XCOM Player AI ?

[CuriousCraig]

Hello All,

New to the forums but a long time XCOM player.
As I've aged over the years I've been able to play XCOM for shorter periods of time due to some wrist issues I have.
This led me to a question I was hoping you wonderful folks could answer!
Has anyone ever made or attempted to make a player AI? I would love to setup an X-COM game in which I could host on a server which is completely self-played by an artifical intelligence. I've been seeing alot of information on these new fangled AI capabilities and a great number of youtube videos in which clever programmers write code that introduces an AI that slowly learns to play a game via the use of a reward mechanism.
If anyone knows of any projects similar to this please let me know! Or if not any information on potentially starting one.

Kind Regards,

Craig!

[Juku121]

There is no machine learning AI (that I know of), but there's Xilmi's fork that allows his improved AI to auto-play as the player and neutral sides as well. The AI is a bunch of human-written algorithms, though, if that's important to you.

[CuriousCraig]

That's wonderful news! It's fine that it's not machine learning. I am just glad to be able to have someone else control the player aha! Many thanks Juku

[CuriousCraig]

I have another question.
So I'm running Brutal XCOM with Player AI control. I equip these agents with flashlights but they refuse to use them in the night. Am I missing a setting or do they just not need them?

[Juku121]

Better ask in the BAI main thread. Perhaps it's another thing that's too different from vanilla to have been accounted for. Or perhaps it's actually a bad idea for AI to use these, IDK. No enemies really use them, for that matter.

[Xilmi]

I have another question.
So I'm running Brutal XCOM with Player AI control. I equip these agents with flashlights but they refuse to use them in the night. Am I missing a setting or do they just not need them?

The AI was not specifically developed for the player. I just implemented that feature mostly for testing. I didn't teach the AI how to use things the opponents usually don't have. This includes stuff like flares, smoke-grenades or medikits.

[iodsnips]

I'd be nervous if the game was left running for months unchecked, and the alien ai & human ai began working together in-game & the geoscape showed the year is 2024, haha.