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And all of this is strung together by something called the AI Director, which is really just a

fancy way of saying dynamic difficulty system. And the way this works is that based on players

actions and how they're performing the level, certain things are generated like items, weapons,

and waves of enemies, and it can also rearrange certain level elements. I think it works really well

because I really don't I can't feel like how my actions are changing what's happening around me,

but I'm sure if you looked into it enough and there are wiki articles about how it works,

you can kind of game the system, but it works well enough for someone like me who's played it for

200 hours to realize like, oh, I don't really know how I'm manipulating this thing at all. I don't

know if you both have the similar experience that I do. Yeah, at its basic level, it's when you're

doing well, it makes it harder. Right. But the ways that it does this is not just a linear line.

It does it with a mind towards tension and release, which is the most impressive thing about it to me.

You know, I can I'm you're pretty good at this game, but it doesn't just pour on challenge.

It still gives you quiet moments. It still gives you downtime because that's really important to

the pace of play. So it ends up feeling pretty sophisticated in terms of kind of a speed governor

for the pacing. You can tell in a lot of video games where you hit like the trigger that spawns

all the enemies to come at you or whatever and you don't really ever feel that in in left for dead

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