2018-07-14

Aliens: Colonial Marines AI fixed by a single letter

An amazing story about how a one-letter typo in a configuration file broke the entire AI system in the shipped version of a multi-million dollar flop of a video game from 2013. With this fix, people can now play the game as it was designed five years later. Wow!

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