The bots are here to stay. This is why.
I'm still seeing posts from the vocal minority (possibly trolls?) saying they still don't want bots in the game at all. I'm ending the hate right now and if I still see hate against the bots after t...
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Yes, but, if we got everyone on this forum to ask Dice to remodel the game (three months before launch) to include offline bots Dice will probably change their minds. Oops, hang-on - no they wouldn't.
@lzilchetl OK. So we'll ask them to do it AFTER launch.
Yes, after BF2 i mistakenly thought they would add Bot support, however, a decade and half later with 2042 they did it seemingly begrudgingly.
Single player campaigns have a great story to tell, but they have limited to zero replay variation.
Multiplayer has such a non linear play that changes every time you play and each game itself is unique.
Bots just add another dimension to that uniqueness that allows for play long after the mass of real players have gone on to play a newer release.
The ability to pick up an old game such as BF3, or 4 and play it with a newer faster computer and have a similar experience because of bot support is to me Valuable. If a game was released at $49.99 and just had PVP = no sale to me... but if you could upgrade to the Multiplayer with AI/offline bot support version for $69.99 I would buy it.
I like the looks and reviews of games like "SQUAD " and "HELL LET LOOSE" but they lack bot support and it is a no sale for me as I could play that type of multiplayer experience with an older version of battlefield on hardcore servers.
These are just my opinions and my opinions have cash behind them.
- @KnightFury68 Yeah, but as we've seen, EA just doesn't care. They don't care about offline play or game preservation.
- @KnightFury68 I couldn't agree more with everything you've said there. That pretty much sounds like me talking, to be honest.
Havnt played an online FPS game since Bad Company 2. Back when I was still in my prime and had good reflexes and eyes.
So whilst waiting for F1 23 to release I decided to give BF2042 go. I had no idea… literally just a whole lot of dying. Not even sure any shot I did get off was even in the direction of the bad guys. Ended up closing the game. Back in the day I was a sweat in Bad Company 2. I was a Rush God. 100% everything. Fortunately for me I mentioned this where we Champions chat to eachother. Was told to go to portal and was given some codes to enter. Up until that point I didn’t even know I could play with 127 bots. Now I’m learning the maps, getting kills and unlocking weapon attachments:.., and endless amounts of other stuff I find pointless: Won’t be paying real money. Will say good thing about old online games. Wasn’t endless Progression and unlocking weapons and attachments. Was nice to max one weapon and move onto the next. Didn’t matter if you hated a weapon. You could max it long before rage set in.
Anyhow yes my kills are just against bots. But I’m getting kills and what’s the most important thing I’m having fun doing it: But what was even better. A random human player turned up in my squad during a game. We both found our way into a light tank: and we committed bot genocide. Was awesome.
I watch YouTubers such as JackFrags and seeing how quickly and effortlessly his acquires and takes out players. Demonstrates to me. I’m too old and slow to be playing multiplayer: Fortunately for me. I don’t need to prove anything to myself: I refuse to play any game that makes me sweat whine sitting in an armchair. Killing bots is fun. And they don’t get upset and cry and complain and accuse you off cheating, when you kill then over and over again.
- @KnightFury68 This is one advantage of bots. The other advantage is that bots allow players in the smaller territories to (potentially) play all game modes.
For example, in Oceania, there are not enough players to regularly spin up a Breakthrough or Rush game. In the past 12 months I can count on one hand the number of times I have been able to play those two modes.
Conquest usually has enough players to get a regular game.
If Conquest is not populated, I can log into an official Portal game (start with 1 player; backfill with AI until others join).
All game modes should be included as official Portal games.
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@Lancelot_du_Lac wrote:
@KnightFury68This is one advantage of bots. The other advantage is that bots allow players in the smaller territories to (potentially) play all game modes.
For example, in Oceania, there are not enough players to regularly spin up a Breakthrough or Rush game. In the past 12 months I can count on one hand the number of times I have been able to play those two modes.
Conquest usually has enough players to get a regular game.
If Conquest is not populated, I can log into an official Portal game (start with 1 player; backfill with AI until others join).
All game modes should be included as official Portal games.
Oceania
Xbox
Crossplay on100% this, I have been pushing for this change so that AOW matches can get started.
Instead of players hanging around for ages trying to get to the minimum number of players required to start a round, make it the same system as Portal so that ALL players get to play.
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