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Are bots supposed to help killers? Why they are exists?

They were good in chase before but looks like BHVR just nerfed them. Now they are just running to corners and giving free down.

When somehow you make it end game, they are opening gates immediately and escaping.

If you are last survivor with hooked bot, they simply don't miss skill checks and giving good time to killer to find you.

But somehow they are missing skill checks on gens or on heals.

Why they are exists? 3 v 1 was so hard for killers, so we just made them 3 v 2? I really hate them and i prefer 3 v 1 instead of bots if they are that braindead. They are not helping team but throwing the game.

And please can someone explain me, how bot can have afk crows? Like how? How they programmed to stay afk?

Comments

  • Shroompy
    Shroompy Member Posts: 7,772

    idk man theyre pretty funny to me

  • humanbeing1704
    humanbeing1704 Member Posts: 9,091

    One time I saw a bot opening a door and it got to 97% but a Dwight was approaching with a killer behind him hoping to escape and the bot proceeded to get off the gate switch and ran and the Dwight died because of it

  • MikaelaWantsYourBoon
    MikaelaWantsYourBoon Member Posts: 6,564

    I am glad this did not happen to me. What an terrible AI

  • Yatol
    Yatol Member Posts: 1,960

    They where good in chases because they have wallhacks i guess they nerfed because of certain perks. They always opened the gate after the last gen is done.

  • burt0r
    burt0r Member Posts: 4,292
    edited January 2024

    I would guess that bots exist to distract the killer a little bit by not having the match immediately be a 3vs1 upon disconnect of a survivor player for whatever reason. Nothing more, nothing less.

    They are supposed to be an optional 4th target to get chased to buy the rest of the team 10 or 20 or however many extra seconds time, they wouldn't have with a pure disconnect in the past.

    Them making also progress on gens or healing/unhooking teammates is already a bonus.

    On the flip side, they aren't "ai". They don't play tactics and even ruin sometimes tactics for the normal players by being singleminded in escaping by opening the door and leaving at the first opportunity.

    Edit: Another downside is that they give the killer more opportunities for perk effects related to interaction with survivors. But again, this comes in tandem with the killer not immediately gunning for the other 3 players after a disconnect.

    You can't really separate the good from the bad without blatantly making them a different entity in relation to killer perks which would be unfair to the kille in my opinion, if the bot isn't openly flagged as one to give the killer player the option to ignore the bot when interacting doesn't help them. But that would nearly completely invalidate their implementation in the first place.

  • C3Tooth
    C3Tooth Member Posts: 8,266

    1 thing I know about bot is its better to chase down players than bot. Bots are usually good at running, but not doing anything at all.

    You werent programmed at all to be considered one.

  • C3Tooth
    C3Tooth Member Posts: 8,266

    Bot would stop doing anything anytime they're in TR. I had a bot, watched them do a Hex for over 10sec, TR just started and it leaved the totem immediately. Pretty much playing Wesker with Hex build, your Hex would last forever.

  • fussy
    fussy Member Posts: 2,099

    As someone, who playing custom with bots from time to time, they are only getting better. Still not perfect, but definitely better than half of survivor player base already.

  • WolfyWood
    WolfyWood Member Posts: 586

    They would be better if they were braver.

  • Selfpreservated
    Selfpreservated Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 62

    Real.

    2 weeks ago bots were actually trying to loop but now they like get the wrong focus of what the should be doing

    for some reason the bots I've been getting focus more on the killer objectives such as Xenomorph's turrets, Weskers' healing cans and Singularity's EMP's instead of gens and hooks.

    Idk

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 17,604

    Basically this.

    For Survivors, Bots were the worst introduction. You can rather play a 3v1 than a 3v1 plus a Bot. The only thing they do is to provide the Killer with opportunities to get PGTW or Pain Res.

    I mean, they are alright for testing out how a Killer Power is working (because you can start a Custom game alone with Bots), but this is about it. They are not helpful, they are just point pinatas for Killers and you cannot really practice against them in Custom games.

  • solarjin1
    solarjin1 Member Posts: 2,390

    ^^^^🤣🤣^^^^^

    i love the fax that this preson always in character

  • anarchy753
    anarchy753 Member Posts: 4,212

    Part of the reason bots were added was specifically to prevent survivor DCs being of a tactical advantage. The amount of times killers would lose potential BBQ reads because the survivor on their shoulder was salty, or someone would get hatch because the 2nd to last decided to quit to give it to them was gross.

    There's less reason to quit when it also no longer has a benefit to your team.

  • Aven_Fallen
    Aven_Fallen Member Posts: 17,604
    edited January 2024

    Meh.

    Usually you did more for the Killer when just DCing. Removing a BBQ-Read or Pain-Res or PGTW was usually less than the benefit they get from an DC.

    But at least you can confirm that the Bots help the Killer more than they help the Survivors.