cheater and get no response it’s Krafton’s AI you are reporting sometimes.They just can’t tell you that.

[@JustSomeBearWithAMustache]

but isn’t bots in pubg already an AI? this makes entirely no sense. also they didn’t specifically said what kind of human they are mimicking because it could be a dumb human or a smart human player or maybe both

[@Themix274]

I don't care about that, I care about the insane stuttering I'm experiencing since the Sanhok update. Not only on the Sanhok map but every map. The game became unplayable after having almost 1k hours in. Still no solution after reverting nvidia drivers, reinstalling.

[@JC-dc7eb]

Had a similar issue. I opened task manager while in game, details tab, right click on PUBG, and put “set priority” to low. My cpu was at 100% and I was getting stutters and after these changes it was around 85% usage and ran a lot smoother. Worth a try

[@Themix274]

@@JC-dc7eb Thanks for the tip, I tried it yesterday evening, unfortunately no solution for me. I indeed noticed the same thing too, 95 -100% CPU usage during gaming. I never checked that before the stuttering came on, but still can't be good. I wonder what the anticheat is doing to our systems in the background. For the moment I can't play the game anymore, the stuttering is so bad the shooting and movement is affected too much.

[@Walkeranz]

A little AI buddy with a Kar9 to spot for

[@Dandysfm]

They have AI in video games now? Nahhhhhhhhh

[@NoobVersusPro]

I hope they do this for all games so I can play games that have been dead for years. Battlerite royal here I come!

[@askoniiksha]

Yeah right, now let´s wait for the next PUBG rage video :)

[@annorome]

Why are people hating it this much? I find the idea SUPER-interesting. Not for Battle Royale Setting but actually for Missions, where you are the Squad Leader. People only see how it might influence BR but maybe they have something else planned. I agree, that for BR it might backfire.

[@justenough215]

Most pvp players don't want bots of any kind in their matches. Pve missions are a different ball game.

[@TheJubess]

@@justenough215 But if you cant get any games like in australia for instance, this would always beat that right?

[@annorome]

@@justenough215 Yes, but you still have to be open to new ideas. It is the same with Chess, where FIDE is desparately trying to keep everything "classic" and like "the old times". I find it concerning that overall, we humans have started to be increasingly retrospective and want everything to stay the same and not stand out of line. It is good to keep old values but that does not prohibit progress. We just need to make it in careful steps.

[@d_e_m_i_s_e1484]

Because on console this game is infested with chronus/xim/strikepack. AI anticheat is probably the best answer to solve this problem. However, PUBG knows cheaters spend a lot on cosmetics and they also know a good portion of streamers/partners are dirty. If cheating was resolved and they wanted to add this OK.

[@annorome]

@@d_e_m_i_s_e1484 Yes, it is atrocious. I once reported someone "AKIM****" and he got banned that day. Turns out, he was banned for no recoil andd ESP/Wallhack for like 6 hours maybe? He returned next day, I reported him again and he got banned again for 1-3 days. HAHAH. THE SAME FUCKING PERSON. xD But I have this AI stuff in mind, where you do PUBG Missions speedruns with generative AI players. This is a completely new Speedrunning genre. I'd even pay for that. It would tell people a lot about how predictable generative AI is for identical/different voice inputs.

[@FNHot]

Give me a 100% AI training mode already.

[@theairflare]

Efforts to fix the cheating issue is the only thing worth being excited about

[@seve7nin9e31]

this would not worked for me cause im solo player

[@kcobley]

Better than human allies that parachute in different locations, drive off without you or team kill so they can get your M24. Better still replace the cheaters with a better class of bot.

[@jonathanreeve6348]

WHY?

[@Vu1e69-k7q]

To be honest PUBG isnt the same anymore since 2024

[@d_e_m_i_s_e1484]

Using AI for cheat detection would be awesome as long as they ban their dirty streamers/partners also (not that I ever trusted them to do this). My trust factor with this company is 0 on a 1-10 scale. What an absolute miss this is and waste of resources. This could have easily been used to clean up this game. Imagine how many more players would come back to a clean PUBG with AI anticheat and no one is whitelisted. Krafton - The ridiculous and obvious cheating (yes, you know you have a lot of dirty streamers/partners too) is lowering the player base, not someone's ability to find a friend. Not sure I have ever seen such clueless devs or front office if this is their call (which it may be).

[@RyanLBC]

Nothing surprising since arena breakout or delta force posted some thing literally almost identical to this a few months ago or less. It sucks but it s what it is.

[@Forcemaster2000]

I’ve been killed by the in game bots! As a solo player with no friends that play, I look forward to my AI teammate!

[@Badmanbrawler]

…. Why???

[@ashscott54]

How good would the AI be!? It’s never going to not see another player if it has line of sight, it’s not going to miss a shot, it won’t be affected by recoil and its reaction time is instant so if they are amazing then we won’t fight and just send them into clear buildings etc… I don’t see how they dumb down an AI to be useful but not too smart!?

[@KentPaul]

I prefer AI teammates as they re not going to ignore you as a teammate but support you instead of just going for max kills

[@AbhishekParekar-y5b]

🥲🥲🥲🥲🙂I could NOT ENTER Maps like Sanhok,vikendi,karakin ,Miramar in SOLO CLASSIC MATCHES at all since game installation in BGMI which is game frm Krafton and PUBG replica. The reason they give is NO MATCHMAKING. Then the solution is simple add AI based bots to fill the void players and keep low points for win. But atleast the players can play on desired maps. The only map i could enter was erangel, nusa & sometimes livik which i dont like to play. And i cannot play the desired maps due to No matchmaking in SOLO MODE .Though i reported the issue over 1000 times it fell on deaf ears. No update resolves the issues.

[@wizardrhyme9597]

I would rather team up with ai than people that don’t talk and get obliterated within 2min

[@Maszerr]

We cooked. PUBG cooked. This cooked. That cooked. PUBG SITUATION IS CRAZYYYYY!!! Every time I heard every fucking title 🤪

[@N1Zer0]

the AI voice should be scotish and should be named Price

[@ghhhjj5160]

Honestly? I've had the feeling for some time that AI "players" were on my team. Some were just too weird, I rule out new players. And now comes something like this. Hmmmm...