A gamer sets up a bot-vs-bot match on his Quake III Arena server and lets the match run to see how the bots will adapt over a long period of time. The bot AI (artificial intelligence) in Quake III Arena is designed to adapt to new scenarios and situations but these are usually resolved in short matches.
So he starts up the match and then promptly forgets all about it?until four years later when he decides to login and see what?s happening.
What he discovers is puzzling: the bots on both teams are simply standing still, not doing anything. The server is running and the game isn?t frozen. The bots are simply standing there, not killing one another.
So this anonymous gamer downloads the game and logs into the server to see what happens when he enters the match.
Here things just keep getting stranger. When he enters, the bots don?t fire on him?instead, they rotate to turn and look at him, and continue to look at him as he walks around the map.
Then he shoots one, and the bots attack him and before we can find out whether they then turn their weapons on one another, the server crashes...
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