Tired of bots in the ranked ladder
To those who don't know it: Plants vs. Zombies Heroes playerbase has been drastically reduced because of their greedy policy: feeling themselves unable to progress because of p2w and early access decks they face and too slow pace of gems farm you need to get packs to improve your deck, people started leaving the game. We can see it when Plants vs. Zombies Heroes was dropped from the top 150 popular games in App Store despite being heavily advertised.
It resulted in very very long queue for taco and ultimate league and horrible matchmaking when taco/ultimate players were paired with wood or silver league players. There were a lot of threads about mismatching at relevant forums/websites. You should remember experiencing it yourself.
Then EA has found a solution: bots. A lot of bots from single play, decks filled with good cards and what the most important, really good luck, put into taco/ultimate ladder so you will always have someone to play with. I understand it's really tinfoil material but it's too much of a coincidence otherwise.
How to spot a bot:
1. You get a bot against you only if you have waited for a considerably long time (25-35 seconds): you usually were matched with a player far higher or far lower at this point (ultimate or wood/silver if you're taco) but now you get a player from tako +-1 rank from you. So long time of waiting but you get a matching rank player.
2. Default name (extremely important!) which suddenly changes to another one (quite nonsensical) during the last second of the screen where heroes are against each other. Example: Torchwood changes to another name or Green_Shadow (I don't know about underscore but it was there) changes to another name. It never happens when you play against humans.
3. Really stupid moves. Control Solar Flare sunburning my face the first round? Seriously? Wall-knight playing geyser without plants and being on 17 HP? Don't make me laugh please.
4. Abnormal, abysmal, unbelievable luck. They have all the answers to your plays they need. Kabloom heroes start with 2 berry blasts, their shield is never triggered by 1 (or very very rarely) etc. etc. Freeze green shadow has shuffled 2 beanstalks into deck turn 2 then played 2 beanstalks turn 3. Torchwood played 3 bananasaurus in a row.
They sometimes lose because of stupid decisions they make but it's really hard to win against them because of the luck factor being dominant in PVZH.
I understand it could be just my delusion and it could exist a bunch of bad but really lucky players who has reached tacoand progress there just because of that, but it doesn't explain the fact you encounter them after LONG waiting (when you were mismatched already before) or the fact their name is being changed (and I bet generated) ad hoc.
The chance to get a bot is usually higher once you are close to 20 stars, usually from 14 to 20, but I am only rank 45 so I have only 4 ranks of observations.
@GargantuarFeast wrote:
If many believes that there is a bot, then it is a conclusion that the community is being wary about bots and that we need clarification from ea
This is the exact point of this thread: make the community be wary of the bots possibility and pay more attention to their game when they see a name of opponent suddenly changed from generic to random one.
