Re: AI Bots...

As much as AI farming COULD be abused to unlock ranks, and other rewards, you can bet your house on EA sorting it out if it has the potential to impact on MTX

Progressing against bots sounds a lot like boosting.

I am pretty sure nobody will force you to play with AI bots 🙂

Many players expressed a wish to play offline with AI bots, so in my opininon there should be dedicated offline mode, like Instant Action in Star Wars Battlefront 2, but I think we will have to wait for more info on that. However developer has made tremendous progress in the development of advanced AI, which can be equally chalenging as real players. I recommend reading this article: https://www.ea.com/games/starwars/battlefront/star-wars-battlefront-2/news/ai-article-deep-dive

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@Forkbeard84 wrote:

Progressing against bots sounds a lot like boosting.

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BF rookies playing against AI for unlocks are still going to get destroyed vs human oppenents. Even with unlocks, playing against AI can only get players to a certain point in skill.

Bots have been around for decades, I welcome the addition.

@ElliotLH Absolutely this.  I so sincerely hope that the weapon assignments are removed entirely or at least revamped a bit.  Some of them quite difficult indeed... I remember watching professional streamers struggle with some of them early on... it was rough.

The sad part is many of them were not reflective of your skill with the weapon, but rather your chance circumstance.  If the teams were unbalanced, it was next to impossible for some of them.

Pretty much all weapon assignments other than X number of kills or X amount of damage should be consigned to the dustbin. 

@ElliotLHYes it could become a necessary evil. It seems like an easy way to get the assignments done which might take some of the fun out of the game. One idea would be to make anything done against a bot not worth any in game assignments. I really don't know how that would work.

Also I dont know if you noticed the exchange has your Bloodied Landship right now.

@ZombieP1owI'm a big fan of getting bots as well. So much utility there.

@Threedog1421 I agree the bots present some challenges, but we have yet to see them as well.  Further, I don’t see how any players are going to create password locked servers when EA DICE is managing them… so again, it’s a wait and see.

To be clear, I am not for or against them currently since we don’t really know anything, but if they are indeed a significant part of the gameplay, then they will need to be carefully and thoughtfully implemented…

@Forkbeard84 That's a valid concern, it could make the game stale, or cheapen the reward. I'm not too sure how a solution to this would work either. Bit too complicated for how rubbish my brain is being today.

When BF2042 does come out I think I'll be taking a similar approach to how I play BFV now though - if I can do an assignment, great, but if I can't then I'm just going to try not worrying about it.

Thanks for letting me know about that sweet, sweet skin being available! I'll buy that from the exchange tonight.