Bot killers in Public matches (South Africa)
Hi there!
I am a DBD player from South Africa, I usually connect to Asian servers (I assume, cause of the player names). there is this thing where multiple matches back to back has Blood Point farming bots as killers. it makes the game unplayable for me personally, cause you're forced to essentially play the game aka fix all 5 generators and that for nothing. it's boring an unnecessary. does Behaviour know about this? are they planning on doing anything about this? I haven't played the game in a while, just loaded in and got bot killer after bot killer. also I'm not talking about the bots in the custom matches, these are public matches and it has been happening for ages even before the bot release for custom matches the other day. I can't seem to find much about this online, so I'm guessing it's only a few servers that are plagued by this.
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What's your ping at? I'm also from sa
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I doubt BHVR is aware, and if they are then they clearly don't care, these bots have been there since the beginning of the game. The script they use is literally available on github, it's a super dumb script, basically it just moves the mouse to where the "Ready" button is and clicks it every 10 seconds. That way it can permanently requeue. So in-game you will see the bot do random attacks every 10 sec, in reality it is not even trying to play, just trying to navigate the menu.
This script is literally 30 lines of basic Python code and yet cannot seemingly be detected by a multi-million dollar company, lol... They could put a simple check where if a killer has 0 hooks 0 kills for a game, then he's been farming and should at least not get xp/MMR for that game. If he does it multiple times then he should get auto-banned. But instead, BHVR asks individual players to report them, so that after you have wasted 10 min doing gens, you can also waste 5 minutes filing a report that will never be read. There are farmer accounts with thousands of hours doing this, streamers often meet them when doing the "Hardcore Survivor" series, they report them, and then nothing happens.
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I'm actually just so happy that other people are encountering them too, cause I felt like I was going crazy!
Yes, I read that it's a code thing they install and was thinking how the devil it doesn't get noticed... like what! It's so friggen annoying and a waste of time cause you can't DC and when you eventually do you just end up in countless more lobbies with more BP farming bots. My question would also be, why farm BPs when you're never gonna actually play the game, as I have come across multiple of the same accounts with the same names and same patterns. Some of them even write "Thnx" in end game chat, I'm remembering a Pinhead specifically, although the majority choses the doctor.
My ping is very high, I mean I just play for fun, but it's manageable, like I don't jump across the map or anything. Maybe just recently some times, cause there has been a lot of server issues all over the world and a lot of players have reported jumping the last couple of months.
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Not making excuses, just clarifying, and I'm on console so I dont do it and couldnt do it anyways.
They are more farming shards and rift xp rather than bloodpoints, and they probably run the script while they are sleeping/at work so its not that they never play the game. The higher end cosmetics are ridiculously overpriced at over 25k shards that is a crapload of grinding, and I can understand why it happens, even though in an ideal world it wouldnt.
You cant just punish a killer for getting 0 hook 0 kill games, that is way too broad of a scenario. Matchmaking is completely janky alot of the times, I have had plenty of games where I get matched against survivor way outside my level and will finish a match with no hooks because after playing the first half and losing most gens and getting denied hooks, I'll give up and afk and wait for the match to be over because that is a more efficient use of my time.
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Not a single hook in the entire game? You can't be serious. I've never seen that happen, even bully SWFs get hooked at some point. And still the only penalty I suggest is that if you get 0 hooks then you get no XP. That is not a serious penalty considering it happens like once in a million games. Let alone the chance of getting 0 hooks multiple times in a row.
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I mean there are alot of factors that go into it, but yeah Saturday night I had a string of 6 straight games without a hook before I shut the game down for the night.
I will preface this with the fact that at killer I'm pretty average, not great at mindgames, but I have a couple. I also almost never play the same killer multiple games in a row, so my MMR shouldnt be super high on any specific killer.
In my area when the clock rolls to about 1 am there is a major shift in matchmaking and I constantly get matched with high skill high prestige survivors.
In this particular instance the first 3 were definite full or at least partial SWF, a boilover squad on springwood with a shack basement offering, a breakdown sabo squad on mothers dwelling with hook spread offerings, and a full on streamer genrush squad.
The last 3 it was probably partly frustration mistakes, partly bad rng (fat shaming spots and stuff), decently efficient survivors at minimum, and some staying in one chase too long, or giving up on some too early, idk at that point my memory is a little fuzzy.
Point is depending on when Im playing and what matchmaking gives me especially at the later hours it isnt uncommon to have a 2-3 game stretch where i get the shaft and dont get hooks
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I used to have alot of bot killers aswell and it was pointed out to me that these were actual players just trying to lower their MMR, also instead of having a "No hook or No kill" penalty, it should rather be a step counter since that seems more realistically happening ingame. Just a thought.
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South African servers will be great actually, the ping rate now is so unbearable at times, unless you play alot and get used to it so you know how to play with bad ping which is though since you gotta mostly pre drop a pallet because you can't be sure how close the killer is (kinda getting use to it by now so its not a wasted pallet drop), window vaulting and getting smacked even after taking 5 steps away from the window is another problem that constantly happens, haven't found a proper timing on it. Playing has killer and getting pallet stunned even though you got the hit on your screen and the survivor scream to validate the hit but its not the case. Survivor is still untouched. Its though playing a game you really enjoy when these things happen. Not to mention trying to join a SWF on the dbd discord server, soon as you tell them where you from, you get kicked out.
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