Every month everything gets weirder and
that includes the world of gaming I have
a feeling the year 2023 is going to be
the year of weird which is saying a lot
why oh you’ll see just stick around for
a few minutes hi folks it’s Falcon and
today on game ranks the weird gaming
stories of January 2023. starting off
you know how in Metal Gear Solid you can
hide in a cardboard box and AI powered
guards seem unable to understand that
you’re there anymore well guess what
that’s how it is in real life too a
writer of an upcoming book on artificial
intelligence by the name of Shawshank
Joshi posted an excerpt from the book
talking about how Marines who were
tasked with helping an AI robot improve
its AI eventually got tired of their
task and decided to try to defeat it so
they parked the AI robot in the middle
of a circle and played a game whoever
can reach the robot from a long distance
without being detected is the winner so
pretty much all of them did it so it’s
kind of like an eight-way tie like
different methods used we’re doing
cartwheels legit holding branches and
quote unquote acting like a tree but the
best one was the Metal Gear Solid method
in which one wears the box and
approaches is now here’s the thing I
will say this is a foolhardy method of
defeating the robot because the point
was to teach the robot right well now
the robot probably knows something about
cartwheels and cardboard boxes still
they defeated AI by literally hiding
under a cardboard box like Solid Snake
beautiful absolutely beautiful
at number nine what seems to be the most
passe argument now loot boxes is
something that EA apparently wants in
its latest beta of their new game skate
why I don’t know because I’ve gone ahead
and basically counted loot boxes out why
because World governments are just like
you know this is a problem we know what
gambling addiction is like and selling a
video game that includes gambling that
isn’t labeled as gambling is a big
problem various governments have acted
to differing the harshness but it’s
gotten to the point where European
Parliament which is not a country but
rather a collection of countries being
like okay we gotta take action against
loot boxes I don’t know why somebody
would be adding in loot box stuff while
this stuff is happening but according to
EA the loot boxes are not paid which I
guess is okay because it’s not really
what everyone’s problem with Luke boxes
are which is that it’s real paid
gambling but still I just don’t really
understand with the total hatred of loot
boxes why anybody would put it into a
game sometimes EA just makes some very
strange decisions
at number eight Lost Ark decided to ban
a bunch of players for being inactive so
lost ark has kind of a bad bot problem
and they’re trying to do everything they
can to to bring that problem to heal so
to speak and they really pissed
everybody off by going to the extreme
length of just Banning inactive accounts
permanently Banning inactive accounts so
it uses steem’s anti-cheat to do this as
well which leaves a mark on a steam
profile and just to be frank Lost Ark
launched huge and then a lot of players
kind of dropped off so this is a lot of
people who just gave a game a shot and
ended up getting a mark on their steam
profile just for you know not playing
Lost Ark anymore it notes that you were
banned for cheating from Lost Ark which
not good it’s hardly shocking that lost
ark got review bombed for this one but
they did it’s gonna take time to know if
it really messes things up for lost ark
it’s still a pretty big game but also
that really pissed people off we’ll see
at number seven EA lost about 60 percent
of its Madden players saves due to a
data corruption issue for anyone who
played it or logged in during a 22-hour
period a few weeks ago and that pretty
much ends trust like if you’re going to
have all of your franchise saves on a
cloud storage setup they all need to be
backed up because if you can’t recover
most of them who the hell is going to
want to play franchise mode which is
what was affected and also the main
thing that people want to play on Madden
just a bad month for people doing stupid
crap with their servers honestly can you
imagine wanting to play after your save
was just annihilated in an online game
where ongoing statistics are important I
would not be happy and I would
definitely lose my motivation to play
the game at number six uh WWE 2K 23 the
last few years hasn’t been the Next
Generation and guess what this one is
not going to be a port this year 2023 is
not going to be a port of the Next
Generation version it’s going to be a
port of the PS4 and Xbox One version
that version is the one that the PC
players are getting the same version
that Nintendo switch is gonna get is
what the PC players are getting as if
the PC can’t handle the PS5 and Xbox
series version that’s insane I cannot
believe that is a thing people were
pissed last year we’re several years
into this generation of consoles and the
PC version which is technically the most
powerful most flexible Hardware I I mean
I I’m as angry as everybody else and I
usually play the WWE 2K Games like I do
play them but I don’t play them on an
ongoing basis I play them for about a
month when they come out and I like
playing them for about a month when they
come out but I don’t play them on PC
because this is what is
excellent It’s so so dumb it’s
it’s doing this again this year maybe it
shouldn’t be shocking but it is coming
in at number five I don’t know if you’ve
paid attention to the day before but wow
is that an interesting story long story
short a completely unknown Dev with a
not great track record of small scale
games that very few people played
decided to make the most elaborate
survival MMO and everything they’ve
showed off of it makes it look
incredible it’s also one of the most
wishlisted games on Steam often times
the number one the lead Discord
moderator for the game who had very
recently announced an upcoming gameplay
reveal has now publicly said they’re not
sure if the game is real and that the
mod team has seen no gameplay now this
game a massively multiplayer Zombie
Survival game with incredibly detailed
environments and mechanics supposedly
launches in about five six weeks I don’t
think I have to explain how this one’s
weird or really the entirety of the day
before is weird
at number four guilty gears strive a
very popular 2D anime fighter if you’re
not familiar with Guilty Gear is getting
hacked it’s not the first time it’s been
hacked either uh see there’s this thing
with online games they have to store a
bunch of data for players to interact
with each other and Guilty Gear strives
method is called R code a few years ago
hackers figured out how to use it to
crash games by changing players names in
the middle of a match and apparently uh
they just stop doing it for a while
rather than Arc system works the
developer of Guilty Gear strike fixing
it because hackers have recently been
using it again but they’ve also figured
out that they could not only crash games
in the middle of a match by changing
people’s names but also that they can
force people to send chat messages of
their design so let’s say I’m a hacker
and I want a certain player to
continually tell people that they munch
on turds I could do that that honestly
whatever Arc system works did to stop it
the first time apparently wasn’t enough
and it’s actually kind of Staggering
that it is basically the same problem as
several years ago and they’re just like
all right well let’s start exploiting it
again
and number three war zone 2.0 the latest
version of the Call of Duty Battle
Royale apparently has had a glitch for a
while where if you’re in a helicopter it
might just explode for no reason the
problem is apparently there’s just like
some random hitbox something that
happens I don’t know I look at it and
I’m like why is the helicopter blowing
up it looks like it’s hitting something
but it’s not I’m not really too deep
into war zone sometimes I play it but it
doesn’t seem fixed and this was early in
the month that that this became a
controversy and that’s that and number
two so everybody’s favorite car soccer
game Rocket league has had a big old
problem with cheating basically by
having a bot that was trained with
machine learning psionics hasn’t fixed
the problem or stopped the use of these
Bots or anything apparently they’re
actively investigating Solutions but
machine learning Bots are uh scary good
at this game apparently like I said
psionics the developers Act actively
investigating Solutions and they also
told the developer of the bot RL gym not
to publicly release any more bots of
this caliber until they get the
situation under control so basically
they publicly said please stop and
that’s uh the action’s been taken it’s
not like super effective apparently
because uh yeah even if they did stop
publicly releasing bots of this caliber
as psionics worded it uh this one is
still there and they haven’t done
anything about it so I don’t know
and finally at number one a twitch
streamer rigged up an EEG machine uh
I’ll try to say this word correctly but
if I don’t excuse me on that EEG stands
for
electroencephalogram basically a little
thing with a bunch of sensors that brain
researchers use to record mental stuff
uh she repurposed this thing to play
Elden ring using your brain I don’t know
how but pericardial is just thinking the
controls to this game and it’s working I
I mean look at look at this clip what is
that how does that work like she’s
saying the things out loud but I think
that’s for the sake of telling the
person watching what’s about to happen
it’s wild it’s absolutely wild if this
is a thing that people can control games
with in the future that’s gonna be cool
as hell that’s all I’m gonna say like
start a company pericardial you will
succeed if this is something that is
viable and that’s all for today leave us
a comment let us know what you think if
you like this video click like if you’re
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10 WEIRD Gaming Stories of 2023
Every month everything gets weirder and
that includes the world of gaming I have
a feeling the year 2023 is going to be
the year of weird which is saying a lot
why oh you’ll see just stick around for
a few minutes hi folks it’s Falcon and
today on game ranks the weird gaming
stories of January 2023. starting off
you know how in Metal Gear Solid you can
hide in a cardboard box and AI powered
guards seem unable to understand that
you’re there anymore well guess what
that’s how it is in real life too a
writer of an upcoming book on artificial
intelligence by the name of Shawshank
Joshi posted an excerpt from the book
talking about how Marines who were
tasked with helping an AI robot improve
its AI eventually got tired of their
task and decided to try to defeat it so
they parked the AI robot in the middle
of a circle and played a game whoever
can reach the robot from a long distance
without being detected is the winner so
pretty much all of them did it so it’s
kind of like an eight-way tie like
different methods used we’re doing
cartwheels legit holding branches and
quote unquote acting like a tree but the
best one was the Metal Gear Solid method
in which one wears the box and
approaches is now here’s the thing I
will say this is a foolhardy method of
defeating the robot because the point
was to teach the robot right well now
the robot probably knows something about
cartwheels and cardboard boxes still
they defeated AI by literally hiding
under a cardboard box like Solid Snake
beautiful absolutely beautiful
at number nine what seems to be the most
passe argument now loot boxes is
something that EA apparently wants in
its latest beta of their new game skate
why I don’t know because I’ve gone ahead
and basically counted loot boxes out why
because World governments are just like
you know this is a problem we know what
gambling addiction is like and selling a
video game that includes gambling that
isn’t labeled as gambling is a big
problem various governments have acted
to differing the harshness but it’s
gotten to the point where European
Parliament which is not a country but
rather a collection of countries being
like okay we gotta take action against
loot boxes I don’t know why somebody
would be adding in loot box stuff while
this stuff is happening but according to
EA the loot boxes are not paid which I
guess is okay because it’s not really
what everyone’s problem with Luke boxes
are which is that it’s real paid
gambling but still I just don’t really
understand with the total hatred of loot
boxes why anybody would put it into a
game sometimes EA just makes some very
strange decisions
at number eight Lost Ark decided to ban
a bunch of players for being inactive so
lost ark has kind of a bad bot problem
and they’re trying to do everything they
can to to bring that problem to heal so
to speak and they really pissed
everybody off by going to the extreme
length of just Banning inactive accounts
permanently Banning inactive accounts so
it uses steem’s anti-cheat to do this as
well which leaves a mark on a steam
profile and just to be frank Lost Ark
launched huge and then a lot of players
kind of dropped off so this is a lot of
people who just gave a game a shot and
ended up getting a mark on their steam
profile just for you know not playing
Lost Ark anymore it notes that you were
banned for cheating from Lost Ark which
not good it’s hardly shocking that lost
ark got review bombed for this one but
they did it’s gonna take time to know if
it really messes things up for lost ark
it’s still a pretty big game but also
that really pissed people off we’ll see
at number seven EA lost about 60 percent
of its Madden players saves due to a
data corruption issue for anyone who
played it or logged in during a 22-hour
period a few weeks ago and that pretty
much ends trust like if you’re going to
have all of your franchise saves on a
cloud storage setup they all need to be
backed up because if you can’t recover
most of them who the hell is going to
want to play franchise mode which is
what was affected and also the main
thing that people want to play on Madden
just a bad month for people doing stupid
crap with their servers honestly can you
imagine wanting to play after your save
was just annihilated in an online game
where ongoing statistics are important I
would not be happy and I would
definitely lose my motivation to play
the game at number six uh WWE 2K 23 the
last few years hasn’t been the Next
Generation and guess what this one is
not going to be a port this year 2023 is
not going to be a port of the Next
Generation version it’s going to be a
port of the PS4 and Xbox One version
that version is the one that the PC
players are getting the same version
that Nintendo switch is gonna get is
what the PC players are getting as if
the PC can’t handle the PS5 and Xbox
series version that’s insane I cannot
believe that is a thing people were
pissed last year we’re several years
into this generation of consoles and the
PC version which is technically the most
powerful most flexible Hardware I I mean
I I’m as angry as everybody else and I
usually play the WWE 2K Games like I do
play them but I don’t play them on an
ongoing basis I play them for about a
month when they come out and I like
playing them for about a month when they
come out but I don’t play them on PC
because this is what is
excellent It’s so so dumb it’s
it’s doing this again this year maybe it
shouldn’t be shocking but it is coming
in at number five I don’t know if you’ve
paid attention to the day before but wow
is that an interesting story long story
short a completely unknown Dev with a
not great track record of small scale
games that very few people played
decided to make the most elaborate
survival MMO and everything they’ve
showed off of it makes it look
incredible it’s also one of the most
wishlisted games on Steam often times
the number one the lead Discord
moderator for the game who had very
recently announced an upcoming gameplay
reveal has now publicly said they’re not
sure if the game is real and that the
mod team has seen no gameplay now this
game a massively multiplayer Zombie
Survival game with incredibly detailed
environments and mechanics supposedly
launches in about five six weeks I don’t
think I have to explain how this one’s
weird or really the entirety of the day
before is weird
at number four guilty gears strive a
very popular 2D anime fighter if you’re
not familiar with Guilty Gear is getting
hacked it’s not the first time it’s been
hacked either uh see there’s this thing
with online games they have to store a
bunch of data for players to interact
with each other and Guilty Gear strives
method is called R code a few years ago
hackers figured out how to use it to
crash games by changing players names in
the middle of a match and apparently uh
they just stop doing it for a while
rather than Arc system works the
developer of Guilty Gear strike fixing
it because hackers have recently been
using it again but they’ve also figured
out that they could not only crash games
in the middle of a match by changing
people’s names but also that they can
force people to send chat messages of
their design so let’s say I’m a hacker
and I want a certain player to
continually tell people that they munch
on turds I could do that that honestly
whatever Arc system works did to stop it
the first time apparently wasn’t enough
and it’s actually kind of Staggering
that it is basically the same problem as
several years ago and they’re just like
all right well let’s start exploiting it
again
and number three war zone 2.0 the latest
version of the Call of Duty Battle
Royale apparently has had a glitch for a
while where if you’re in a helicopter it
might just explode for no reason the
problem is apparently there’s just like
some random hitbox something that
happens I don’t know I look at it and
I’m like why is the helicopter blowing
up it looks like it’s hitting something
but it’s not I’m not really too deep
into war zone sometimes I play it but it
doesn’t seem fixed and this was early in
the month that that this became a
controversy and that’s that and number
two so everybody’s favorite car soccer
game Rocket league has had a big old
problem with cheating basically by
having a bot that was trained with
machine learning psionics hasn’t fixed
the problem or stopped the use of these
Bots or anything apparently they’re
actively investigating Solutions but
machine learning Bots are uh scary good
at this game apparently like I said
psionics the developers Act actively
investigating Solutions and they also
told the developer of the bot RL gym not
to publicly release any more bots of
this caliber until they get the
situation under control so basically
they publicly said please stop and
that’s uh the action’s been taken it’s
not like super effective apparently
because uh yeah even if they did stop
publicly releasing bots of this caliber
as psionics worded it uh this one is
still there and they haven’t done
anything about it so I don’t know
and finally at number one a twitch
streamer rigged up an EEG machine uh
I’ll try to say this word correctly but
if I don’t excuse me on that EEG stands
for
electroencephalogram basically a little
thing with a bunch of sensors that brain
researchers use to record mental stuff
uh she repurposed this thing to play
Elden ring using your brain I don’t know
how but pericardial is just thinking the
controls to this game and it’s working I
I mean look at look at this clip what is
that how does that work like she’s
saying the things out loud but I think
that’s for the sake of telling the
person watching what’s about to happen
it’s wild it’s absolutely wild if this
is a thing that people can control games
with in the future that’s gonna be cool
as hell that’s all I’m gonna say like
start a company pericardial you will
succeed if this is something that is
viable and that’s all for today leave us
a comment let us know what you think if
you like this video click like if you’re
not subscribed and has a great time to
do so we upload brand new videos every
day of the week best way to see them
first is of course a subscription so
click subscribe don’t forget to enable
all notifications and as always we thank
you very much for watching this video
I’m Falcon you can follow me on Twitter
at Falcon the hero and we’ll see you
next time right here on gameranks
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