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Re: So many bots...

You can also see [AI] appended to the bot name when the bot is spotted in sights or by other means. I usually play as Caspar, so spotting bots (and others) with the drone is easy. You can see the AI name in this grab from the somewhat amusing video by jackfrags on the short lived zombie paratroopers from hell mode:

The only good thing about bots is that they don't do revenge kills...

Oh, and they don't sneak up on you and cut your throat.

One of the more interesting things from that video, is that you can see the damage radius for fragmentation grenades in BF2042. E.g. where the zombies move back to form a circle around the grenade. In real life (being ex Australian Army), the damage radius would be much greater for a frag (e.g. for M67 or F1) - 15 metres (and up to 230 metres). The zombies have moved less than 5 metres which is the kill radius of a M67 or F1.

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Micawber729
Seasoned Veteran
4 years ago
@FlatChat I wondered how peeps were seeing them. I have yet to see them at SO114. Not one AI in a name
FlatChat
4 years ago
@k1u73 It may depend on when and where you are playing as to the number of bots in a game (if any). I'm level 95 and have seen them for a while now.
Bots pop games in the absence of human players.
My understanding is that if you are playing in a region that has a relatively large 2042 player base, then chances are you may not see any.
Elsewhere the story will be different.
I played over the weekend (from Australia), both days in Breakthrough 128 players, and when I managed to get into a game (9 to 5), the teams were at least 80% bots on each side. I can easily see this as Caspar with a drone, I just scan the whole team. This changed however so that later in the day (after 5) there were no bots - all human players. It may be due to US players coming on line at that time, I'm not sure.