Whatever happened to bots?

Kerbert
Kerbert Member Posts: 415

I remember like up to 8 months ago bots who would just stand still and spam attacks were rampant in the game, at least on PS4. Did the devs do something to better detect them? I remember every other match had a bot.

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  • Jago
    Jago Member Posts: 1,742

    Probably have been reported and banned , or this temporary bot did farm bloodpoints like crazy, and now those happy players got all characters P3 full perks.

  • Boss
    Boss Member Posts: 13,617

    Well bots are reportable, so that means that if someone keeps botting, they'll get banned.

    And so, every botter either stopped or got banned.

    Maybe you'll see a daredevil every now and then, but they're mostly gone out of fear of being banned.

    Btw, they did that cause Killers shouldn't just do nothing.

  • Jago
    Jago Member Posts: 1,742

    Actually. Now that I think about it.


    Bots might have been created by bhvr to increase some killers pick rate and also the escape rate..


    Aliens :0

  • Kerbert
    Kerbert Member Posts: 415

    :O

  • fcc2014
    fcc2014 Member Posts: 4,388

    The bots gave up on this game also. We just couldn't understand the "Goodbye" thread they wrote.

  • Peanits
    Peanits Dev Posts: 7,555

    Quite a while back, there was a change that disabled most macros. When that happened, most of the bots disappeared. The few that did manage to get it working quickly get reported and dealt with by the ACM team. There's still people trying, they just don't get very far.

  • DocOctober
    DocOctober Member Posts: 2,230

    "The few that did manage to get it working [...]"

    Is that referring to people that get any macro to work or to people that get their bot macros to work and get reported by the community for botting?

    I'm asking because I'd like to know if people using macros to make wiggle/struggle a simple button press action are at risk of getting banned.