@lzilchetlDumb as rocks. No one would confuse them for anything else.
Now, there are difficulty levels to them and some of them are straight hacklords... but I think most people agree that they need an upgrade.
DICE isn't going to upgrade the bots with actual machine learning artificial intelligence like the bots in EA's SEED AI program, because that would explode their server hosting costs due to needing extremely more expensive server hardware that has machine learning acceleration.
So all DICE can do with the script bots currently in the game is turn their difficulty up until they turn into aimbots, or lower their difficulty until they're dumb as a rock.
Even if BF2042 did have machine learning AI bots in the game, I still wouldn't want to play against them. I'm a strictly human vs human type player.
@carsono311True, I did see some more competent bots and understand the need for levels (to mimic real players), but really, wimping out at the edge of the map is way below the threshold. I did go and try pushing them around a little but they didn't want to shift. Mind you, there is always the chance that i made a mistake and they were a couple of real players stats padding! (just reminded myself how easy it was to p players off when you accidentally joined a stats padding server in BF2 and started to shoot! Ha! Forgotten about that!)
I know its going to be alright and we are going to have some fun, but cant help the sinking feeling that we may not be as inspired as I thought I might.
@carsono311 wrote:@lzilchetlDumb as rocks. No one would confuse them for anything else.
Now, there are difficulty levels to them and some of them are straight hacklords... but I think most people agree that they need an upgrade.
Sometimes they behave like the annoying players. eg. While you sit in the gunner seat of an ITV to cover an attack on an objective, jump on the driver seat and drive away.
Didn't find them to be all that smart in the open beta but they may have been toned down intentionally.
Pretty much free kills in the beta.
Though i did get teambagged by a friendly one while it tried to rez me and kept breaking the animation until i timed out, so bonus points for that?
@kregora wrote:
@carsono311 wrote:@lzilchetlDumb as rocks. No one would confuse them for anything else.
Now, there are difficulty levels to them and some of them are straight hacklords... but I think most people agree that they need an upgrade.Sometimes they behave like the annoying players. eg. While you sit in the gunner seat of an ITV to cover an attack on an objective, jump on the driver seat and drive away.
Ha! I seat switched in an osprey and was waiting to drop down to drift to the target when one took the pilot seat and flew me off! I'm easily confused - wondered what had just happened!
@lzilchetl wrote:
@kregora wrote:
@carsono311 wrote:
@lzilchetlDumb as rocks. No one would confuse them for anything else.
Now, there are difficulty levels to them and some of them are straight hacklords... but I think most people agree that they need an upgrade.Sometimes they behave like the annoying players. eg. While you sit in the gunner seat of an ITV to cover an attack on an objective, jump on the driver seat and drive away.
Ha! I seat switched in an osprey and was waiting to drop down to drift to the target when one took the pilot seat and flew me off! I'm easily confused - wondered what had just happened!
@lzilchetl You got lucky - I switched seats accidentally and the person who took over the heli smashed it in to the ground. Unfortunately they weren't a bot 🤣
