Bots are NOT a reason to turn off DC penalty
I don't know why so many people are insisting that DC penalties should be turned off now that we have bots because in my experience at least they have been pretty much useless. Don't get me wrong, it's nice that we have them but they have so many issues that if the DC penalty was ever turned off it would be a complete nightmare.
Issues I've seen with the bots are the following:
Bots running into corner of the maps: If a bot isn't near a tile, pallet or window then they'll just run into a corner of the map and become an easy down.
Debating on what action to do: I've seen them constantly get on and off a generator if a survivor is on a hook or if another survivor is injured and needs healing. It's super frustrating to see especially when you're on hook and the other teammates are preoccupied.
Killing themselves on hook: Even bots decide to kill themselves on hook, a bit funny but also frustrating because you might as well just be playing a 3v1.
Constantly failing skill checks : The amount of times a bot has baited me out because they repeatedly blew up a gen or failed a healing skill check is insane and makes me want to carry them to the hook myself.
Running around the map doing nothing: I've noticed that this happens more on indoor maps with multiple floors but sometimes they'll run backwards and forwards like they're stuck in a loop. I think this might be because they're getting confused when there's two gens that are very close to each other but on different floors.
There are a lot more issues but we'd be here all day. So yeah, please keep DC penalties because bots are just as useless as a teammate who leaves in the first minute because the game didn't go their way :)
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BHVR survivor face camp update when
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Agreed, even if bots performed better a player should not have to option to DC just because they are not having fun,
removing the penalty would encourage that more.
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The amount of skillchecks bots miss is ridiculous. I've actually lost multiple games because they miss so many. No real player misses that many unless they just installed the game.
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They miss more skill checks than my friend who has the worst reaction time on every game she plays bless her
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The bots do feel as though they make more mistakes than they should... why they miss so many skillchecks is beyond me... Also they are insanely resistant to being healed sometimes? 🤔
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To paraphrase whine #33985808560983048-J about wanting players to continue suiciding on hook/killer or AFKing in a corner vs DCing and getting a bot that's semi-helpful:
"Wwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!"
Tune in tomorrow folks for more people posting about not having nice things and nothing changing!
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When did I say in my post that I wanted people to suicide on hook rather than DC? All I'm saying is that bots are no where near reliable from my personal experience with them and that's why the DC penalty shouldn't be turned off.
If you have nothing valid to say then don't say anything because you contributed nothing to this discussion
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I had a bot today that I couldn't heal, and it wasn't broken or anything. It kept coming up to me and I'd walk around it and it had no heal prompt despite being injured. It also stole my medkit at one point - I unhooked it and it immediately put down the medkit it was carrying, so when I went to try heal it I instead picked up its empty medkit and put my full one down in its place. Then it picked up my medkit and ran off 🤨
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