Dummy bot issues

Dummy bots use hero restrictions
This makes it really difficult to create turrets or pretty much any kind of NPC the player is not supposed to control.

Dummy bots inherit information from the person that spawned it
Statuses, invisibility, allowed buttons and such are all inherited from the spawner. This can have some uses, but more often than not it’s just annoying.

They don’t have IDs
If you want to delete a specific bot, you cant use IDs or just tell the bot to delete itself. You have to delete a bot that is in a specific slot.

Bots can’t use communications
This isn’t that big of an issue but it definitely is an issue. Bots can’t use “hello”, “thanks” and other voice lines. They also can’t emote.

Some abilities just dont work
Shields, turrets, traps, spawnables and such wont work when spawned by a bot. However, this is inconsistent. For example, Junkrat’s mine works but his trap doesn’t.

Also this isn’t a bot issue but can we just get quick melee functionality in the workshop already
Oops probably should have posted in PTR feedback

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Yeah, I wish there was a way to make them use communications, same with the default bots as well.

Last Created Entity will return the last created dummy bot, if it helps.

But I think the biggest issue of all is
Sometimes they just literally don’t spawn

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