Can we just have a time limit on the bot where they disappear if a replacement for that player is not found? I don’t get the point of having a bot in-game that goes 0-10, 0-8, and so on. I rather just live with the fact that your team is 1 person down vs. having a bot that does nothing at all and feeds into the other team. Might as well just simulate Arena where if there is a disconnect your gonna be down a player. Bots are fun for custom and training, but I don’t really understand the purpose of them in multiplayer.
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Bot replacements could work ok until another player joins, if bot difficulty was maybe bumped up a bit, had 1 yesterday that was actually on -200 points lol
I always stay in a match, even if someone drops out, if people didn’t drop out there wouldn’t be a need for bots.
Of course some are legit that they lose connection etc which is fine
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It would make sense for them to increase the difficulty to ODST or Spartan, and I hope they change that.
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Think probably ODST might work out better, it’s a bit tricky with real players skill levels being different from match to match
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They use skill to match people in social and ranked playlists, right?
If so, couldn’t they use that to determine the difficulty level of the bot they add?
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In theory yes, not sure how easy it is to do, probably best way is 343 monitors match results with bot replacements in, and if it’s consistently 0 kills like it is now, then ramp up bot difficulty until it’s more balanced to an average kill ratio. But even that is probably hard to do as often a bot is only in a match for a short time until someone else drops in.
Not sure what difficulty the bots even are that appear, but they do need to be ramped up from whatever they are now
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Agreed. The Bots are absolutely horrendous.
They go 1-8, 2-7 or worse EVERY game. 343i literally " " fixed " " a problem by making it even WORSE than being down a player.
They literally cant do anything right. I’m astounded at their incompetence. All they have to do is put ODST or Spartan level bots in multiplayer to make it fair. It’s THAT simple.
Like, do they not actually playtest their OWN GAME and notice these things that us players do ??? Like this is unreal…
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I checked, and it’s Marine difficulty.
You can check by looking at the service tag.
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If they have to stay marine level, at least let their deaths not give the other team points in slayer matches.
But best is if their difficulty is raised from Marine to ODST or higher.
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That’s a good idea.
After playing 1v1 against a bot at Spartan difficulty, I think that they really need to choose bot difficulty based on skill.
However, I think the AI for bots needs some improvement as well.
Spartan difficulty would work best. They’re effective but not too effective. Only downside is when they can hit you from across the map with the Sidekick & Assualt rifle.