That sounds a lot like a Bastion I saw on the enemy team once in comp, either last season or the one before that. It just kept walking straight ahead and dying over and over
And then, last season, also in comp, I got a 007 Hog on my team in one match that also fits the description. He was walking into walls and everything, and finished the match with 206 damage, 0 healing or mitigation. IIRC, that was the same one that I encountered again in a later match on the enemy team, after I avoided it, but that time it was on support. Same behavior as before. I did report it both times and got a “thank you for reporting” sometime after all that, though, so one down I guess
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Interesting, I wonder how big or small this problem really is. Was your experience also late night?
Late night botting might be the best time of day to bot for more discretion and less likely to be reported in comparison to peak hours.
If these are bots for levelling up accounts to sell to smurfs, they shouldn’t be seen in comp much. Only QP. The one I saw was qp.
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I don’t remember, but the odds are pretty good that it was sometime at night. I was a more nocturnal creature at the time
I’m guessing they were deranking, because this was in Silver. I’ve improved a lot since then, climbed to mid-high Gold, and have yet to see any more to my knowledge
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Use invisible and chewcabera it’s very effective against the algorithm 
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There has been all bot teams in the past throwing sr, but somebody set those up for the same commands
I just love having James Bond in my match. 
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are we living in a simulation?
sometimes i wonder myself and with recent events im like flabbergasted…
i try and listen to frequency music to calm my soul tho
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Thats really interesting.
I saw an obvious bot interaction last night. It was QP and on the Antartica map. There were these two players, Ana and Echo I think. In the spawn room, they went up to each other, then both of them froze, like they didnt do what to do. They stayed completely still for like 3-4 seconds then the matched started and they left the spawn together together. It was really odd.
Theres another odd interaction I have found. They respond to chat messages! Yesterday, I played this match, we lost first match. I usually put “wp” but this time I put “Well Played”. Then a player on the team responded “tank shoe”. They did not correct themselves. Thats all the said. So its obvious that they have speech ability too, and it will either look AI or just not make sense.
So if you think you have a bot in the game, try to address it in chat and see if it responses in a strange way. Could be AI!
If you were an AI
You’d be the most pacifistic ai ever to be made
Like Alexa but can refuse you
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There not AI bots, there called Smurf Accounts. These are players who usually Plat or higher who create Smurf account because they are either bored or wanting to beat up on lesser skilled players.
They will usually play characters that they are skilled at and not change because they feel they don’t have to.
Ive played against a lot of smurfs before and these “Players” are different. Let me break-down the similarities and differences.
Similarities:
Battletags looks similar (Hack3r Sp3ak)
Sometimes skilled at their heroes.
Smurfs typically smack-talk in the chat. AIs either dont or say weird things that dont make sense
Groups of Smurfs team up as well as groups of AI team up.
Differences:
AI is much more focused on objectives. Narrow-focus.
Gameplay looks different. More “mechanical” and “predetermined”
Odd AI-behavior such as starring at each other, repetitive attacks, hyper-focus, no teammate interactions or too much teammate interactions sometimes.
Sometimes the AI is very bad at their heroes they play. Smurfs are always skilled at their selected heroes.
Yesterday, I noticed a new AI-behavioral pattern. I call it “Swarming”. When a team of AI capture a point or capture the payload, they do this odd “swarming” movement pattern over the area, much like bees do when they are defending their nest. They all move in these sort of triangular or circular patterns, simultaneously as a team, even when there are no enemies attacking. Its like their “attack formation” or something. Reminds me of Ender’s Game and the swarming Alien craft.
For me, this is very telling of AI with programmed movements.
Am I a bot? This list is making me think I’m a synth…
Then they aren’t bots, because the ow2 ai bots actually switch and regroup
So they are just bad players
No, there are people who really are just that bad at this and just about every game. There are genuinely people who don’t belong on a game where other people are involved, its just not fair to everyone else.
A friend of mine and I used to play a different, horrible game called battlefield 2042 lol and we found some rather interesting specimens on there. People who would somehow go an entire match without getting a kill but would accrue deaths of 15-25. I pointed this out to my friend one night and he just about lost his mind. We could not understand how a person could be this bad, and we went out of our way to check if this was an actual person and yeah, they were.
If you’ve ever played that game, and had narrow matches where your team lost by a mere few tickets, people like that could’ve actually made more of a difference not existing, than participating lol. We got into the habit of calling these people “5s” in reference to those who have no internal dialogue and just exist, going through the motions.
I have excellent news, the bots have become less common at night! Finally! 
I thought OW2 would be taken over by these AI bot players but luckily the regular Human players are back baby! 
Had an interesting experience yesterday on a game.
One of the enemy teammates said in the text chat “I dont know whats wrong with my team”. Then I asked whats going on? and they responded “I made a teleporter and told them to go into it but they all just stood in front of it doing nothing”. Right when I read that, I knew that players team had bots. My team had the AI bots too but they werent “dumb” like the enemy team’s.
Our team ended up beating the match in pretty much a stomp. Pretty obvious they were bots.
