There’s officially 2 kind of bots. The ones that are supposed to be banned, that players can download an use to play the game. An one’s that Blizzard uses which should be the most ashamed of.
I have seen both now, but the couple days ago was when I made the statement about the Blizzard A.I. Bot. Because that was my first time EVER seeing a Blizzard bot in ranked. An the best part is Goramier I have 100% proof it was from Blizzard lol.
Like i said above i wantted to add to this.
The reason why these boyts have gotten so much better in the last few years is because of the power creap.
The strong cards blizzard has printed has made this gamr more solitare than ever cause ranked to be a joke.
I cant share screen shots or vids for obviots resons but there are around 500 players using this bot right now and all of them are legend players many streamers. Im sure there are other bots simular as well.
My top 200 friend admited to using this back and september this is why I took a break from ranked back then from competitive.
I realized how much of a joke ranked in the game is. It means nothing.
Like why should i try so hard to be in t1000 every month.
I believe you but I also don’t understand this. Why would they make it obvious?
Well dude I don’t have the answers to your questions. I could speculate as to why…
It might not have been their intention to make it obvious. But people who have played Hearthstone enough can spot what is what, if you will.
You know when I returned to the game after years that made me legit laugh was? When the wheel spins an it now say’s “You’re being matched to a player with your skill”.
Take that in for a moment will you… You know all the rigged threads blowing up recently right? Makes ya think doesn’t it? It’s right there in your face telling you it isn’t random lol.
The thing I find most pathetic is I am at legend right now in standard. An it was at that rank, not when I was a bronze chicken or anything, that I finally found the Blizzard A.I. bot. Tell me how a legend caliber player can be gifted the most useless opponent in the game from it’s most prestige rating?
Things don’t add up, they never have. People can abuse the MMR system.
Alright buddy, here comes the pictures of proof which should be exciting to see… They’ll be listed in order as well as titled in order, so you can float between them an gather the info you need. Though I tried to give a decent description for each picture in the description box provided by imgur.
(https://imgur.com/a/1qcOK7L)
(https://imgur.com/a/BNAgNQK)
(https://imgur.com/a/lwDNLm6)
OMG I love you
This is good enough evidence for me and I’m convinced they do use bots themselves. The question is WHY?
And here’s the crazy thing…I’ve faced SwankyOrc before!!!
Is it ok if I send these images over to some streamers? They might enjoy exposing this
100% An I find it insane you have also found an fought this player… I didn’t expect us to have so much fun randomly on the forums but here we are with your fun thread going crazy with edits, an now this exposure lol.
While Theman’s evidence is great, dont get me wrong… But nothing in your post says its the same SwankyOrc. The #XXXXX is missing from your pic, and thats VERY important. SwankyOrc is a randomly generated name by Bnet, so may or may not be the same person.
Just saying.
I 100% admit that. That name could very well be coincidence. I’m not convinced I faced this bot. I tried looking for the #XXXX in the user name as that is saved on HSReplay deck tracker app but I don’t know where to find it in the website. I am still looking. Until I see that and it has no numbers, I’m not convinced.
EDIT: Ok I looked into the HTML of the coding
the Mage is a 6 digit # so not a bot
the Druid is a 7 digit # so not a bot
The floodgates in my brain have openened tonight,it almost feels like a revelation.
-the matchmaking is rigged
-blizzard fills the ladder with bots for whatever reason (can think of several).
-And the rng is obviously flawed. I already knew that but yellovsnow did give me some aditional insight into how and why.
Now what to do with this information. Already didnt play constructed so i cant quit that and i dont think there is bots in high lvl battlegrounds (never seen one at least).
The matchmaker sucks but in the end its the same for everyone so you can grind to overcome it or simply dont care about your rank. About my rank i didnt care already so thats not a huge desincentive.
Guess will just keep playing for as long as i do enjoy it,or until i see the first bot in bg.
Hmmm
I guess I maybe should have qualified my statements with “unless Blizzard is specifically permitting or enabling them.”
I still think having a private bot unsanctioned by Blizzard, you’re not going to get to Legend with regularity. At the very least you should see an order of magnitude more of those bots bots in Diamond than in Legend, so if private Legend bots were like 1/day then Diamond they’d be like half of the matches, which again pretty much means Blizzard is just allowing it.
But in this case it seems to just be Blizzard botting themselves. And if so they can just change the bot’s rank at will to Legend.
Translation
“I should have said that I am right, unless of course I am wrong”
Hahahhahahahaa
MSoG/Ungoro era Wild Pirate Warrior bots were hitting legend with VERY high consistency.
They specifically said that they were adding bots to ease matching in low–MMR ranks in the 24.4 patch:
Apprentice (new player ranks) and low internal-rating players (colloquially called “MMR”) may now face up against AI opponents when playing on the ranked Standard ladder. This will help said players have a more fun experience while learning the game. Experienced players will not face these AI opponents, and they will have no impact on MMR, leaderboards, or legend ranks. Most players advance beyond the affected MMR range upon leaving Silver or Gold ranks.
Source:
From what the patch notes said, though, it should only be happening at very low ranks.
The addition of bots to low-ranked Mercenaries matches happened earlier, but I haven’t taken the time so far to look through older patch notes to find when that happened.
Why are you ignoring the picture proofs from botters themselves from in game, at legend rank 10 with, screenshots and all, with the botting program open?
I have a feeling you know you’re wrong but you don’t want to admit I’m right, something you’ve attested to not liking in another thread.
Playing against smart bots that are better than or equal to top human players is fun, the contrary is not true.
Also when I say HS with smart AI, I would expect the gaming mode to be adjusted as well; e.g., human players should be able to submit a deck into the gaming pool (to be played by A.I.). The human should get feedback of how good the deck is (winrate). Then the human can play the deck against AI or other humans when they want to (the AI can also teach you how to play the deck!). Also if you’re playing against an AI, you should get sufficient time to make all moves (since you would not be wasting others time). There are so many ways to make fun happen with AI. And I would expect the AI gaming pool to be of great variety (we really don’t need every bot playing the best deck do we? we can have like a dozen decks for each class or more).
This is just my point of view of what the next generation AI gaming should be like. I’d say it has great potential.
I don’t know what it is about this that he is so hesitant to admit he’s wrong here. Like, provably wrong.