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Midnight9746's avatar
2 years ago

Bot Players

From my own observations, a lot of the "teammates" I get are just bots. They do next to nothing when they're on my team and then the game would reuse those same bots as enemies and they would actually *know* how to play the game like they're a TTV Bald Wraith Pred Pro. Like.... okay... why is it like this? I'm also seeing the same 10+ player names in the kill feed, on enemy teams, on my teams across days, weeks, months, etc., some of which are actual players.

Game has been taking ages to matchmake in Season 16 and when it finds a match, I get two noob level players, while other teams are clearly a higher level ELO.

And yes, these are bots. I've watched plenty of new players to the game, and to gaming in general and they never played like how these randoms play. Most players would walk places and not run, loot an area lightly and not grab much, shoot at others without aiming down sights, panic when faced with conflict and often would try to escape fights, try to revive when they should run, etc.

These bot players are running around like they're on auto-pilot, looting everything, aiming down their sights on targets where they either miss 99.9% of the shots but then later be missing 0.1% of their shots while actually following other players with their "aim".

In other words, its obvious when its a player as they seem clueless, while a bot acts like it knows how to play but either plays poorly or play like a pro.

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  • Just had a match where the matchmaking felt somewhat skill based. It did seem like my team was a higher ELO than the other teams, although the last team did put up a bit of a challenge. My team ended up winning that match. But then the match right afterwards, I was put onto a team with two players who were my randoms 3 days ago around 10 AM CST, (its almost 3 AM CST right now), both played like bots and died right after landing. (One ran and tried to punch out a player with a gun like how the firing range dummies do when you're right next to them, while the other just stood there and started walking in random directions.

    Worst part was this is in ranked, I lost 34 points, and was the champion on the champion squad, where we placed #17. If these were somehow players, they need to be put back into the rookie rank and play against a full lobby of bots for more than 10 matches, (yes, they are that bad at the game).

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    Midnight9746
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    2 years ago

    Switched servers from a US one to a Japan one, sure I'm lagging more, but I'm barely seeing any kinds of smurphs, cheaters, and even bots. While I am playing at 3-4pm, that makes it 5-6am for the Japan server, I'm sure a lot aren't on, but says a lot to see this drastic of a change in the matchmaking from smurphs, cheaters, and bots, to actual fair matches.

    Edited: The moment you win a match on a different server, the game thinks you can 1v3 players that aim better than a pro in the ALGS, like how are these aimbotters not detectable? They literally snap and lock onto other players, and the anti-cheat just goes: "yeah, that's normal", when its not.

    Also for the past 18 hours, the game has allowed multiple smurphs and cheaters farm kills in rank, ruining countless matches for countless players. Its just... wow. I've been going between Gold I and Gold II, because everytime I hit Gold I, I get swarmed by non-stop cheaters, diamond+ players boosting their friends, and smurphs. Its insane how broken the matchmaking is and no wonder why people have been saying "dead game".

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