NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine allows NPCs and Bosses to understand player intentions, and is confirmed to be used in "PUBG" and "Everlasting"

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NVIDIA announced a variety of AI applications at CES 2025. In addition to DLSS 4 in the gaming field, it also introduced Avatar Cloud Engine technology into the NPC characters of the game, allowing it to understand the player’s voice and attack strategies, and create more vivid Automated performances, and confirmed that this technology will be introduced in many games such as “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds”, “Everlasting”, and “inZOI”.

NVIDIA Avatar Cloud Engine (NVIDIA ACE for short) was first released in 2023. By importing a generative AI language model, NPC characters can have imaginative chat functions, so that conversations are no longer limited to specific text options.

At this year’s CES 2025, NVIDIA expanded the application of this technology, allowing it to realize scenarios other than dialogue, and apply it to a variety of NPC characters with different uses, such as computer teammates, enemy bosses, and even passerby NPCs.

nvidia-ace-replicating-human-decision-making-is-hard — NVIDA ACE simulates character thinking

nvidia-ace-enables-autonomous-game-characters — NVIDIA ACE uses images, sounds, and operations to determine and generate corresponding AI behaviors.

By importing the new NVIDIA ACE small language model for these NPC characters, they can simulate the behavior planning of real people, and additional image and sound models can be superimposed so that these characters can perceive the environment and support voice input, allowing players to fully understand the environment. Natural language is used to command NPCs, and of course it can also be used for enemy characters, allowing them to instantly analyze player strategies and get rid of formulaic monster spawning.

At present, many games have announced the use of NVIDIA ACE technology. Among the games that are already on the market, “PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS” and “NARAKA: BLADEPOINT” will introduce corresponding functions in future updates, providing computer Assist teammates, and can use microphone commands to request assistance in finding specific resources, covering, auxiliary attacks, and other operations.

As for games that have not yet been launched, “inZOI”, “Mira 5”, “Dead Meat”, “AI People”, “ZooPunk”, “Alien” :Rogue Incursion) and “World of Jade Dynasty” will also use corresponding technologies to achieve diversified gameplay.

For example, “inZOI”, which is the Korean version of The Sims, will introduce Smart Zoi characters and use NVIDIA ACE in some passerby NPCs to achieve active interaction with events around them. Players can also lock and observe Smart Zoi to learn what NPCs are doing during their actions. idea.

“Mira 5” chooses to use NVIDIA ACE to put it on the game Boss to make the game more challenging. The enemy will know the profession played by each player and release skills, thereby determining which ones should be attacked first. objects and change the attack plan according to the current battle situation, getting rid of the high predictability of traditional games and making repeated challenges no longer boring.