[Feature] Bots

12 votes

Remove bots from the start of the game, only put bots in when players leave. Simple as that games gonna die if you keep them in

Not planned Feature Suggestion Suggested by: Kailub (14 Sep, '22) • Upvoted: 08 Apr • Comments: 9

Comments: 9

27 Sep, '22
Explicitsaint
Multiple of my friends won't play the game due to the bots. Bots are great for quickly ranking up your guy and padding stats but make the game super boring and makes it feel like no one is in the match.
10 Feb, '23
Excidius
These bots are terrible, they cost you games, they play extremely poorly and groups that queue with 4 tend to just easily win in the lower ranks.
The new player experience is a pretty terrible and now I understand why.

Bots should exclusively fill a spot until someone can "reconnect" (key word RECONNECT) and yes there should be a win/loss for leaving if your team wins/loses so that there is no point in quitting to avoid a loss and still getting rewarded if you disconnect during a win.

I have recorded and reported bots for being invulnerable and doing things you would expect from a terrible programmer who is just trying to avoid getting kicked for afk such as moving in circles left clicking.

What were you thinking adding bots into a competitive pvp style game ON players teams just to make the queue times faster.
10 Feb, '23
Excidius
(with the update to "Not planned" tag)
How is not having bots in a competitive pvp game design not planned?
The fact that this is not obviously a problem astounds me. They are stupid, they break. They inflate the rank system by taking the loss making how much you play the only metric to climb ranks (at least up to a certain point).
They cause serious game imbalance.
11 Feb, '23
BSHQ
I would rather have longer Q's than bots in the game. Specially when there is plenty of people playing to fill the matches. Playing with and against bots are not fun.
11 Feb, '23
Johto
They need to have a limit on how many per game. Many of my 5man army games one team is seemingly almost entirely bots meanwhile another is stacked with players. the bots truly do ruin the game in 5man for me. limit the bots to a smaller amount if its clear they only exist to fill up games, let them exist only for the bare minimum necessary for that. Another possibility is a seperate Queue button, Quick Play, that sends you into already in progress games. if such a button existed to allow players to replace bots as the bots do players, it would work out well. Its just a thought, and i dont know what it takes to put that into practice, but.
15 Feb, '23
Galaxia
With the update to "Not planned" tag this is just discouraging how the develop team make decisions.
15 Feb, '23
Warlanderplayer
As a solo player, i don't accept my team has bots, is the game dislike single?
21 Feb, '23
Joe
I prefer to solo queue, I'm okay with bots. If wanted, could have a special option to queue in games without bots but that may increase queue times for having different queues.
11 Apr, '23
T
I just found out that there’s bots in the game?…that really takes all the excitement out of the game. Let me know when they are removed or some sort of update has happened. Separate queues for bot games would be a great addition.