You can read it here.
Quote "EA will be backfilling those servers with bots to keep games populated, the company confirms to The Verge, and there’s currently no plan to let you turn that off."
I will not purchase the game without a setting to disable this.
I don't know Planetside 2 at all so I looked up a comparison article with Battlefield 2042 maps between older/ different titles. Compared to COD Warzone I can get a feel for how big they are, still they don't seem that big to me.
I'm 100% guessing, but the only conclusion I can come up with is Battlefield 2042 won't feature cross-play, at launch at least. I came up with that because of how they're talking about bots for a game that hasn't even been released, why?
I'm glad the game will feature bots for the people who want it, but being it's a paid game, I would like features that are in my interest, Bots are not one of them.
I honestly find it more enjoyable knowing that each and every ingame character I come in contact with is a real person. It's one of the core parts of the online multiplayer sandbox. You shoot someone, they die and come back for you.
This cat & mouse game is part of Battlefield. I have a hard time believing the bots will feature that, plus just automatically giving away peoples positions just by shooting at everything willy-nilly.
If the game features cross-play, I'll feel better about bots, but I still think the paid user should have a say so if they want them or not.
I paid for this game so i demand that every single game mode from previous Battlefields is included, also every single map has to be there because i paid for it. If not well...refund! not playing! that will teach them a lesson!
In all seriousness.. you don't even own the game. You obtained a license to play it, nothing more. Also does that mean that i can only play against 63 bots? that would be pretty disappointing.
We will probably find that there will not be much AI in games at launch, as there will be sufficient players online. As time passes and new games come out the player base will naturally reduce and AI become more prevalent. Also handy for the nighthawks that decide a game at three in the morning would be a good idea.
They are taking a huge risk on being able to produce decent 'human' like AI bots. The problems theyll have is players will know they are up against AI bots so if one does something dumb,like a human player can sometimes do, we'll just blame the AI as being rubbish. We have all lost a firefight we should have won and won ones we should have lost against other humans, but if we suddenly start losing gunfights against AI that should have been won people will cry foul about AI cheating or conversely AI being rubbish. Whereas against human players we know we were just out fought (and thought), or were just plain rubbish on that occasion.
This news make me sad and worried. Bots in multiplayer isn't Battlefield, I won't be going near this game if it has bots. This game is already looking poor, such bad decisions already..
@ninjapenquinuk Don't worry, DICE won't make the bots hard to beat. The last thing DICE wants is bots kicking the crap out of their human customers and scaring them away from the game. If that happens who's DICE going to sell their live service merchandise to, the bots? 😉
The bots will be super easy to beat and super boring to play against.
