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Survivor Bots should not care if they escape

bjuffin
bjuffin Unconfirmed, Member Posts: 6
in Feedback and Suggestions

Me and my friend weher playing a Match today where the killer got me last second, hooked me and face camped me. Due to the exit gates already being opened there was little my friend could do on his own. The only other person in the match was a Bot. The Bot proceeded to slowly walk towards me before running back (behing cover) before ultimately running out of the exit gate. This wasn't the first time i've seeen something like this. I have also seen Bots opening gates just to immediately run out and stuff like that. Needles to say it's super frustrating. So i was thinking. Would it not be way smarter if the Bot did not care if he escaped? Lets take my situation from today, it would be way smarter if the Bot would just run to me and trade. It wouldn't even change anything. The killer would still get a kill, however everyone would be way happier. The killer got his kill and all the real players could escape. Win win. Since for me it's super frustrating to see that the Bot escaped while i had to die.

Comments

  • dbd900bach
    dbd900bach Member Posts: 931

    Bots are designed to primarily make the main part of the game semi-function. Doing gens and getting chased in the event that a teammate leaves or lags out. They're there to help the game progress and not make it an automatic loss, but not necessarily living to help real players escape. It should and does play either selflessly or selfishly like a real player in the intended game flow.

    Having the bot being selfless to trade on the hook isn't a terrible idea, but the reasoning is not good. The killer gets a kill while you and your friends escape? The bot doesn't count for anything to a killer, nor does it to the survivors unless it does something useful.

    Aside from that though, the bot would likely not even help that much.

  • brewingtea
    brewingtea Member Posts: 700

    The bot doesn't count for anything to a killer

    Since someone DCed, the entire match doesn't count. Why not punish the bot and let real people escape instead of the (objectively worse) opposite???