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FEATURE<br />
“I’ve always used a PS4 but in competition<br />
I use a PC because it is for all the<br />
platforms and you can use a PS or Xbox<br />
joystick or controller,” he says of his<br />
‘tools. “The PC has more power so we<br />
use that.”<br />
MotoGP 2019 and the VR46<br />
Academy<br />
When it comes to hardware and software<br />
(away from the multi-million dollar motorcycles)<br />
MotoGP is helped by the very<br />
thorough and impressive ‘MotoGP 2019’.<br />
Italian developers Milestone have exceeded<br />
their previous editions of the official<br />
MotoGP game thanks to radically new<br />
‘artificial intelligence’; in other words the<br />
behaviour of computer-controlled rivals<br />
in the single player mode.<br />
“The new AI is important and the result<br />
of three years work with an external<br />
company for ‘machine learning’,” says<br />
Milestone Marketing Manager Andrea<br />
Loiudice. “It will be revelatory in gaming.<br />
<strong>On</strong>ly a few strategy games have something<br />
similar. Through data the game<br />
learns by itself and has not been programmed<br />
by a human. It is much faster<br />
and much more ‘human’ after moving<br />
through 4 phases of learning behaviour.”<br />
A ‘Historic’ mode of old riders and circuits<br />
has been fleshed out and the graphics<br />
have been further hiked in terms of<br />
spec and being able to use the weighty<br />
crunching resources of a console such as<br />
the PS4. There are other upgrades, and<br />
Milestone have augmented the online capabilities<br />
for MotoGP 2019. “A big investment<br />
in a dedicated server to improve<br />
lag,” Loiudice adds. “I’m convinced this<br />
is the best MotoGP game ever and it has<br />
improved in every aspect. The graphics
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