{"id":28127,"date":"2019-12-28T22:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T22:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=28127"},"modified":"2019-12-28T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T22:00:20","slug":"tencent-ai-strategy-on-moba-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/tencent-ai-strategy-on-moba-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent AI: A 99.81% winning strategy on MOBA games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A newly developed Tencent AI for MOBA games was put into test and had an impressive winning percentage of 99.81%.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tencent AI lab developed a new system for MOBA games<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tencent is known as the creator of China&#8217;s largest and most used messaging app, WeChat. It is probably the biggest tech-oriented company in all of China.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Tencent also joined the video game business, wherein it got the brand as the second-largest cloud platform in China. The company also include AI options in their games to challenge other users that prefer offline practising.<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last year, the International Go Federation was amazed by a Tencent AI built to play the Go game, it was named &#8220;<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fine Art&#8221;<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. It played 34 games with a two-stone handicap against professional Go players but still won 30 out of the 34 games.\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fine Art<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0even defeated a human Go champion.<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Contentment was never an option. Just recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/gameworldobserver.com\/2019\/12\/25\/ai-honor-kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researchers from the Tencent AI lab came up with a system that can dominate a popular mobile game, Arena of Valor<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Arena of Valor\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211; The game is also known as Honor of Kings, it is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game. The game is in a multiplayer format, but Tencent AI can only be functional in a 1v1 game. Work is still in progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Process<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">To come up with an effective model, researchers used four basic components:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">AI Server &#8211; This system covers the logic interaction between the game and the AI model. It generates multiple scenarios to prepare for the next possible move<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Dispatch Module &#8211; The part where data samples from AI Servers are being collected for processing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Memory Pool &#8211; This is the storage pool for repetitive actions to be implemented by the AI during certain scenarios.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Reinforcement Learning (RL) Learner &#8211; This is a distributed training environment. Multiple RL learners are being used to fetch data simultaneously from Memory Pools to form large batch sizes of information.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Results<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>During the implementation of the AI system against human players, the AI model gained five kills per game and got killed by just a spec over one instance on the average.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In over 2,100 matches, the AI model only lost four times, having an impressive winning percentage of 99.81%. The system was also applicable to different types of heroes available in-game.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/user-experience-and-ai-integration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> AI systems have been proven to be superior in dealing with objective-based scenarios.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>What is MOBA?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"NFQFxe viOShc LKPcQc mod\" lang=\"en-PH\" data-md=\"25\">\n<div class=\"HwtpBd gsrt PZPZlf\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"3\" data-hveid=\"CAwQAw\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwj05eeBy9nmAhW7JaYKHbWdDv4QtwcoATABegQIDBAD\">\n<div class=\"yxAsKe\"><b>Multiplayer online battle arena<\/b> (MOBA), also known as action real-time strategy (ARTS), is a subgenre of strategy video games that originated as a subgenre of real-time strategy in which each player controls a single character, usually on a map in an isometric perspective, as part of a team competing against another. Spawned from early forums from the custom map for Starcraft called {Aeon of Strife} and nd Evolved into the most recent <a class=\"autolink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Defense%20of%20the%20Ancients\" data-hasqtip=\"4\" aria-describedby=\"qtip-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Defense of the Ancients<\/a>\u00a0or &#8220;DotA&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"yxAsKe\">The objective of the MOBA Genre is for each team to destroy the opponents&#8217; Base, heavily guarded structures at opposing corners of the map. Players use powerful units known as\u00a0<a class=\"autolink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=heroes\" data-hasqtip=\"5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heroes<\/a>, and are assisted by allied heroes and AI-controlled fighters called &#8220;creeps&#8221;. As in role-playing games, players level up their hero and use gold to buy equipment during the mission.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>What&#8217;s the future for a gamer?<\/h2>\n<div>Multiplayer online battle arena (<b>MOBA<\/b>), also known as lords management (LOMA) or action real-time strategy (ARTS), is a sub-genre of the real-time strategy (<b>RTS<\/b>) genre, in which often two teams of players compete with each other in discrete games, with each player controlling a single character through an\u00a0<b>RTS<\/b>-style.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Video games should be considered a sport.<\/strong> Rooted in competition, involving\u00a0<b>athletic<\/b>\u00a0ability, requiring practice and physical activity, taking place in stadiums, and cheered on by diehard fanatics, video games and the playing of them checks all of the required boxes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Esports (also known as electronic\u00a0<em>sports<\/em>, e-<em>sports<\/em>, or eSports) is a form of\u00a0<em>sport<\/em> competition using video games.<\/strong> Esports often take the form of organized, multiplayer video game competitions, particularly between professional players, individually or as teams.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><strong>Competitive video game playing, also known as esports, is now a high school varsity sport in US eight states,<\/strong> beginning with Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island in the fall of 2018. A few months later, the National Federation of State High School Associations said Alabama, Mississippi and Texas Charter schools have joined the mix.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competitive video gaming debuted at the Southeast Asian Games, with 9 teams, led by gold-medal favorite Philippines, gunning for the top podium finish.<\/strong> The esports tournament, held from Dec. 5 to 10, will gather some of the region\u2019s toughest and most accomplished gamers, who\u2019re wildly popular among their online followers but may still relatively unknown to casual sports fans.<br \/>\nThe top 100 pro\u00a0gamers\u00a0in the world\u00a0make\u00a0a lot of\u00a0money.<strong> They don&#8217;t yet\u00a0earn\u00a0as\u00a0much\u00a0as the top 100 NBA or NFL players but their pay is growing all the time. Generally speaking, pro\u00a0gamer money\u00a0of $1.1 million a\u00a0year\u00a0goes to the best of the best.<\/strong> Top NBA players frequently\u00a0earn\u00a0an average of about $35 million a\u00a0year.<br \/>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly developed Tencent AI for MOBA games was put into test and had an impressive winning percentage of 99.81%. Tencent AI lab developed a new system for MOBA games Tencent is known as the creator of China&#8217;s largest and most used messaging app, WeChat. It is probably the biggest tech-oriented company in all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":28133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}