Bring in the bots

(HammerOfDawn21) #1

[left]People drop out of matches for various reasons, most of the times unintentionally and their team forced to play 4-5.

Adding in a bot to replace the disconnected player until the player rejoins can ease the situation.

Now adding a fully fledged mine detonating proxy bot will be a lot of work, but can’t they add a simple bot that can just use guns. No healing or repairing, just shooting.

All they have to do is place bushwhacker’s turret on the EV, make it move without any repairs. Reduce the size of the EV and remodel the whole thing to look like the scrub from the scrubs trailer.

Right?[/left]

(Nail) #2

no bots ever :#

(Cletus_VanDamme) #3

Wrong

(GatoCommodore) #4

unless the bots are nightmare mod auto tracking shooter, it wont be able to replace the utility and strategy of a human player.

(Eox) #5

People in ranked can already pause the game if one of their players gets disconnected so he can join back as fast as he can with minor impact on the match. There’s no reason to add a bot that would probably hinder players more than everything. Bots are usually predictable and terrible. And hard to tweak. There’s no place for bots in ranked.

…And now I have flashbacks from the forum bot war.

(frostyvampire) #6

It would be cool but I think coding bots takes a lot of time and I prefer if this time is used on other things instead.
Besides, bots are very easy to kill because they don’t have any strats and they will just yolo rush every time they respawn. It’s better than being 4v5 but it’s still not going to help you win the game.

On the other hand, they can deal with leavers in other ways. Like reduced elo loss (or increased gain if you win 4v5) or +25 max health to all the players on the team or something like that to balance things out

(GatoCommodore) #7

until Bots are replaced with self teaching AI like in Ghost In the Shell

(Pumpkiller) #8

I’d rather have one random guy join or have one of my friends be able to join my ranked game to substitute for leavers.
Creating bots would take 6 times more effort for basically creating an uncontrollable killfeeder.

(GatoCommodore) #9

[quote=“Pumpkiller;c-224230”]I’d rather have one random guy join or have one of my friends be able to join my ranked game to substitute for leavers.
Creating bots would take 6 times more effort for basically creating an uncontrollable killfeeder. [/quote]

would be cool if you can command the bot using the command quickchat
maybe one day…

(Pumpkiller) #10

[quote=“GatoCommodore;c-224231”][quote=“Pumpkiller;c-224230”]I’d rather have one random guy join or have one of my friends be able to join my ranked game to substitute for leavers.
Creating bots would take 6 times more effort for basically creating an uncontrollable killfeeder. [/quote]

would be cool if you can command the bot using the command quickchat
maybe one day…[/quote]

That wouldn’t help much,it would only help in getting it insta-gibbed by snipers.
Controling it while somebody’s dead would be intersting,though.

(JonBongNoJovi) #11

Would having a "substitute " option be viable ?

Either or both being a option ingame to be voted for , and as a check box in game search.

(BlackboltLW) #12

Bots are good addition for leavers tho, they’re probably so terrible that it might distract the enemy team :^)

(Dawnlazy) #13

Could pretty much just default the bots to Auras that drop stations in a few set points.

(Boory Marks) #14

I think bots are better for just practicing by yourself or goofing around, as bots, I find, never find themselves as good as real players. This is especially so in ranked, when everyone is expected to play their best.

(Mc1412013) #15

Think bots could work if

1 they are properly programed.
2 programmed to mimic the same skill celing as the missing player
3 if thwy were smart enough to drop ammo or heal.

How ever my fear is even if sd could create then erfect bot(which we all know they cant) there would be way too many issues with players
If the team with bots lost they would be lots of complaints that they are loosing because of the bots. that they would be dissabled any way to stop the complaints of people blaming the bots for there own lack of skills

(OwynTyler) #16

So you all who disagree say that bad_bot is worse than no_player at all? great logic :hushed:

(Mc1412013) #17

Not saying bad and im not saying its good either

(Your worst knifemare.) #18

We don’t have bots?

You mean those bottom scoring snipers are real people?

(MarsRover) #19

[quote=“paramountGasoline;c-224274”]We don’t have bots?

You mean those bottom scoring snipers are real people?[/quote]

Yes they are real people. No programmer making a bot would be satisfied with this level of a behavior .

(ImSploosh) #20

[quote=“paramountGasoline;c-224274”]We don’t have bots?

You mean those bottom scoring snipers are real people?[/quote]

Sometimes I think my whole team is full of bots.

Some people just really are that oblivious and terrible. It’s weird in Dirty Bomb. I’m not sure why so many bad people play this game. It seems like they’ve never played a FPS before. I mean, compared to other games, we have a ton of scrubs. Maybe it’s just the game, it makes it more noticeable when you have a bad player?