Nvidia’s AI NPCs will debut in a multiplayer mech battle game next year
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Mecha Break lets you ask for advice from in-game characters. | Screenshot: YouTube Nvidia ACE, the company's AI-powered system for giving voices and conversation skills to in-game characters, is set to debut in Mecha Break, a new multiplayer mech battle game coming to PC, Xbox X / S, and PlayStation 5 in 2025.
In Mecha Break, players can choose from a variety of mechs across categories like assault, melee, and sniper for online matches where they'll fight both on the ground and in the air. It looks similar to something like the Armored Core series, just without a single-player mode.
Nvidia writes that players will be able to interact via natural language with game characters" and that the characters can see" and identify you or objects around you through your webcam, using GPT-4o. It'll also use a combination of...