I’m sure that the team is aware of A.I. issues still (there’s still many, especially since those infamous ‘changes’ from Patch 43). But one A.I. issue in particular for Tracer is crippling her enough (and really doesn’t do anything good for her own A.I. team either) that I believe it should really simply be considered a bug to be fixed as soon as possible instead of letting it rot for months until the next A.I. stuff comes out (which is rare, let’s face it).
So the issue itself:
Sometimes Tracer will regroup with her Minions on any given lane (isn’t map-dependent by the way, happens in any one of them) and follow them. So far, so good (at least code-wise). However, when the issue pops up, what happens then is that it makes her “inactive”,she doesn’t fight, per se. She simply follows the Minions until they confront the enemy Minions on the lane she’s in. When both Minions group fight, she usually stands there doing nothing, not auto-attacking, not even moving.
The only exception I noticed that sort of ‘breaks’ her away from the bug is when a map Objective starts, at that point I’ve seen her leave her ‘standing / fixed’ position in favor for the Objective. However, I haven’t seen that all the time the issue happened so I can’t say if the beginning of an Objective will always “fix” her out of her misery. I just happened to see it from time to time.
Now, the whole “not attacking, not moving” issue is usually when she’s on her own and alone on a lane (not always though, I’ve seen it happen when another A.I. ally of her team fights on the same lane as she is).
However, if an enemy player shows up close enough she STILL doesn’t move around nor is she attacking anything; up to a certain point (or rather I should say up to a certain condition). She’s pretty much sitting duck, until the human player starts attacking her OR comes VERY close to her (pretty much melee range, like Diablo just about to grab her for example, that sort of range). Now at that point and ONLY at that point there’s a wake-up call in the code and she sort of behaves normally and fights again, and will retreat if in danger.
Now this is not just on Elite by the way. I do see this behavior sometimes from her Veteran version because sometimes Matchmaking sends me in a match with Veteran A.I. even though I chose Elite (but that in itself is another issue entirely and it’s been like this since as long as I can remember).
So yeah, please guys whenever you can look into this, fix this specific issue (if it can be isolated for a fix of course). Because it’s just making her useless when it happens.