So another major title has just announced they’re introducing bots to shorten their queue times and fill their lobbies.
How long until we get them in OW?
idk in other games but in this one is not a good idea. Maybe when you have a leavr on your team, but not a good idea. Bots are really stupid in this game.
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Umm forever. OW won’t use bots, that would be nuts, even in QP.
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That would be unacceptable in comp
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Using bots in Overwatch is an awful idea. People would rather wait than auto lose because both of their tanks are bots, be it competitive or QP.
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Wdym, I thought my tanks were already bots
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no that wont work ;; that would infuriate the entire community
que times are not bad, around 50 percentile, the higher SR you go, of course you will get longer que times, thats the downside of being good at any game
only real way to reduce que times is to broader the SR you get matched with, once matchmaking system tries to pull people near 50 percentile, it goes quicker but results in teammates not on par with your SR, could perform not up to your standards, possibly make more people angry.
If it was an option that came up when you que, that ask, are you okay with finding players 500~1500SR below you, then games would be quicker up to your digression.
DPS players tired of waiting in long Qs and playing poorly are still better than bots.
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Debatable.
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When they decide to update the bots
hard mode bots are nigh impossible to deal with and medium bots are stupid
Like everything else in existence. You don’t have to agree, won’t change the fact majority wouldn’t like it.
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They’d first need to make their AI a million times more advanced. The ones currently in the game are on par with those from early 2000s videogames.
Like, easy and medium are too easy for anyone in gold and above (and probably also silver). And hard bots just have aimbot and wallhack which makes them plain unfair to play against.
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I’d consider hard support bots better than the majority of the game’s players plat and below so…
I feel like they’d have to vastly improve the A.I in Overwatch to make that a remote possibility. Have you played Vs. A.I.? They run out at you like lemmings. Other games might have good enough bots to do that but… Overwatch doesn’t have smart bots lol.
I can’t imagine trying to play DPS in a game where my Tanks and Supports are all bots and the enemy team are all players.
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Irrelevant. Bots don’t wait for combos, don’t wait for teammates, hard bots are nearly impossible to kill, medium bots are useless, and myriad other issues. You’re not really going to change my mind or many others.
No one wants to lose or be carried by bots.
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Bots?
I’ll rather wait hours than have bots on my team. Bots in a game like overwatch wouldn’t work.
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Have you guys ever tried widow on a bot game? It’s really funny just how easy she is when the bots walk in straight lines. I feel like that is reason alone to not go this route.
gonna be honest thatd be pretty boring since the human aspect of overwatch is a big deal
I question whether or not people have deployed their own bots in this game, I’ve seen some pretty stupid sh1t, like players running into walls for a long duration, jumping right into the middle of the enemy team, lucios that don’t ever wallride or coordinate, just moves straight down mid lane repeatedly, in back to back games. Maybe that’s just the average player though…
DOTA has experimented with a bunch of ML AI, and has a more simple 2D interface, but has made some awesome accomplishments in the field.
For this to work in OW, I feel like the processing power behind the game would have to be exponentially more robust on Blizzards back end, and their not even trying to keep up with the number of regional hosts that their competition has.
I don’t see Blizzard caring enough about the player base to even want to attempt anything on this level. Time and time again, they deliver less and less.
Given that they can’t get pretty much any aspect of this game right, conflicting with its own fundamental design at every turn, I doubt they even could make enough meaningful progress to take the AI applied in 2D and scale it up to 3D.
Further more, any game that does implement AI on this level, probably has a better contextual application for it, rather than simply reducing queue times.
In any case however, I commend your creativity!
I already am getting them in my matches. What are you talking about OP?
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