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Can we get the option to adjust the bots difficulty?

LadyOwO
LadyOwO Member Posts: 390
in General Discussions

How am I supposed to try out hex perks if the bots instantly ho to cleanse it or when I play the Trapper the bots ignore the areas I trapped all game?

Comments

  • HarlockTaliesin
    HarlockTaliesin Member Posts: 763

    Bots are notoriously difficult to go against for various game mechanics and killer powers due to their ability to know exactly where everything and everyone is in the game, and what state things are in.

    For mechanics, examples would be: a bot will always perfectly loop or greed a pallet as they can "see" through all obstacles and stealth to always plan the best pathing needed to stay as far away from the killer as possible, and will most times pre-run from a gen before the killer's close enough to engage in a chase.

    For killer powers, examples are: Huntress hatchets, Deathslinger spear shots, Trickster blades, Trapper/Hag traps, Pyramid Head PotD attacks, etc. They will always know where traps are to disable/avoid them, and will predict with perfect mathematical precision where a ranged shot will go so they will always avoid it.

    The only way to get most of these to work is to hit a bot at range while they're animation locked (vaulting a window, for example), or when a bot's in a window loop cycle drop a trap then stay close to the bot that their code hangs enough to keep trying to vault the same window.

    For a newer player learning the game or someone learning a new killer, custom matches with bots are really only useful for learning a map's layout and how to fire off killer powers. It's almost useless for actually practicing with most killer abilities vs survivors, which was the original point of bots being added to the game. They function in much the same way in publics trials after a disconnect.

  • Crowman
    Crowman Member Posts: 9,555

    I don't think BHVR is trying to make a suitable PvE game. They added bots for customs and to take over d/cs, because they are a nice QoL. You can face bots in customs to get comfortable with a killer's power before taking it into real games and you aren't immediately down a person if someone's internet cuts out.

    The problem with bots in DBD is that since BHVR's focus isn't to make a PvE game, bots are always going to be relatively simple. They function but basically cheating at the game and knowing where everything is at all times and then only conditional act on the information. With hexes it basically means when the bot comes within a certain distance of the hex they immediately go and cleanse it.