AI has infiltrated online Rocket League

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  • Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
  • Players have discovered how to cheat using bots to play for them in ranked Rocket League, but how easy are they to detect? (for now)
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  • @tenacitytv_
    @tenacitytv_ Рік тому +3254

    The day has finally come. Being called a bot is now officially a compliment instead of an insult.

    • @ceodasala3297
      @ceodasala3297 Рік тому +10

      Oh hey tena, remember me ? ;D

    • @Its_Stunt
      @Its_Stunt Рік тому

      lol

    • @sebotage7159
      @sebotage7159 Рік тому +17

      @@ceodasala3297 tough

    • @jout738
      @jout738 Рік тому +24

      They should add the Nexto bot to be Unstoppable as dofficulty setting bot in offline Rocket League.

    • @A2B2YT
      @A2B2YT Рік тому +2

      been called that for years, new around here?

  • @scottbaileymsc
    @scottbaileymsc Рік тому +416

    Plats are so unpredictable that even nexto gets confused

  • @Xeroxisbad
    @Xeroxisbad Рік тому +1503

    the ai has gone rogue it's like detroit become rocket league

    • @noahgrimmer5095
      @noahgrimmer5095 Рік тому +32

      “Detroit become rocket league” is a wild comment and I love it! Lmao

    • @weymoo
      @weymoo Рік тому +104

      “ “Detroit become rocket league” is a wild comment and I love it! Lmao “ - 🤖

    • @Yutoryry
      @Yutoryry Рік тому +43

      @@noahgrimmer5095 robot ahh response

    • @noahgrimmer5095
      @noahgrimmer5095 Рік тому +38

      @@weymoo oh fuck their onto me

    • @Specs718
      @Specs718 Рік тому

      Fire comment

  • @TheBestofRL
    @TheBestofRL Рік тому +856

    "Would I be able to play like a bot?"
    "Frankly, I don't think I've ever been more qualified for anything in my life"
    🤣

    • @HeyoDam0n
      @HeyoDam0n Рік тому +2

      😂😂

    • @tomaskoza4439
      @tomaskoza4439 Рік тому +14

      @@readmyname. we dont really care mate

    • @jamaicanbobsledteam753
      @jamaicanbobsledteam753 Рік тому +1

      @@tomaskoza4439 mate that account is a bot lol

    • @DradenDennis
      @DradenDennis 9 місяців тому

      you can just look at the spectate and who's spectating. it was to easy for them to guess

  • @vladdrach9626
    @vladdrach9626 Рік тому +1353

    Damn its actually scary that people will just create accounts with these AI and just destroy the competitive list. You would have hundreds or even more of champ level AI in all ranks. Not only it would make the experience for players worse, i just cannot see how companies could do anything against these bots if they alrady have trouble against cheaters.

    • @averagebrownie2491
      @averagebrownie2491 Рік тому +19

      The companies are just going to have to wait. For countless companies players have coding their own versions of stuff they should of added for years. Some players even said they would give it to the company for free but these selfish companies never accept it as long as people are buying there products. If this becomes an issue and rl devs cannot figure it out then a player should.

    • @1bboyred1
      @1bboyred1 Рік тому

      @@averagebrownie2491 those evils at psyonic can suck on my cock hope that this game gets flooded with bots serves them right

    • @danwebb9002
      @danwebb9002 Рік тому +52

      As someone who plays TF2 as well I'm worried for Rocket League's future

    • @majorwhiff471
      @majorwhiff471 Рік тому +50

      I'm definitely not an expert but I think it's way easier to train an ai to recognize wether a player is actually a human or if it's a bot than to actually train an ai to play rocket league. If even humans can easily differentiate between ai and player that shouldn't be too hard, it's basically impossible to train an ai to actually play like a human. So my guess is you have a programm/ai watching the games and filtering out players with suspicious/bot-like behaviour, then you can even look at the accounts match history etc. and automatically ban it if theres no doubt about it. I have no idea wether that is easy to implement tho.

    • @TheWorldWarrior
      @TheWorldWarrior Рік тому +8

      honestly once ue5 rocket league comes out it will delay the bots because it will have all the coding completely rebuilt from the ground up

  • @Warkod
    @Warkod Рік тому +265

    Sunless 2 momths ago: *Suddenly gets better*
    Now: Nexto taking over Rocket League
    I knew bob wasn't human.

  • @NicOesterby
    @NicOesterby Рік тому +381

    As a member of RLBot, I am glad you highlighted the fact, that hacked Nexto is probably going to be the only bot to worry about for a long time and that means Psyonix has time to deal with it.

    • @faradise3819
      @faradise3819 Рік тому +10

      I'm actually surprised (and relieved) that the exploit users didn't try to implement the other ML bots, like Necto or Element, so as to throw them off the scent. Maybe they thought they'd still be too similar, so detection would still be easy?

    • @bltsxz8196
      @bltsxz8196 Рік тому +46

      @@TrulyLegitGaming bro can’t even get gc rewards on his own lmao

    • @toxpov3612
      @toxpov3612 Рік тому +28

      @@TrulyLegitGaming gcs will easily tell a bot apart from a player lmao

    • @TrulyLegitGaming
      @TrulyLegitGaming Рік тому +1

      @ToxpoV well so far they haven't been able to tell. And I've played well over 50 games with the bot

    • @PandaFan2443
      @PandaFan2443 Рік тому +30

      @@TrulyLegitGaming they've probably been able to tell, they just dont say anything. Also... you are cheating for gc? Gc isnt even hard anymore.

  • @phumade
    @phumade Рік тому +160

    This is our computer chess moment! The real question is whether Pros will use bots in their training scrims to come up with new strats or play styles.

    • @VilTheVillain
      @VilTheVillain Рік тому +9

      Usually bots tend to have "an exploit", the more exposure this bot gets the quicker one might be found, and depending on how easily exploitable it is it can render it practically useless at a certain rank. (I don't know too much about nexto, but let's say it wouldn't challenge if a player is dribbling at a certain angle, then a player who is decent at dribbling can use that to consistently beat it and so on)

    • @Kunu_
      @Kunu_ Рік тому +24

      I think everyone is focused too much on the BOT instead of how the BOT got into ranked in the first place. This is the real issue. We've already seen hacks (demo chase) and people using non-purchased skins in ranked.

    • @blackestbill7454
      @blackestbill7454 Рік тому +6

      @@VilTheVillain the trick is demos. Bots don't have the awareness of a human player and/or aren't programmed for demo evasion, its a major flaw in nexto's game. most players that play slow and controlled are susceptible to a high speed drive challenge, you either demo them or make them jump/flick and you're already zooming on the ground so you'll recover much faster

    • @solarft
      @solarft Рік тому +1

      pros Will not use nexto in pro play, I am gc2 and bots are very bad compared to high level players, and I’m speaking from experience. I had a bot in my gc2 2v2 game and he was not very good lol

    • @Waldijohnson
      @Waldijohnson Рік тому +1

      @@solarft give it time. Eventually they will be better than pros without a doubt. They havent been out very long

  • @EladLTD
    @EladLTD Рік тому +229

    Kinda scary to think that we could have played against bots without knowing

    • @DJLiverz
      @DJLiverz Рік тому +15

      Haha yes and I'm gonna name myself "nice flick" to troll people XD

    • @thaddeus1519
      @thaddeus1519 Рік тому +7

      nah youd know.

    • @jout738
      @jout738 Рік тому +3

      Sometimes I think its some low level bot, when they all have the same name and end with 1, 2 or 3 and they move in very linear way, like their programmed to moce in that way.

    • @jimmyjames5175
      @jimmyjames5175 Рік тому

      Bro why is this scary to you. It’s not like they in your crib ready to hang.

    • @NiceDZNintro
      @NiceDZNintro Рік тому

      bro why the fuck is it scary? it's a fucking video game bro

  • @tonygamer4310
    @tonygamer4310 Рік тому +66

    One of the things I'd like to mention is that Nexto was designed to play as good as possible, not as human as possible. If you gathered enough replay files from players of different ranks, you could train bots that are designed to act and play like different ranks. If you really wanted, you could cherry pick the best plays from the best players and design a bot that can consistently play like a pro at the top of their game
    It's not going to happen soon, but it will happen eventually, and I'm not sure how much you can do about it
    Another option is combining the two techniques and actually training another network called the discriminator that is designed to tell the difference between bots and humans, which could be used to make it blend in even more

    • @JEsterCW
      @JEsterCW Рік тому

      Bro, its already a thing watcha talking about xD

    • @tylerwillems9358
      @tylerwillems9358 Рік тому

      Actually a good idea. Imagine using traces of detecting bot-like behavior, and then randomly pairing the suspected account with a bot-detecting bot that is designed to analyze and perform actions that expose the account.

    • @XerosOfficial
      @XerosOfficial Рік тому +12

      Just some notes I'm copy-pasting to address common misconceptions:
      Point #1: "Detecting AI with AI"
      - - - - -
      As someone who has had experience with developing neural networks and working with machine learning, people who say that training an AI to recognize bots, are wrong. Making an AI to detect bots is NOT easier than training the bots themselves.
      Generation always trumps detection.
      This is because of a phenomenon I like to call Detection Singularity: For example, lets pretend an AI has been made to detect AI-generated melodies. Eventually AI will have gotten good enough to generate great-sounding, catchy melodies. But, what happens if, by chance, the AI generates the melody to Mary Had a Little Lamb? It's a pretty simple, catchy melody, and an AI could easily generate it. But, should the detector believe it to be made by AI, or made by a human?
      When an AI melody generator has gotten good enough to generate human-made melodies by chance, this is called the Detection Singularity. It no longer becomes possible to tell whether a melody was made by AI, or by a human.
      Now, melodies are pretty simple, as compared to gameplay, which has many more variables, but there's only a finite level of complexity, and AI improves at tasks exponentially. At a certain level, even a game as complex as RL will reach the Detection Singularity, and it won't take long for many games to fall to this. Nexto was made with no funding, and did not even use heavy-duty cloud computing, which is becoming more and more affordable by the minute.
      Point #2: "The AI would become perfect, as they are designed to get good at the game, not to seem human. Making it seem human is much harder,"
      - - - - -
      Some people may say that AI is more likely to become perfect at the task, rather than seeming human. But this can be circumvented easily with a GAN, (Generative Adversarial Network). Not only have the AI train to get better, but also have it train something that detects AI (discriminator, AKA detector). The detector will get better and better at detecting the bot, but the bot will get better and better at bypassing the detection.
      This means, that in order to detect the bot, Psyonix would need a detector better than the bot itself was trained on. This is virtually impossible. And if the detection singularity were to be reached, it would become literally impossible.
      *Anyone knowledgeable could train an AI like this with a bit of money to spend on cloud computing.*
      Point #3: "Preventing Cheats by Detecting False Inputs"
      - - - - -
      Some people also believe that making an anti-cheat, whether it be by detecting inputs/spoofing a game can detect these cheats.
      They cannot.
      The keyboard, controller, mouse, or whatever you use to send inputs legitimately, sends inputs in a very simple way. It is pitifully easy to send inputs virtually through the AI, in a way that perfectly recreates how these inputs are sent. It is as if a real controller were sending the inputs.
      Point #4: "Stop It The Same Way We've Stopped Cheating Before"
      - - - - -
      Some people believe the best way to tackle this is by detecting modified game files, etc.
      A pleasant reminder: The client-side is always insecure
      There is the server-side, and client-side. The reason Rocket League has been "unhackable" before, is that almost everything is dependent on the server, not the client. And the only data given and sent from the client, is necessary data of which not can be done with anyways.
      But AI only modifies the client-side, and the client-side is far more insecure.
      There is a reason cheaters always find a way to bypass anti-cheats in other games.
      There is a reason why piracy has always trumped anti-piracy.
      These are dependent on the client-side.
      The client-side requires positional, and velocity data, for the game of Rocket League to work. And these things are all that the AI requires to function. By sending inputs securely (which is not difficult at all), it is completely impossible to 'outdetect' cheats on the client-side.
      Not to mention, if the AI were to be trained using screen-data, rather than positional data, etc. No modifications on the client-side would ever be required.
      So no, having whitehat-hackers improve Psyonix's client-side anticheat would not fix this at all.

    • @istealthi6191
      @istealthi6191 Рік тому +1

      @@XerosOfficial what an effort you have to write this out man love it

    • @tonygamer4310
      @tonygamer4310 Рік тому

      @@XerosOfficial I completely agree with all of this. I never said anything about detecting an AI or trying to stop what is going on, just simply pointed out that this isn't the end and that these AI's will get better and better to the point where they're completely undetectable through adversarial training. There is no good solution to detect cheaters like that in the long run because client side anti-cheat is almost entirely pointless, and more likely to be thwarted by cheaters than modders, and it isn't doing anything that is physically impossible

  • @Itstotallyjack20
    @Itstotallyjack20 Рік тому +3

    I encountered a bot like this in my Diamond lobby in duos. It’s impressive to see how far technology these days has come. One thing I noticed about this bot was how it seemed to almost “ball chase”. What’s even more interesting about this bot is how after the game it messaged me on Xbox just to let me know how awful of a teammate I was

  • @404-usernotfound6
    @404-usernotfound6 Рік тому +14

    something interesting I notice about nexto from a programmer and game developer perspective and AI enjoyer is that nexto will often prioritise height over power especially when its being challenged, to make sure it gets past its opponent. we should take notes

    • @mikeiavelli
      @mikeiavelli Рік тому +1

      Yes, it pops it up real high and consistently takes advantage of our momentum going in the wrong direction to take back possession of the ball.

    • @theKiwii
      @theKiwii Рік тому +1

      Interesting, I wonder if that's because Nexto was trained against itself and it barely ever aerials, so it would make sense to prefer height

    • @HoraryHellfire
      @HoraryHellfire Рік тому

      Because the bot has zero reaction time and can save everything. Power for human players is preferable because we have a reaction time. Well, in reality, top human players go after power and height. You not watch Mawkzy flicks?

  • @-txw-4431
    @-txw-4431 Рік тому +25

    It's official, we've lost. The bots will take over now. We will all be bronze now.

    • @theKiwii
      @theKiwii Рік тому +1

      Well, for now there's three weaknesses in Nexto that you can use against it: It has no aerial game, it has bad boost management, and its kickoffs are hardcoded.

    • @GamingXperience
      @GamingXperience Рік тому

      @@theKiwii good you said "for now" because that comment wouldnt age well without it xD

  • @goddamnrice
    @goddamnrice Рік тому +87

    Can we just appreciate sunless’s flicks for a minute here

    • @shadowyzephyr
      @shadowyzephyr Рік тому +1

      No offense to Sunless, but they aren't anything spectacular for a gc1. From the opponents pov its harder to tell, but from his pov you can see he flipped the wrong way and got less power many times because of it, maybe even most of the time (which isn't that uncommon but he is just not as good as Nexto).

    • @CBellRL
      @CBellRL Рік тому +17

      I don’t think you know what a good flick looks like man. Sunless has been playing this game for 9 years , since it came out in 2011 and he still can’t get to supersonic legand. Someone who can really do flicks is first killer. He’s so good compared to sunlesskhen

    • @dabloodynine
      @dabloodynine Рік тому +4

      @@shadowyzephyr bruh this is the most unnecessary, self important BS comment. No one said he's a pro but can he not just be complemented without you coming in to add unneeded qualifiers to it? Shit comes off really insecure

    • @SATANAMA
      @SATANAMA Рік тому

      @@dabloodynine exactly 😂

    • @tpiano1165
      @tpiano1165 Рік тому

      @@CBellRL CBell chatting shit?

  • @reda4961
    @reda4961 Рік тому +28

    A better methodology would've been to tell the players that they would play 3 games against grand champ players and to get their opinions after each game, which is more in line with a normal ranked experience. Although they would surely still suspect Nexto, it would've less obvious and closer to reality.
    But that's just a small detail, nice video man

    • @L3thalShad0ws7
      @L3thalShad0ws7 Рік тому +9

      Agreed, Sunless took the approach of “can I play like a bot” instead of taking a pool of ~1700mmr players, randomizing them, and mixing the bot into those matches to see if ppl could spot the difference.
      But then again, this was for a YT vid so it’s not that serious lol

    • @Nebin20
      @Nebin20 Рік тому

      Yea he could do another test and not tell people. Giving that information tainted the results.

    • @shadowyzephyr
      @shadowyzephyr Рік тому

      @@L3thalShad0ws7 Yeah, if it were serious it also wouldn't be vs a group of plats, it would be against the GCs getting "smurfed" on

  • @JayReed266
    @JayReed266 Рік тому +13

    I think a good tweek to this experiment would be to just put them in 3 games and tell them that something will change from game to game. Then, have them guess AI or human at the end so that they weren't already hyperanalyzing each game for that specific thing.

    • @unofficialhotel
      @unofficialhotel Рік тому

      That’s a really good idea I’m shocked sunless didn’t think of. Just have them play 3 games without telling them what the deal is til the end of it

  • @lasagnaravioli
    @lasagnaravioli Рік тому +4

    “It’s not as robotic like as you might thi- that was a pretty calculated flick” 4:35

  • @taglion8795
    @taglion8795 Рік тому +3

    "And not just Rocket League; every online game is in trouble!"
    Bots and cheating has ran rampant in other games forever, the fact that Rocket League has gone this long without suffering this as a mainstream issue is a miracle.

  • @HeyoDam0n
    @HeyoDam0n Рік тому +22

    “The true answer to your question is. Who will stick to a rule 1?” Haha love the vids sunless❤

    • @VoidLantadd
      @VoidLantadd Рік тому +1

      Nexto usually respects rule 1 unless the ball gets too close to him

  • @squelar844
    @squelar844 Рік тому +9

    The outro really had me thinking about the future of online gaming.. Great video!

  • @aKhemu
    @aKhemu Рік тому +4

    7:18 master has given nexto a sock, nexto is free lmao

  • @tonybaideme2149
    @tonybaideme2149 Рік тому +3

    Love you Sunless, vid’s keep on comin consistent 🤙🏼

  • @SBragg88
    @SBragg88 Рік тому +1

    6:40 "Maybe our strategy... uh, wh-...bro"
    lol

  • @doofkopf2579
    @doofkopf2579 Рік тому

    I gotta admit, recently you upload quite good videos. I really enjoy the mix between plain entertainment and the ending in which you got more serious.
    Keep up the good work

  • @sugard8099
    @sugard8099 Рік тому +3

    phenomenal video sunless, I am really interested in the programming behind nexto and what it means to the game as a whole. I think if the right person has the right motivation, this could be a giant threat to online play.

  • @KaeshES
    @KaeshES Рік тому +20

    Amazing content sunless ❤
    Totally watched the whole thing

    • @HeyoDam0n
      @HeyoDam0n Рік тому +1

      you cant say that 4 minutes after the video was posted. Hmmmm

  • @shawngenrich4360
    @shawngenrich4360 Рік тому

    Love you so much and love watching how you got to this point... it gives me hope

  • @Milchmaster
    @Milchmaster Рік тому

    I really like the way you approached this topic. Not just an quick info-video about bots in rankend, but a creative experiment to give more insight. Great idea!
    I have only one thing that bothers me a bit:
    If you bring other users into your videos i would really like to know their rank in the game Mode they are actually going to play in (here: 1s) and not their best rank in any gamemode. Especially in 1s the rank-difference to other modes is too big!
    Anyways, keep doing these awesome videos! Thanks man!

  • @thatSkilledWB
    @thatSkilledWB Рік тому +3

    Last night was the first night I ever felt like I was facing bots in 8 years of playing rocket league. Coincidentally today, I see this video. I was in a 2v2 champ tournament. They had perfect gameplay throughout the entire match.

  • @anotherjacob
    @anotherjacob Рік тому +3

    this is just a way for sunless to show that he's at the same level as perfection 🤣

  • @goddamnrice
    @goddamnrice Рік тому +2

    I’m so glad sunless found this! I’ve been waiting for the big rl UA-camrs for some time now

  • @NoahHoi
    @NoahHoi Рік тому +1

    I told some guys on discord like 6 months ago that "I think people will find a way to hack in rocket league with bots" and I was laughed at.
    Oh how the tables have turned.

  • @makeeveryonehappy5446
    @makeeveryonehappy5446 Рік тому +3

    Imagine when we get to the point where the bot purposely makes mistakes to lower suspicion.

  • @KA1Z3N08
    @KA1Z3N08 Рік тому +3

    You know it’s gonna be a good day when sunless posts 😊

  • @hamedsulaiman2221
    @hamedsulaiman2221 Рік тому +1

    Sunless these videos are like movies and i love them

  • @SAKIRSTO_v2
    @SAKIRSTO_v2 Рік тому

    love the vids! keep up the good work sunless ❤️❤️

  • @mik-ws3zw
    @mik-ws3zw Рік тому +20

    My guess on how it happened is that someone is using nexto to to input their controls on their client side but this wouldn’t really be seeable on the server side because it would just show up as regular inputs to the server. Don’t really know how they would control it though.

    • @DaTimmeh
      @DaTimmeh Рік тому +11

      It’s not as complicated as one might think. Human vs artificial inputs can be pretty easily discerned (at least with current ai’s used) based on how consistent they can hold the stick in some direction, how many inputs are done in a certain time frame, etc. I’d recommend looking into trackmania cheating (wirtual has some good vids) and how they discovered similar cheats in that game.
      Almost certainly would take a bit of time to implement, as I don’t think rl currently stores the inputs a player made during a game(very easy), and then they’d need to develop their artificial input detection system, which will mainly be a good amount of research, and some testing. Should be doable in 3ish months with a small team so they can still continue regular game development.

    • @mik-ws3zw
      @mik-ws3zw Рік тому

      @@DaTimmeh yeah. I’ve seen some of those videos on the track mania cheating. I think that RL does store player inputs for goal replays, but there is no way that I, with a very basic understanding of coding, could prove or disprove that.

    • @DaTimmeh
      @DaTimmeh Рік тому +1

      @@mik-ws3zw I think I've heard something like that before, could very well be the case.

    • @KCM25NJL
      @KCM25NJL Рік тому +3

      @@DaTimmeh There are "some" inputs captured, but not enough to get any useful data on to train a network. A simpler method might be to just alter the game in a very small way that is indiscernible to humans, but would throw the bot for a loop. Something as mundane as adding a bunch of invisible actors with no collision physics either in or out of the arena, could/would cause catastrophic failure in the bots I/O.

    • @mihailovasic4623
      @mihailovasic4623 Рік тому +1

      @@KCM25NJL Ooooh that's a great one! If the bot is programmed to flick over opponents or do something to avoid them, adding invisible obstacles with no collision is genius. 👏🏻

  • @Anonymous-gq3tc
    @Anonymous-gq3tc Рік тому +3

    Congrats on making #27 on trending that’s insane!!!

  • @raithirn
    @raithirn Рік тому +1

    I had a lobby somewhat recently where one of the players was invisible. It was a casual game but I couldnt report them because they couldnt be muted/blocked and they werent on the scoreboard.

  • @AryzxSkating
    @AryzxSkating Рік тому +1

    Really scary that this might be in my servers if i play ranked

  • @Vertyng
    @Vertyng Рік тому +3

    It's too bad you told them that there was a bot, because like you said; then they start paying attention to the little behaviours which make it very obvious. Could maybe put a bot in a different challenge where the focus lies on something else - like toxic takedown, maffia or some other 1v1 shenanigans, to really test if people notice.

  • @bc8010
    @bc8010 Рік тому +5

    4:05 I wonder if since it's an AI you could train it on pro players that are almost in the air all the time to have a bot with perfect air control.

    • @rileybell7125
      @rileybell7125 Рік тому

      @@blobedm you clearly have no idea about how AI works

    • @mahadkalam59
      @mahadkalam59 Рік тому +1

      Then, make Nexto and the new AI battle it out and make Nexto learn from the AI, that would be _awesome_

    • @swagie_
      @swagie_ Рік тому +2

      there has been some tries of training bots by having them use the data from thousands of ssl replays. they didn't carry on as they are other better ways to have the bot develop airplay (like changing rewards)

    • @shadowyzephyr
      @shadowyzephyr Рік тому

      Rolv did imitation learning from SSL replays, but it is not as good as Nexto.

    • @shadowyzephyr
      @shadowyzephyr Рік тому

      @@swagie_ The point of imitation learning is it's good to start off with, then you train the bot against itself to improve it afterwards, which has been proven to work in other games.

  • @edwardseverinsen5598
    @edwardseverinsen5598 Рік тому

    4:16 "I suck in the air... I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus. This is it, the apocalypse. Whoa.... I'm waking up, I feel it in my bones!"

  • @roduah5373
    @roduah5373 Рік тому

    Love y’a vids bro keep up the good work

  • @noiJadisCailleach
    @noiJadisCailleach Рік тому +4

    I mean... Even if you just play against Nexto for an hour... You'd be able to tell EASILY after if you're playing with a human like SunlessKhan or not.
    Edit: Also, there are specific strats you just have to turn on when playing against Nexto. Like, it 100% ALWAYS falls for the single jump bait when it's dribbling the ball on top of the car. It will never fake it.

    • @connorking984
      @connorking984 Рік тому

      It falls for the single jump if you're close enough, also you have to be very careful and very aggressive with your challenges

  • @NiceRoboT
    @NiceRoboT Рік тому +4

    I think it might wind up being easier than we think to detect this. In both this case and in the case of chess engines in competitive online chess, AIs calculate the best inputs and the raw inputs themselves are identical to those from a real human. In chess, AIs can be detected if the play is *too perfect*. Humans make mistakes. I think this principle would work even better in detecting AI in rocket league, because a series of inputs to flick as perfectly as Nexto is probably even more conspicuously perfect than chess. Nexto moves with perfect smoothness and turns without the ball even wobbling. The set of inputs would have none of the little jitters and oversteers that literally every human cannot completely avoid, at least not in consecutive plays. It could take some doing to implement a way to check the inputs, but at least in principle it wouldn’t be all too complicated.

    • @n.r.r1385
      @n.r.r1385 Рік тому

      If you watched the video you can see that Nexto does make mistakes

    • @NiceRoboT
      @NiceRoboT Рік тому

      @@n.r.r1385 but it’s not that the bot doesn’t make mistakes, it’s in the fluidity of inputs, the perfection of steering when dribbling. Humans twitch ever so slightly with every movement, but Nexto’s maneuvering of the ball is always done with perfect mathematical fluidity, even if that fluid motion is a mistake. The inputs should be a dead giveaway and the server should be able to detect that with some clever programming.

  • @lukeflint3853
    @lukeflint3853 Рік тому

    I was convinced I played a bot yesterday at gc in 1s, it just felt to machine like, this has cemented that feeling. Great video

  • @lukyno3218
    @lukyno3218 Рік тому +1

    Soon, being called a bot in rocket league is gonna be a compliment

  • @micahvanm6324
    @micahvanm6324 Рік тому +1

    It kind of makes sense how the bot is able to calculate the ball on the client end. You can see an example of this when you are lagging in a match and the ball moves smoothly when nobody is interacting with it (like maybe its just flying in the air towards you). So a lot of information is given to the client side of a rocket league game, so there may have to be more tests about input and how the ball is registered on the client so that the bots cannot access that information.

  • @BradenLehman
    @BradenLehman Рік тому +1

    Looks like we'll be clicking all the pictures with a plane in them before each round

  • @blueleafy7167
    @blueleafy7167 Рік тому +2

    This isn’t new in the gaming community. I used to play a mobile game called clash Royale and the game was flooded with bots.

  • @ItsJCrew
    @ItsJCrew Рік тому +1

    Rocket League is about to have the same problem that chess has been having, minus the beads

  • @VenomF1
    @VenomF1 Рік тому

    Hey Sunless been watching for a month now and I gotta say your content is brilliant 🤩

  • @zxibs3645
    @zxibs3645 Рік тому

    finally, already knew sunless was already gonna bang this into entertaining content.

  • @salvadorsilva891
    @salvadorsilva891 Рік тому

    you can tell pretty well from the kick off , the bot usually uses a delayed kick off and uses a 0 second reaction to react to the opponent s kick off

  • @elleso21
    @elleso21 Рік тому +1

    love ur content sunless :)

  • @ordencorgi4992
    @ordencorgi4992 Рік тому

    I was waiting for your video about it

  • @paulmansi797
    @paulmansi797 Рік тому

    “not just rocket league every online game is in trouble” bro the trouble has most definitely found every other game already

  • @Disosway
    @Disosway Рік тому +2

    That really bums me out that bots are in ranked. Rocket league has always been a sacred game where cheating was impossible. Hopefully psyionix comes out with a solution, although I don’t know how it could work.

    • @nyny
      @nyny Рік тому +2

      There are plenty of solutions. The bots work in the same way that bakkesmod works which uses a form of DLL injection to rewrite the underlying libraries. Anti piracy tools exist to validate the checksum of libraries. Though, blocking bakkesmod would pretty much break the game for the comp scene

    • @KCM25NJL
      @KCM25NJL Рік тому +1

      @@nyny Would be fine if you whitelisted BM. Frankly though, Windows should be signing all DLL's associated with an app install and preventing the hooking mechanism by requiring a valid signature for the hook.

    • @nyny
      @nyny Рік тому

      @@KCM25NJL yes good reply. However bakkes is heavily driven by it's plugin architecture. That's why I didn't go into all of the details. They would need to make a submission and approval system and set up some kind of dev mode. All doable, but a bit of work

    • @shadowyzephyr
      @shadowyzephyr Рік тому

      Cheating has been possible in RL in many different aspects for a long time, the knowledge has just stayed confined within specific communities, and now people are realizing. Cheating has never been impossible: there have been auto demo hacks, item hacks, and fake freestyling using replay editing or TAS, as well as a bunch of exploits which were reported first so Psyonix just gave the player a white hat and people didn't realize they were ever possible.

  • @JD_OfficialMusic
    @JD_OfficialMusic Рік тому

    I had a similar ones experience recently. Every movement was precise and perfect and nothing was in the air, even though I was the one trying to take it to the air. It was crazy.

  • @JMoffRL
    @JMoffRL Рік тому +1

    i’ve played a few of these in c3-gc2 1v1s. if you go up a goal you can just keep possession of the ball in your end and it will not challenge you

    • @JMoffRL
      @JMoffRL Рік тому

      pretty easy loophole to beat them if you’re having trouble challenging because their flicks are pretty much perfect

    • @ZestyyFX
      @ZestyyFX Рік тому

      @@JMoffRL you can take over the bot if you press numlock so if the cheater isnt afk he can counter

    • @JMoffRL
      @JMoffRL Рік тому +1

      @@ZestyyFX ya i know but usually the cheater is worse so after 2 minutes the guy started pressing lmao, i saved some of the replays it’s really interesting

  • @lakeofire77
    @lakeofire77 Рік тому

    great vid as always man

  • @DreamOfFlying
    @DreamOfFlying Рік тому +2

    If this bottling continues it’s gonna be destroying the game!!!

  • @exXoDia7
    @exXoDia7 Рік тому

    I was just thinking about this exact thing being a possibility today. I had no idea it was already here. Superb timing by Sunless. 🤩

  • @TheTEN24
    @TheTEN24 Рік тому +1

    This is crazy I didn’t believe it to be true at first. Sucks to see bots and cheaters finally coming to rocket league. Also Crim is like me man lmao a ex gc stuck in c2/c3 rn

  • @Zel-Veraan
    @Zel-Veraan Рік тому

    Rocket League video documentaries and experiments are some of the most enjoyable videos on UA-cam.

  • @pand5816
    @pand5816 Рік тому +1

    Watch how SunlessKhan unknowingly sets up a Rocket League Turing Test™.

  • @cardenews
    @cardenews Рік тому +1

    in other games, be a bot is something terrible, in rocket league, being a bot is a god tier compliment

  • @andergamez
    @andergamez Рік тому

    Being called a bot went from insult to praise in like 2 years lmao

  • @andykilday3317
    @andykilday3317 Рік тому +1

    Your sooo good at rocket league good saves

  • @bombboy3427
    @bombboy3427 Рік тому

    "Not just Rocket League, but every online game is threatened by bots."
    *Laughs in TF2*

  • @blazingupsurge
    @blazingupsurge Рік тому

    i didnt realize there was even bots thanks so much this will help so much and i didnt know being called bot would be a good thing also loved the vid

  • @Y_53333
    @Y_53333 Рік тому +1

    Why did one of the plats actually sound like a bot voice 💀

  • @cooksrl
    @cooksrl Рік тому +2

    i can finally call all my teammates bots and not be wrong

  • @navster100
    @navster100 Рік тому +1

    This vid just makes me want to 1v1 the bot to see how well I would hold up

  • @Zephiren
    @Zephiren Рік тому

    I'm a GC2 in 2's and a C2/C3 in 1's. I'm now facing off against these bots 50/50 in my matches. Some people even pretend to not be one replying to questions asked in chat, but proceeding to do the EXACT same kickoff 100% of the time. Keep in mind, a speed kickoff will always beat this bot no matter what. The funniest part is, if you keep the ball in your own half, about 30% of the field, close to the midfield line, the bot will NEVER challenge you. This is absolutely getting ridiculous, even people pretending it's them while clearly it isn't. Honestly so surprising that this is being shared through multiple people. Insane.

  • @Mattball82
    @Mattball82 11 місяців тому

    I remember telling my friend one game “this is a bot for sure we are playing against wtf!” based purely on its play style. I was convinced it was not a human and it turned out I was right that time and many others..

  • @yellowbatman25
    @yellowbatman25 Рік тому

    "Maintaining competitive integrity"
    Now the higher ranks get to feel what it's like constantly running into smurfs.

  • @SirZaroque
    @SirZaroque Рік тому +1

    one ranked 1v1 game i played my opponents name was "Nice one!" and he was playing really precisely and his name changed halfway through the match

  • @reprovedcandy
    @reprovedcandy Рік тому +2

    "it was way harder and more complex than I thought."
    Yeah, no shit. Take it from a software engineer who deals with ignorant fools all day, people ALWAYS waaaaay underestimate the skill, talent, and time/effort that goes into building software, especially something as complex as this.

    • @nyny
      @nyny Рік тому

      I've looked into the bots a bit, the 'impressive' part would have been reverse engineering nextos actions into controller inputs. Controller inputs aren't sent to the server, only some data like pitch / speed / etc. However, the client app can detect if there are controller inputs, which the bot creators would have to implement for any hope at going undetected, because the client can communicate with Epic still. There are solutions for Epic, it would also block bakkesmod though which is pretty much game breaking at comp levels.

  • @moorela8701
    @moorela8701 Рік тому

    It's funny, because I had a conversation with someone about adapting the model to a competitive game while watching the RLGym stream a month ago.

  • @lombaseggl666
    @lombaseggl666 Рік тому +1

    Had a match against 3 bots in casual the other day. didn't recognize it while playing but after the game the bot team hit "play again" exactly at the same time (like no delay on the green checkmarks at all). Also their pings where exactly the same all the time.
    Maybe there should be something like a bot league, where bots play against each other and the best trained bot wins? ;) But please somehow kepp them out of regular RL.

  • @bilboswaggings
    @bilboswaggings Рік тому +1

    Most players won't recognize a bot because they are not looking for one
    Like how superman's disguise works...
    Or how Henry Cavill tested it in public by sitting next to a superman poster

  • @jacobwilson5932
    @jacobwilson5932 Рік тому

    Can we get another pro vs 3 of each rank? One of my favorite videos of yours

  • @yannick5352
    @yannick5352 Рік тому +1

    3 days ago I played against 'Urabot' in a Champions Tournament (2v2). He got incredible flicks but always backflipped when going for an airial

  • @nubcek5169
    @nubcek5169 Рік тому

    yeah, other day me n my friend were queueing comp 2s and we got in match against 2 AI's who were actually queueing together, both weren't skipping replays at all, weren't moving after any goal, were acting very unusual, like acting the same in weird scenarios and the bot-like dribbling is something else, so unpredictable

  • @fatal9316
    @fatal9316 Рік тому

    I had one on my team last night, the guy was typing while playing and saying stuff like "Im going to sell this bot once it gets good enough" How is this even allowed

  • @xxlhawkeyelxx7327
    @xxlhawkeyelxx7327 Рік тому +1

    I feel like the easiest way to use nexto would be to have a mirror system in place that allows a separate instance of RL to control another and thus allowing a nexto bot to run rampant

  • @BamThwok76
    @BamThwok76 Рік тому +1

    i'd like to see a bot able to critique your game just like computers do for chess games

    • @zenthaa
      @zenthaa Рік тому

      I've seen someone use an AI to predict where pro players would position themselves on the pitch and then use it to analyse their replays however it's not publicly available. Maybe something like this could be made in the future?

  • @itzvent7508
    @itzvent7508 Рік тому

    Come across one earlier, I had no idea it was a bot till my opponents pointed it out. It was definitely suspicious as it was catching and flicking everything perfectly

  • @Yutoryry
    @Yutoryry Рік тому +1

    Oh hell nah I'm quiting before the robot apocalypse happens

  • @SirClassy
    @SirClassy Рік тому

    This turned out really good

  • @aaronmcentire2862
    @aaronmcentire2862 Рік тому

    I encountered a bot yesterday myself. I'm just champ 1 and this bot was catching everything perfectly and flicking perfectly every time as well. Plus there were many times where they would be super aggressive immediately before I even knew where the ball would be. It was not playing like a champ 1 and was not playing like any player I've ever played against. It was frustrating for sure.

  • @burntalmonds9598
    @burntalmonds9598 Рік тому

    The past few weeks, I've gotten quite a few bot teammates in tournaments who just don't play. You can tell they're a bot because for some reason they are setup to instantly forfeit whenever you vote to ff. Like they ff so fast that you can't even read the vote to ff popup.

  • @luapa7632
    @luapa7632 Рік тому +1

    Rocket league can fix this issue the same way trackmania speedruners check to see if the speedrun is a bot. It will have the exact same or very similar movements for when it does something. Check how they find bots in a trackmania vid if curious.

  • @bc8010
    @bc8010 Рік тому +1

    We all knew it was coming, being called a bot is no longer an insult

  • @jeremiahmcelroy2726
    @jeremiahmcelroy2726 Рік тому

    Did anyone else catch that sunless khan did the Vsause outro. Perfect timing and application, nice touch!

  • @astrofreq
    @astrofreq Рік тому

    Repeat quitters should only get to play against bots. When they learn to not quit, match them with humans again. 😂

  • @Friendofox
    @Friendofox Рік тому

    I am completely at a loss for words for how scary this actually is.

  • @Rustyemu93
    @Rustyemu93 Рік тому

    i had a guy who was definetly playing himself atleast a little bit, but the bot was doing 90% of the rest, that exact flip bot, its impossible to beat without competent teammates