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Bots that replace players are seriously stupid.
I know that bots are "based on player behaviour" but bots with Self Care or a med-kit are insanely dumb.
Unhooking a bot with 7 charges on their med-kit (not enough for a full heal) means that the bot will prioritise those charges immediately off the hook instead of allowing the real players, its teammates, to heal it. It's an insane time waster because the bot will then *refuse* to be healed any further.
Imagine this: you unhook a bot and then see that it immediately begins to Self Care. You have We'll Make It or a green/purple rarity med-kit. Your challenge is to get safe unhooks or fully heal other survivors. 30 seconds have passed and the bot is still healing. The killer takes one step towards us and then moves away, and the bot lets go of its healing progress. It's reverted to zero percent. Now it's running around the map touching gens for 1 second and running away again. You've been chasing after it to heal it for at least 5 minutes. It hasn't stopped to allow a heal.
If there's anything that needs to be changed about bots, it's allowing teammates to heal them directly off hook. There's nothing more annoying than coming to a hook with two people, We'll Make It, and watch the bot use Self Care against Sloppy Butcher for God knows how long.
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The only value bots have when a player disconnects are when it's in chase, as the pathing is weird enough for killer players to get confused. However, to the rest of the team, it serves no other purpose. It's not altruistic in any way, it barely touches gens if a killer is barely nearby and I've seen one crouch in a corner for well over two minutes because a killer was camping a survivor player in one area for their entire hook duration.