So many bots...
I find no satisfaction playing against bots. Just trying to find a game is difficult enough. When I do, it's half full of bots. 128 player game in Breakthrough and there are a couple of dozen play...
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@CyberDyme As I am in Northern Canada and with cross play off and can not get in any AOW server at all. When it is turned ON i can get in but yes latency is bad and the server is very buggy for me. Have turned everything down and still not good.
I liked it when I could pick my server based on ping and location and now that i cant seems playing is not an option. Never had a problem in any of the past BF games, just this one.
Plus some of you seem to have Bots on your AOW servers but have never seen one yet and most of the time when I turn cross play off just sit in Assassin Squad as Squad leader for a long time until i get booted.
I liked it when I could pick my server based on ping and location and now that i cant seems playing is not an option. Never had a problem in any of the past BF games, just this one.
Plus some of you seem to have Bots on your AOW servers but have never seen one yet and most of the time when I turn cross play off just sit in Assassin Squad as Squad leader for a long time until i get booted.
@frekwalda1 That is interesting and also seems to support the idea about certain regions (e.g USA) having a higher 2042 player base than others when compared to e.g. BFV.
Maybe those regions haven't been as willing to jump into 2042...
#1. How do you know which players are bots?
#2. Cross play is enabled and 90% of the console players play worse than who I think are bots
- @xXPllasmaXx They have [AI] next to their name on the player list.
- @ElliotLH Thank you. I haven't noticed that yet but I don't look at the player list too often.
- @xXPllasmaXx Same here TBH. With how badly I play I'd like to pretend I'm only taking a kicking from real players haha
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.
- @FlatChat I wondered how peeps were seeing them. I have yet to see them at SO114. Not one AI in a name
@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.
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