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Game AI System Produces Imbalanced Game
Elite: Dangerous, a videogame developed by Frontier Development, received an expansion update that featured an AI system that went rogue and began to create weapons that were "impossibly powerful" and would "shred people" according to complaints on the game's blog.
- Date it happened
- 2016-06-02
- Organisation involved
- Frontier Development
- Product, system or model
- The Engineers 2.1 update to Frontier Development's game Elite Dangerous was meant to improve the user's experience by making non-playable characters and other features of the game more difficult to ov
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