Why did popcap think bots were a good idea?

I hate it when they taunt after vanquishing me.

Please remove them from PvP, Popcap.

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@ShadowPea127 wrote:

I hate it when they taunt after vanquishing me.

Please remove them from PvP, Popcap.

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At least it’s Al, not players, doing it, and it gives your allies easy vanquishes on your taunting Al enemies. By the way, I wonder if the addition of Private Play will remove bots from PvP? I somewhat hope so. Cause currently, PvP is a mix of playing, well PvP and Battle Chests.

Can only repeat that I hate bots in Team Vanquish. Used to be my favourite mode but not fun anymore when killing AI half the time. I only can bear Turf now with bots.

Bots also don't respond well to special modes. In a game of Suburban Isolation our three AI team mates where hanging around A when C was active. They may as well not be in the team. 

How about a matchmaking option "allow bots"? This would please everyone:

If you have it switched on and it takes too long to find a game you'll be put in one with bots and other available players.

If you have it switched off the game will wait until you have more real players, as you have signalled you prefer to wait longer.

In both cases, on or off, if there are enough active players everyone will be put in together with no bots.

@34975634954957The reason bots are here is because the gamemodes were empty or dying (when was the last time you actually played a full human lobby?) and trying to separate the two would make matchmaking even longer, so unless you got thousands of new players to join the game over the next few months it looks like bots are here to stay.

Though I do agree that their pathfinding is pretty crap as I see them get stuck pretty often.

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@stukapooka wrote:

@34975634954957The reason bots are here is because the gamemodes were empty or dying (when was the last time you actually played a full human lobby?) and trying to separate the two would make matchmaking even longer, so unless you got thousands of new players to join the game over the next few months it looks like bots are here to stay.

Though I do agree that their pathfinding is pretty crap as I see them get stuck pretty often.

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Yeah you are right that is the root of the problem. I guess if handled better it wouldn't be dying on some platforms to begin with. 

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@DJChickyNuggs wrote:

honestly the bots arent THAT bad

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Yes they are THAT bad. They use bs that wouldn't be possible with normal people like sniping with rocket ride and a ton more I could name. They're aim bot makes it impossible to flank or move around at low hp thus leading to more campy play styles which adds to the boring bot meta. I would prefer dead lobbys with small amounts of players rather then a ton of bots that lead you to HAVE to play a certain play style in order to combat them such as corner peeking and other bot metas. I would prefer them deleting bots out right but i could also see them nerfing them HEAVILY to be more like a regular player.

They should release cross play so we PC players wont have dead lobbies, so we won't need bots.

@Cucker00 I've seen you in a few games on PC (and in some Zack Scott videos)! I don't mind the bots as much as some others have posted but this is largely from playing a ton of bot matches in GW2 so the taunting, aimbotting, ZPGing while still being revived, and other stuff is more normal to me but when you get a lot of bots in a match it can be a pain. That being said, I wish we just had crossplay and a larger community so bots weren't used in PvP matches. My main issue with them is they don't count for vanquish players in PvP matches challenges which can be annoying as they can be too common in some games. I do still get some full player TT matches but having at least a couple of bots in a match is the most common situation I've been having in the last couple of weeks.