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Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

#131

Congrats on the launch, a question on the technical side of things -- how much computational overhead does your desktop client incur on the host machine? If you're running CV algorithms locally, would that necessitate higher minimum system performance specs beyond those recommended by Riot/other game vendors to avoid impacting the performance of the game client itself?

Thanks for the support, appreciated! We are trying to develop a lightweight CV algorithm so that will affect the performance of the game client. So far we didn't get problem regarding the FPS drop.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

#132

Hey—congrats on the launch! I'm a big Valorant player (peaked Immortal 3 a few seasons back) and I've also used/talked to the people at visor.gg and pursuit.gg when they were around. Totally understand the concerns here around being at the whim of the publisher, and previous companies have been blindsided by changes in how companies like Blizzard decide what is and isn't allowed on their platforms. Interestingly, YC…

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts. We're aware of visor.gg (had a talk with Ivan) and pursuit.gg and are trying to learn from previous experience in this domain.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

#136

Just wanted to say very cool and very wesome idea. I am someone who has invested tons of time into valorant in hopes of getting immortal. I finally got to plat 2 from silver. I’ll definitely check this out over the weekend and give feedback this could actually help me

Thank you. We're looking forward to your feedback.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

#139
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When a good significant portion of your website is dedicated to “will I get banned?” .. I don’t know, man, it’s probably not going to go over well with these game companies. Also, is AWS, NVIDIA, etc really a “partner?” Just because I use their products, or get credits, that doesn’t mean they endorse or have partnered with me? This just feels like cheating to me in Valorant: https://vimeo.com/534438994

Getting audio queues for what is happening on the screen is cheating, pure and simple. "Game awareness" is one of the most difficult aspects to master in fps. I've been playing fps for a very long time, and I would point at the the death cues in particular as being absolutely unfair, you either have to defocus your perception to take in the kill feed(a very difficult thing to do during an intense fight), or move your eyes away from the reticle to read the feed. It would be trivial for the game devs to add this, or put a mini kill feed under the reticle(some games have this, like PUBG) but they don't, and that makes it "assistive software" aka cheating. Further, if you are working with teammates, they can't use a subtle queue like a beep, they likely have to speak, "1 down" or such, which is much more disruptive to your ability to hear footsteps. What further makes this egregious in the case of Valorant is that there isn't even hit markers, so if you are, say, shooting into smoke, this give you a significant advantage to know what's going on in a fight.

Likewise, counting bullets is a very difficult skill to master, and this, like the death notifier is a straight up replacement for that skill (with the caveat being you can't go pro gamer, lol, like it matters for the average cheater) the same way an aimbot is a replacement for the mechanical skill of mousing. Sorry, but training isn't an in-game assist.

If I saw a twitch streamer using this I'd be livid. This gross, and fuels the need for invasive 0-ring anti-cheat malware.

Not to say everything about this software is cheating, I think providing detailed character/map/mechanics analysis is fine, and a great business idea, but this real-time in-game feedback is gross, at least in the fps genre that I'm familiar with.

Re: Launch HN: Senpai.gg (YC S21) – Personal gaming coach for PC gamers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

listening to a song that has INJECT at the right moment put in for your perfect injects isnt cheating as long as you dont play it during tournaments, its just a metronome to practice to. Its not a service I would ever want to use because I actually enjoy games and I find coaching it to be too much to care about, but I think "audio clues to practice" doesn't meet the bar of cheating lol.

Is there actually a song like that?

I definitely remember "maximus black" a starcraft 2 streamer talking about a song he had that had this very same setup yeah.
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