Remove XP from bots -> to fix Portal
Edit: I now realize my suggestion was foolish. I forgot people use bots to create Co-Op experiences like those in Insurgency: Sandstorm. Having played a lot of co-op in Insurgency, I agree that it is...
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No this isn't it.
Honestly I don't get the Stigma about bots.
Some people can't play pvp as well, or just don't want to sweat or play super seriously. Or heck even want to play HC, but cant from that.
and bots is the least they could do to make up for the removal of campaign.
This game is already dying, and bots have even been seen in AOW multiplayer from the player base leaving to other games.
No exp from bots would be darn near the final nail in the coffin for some people.
People won't sit and wait around for servers to fill if you don't get Xp from bots will you wait.
They need to just swallow their pride, and restore XP back to portal regardless.
That was literally what they promised. People will always find a way to exploit the system.
You can farm bots for points in the official AOW servers so I can't see why it was such an issue in portal. Anyway our portal servers had no bots so can't see why our clan has been punished.
I had over 100 players in my friends list come back to BF2042, over 50 have left never to come back because DICE pulled the rank up from portal servers. If they had left the points alone for servers that didn't run bots we would have at least 3 severs a night running full every night, one 128p, one 48p rush and one custom 32p TDM or Gunmaster.
After what happened in Hardline to not see this coming in portal is beyond belief, I mean really how removed from reality are the dev's.
I've posted many times over the years that custom servers with a simple handicap system based around the custom settings is the way to go, how can that be so hard to figure out.
As it stands now I have no desire to play BF2042 and neither do many of my friends....... we have just stopped gaming actually.... good work DICE people that don't game don't spend money on games.. great business model that.
