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I was skeptical when I came across a Reddit poster claiming that I had “definitely” encountered an imposter in Ranked Rocket League. ”It’s like using an aimbot, right? Then I watched the video. We regret to inform you that there is cheating going on in Rocket League.
The alleged scammer was actually on the same team as Reddit user Ghost_snyped. posted a clip (opens in new tab) Embedded above, it shows the impostor’s perspective on a portion of the doubles match. I’ve been playing Rocket League for his 7 years and I’ve never seen a human play like that at any rank. There are some brilliant dribblers in Rocket League, but it would be rare to see a skilled player rooted on the field, throwing aerial maneuvers here and there to carry and flick the ball. that perfectly.
Sure enough, this is a real problem. People started using machine learning-trained Rocket League bots in online matches.
creator of RLGym (opens in new tab)It’s an API that makes it easier to train Rocket League bots like you see in the clip . Actually there’s another API in the Rocket League bot development scene that’s cool, not cheats. RLbot (opens in new tab)This allows you to create and use custom bots for offline play, or compete against each other in LAN tournaments.
RLGym changed the game by allowing bot developers to use Rocket League as an environment. reinforcement learning (opens in new tab) algorithm. The basic idea is that instead of manually scripting the bot’s behavior, you tell the system what outcome you want (e.g. the ball is closer to the opponent’s goal) and then you simulate the Run Rocket League for hours while the bot gradually “learns” to achieve the desired result.
In reality, it’s not that simple. According to Aech, one of RLGym’s authors, “Engineering reward functions is an art in itself.” Q&A on Reddit (opens in new tab) Regarding last week’s cheat issue. Nexto, the particular machine-learning bot used for cheats in Rocket League, was created by the RLGym team and “was very difficult to create,” Aech said. That means he’s not likely to see a ton of Nexto variants start popping up, but now that cheaters have caught up to this, someone will use his RLGym API to train even better bots. That he hopes Aech.
Bots themselves are nothing new.What’s new is that someone has implemented a “proprietary tool for manipulating” [Rocket League] Like RLGym and RLBot, there are no restrictions on playing online,” Aech said.
“RLGym is very lucky to have found such a passionate and understanding community. These scammers won’t stop us,” Aech told PC Gamer. We are taking steps to prevent bots from being abused in the future, and we can’t wait to show you all the exciting projects we’ve been working on.”
I’ve sent an email to Rocket League developer Psyonix for comment. I will update this article if I get a reply. At this time, the studio has not released an official statement regarding his Nexto cheating issue.
It’s not yet clear if we’re looking at a Nexto epidemic or just a handful of incidents, but other people complaining about encounters with bots in ranked matches We found some popular Reddit posts. Other clips show suspected cheaters playing with the same very precise ball handling.
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Right now, there is nothing players can do when playing against a suspected Nexto bot, but we will report the cheater and do our best to beat the machine. Due to his flaws, he doesn’t seem to be very good at faceoffs.
“A rather strange phenomenon we saw was repeated by several [machine learning] In current projects, bots typically learn how to kickoff well early in training, but as they improve over the rest of the game, they mostly seem to lose their ability to kickoff well. ‘ writes Aech.
It feels like the sort of flaw that a sci-fi movie hero discovers right before his final showdown with a rogue AI. Respect Rocket League’s only rules (opens in new tab)aka Rule 1.
Late last year I said that machine learning represents a real change in the way we interact with and understand computers. Nexto is so cool. In addition to experiments like Google’s StarCraft 2 AI, these Rocket League bots predict a future in which games include much more capable and potentially lifelike AI opponents (although Nexto’s play The style is pretty impersonal). At the same time, we have to deal with the most advanced methods of cheating video games ever known. A bot can theoretically be trained to master any game. It probably even mimics human error from time to time, making detection difficult. It’s going to be a wild decade.
