LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

[Sprouto]

The LOUD Project is a stand alone mod that brings overall better performance and better AI to the world of Forged Alliance. The work has been underway for four years now and is on the lip of being released into the wild.

We will be hosting a Twitch stream, repeatedly, today, January 20th, beginning at 3pm Central Time and over the duration of the remainder of the day. We will feature both AI skirmishes and an actual game (at 9pm Central) that should showcase the various abilities of the work.

Here is the link to the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/aaxlleex

[Sprouto]

We're having another technology exploration today, showing off a match against the LOUD AI, this afternoon - starting at 3pm Central.

Come join us on Twitch and ask all the questions you'd like.

Here is the link to the Twitch user hosting the stream;

https://www.twitch.tv/aaxlleex

[Tanksy]

Will LOUD AI be less buggy than Sorian? Will it also be able to use Custom units, but in a better way than Sorian's "Random chance of building this despite having no idea what to do with it"?

[Sprouto]

That mostly depends upon the custom units themselves.

LOUD will use them -- but not necessarily as you think. A great deal depends upon the categorization of the units. LOUD expanded upon the original definitions used by the stock code.

[Krapougnak]

Very nice thread keep it up, I will watch the twitch when I get time at home.

[cel00]

Extremely interesting, waited for a reworked and improved AI for years, keep it up!
I can't wait to see it live.

[HTKatzmarek]

I wanted to mention in this thread, that there's a number of us that play this version of the game every weekend. If you're into AI games, once you've played this version and seen the AI and performance increases, you'll never go back! If you're interested in joining us, or just joining the game in view only mode, to see what's it like, please post here, and someone from our team will get back with you.

[HTKatzmarek]

Here's a link to our game configuration switcher and updater program:

https://www.adrive.com/public/tq6AYg/SCFA_Updater.exe

This will allow you to retain your original game directories, as well as the directories required for the loud project. The program includes a button to switch configurations, as well as load/update the loud modded game.

This program is written in the AutoIt scripting language, and Windows Defender may as such detect it as malware...but it is completely safe. We have many people in our group running it, and should you have any questions about it, please post. Myself or someone from our team will get back to you to discuss any questions.

[Raverinne]

I try updating my configuration to loud, but this file won't go through: FTP download of C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Supreme Commander Forged Alliance\installed.prefs failed. I've done everything, disable anti-virus, run the program under administrator.

[Sprouto]

Does the remainder of the update go thru ? Or are other errors reported ?

Does that file exist already and is it perhaps set to be Read-Only ?