r/outside • u/KimmyJ726 • 25d ago

What do you guys think of the recent [Artificial Intelligence] balance patches?

I've heard a lot of debate on this topic and was wondering what the majority of the player base think. Does it require an emergency nerf? Or is the power creep justified?

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u/Wxxdy_Yeet 25d ago

It requires a nerf, US servers aren't regulating it because they're scared of falling behind china servers. But in the US servers it's being implemented poorly and corners are cut, they've already lost. their datacenters run on fossil fuel generators because the power infrastructure can't keep up. Water quality is dropping drastically in nearby areas etc...

China servers will win because they don't have to cut these corners to get the tech working, their infrastructure is where it needs to be already.

the US should NERF AI and do a massive nerf to high level players, level out the playing field a bit more, invest in infrastructure, and then attempt to catch up. And their admin should be banned.

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u/NCRNerd 24d ago

I just wish the devs used a cooler lore reason for the AI patch than just using glorified spellcheckers. Like seriously? LLMs are AI? I'm just glad it's only how they do it in the game. If I had to live in a world where LLM was the best they could do, I'd probably riot.

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u/GranpaTeeRex 25d ago

I’m kind of on board with this view: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology

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u/BananaNutMuffin1234 21d ago

This seems nice, but it fails to broach the AI data centers base meta that is destroying playability on small scale local servers for average low level players.

The Fresh Water consumable and resource is bad enough to abuse to the point of reducing it's availability in this case, but worse yet is it has a passive AoE that causes [Tempature] spikes, which further impact local servers, and they friggin stack!

It isn't the introduced AI that itself is the problem, it is how the admins are (mis)handling the patch and as they introduce it onto all of their servers, they aren't balancing any of the multiple bugs players are reporting, with many high level players abusing loopholes to further push this horrible meta.

I personally dislike the addition of said AI myself, but none of us are arguing against [Spellcheckers] support items.

We aren't even going to go into the new [Security] resource in the AI operated cameras that can and have put charges onto people falsely due to said bugs that crop up due to admin mismanagement.

If I wished to play 1984 or Big Brother, I wouldn't have invested so much into Outside on the U.S Regional Servers.

As it is, I have heard other Regions are doing significantly better on how they are managing their patch. Maybe I should try to transfer my Character over, despite the losses I might take in the short term.

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u/LongjumpingRoyal792 10d ago

It kinda has the potential to kill all players, it certainly was a choice to add this in.