There charging way to much for an online only game, let's he real here
@Mephiticshepard He wants a way to play the game without having to shell out extra money for an Xbox/PlayStation subscription. Why do I need to explain something so obvious to you?
@rouvio Wrong. The original Battlefield games could be played without an Internet connection. They had bot support so players could keep playing the game after the servers were shut down. How did you not realize this?
@dogking57 When and where did DICE say there wasn't going to be offline bots? Can you provide a source?
@TTZ_Dipsy They did?! When did they say this?? Could you please direct me to where they made this confirmation?!
@AristarhUcolov2 Exactly! Tell it like it is, brother
As i do see your point. I dont think its really that much of a big deal. The problem is now days it dosnt matter what game you buy you cant play anything if your not connected to the internet. Look at black ops cold war. You cant even play the campain if you lose internet commection, and even living in a high end nabourhood, in a fairly busy city, in a 1st world country not every street in my nabourhood has fiberoptics internet. Does ot really matter if other people grind out there challanges all alone offline. If they can again grind out all tgere challages, online in a map set to only bots. I believe the technologies we have now we should have decent to good a.i. bots not like back in the day when bots could just stand there shooting the wall.
Both sides are correct and here's why:
Having access to a game you bought is a requirement. It must be fully functional in, at the very least, the foundation of the game. So if it's a fps for example, it just doesn't make any sense to not utilize an offline mode/bots.
However, in this case I do believe that there is a reason that (at least these bots) cannot be in offline. It's likely they are being run by the EA Servers, if that makes sense. As in, the bots might have to actually be contacting the servers at all times for whatever reason.
Although, PORTAL definitely needs to have offline components because, that is the obvious choice for playing with bots in an offline environment, or the closest version of it we might get currently. Just think about what it would be like to run 128 player server on your own machine. The CPU power you would need to just register all of the physics and such going on would be staggering, at least I think. Of course I could be talking out of my back but I imagine it has something to do with how difficult it would be to run the full experience and host it on your own machine especially on console.
However, that doesn't mean we shouldn't have the option for that. If not at launch then it would be nice later.
My thoughts exactly. I would love to be able to play offline with bots if I was going somewhere I didn’t have an internet connection. I couldn’t care less about progression. Or at worst give half xp for offline matches if people complain about that. I would like to have the ability to save portal modes to my device for offline play as well. I’m really hoping this will run fine on the steam deck.
