Bots, They need a wee-bit of a tweak?

Post » Fri May 27, 2011 1:53 am

I have found that after 15 levels, and playing through all of the security, and resistance missions, that the bots seem a bit out of whack.

When you set the game to easy, the enemy teams bots, are pretty much easy to mow down, and kill, but they still seems to have utterly perfect aiming, slow reflexes, but once they start to shoot, they don't miss a shot that often, and they usually all know to go to the defend, or attack position, but on the other hand, your own team-bots, have little to no skill at all, can't aim, and never know where to go, they are always taking over the control consoles around the map by themselves rather then helping the team at the main objective, this is stupid since the bots don't get experience.
Next, when you set the difficulty to anything above easy, the enemy bots have super human reflexes(As in if you shoot them from behind, they instantly turn around and head shot you as-if they were aim-botting) and they all work together to defend the points, but still fight to get the command consoles back when needed. On the other hand, your own team-bots also have super human reflexes, but it seems their minds are still un-evolved, and still wander around the map aimlessly, and forget that they need to help you with the primary objective when needed.

I think that a patch might be needed to tweak some of these problems, for one, the bots on your team need to have a little more sense of direction, and players need the ability to call for bots to help complete an objective if they aren't the right class, for example, I was in a match earlier where I was too far away from a console to switch classes, and we needed to hack a safe, the 2 operative bots were aimlessly hunting down enemies and taking consoles, rather then helping us hack the objective, so the ability to say; "Hey, bots, come do this objective, I'll cover you.' or; "Hey, I'll do this objective, cover me." would be a HUGE help.
The last thing that needs a tweak is the hard mode enemy bot reflexes, being able to instantly turn around and head shot you is not very fun, I expect that if I get the jump on a target who has his back turned to me, I should get the kill, not the other way around.

Hope the wall of text doesn't crit anyone for above 9000.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 4:43 am

Pretty similar experience on stage 2 for the Security last night. was able to hack the doors and crack the safe by myself (with next to no cover fire via bots) and once the intel is open it seems that all my team wants to do is capture objectives. Got the intel uploaded 3/4 like 6 or seven times as a one man show but just not happening.

Definitely going for MP tonight to give it a try
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Post » Thu May 26, 2011 6:27 pm

Pretty similar experience on stage 2 for the Security last night. was able to hack the doors and crack the safe by myself (with next to no cover fire via bots) and once the intel is open it seems that all my team wants to do is capture objectives. Got the intel uploaded 3/4 like 6 or seven times as a one man show but just not happening.

Definitely going for MP tonight to give it a try

Once dedicated servers, and network problems start being ironed out, I will probably play nothing but versus, but sometimes a good match with just my clan-mates is fun, the only bad part is that the easy can be TOO easy sometimes, and the hard is just insane, normal mode is probably what I will try to do from now on till they improve the bot AI.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 12:42 am

Yeah, they aim quite well and are very quick to turn and face you, and they're not bad at doing some of their objectives, but they're not bright. My medics run in and get killed instead of looking and fighting first, engineers do the same, haven't seen an Op although I suppose that's the point so maybe they're doing well, and soldiers are ok so far.

It does make it hard to push through the objectives though.
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Post » Fri May 27, 2011 2:43 am

Bot difficulty ca be changed by the Developers, but you need to vote on this thread... http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1187993-how-the-bots-work/
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