Valve beta testing AI opponents in Team Fortress 2
by Griffin McElroy 
on Dec 22nd 2009 1:30PM
If there's going to be a singular battlefield for the war between mankind and a super-advanced artificial intelligence hivemind, we think it's going to be
Team Fortress 2. See, the programmers and developers over at Valve have repeatedly proven their technological prowess -- and now that
they're working on AI opponents for
TF2, accidental self-awareness can't be too far away. "Spy's sappin' my sentry! But why is it
my sentry? Can a virtual sentry be
owned?
Who am I?"
You can check out the early stages of the future destruction of the world by participating in the
Team Fortress 2 Bot Beta Test. No download is required -- all you have to do is enter a simple line of code into the console command in the koth_viaduct, koth_sawmill, and koth_nucleus maps. Check out Valve's blog post to learn more about the AI-spawning commands available to you. Whatever you do, make sure you don't enter "
haley_joel_osment" into the command line. His love is real,
but he is not.
