And there is no way to turn it off for the time being, they're just to help keep matches populated. Here's the article below."There are currently no plans to let players turn this feature off, it reportedly said, but humans will always take priority. So at peak times, players may not ever encounter AI-controlled opponents."https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/battlefield-2042-will-add-up-to-64-ai-bots-to-help-fill-its-matches-ea-confirms/Edit: Some people seem to think I don't want bots or I want to turn them off, I'm just pointing out what the article says that there is no option to turn them off. I personally wouldn't want bots removed the more chaos going on the better imo, I think it's good that they'll fill up a server until actual players fill it.

@TickTack121 DICE/EA are chasing players that dont play and or like BF games. The problem is to do this, they have to make the game less like a Battlefield game. The devs dont seem to be trying to make the best BF game they can, they seem to be trying to make a game to entice non BF players. Obviously we have only seen a trailer and have been drip fed very little info, so wont know how it looks and plays for a little while yet. For all its faults, and there were many, BFV still felt like a BF game, but the changes BF2042 have the potential for the game to move even further away from BF past. It may make for a fun game, and all this 'angst' is misplaced, we'll have to wait and see.

@frantayps wrote:depending on the AI it can more fun than the human bots who are currently populating bfv. so i am optimistic until proven otherwise. we had the same thing back in the old cs 1.6 days. server populated by bots and it worked great back then. Did you ever play Combined Arms? If so, then why are you optimistic? Those bots were directly going for you, even if you have never seen them.

They can add whatever bots. It doesnt bug me.

@UP_Hawxxeye wrote:Why would you want there not to be some bots to fill up the server so you can play properly even if people ragequit?If the bots are good enough they may also push more for objectives that the average bad team that falls back to K/D farm if the going gets toughBecause you already got the problem. If they are so good, that they are better than the average low-score player in Battlfield, then they will leave the game. So we get even more bots. If they are worse than those players, then why do we need them?Those bots will be bad, i call that. We will recognize in the Beta. Same thing, that happened with BFV, happens here again. Dice learned nothing. Instead of keeping the stuff, that made this game great, they add a lot of new things and keep the bad stuff.You had BF3/4: "Good" Balanced gameplay overall, good map design and class system. Customization was bad, compared to the 2021 standard. Community servers / RSP fixed most of the problems.BF1: Immersion was amazing, they did a good job, with a difficult scenario. Map design was getting worse (Base *, no cover). Customization was worse than in BF3/4, but mostly due to the scenario. No more RSP by the way. Vehicle-Classes were new.BFV: Awful immersion, lot of clown skins, massively unbalanced, but Customization is great. They tried some attrition stuff, no one liked it (for legit reasons, what a stupid idea) and they changed the game a few times.BF2042: Lets screw the overall class system, for some lame "specialists" (where 3/4 already got "solo" items) no one asked for and a stupid battlepass. Maps are 4 times the "regular" size, but we only got twice the amount of players. One of the good things about BFV (customization) is screwed, because we get fixed characters.They learned nothing from the mess. If you think again about those trailers, they are exactly the same like BFV, yet everyone "loves" them. Pure marketing, but i doubt, that this game will be great or what the "community" wanted. Everyone is asking for BF3/BF4 style, instead we get a COD-like BF with Heros.PS: Don't take it personally, i don't want to attack you or something like that. I just don't know, why people are still trusting this company and say "yes" to everything. By the way: They don't even care about their own forums, instead they are listening to the "reddit crowd"

I've been playing against bot in other franchises for years. Not sure why everyone is so concerned about a 15 year old idea being added to a new game.

So it's confirmed that it's up to 64 bots in a match

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TickTack121
5 years ago
@ZombieP1ow wrote:
@TickTack121not sure what games you're playing, the harder settings just mean you have to play smarter. As for pre aiming, should players that prefire rounding a corner be chastised? Not even sure what "pre-aiming" means, if they are pre aiming at one target, that means they must have their head exposed for a team mate to pre aim on, Deal with it all the time, try call outs via microphone. Again, we know nothing, and pontificating about an unknown variable is pointless.
I dont know what you understand with difficullty, but i dont want Bots to have wallhack and aimbot like in bfv, i just want them to be smart. Never ever seen that in a Game.
ninjapenquinuk
5 years ago
@carsono311 They have to entice new players to make even more $$ . The problem is If they keep moving away too much from the original BF games (and yes we haven't seen this one yet) then it will alienate and turn away players who liked that game style, and yet may not attract enough new players away from COD or battle royale games and the series will be in big trouble.
carsono311
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
@ninjapenquinuk Yes, I agree it needs to lean heavily on tried and true gameplay from the previous series, but I do not blame EA DICE for trying new things and pursuing potentially interesting opportunities where they can.
UP_Hawxxeye
Legend
5 years ago
@TickTack121 wrote:
@UP_Hawxxeye wrote:
Why would you want there not to be some bots to fill up the server so you can play properly even if people ragequit?
If the bots are good enough they may also push more for objectives that the average bad team that falls back to K/D farm if the going gets tough
Because you already got the problem. If they are so good, that they are better than the average low-score player in Battlfield, then they will leave the game.
After like 8 rounds in BFV in a team full of "average low-score players" vs teams with clan squads, I would rather those zombie players to quit and find a game that suits them more.
I know it sounds harsh but I just have fun being stuck with people who just get farmed and either claim the vehicle slots or spend time calling their betters hackers.
Earlier I was in a staghound in Rotterdam and I saw gunfire flash around a corner so I shot a shell at that corner and because I killed the one just around the corner with a blast I was called hacker for the entire round. I could live without such players
TTZ_Dipsy
Hero+
5 years ago
Pretty sure seeing 64 bots in a match will be extremely rare, even in Europe, and, while uncommon, should prove to be a welcomed sight in the SA and ME communities

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