"Everstone Studios' free-to-play action-adventure-RPG Where Winds Meet is a game that gives over many of its NPC conversations to chatbots. But these NPCs aren't necessarily smarter because they're AI. In fact, players have discovered some easy-to-exploit loopholes in the chat model that convinces NPCs to hand over their side-quest loot or money even when you haven't done anything at all."
"While Everstone may eventually fix that workaround, it's not the only way to mislead the NPCs. Another user on Reddit found that repeating the NPC's last statement as a question can eventually wear it down until it hands over the item. The user called it, "the Metal Gear method." While the AI chatbots may be technically superior to standard NPC behavior, traditional NPCs wouldn't fall for the same tricks due to their programing."
Where Winds Meet delegates many NPC conversations to AI chatbots. Players discovered chat input exploits that trick NPCs into believing quests are complete and award rewards without required actions. NPCs often format emotional responses and actions in parentheses, allowing players to claim completion by placing a statement inside parentheses. Repeating an NPC's last line as a question can also coax items from the chatbot. Scripted traditional NPCs lack the expressive options that permit such deception. Everstone Studios may patch these exploits. The game launched on PC, PlayStation 5, and mobile this month.
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