Re: Dice, Please enable Bots for Portal and Enable Coop/Solo full prog
@Prof3ss0r_M1k3 wrote:
i've thought about it and i'm not on board with it. the bots don't respond intelligently and don't play realistically even at higher difficulties. why should that count towards progression the same as playing against live humans?
if you are going to do any sort of progression against bots there should be a separate pool of exp/rewards from what you get from playing against humans
Here are some of my more detailed comments where I speak out against the Restricted XP with AI enabled.
Also I must say, the AI have been drastically improved since launch. They actually revive you! Sometimes...
You say why should that count against progression? Here's why, because there aren't enough human players to fill lobbies to begin games. Some regions have to wait until the evening to play because of the minimum player count required in AoW, and even then, they're playing on Portal so Bots aren't allowed there, so lobbies start off slow and die fast.
That reason alone, should be enough to allow bots on Vanilla Portal Servers.
XP should not be separated between Humans or AI because as I've mentioned, some people barely have any humans to play with because of the game's minimum required players to start. By implementing a distinction in XP, you're effectively saying those players must now play double the amount of time that players in populated regions play?
So many people have been asking for AI in Portal to allow FULL XP. It's time that it was allowed. Playing vs Bots is hardly equitable to XP Farms. Have you flown a helicopter vs Easy Bots? Their tanks literally one shot you out the sky and every single soldier fires RPGs at you. The AI is not as dumb as you say.
