Greeting party peoples. I know, I said I was gone, but I had something interesting to share.
I’ve noticed while paying half attention that there’s a trend in some of the match ups I have been seeing, but this morning I set out to check and see if what I was seeing was real or just selective memory.
I made a completely new deck, I had not played at all today, and I tracked all the games I played. I had very little interest in winning games so much as see what match up I got when.
I lost three games, matched a blizzard bot.
I lost the game after the bot, matched up with another bot.
(That’s 6 games, four losses, two wins, two bots).
Then I decided to play out my games, so I won six in a row… and didn’t see any blizzard bots.
Well, that’s interesting. So I conceded the next two games to get a three game loss streak…
And the next match up was a bot.
Is anyone getting bots on win streaks or are all the blizzard bots during losing streaks?
I was always suspicious of people claiming to have played bots. Until I played them. I made a thread about getting to legend in an evening (from Silver, classic with no stars) of 4 hours played because it was all bots. They usually have very bot like names such as “znbjhegeuie” or something like that. They often used cards not associated with the deck they play (I see it as new accounts without key cards so they substitute them with face cards), would play the coin and not actually play a turn after that. They would always target face and never hit a minion unless taunt. Things like that.
I’m not sure about Blizz Bots but have heard you cannot add them as a friend after. They don’t show up on your just played list. I have heard on here that some bots have made legend. I don’t know if they are more sophisticated bots or that simply running a program all day will eventually just get there?
If you click the social thing while playing it won’t show your current opponent.
They usually have names from the new style of random (like mine, lol) which is two words smashed together like happytroll or bluebeetle.
I have seen several classes of them in the previous weeks.
Okay, now I will track this the next couple days because you’ve piqued my curiosity.
This is what all these “shills” and “blizzard employees” mean when they say they would like someone to give them a testable hypothesis.
If blizzard bots are given during loss streaks only, that would be evidence of them artificially manipulating win rates (but not rigging counters into your matches, people) and something serious to discuss.
Yeah it was always with two captial letters. Without joking: they look like “LimeBeast” or “NeonGhost” or “WildHunter”. Cannot remember real bot names right now. Sometimes they were written in other languages.
I never noticed those. If I see a name like that I just assume it is a person. When I played bots the names were stupidly obvious, the cards and plays were immediate give aways too.
I do a lot of my achievements on Wild silver 10 and it’s full of bots with names like; hasidsiheuyy or jbnjkaspsol but also bots with names like: SneezyDwarf or LionHeart
How to identify a bot.
There is a certain timing they end turn or play a card. (Once you figured it out you will know) They will do this every turn same timing.
Playing a card and letting timer run out, roping every time and quarter up on rope he will end turn EVERY TURN.
You have the hero power bots; just run out time and hero power to get the most exp from a game.
Also you got some bots that play their cards but they have strange deck and play everything wrong.
Once there is a taunt with a lot of hp they don’t attack anymore and just fill up board every round till they out of cards.
Then there are bots on classic; These bots you can identify by the bot deck they ALL have. Murloc raiders with some other bullshait (coining and play 1 cost card.)
You can see bots selecting cards/minions/hero power in sequence even on your turn.
This will light up red for you as they select it.
Many ways to look for bots.
All of these bots have a certain timing, if you’re not sure you can always try to communicate with the emotes.
Trust me i’ve encountered maybe 70% bots on wild silver 10 in achievement hunting.
If you do not get matched with a bot while you are on a streak of wins, that would suggest that blizzard is giving easier matches to help players get higher ranking than they might get versus human opponents.
Why do you think this? I am curious about the reaning why it would matter.
Honestly, if you can show that an old account only gets blizzard bots on losing streaks, that would be more interesting to me.
Interesting. I will have to pay more attention to my game, ha.
If the person does not show up in the recent opponent list, it’s typically clearly a blizzard bot.
These are the only bots that are being discussed in this topic because these are believed to be intentionally put in the game by blizzard.
They’re the only ones that should be discussed, but good luck enforcing that rule. Conspiracy theorists will believe that all manner of human opponents are the robot.
If you’re on a losing streak and do NOT face bots, that would indicate it’s not a “losing streaks bring up bots situation” to try and propel certain players to the ranks, but more of a " Below certain MMR ratings, bots are a common opponent".
As I see bot stories only at gold or below and rarely at higher ranks rank floor, it seemed to me that bots would be a common occurrence at lower MMR brackets.
Case in point, even when I got 2-7 during the start of the season, at low ranks, I never really saw a single bot. I’m an old as balls player, though, so number, presumably, is far harder to change than a newer player.
Anecdotes may be colored by unknown MMR ratings. I occasionally go to legend when I like the meta, and I never see bots. People who frequently are on gold and below refer to bots faaaaar more frequently.
Ideally, on a new account, we get less biased numbers untill the MMR settles down
It’s so shady and manipulative. Trying to convince people that they’re playing against real players, so they believe they’re much better than they actually are. It’s just as bad as what rigging believers think, except it’s actually real.