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arxiv: 2605.23345 · v1 · pith:POI6NBKHnew · submitted 2026-05-22 · 💻 cs.CV

SCOPE: Simulating Cross-game Operations in Playable Environments for FPS World Models

Zizhao Tong , Hongfeng Lai , Zeqing Wang , Zhaohu Xing , Kexu Cheng , Haoran Xu , Zhao Pu , Shangwen Zhu
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Ruili Feng Jian Zhao Yan Zhang Hao Tang Yeying Jin Ling Shao
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classification 💻 cs.CV
keywords FPS world modelsvideo diffusionaction conditioningcross-game transferspatial selectivityplayable environmentszero-shot generalizationscope separation
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The pith

A per-pixel conditioning module added to video diffusion models separates localized weapon actions from global camera motion in FPS environments, allowing cross-game generalization without segmentation labels.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper seeks to build interactive world models for first-person shooters that respond correctly to dense, overlapping control inputs at every frame. It starts from the observation that discrete actions like firing affect only the small region around the weapon while continuous movement governs the rest of the scene. SCOPE inserts a lightweight conditioning block into each transformer layer of a pretrained video diffusion model; the block flattens features into per-pixel time sequences so that each location decides its own action response from local visual evidence. A new dataset called CrossFPS supplies 69K aligned clips from seven different titles to train the model on general rather than title-specific patterns. The result is claimed to be zero-shot transfer to new scenes together with clean separation of in-scope and out-of-scope effects.

Core claim

SCOPE inserts a conditioning module into each transformer block of a pretrained video diffusion model. The module reshapes the feature map into per-pixel temporal sequences so every spatial position can compute its response to the incoming 10-DoF action vector from its own local visual content. This produces spatially selective generation in which discrete events remain confined to the weapon scope while continuous camera and movement signals update the stable surroundings. Trained on the CrossFPS multi-game dataset, the resulting model learns visual-to-action mappings that transfer to unseen titles and scenes.

What carries the argument

SCOPE conditioning module that reshapes video features into per-pixel temporal sequences inside each transformer block to compute local action responses.

If this is right

  • Zero-shot transfer of action responsiveness to completely unseen FPS scenes and titles.
  • Precise in-scope versus out-of-scope separation emerges without any segmentation supervision.
  • General visual-to-action mappings replace game-specific patterns across seven different titles.
  • Stable background generation remains intact while discrete events stay confined to the weapon region.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same per-pixel conditioning pattern could be tested on non-FPS interactive simulators such as driving or robotics environments that also mix localized and global controls.
  • Training cost might drop if the module allows reuse of a single video diffusion backbone across many different game genres.
  • Extending the approach to continuous rather than discrete actions would test whether the local-response assumption scales beyond weapon events.

Load-bearing premise

Discrete FPS actions affect only a localized region around the weapon while continuous movement signals affect the stable surroundings, so local visual content alone suffices to separate the two without any segmentation labels.

What would settle it

Apply a firing or reload action to a generated frame that contains no visible weapon; if the model still modifies only a small localized patch instead of the entire frame, the spatial-selectivity claim holds.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.23345 by Haoran Xu, Hao Tang, Hongfeng Lai, Jian Zhao, Kexu Cheng, Ling Shao, Ruili Feng, Shangwen Zhu, Yan Zhang, Yeying Jin, Zeqing Wang, Zhaohu Xing, Zhao Pu, Zizhao Tong.

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Figure 1. Figure 1 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: SCOPE architecture. A SCOPE module is inserted into each DiT block. Discrete inputs use cross-attention with visual queries to confine effects to in-scope regions. Continuous inputs use MLP fusion and temporal self-attention for out-of-scope generation. Pathways combine via residual connections. frame Vt must respond to the concurrent action at rather than merely extrapolating visual momentum. As establish… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: CrossFPS overview. Clip distribution across 7 FPS titles (69K total) with frame-aligned [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparison under high-frequency actions. Our method maintains out-of-scope [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative ablation. Left: without spatial selectivity, actions perturb the entire frame ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Action controllability on unseen scenes. Left: single and multi-action execution with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: CrossFPS statistics. (a) Linear velocity distribution. (b) Angular velocity for yaw and pitch. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Call of Duty: Warzone example. The first frame (highlighted with a green box) is used for caption generation and as the image-to-video condition. The action input sequence shows a leftward camera rotation transitioning to forward movement with simultaneous fire and reload events. Caption: “A dark narrow stairwell inside a building in Caldera Capital City, with a wooden ladder leading upward through a dimly… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Xonotic example. The first frame (highlighted with a green box) is used for caption generation and as the image-to-video condition. The action input sequence shows leftward movement combined with forward camera motion, rightward sweep, and a diagonal turn. Caption: “A dark military-industrial interior room labeled ‘Computer Room’ with large metal panel walls featuring riveted circular patterns, grid-patte… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Interactive world models for first-person shooter (FPS) games must resolve high-frequency overlapping control signals at every frame without disrupting unaffected regions. Existing methods inject actions globally and train on single titles, failing under dense FPS inputs. We observe that FPS actions are spatially selective: discrete events such as firing or reloading affect only a localized region around the weapon (the scope), while continuous camera and movement signals govern stable surroundings. We propose SCOPE, which inserts a conditioning module into each transformer block of a pretrained video diffusion model. It reshapes features into per-pixel temporal sequences so that each position computes its action response from local visual content. This separates in-scope effects from out-of-scope generation without segmentation labels. We also introduce CrossFPS, the first multi-game FPS dataset with frame-aligned action telemetry. It comprises 69K clips from 7 titles with 10-DoF controller signals, curated to remove gameplay bias. The model learns general visual-to-action mappings rather than game-specific patterns, enabling zero-shot transfer to unseen scenes. Experiments confirm strong action responsiveness, precise scope separation, and effective cross-game generalization.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes SCOPE, which inserts a per-pixel temporal-sequence conditioning module into each transformer block of a pretrained video diffusion model to handle spatially selective FPS actions. Discrete actions (e.g., firing) are assumed to affect only a localized weapon-scope region while continuous signals govern the surroundings, enabling label-free separation of in-scope effects. The authors introduce the CrossFPS dataset (69K clips from 7 titles with 10-DoF telemetry) and claim the model learns general visual-to-action mappings that support strong action responsiveness, precise scope separation, and zero-shot transfer to unseen scenes.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the work would advance interactive world models by providing a mechanism for dense overlapping control signals without segmentation labels or game-specific training, with the new multi-game dataset as a concrete contribution for studying cross-title generalization.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3 (method): The load-bearing premise that discrete actions affect only localized weapon-scope pixels is stated without addressing counterexamples such as muzzle flash or distant projectile impacts, which would produce non-local visual changes and break the per-pixel attribution in the transformer blocks.
  2. [Experiments] Experiments section: The abstract states that experiments confirm responsiveness, separation, and cross-game generalization, yet no quantitative metrics, baselines, ablation results, or error analysis are referenced; this prevents verification that the per-pixel conditioning actually isolates effects as claimed.
minor comments (1)
  1. [§4] The dataset curation process to remove gameplay bias is mentioned but lacks detail on the exact filtering criteria or statistics per game.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and indicate planned revisions to improve clarity and rigor.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract, §3] Abstract and §3 (method): The load-bearing premise that discrete actions affect only localized weapon-scope pixels is stated without addressing counterexamples such as muzzle flash or distant projectile impacts, which would produce non-local visual changes and break the per-pixel attribution in the transformer blocks.

    Authors: We agree this assumption merits explicit discussion. While muzzle flash remains localized to the weapon region, distant impacts are a valid counterexample that could violate per-pixel attribution. In the revised manuscript we will expand §3 to qualify the assumption, discuss these cases, and list them as a limitation of the current formulation. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: The abstract states that experiments confirm responsiveness, separation, and cross-game generalization, yet no quantitative metrics, baselines, ablation results, or error analysis are referenced; this prevents verification that the per-pixel conditioning actually isolates effects as claimed.

    Authors: Section 4 already reports quantitative metrics for responsiveness (action-conditioned FID and prediction accuracy), scope separation (region-specific reconstruction error), cross-game zero-shot transfer, plus ablations and baselines. We will revise the abstract and §3 to cite these results explicitly so readers can locate the supporting evidence without ambiguity. revision: yes

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The paper presents an architectural modification (per-pixel temporal conditioning in transformer blocks) motivated by an explicit observation about spatial selectivity of FPS actions, plus a new multi-game dataset (CrossFPS). No equations, fitted parameters, or predictions are shown to reduce to inputs by construction. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems or ansatzes. Central claims rest on empirical results from the introduced dataset rather than tautological redefinitions or renamed known results. This matches the default case of an honest, non-circular contribution.

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