Twice now I have tried to do a security mission only to fail because some heavy bot picks up the carrier item and then refuses to move at all, is there any way to take an item from a bot? Or am I just SOL because of a poorly written AI?

svcks I've had the same problem. The AI in my game has actually picked up the case, ran all the way to the drop off point, then ran back into combat to get killed and reset the case instead of ending the game. AI is horrible.

I haven't had that problem, but on easy for some reason the enemy ai bots do their objectives a little too well for some reason.

It honestly feels like solo play is 1 vs 8 as you try and complete objectives with bullets flying at you and moving obstacles that occasionally give you ammo.

Same. The only thing I like is that the AI will risk its life to revive you at any cost, that and refilling ammo is the only thing the AI is good for.

The bots don't want anything to do with objectives until it is time to grab that intel from the safe on the security 2nd mission and then they grab it and bum rush the defending bots 1 at a time while at least 3 of your team is always screaming about command posts lol.

I've played that second security mission four times on normal difficulty, I'm leveling through the roof because of it, and I can't get any damn teammates to help move that intel. It's annoying as hell to fail so many times and be helpless about it.

OP that happen to me once. after that i just got it myself and ran with it. My biggest issue with the AI is that the operatives dont seem to do the 2 hacking missions during the security missions at all, they instead just constantly go after the control points.