I want bots in Quake Wars. Any news on that?

(Janolsen86) #1

Before you guys hate me for wanting bots, please read my FAQ before answering my question:

So you like bots?:
Yes, indeed!

Uh, okey… So WHY do you like bots?:
Well, because I enjoy bots. I enjoy bots in Unreal Tournament, CS Source and Battlefield 2. The bots are also pretty decent and therefor good fun.

I see. A slow connection maybe?
No! As I said, I want bots because I enjoy them. No cheating, no ping, off-line gaming can be fun. I dont have Internett 24/7.

You are gay. No one else in the word like bots. JUST you!! Am I right?:
No, your totally wrong. As some of you might have noticed, Battlefield have their own single player community with over 2900 members and 64668 posts at the moment. There is a REASON for this, retards!!
Link: http://battlefieldsingleplayer.planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/forums/index.php

(Danyboy) #2

I want chicken
I want liver

but it aint gunna happen

(Janolsen86) #3

Poor silly people that cant give me a serious answer.

(kamikazee) #4

Silly answers are the best, because we got no more news for you than the next guy.

The only thing known is that id probably hired Maleficus, the guy who coded “frtizbot”. (Note: id hiring a guy does not mean that ET:QW will have bots.)

(Janolsen86) #5

What games did he make bots for before? Were the bots decent?

(kamikazee) #6

Install W:ET. (With no SP nor bots)
Download and install Fritzbot and you’ll see. They were pretty smart and could operate in team-based gameplay.

But as I said: don’t get your hopes up. id might have hired Maleficus for their next IP project.

(Janolsen86) #7

I saw on a interview that on of the developers (i think) said that they hired a guy to do bots in Quake Wars… I think they wanted to keep it secret, but why? And doesent that prove a lot?

(Nail) #8

id Software hired him, not SD

(kamikazee) #9

Just what I said, minus the “probably”.

(ayatollah) #10

The fritzbot mod was very good, but if you want bots you can always wait for another mod. I am not saying bots are/are not in ET:QW as I do not know…Noone knows but my thoughts on the subject:

Why do you need bots with such a (potentially) great online game in ET:QW. You may say you don’t have internet 24/7, then play something else until you have access. You are not going to get the same great experience, as online play, with bots.

Other games you mention are completely different than ET:QW when it comes to bots. Most are either frag games or very simple capture and hold or CTF. These are relatively easy to program bots for in comparison with some like ET:QW, where you have many different classes/vehicles/weapons/objectives. Lots of time and effort will need to be put into programming bots for ET:QW and maybe it would be to the deficit of the online game. I believe a game should on one or the other, otherwise you end up with a mishmash of ideas and balancing goes out the window.

(nUllSkillZ) #11

Actually Maleficus could be working on AI for next RTCW.
Who knows …

(Sauron|EFG) #12

They actually said “Enemy Territory”, but I don’t think they hired him to do bots in W:ET. :tapir:

Transcript of the Qcon Q&A

[Robert] "Well as an example the programmer we just hired to do bots for Enemy Territory came directly out of the MOD community."

[Kevin] "Don’t tell anybody that." [laughs]
(nUllSkillZ) #13

BTW there’s already a bot discussion thread.

(ayatollah) #14

Yeah I have decided to try to be leniant on the “new peeps”.

(ToonarmY) #15

Bots = No real competition unless you suck and are brain dead.

And no real satisfaction comes from killing a computerized opponent well at least no where near as much as killing a human one

(kamikazee) #16

Ahem. So there was no news, opinions are for the other thread(s).

(Svanire) #17

I believe ETQW has been since the beginning advertised as a MP game and have said for a long time that they wont doing bots.

(Flesh) #18

I completely agree with Janolsen86- bots all the way!

I dont understand how can you even ask what are the bots for? If you want to play ETQW u have to be connected to the internet right? Well if you have bots you dont even need an internet connection. I know that it must be hard for online fps players to comprehend but there are ppl out there that dont have a connection as fast as yours, especialy a connection fast enough to support this new high end title. Furthermore there are ppl out there that use a 56k modem or maybe not even that. And believe me there is a lot more of these kind of ppl out there (the kind of people that cannot afford a fast internet connection but would play QW if it had bots) then there will be players in the whole online QW community. Ever.

Just think about it in this way: how much more ppl would buy the game if it is not a “multiplayer only” title?

(kamikazee) #19

Can we leave the assumptions, speculations and justifications at the door please?

Nothus tried before, and his “any info?” thread turned into this festering warzone.

I thought it was worth noticing. Thread lightly, as threads can go easily wrong now everyone is awaiting this game. :tapir:

(Nail) #20

Terribly sorry there are people without high speed interweb, fortunately for them, there are several games out there with single player component, but not all games need it. ET was extremely successful way before even “bobots”, QW will be as well. If bots are added later with a mod, very nice, but not needed at shipping