Since the Anniversary update, bots in the Practice vs AI game mode are regularly getting stuck in spawn (Volskaya, Oasis, and Eichenwalde when bots are on attack are the major ones) and in certain spots outside of spawn, where even if you do kill them they respawn and are then stuck in the spawn room locked in a twitchy walk cycle that doesn’t let them move (Volskaya and Dorado when the bots are on defense most notably.) Sometimes up to 3 of the bots can get stuck in a single round making the match very empty. As far as my friends and I have figured out, there is no way to make a bot move again once they enter the “stuck” animation cycle. I know PVE content, specifically the training vs ai mode, isn’t the highest of priorities, but I genuinely enjoy this mode when I want to relax with friends, so if this could be resolved it would be greatly appreciated by me and my fellow “vs ai” crew of casuals. Thank you ahead of time for reading this and hopefully the Training vs AI game mode can return to being fully working again.
I see this, too, in custom games with AI. It’s almost always Zarya bot. She gets stuck in the spawn room or just outside it. Multiple maps.
I find Roadhog to be the most consistently buggy of all the AI characters. Like the OP said, even if you trigger them into some sort of action near the spawn room they’ll subsequently get stuck in spawn completely out of view. I’m also seeing this on Dorado and Anubis. On payload maps it seems always to be when the bots are on offense.
This is still happening now. Please fix.
Yes, it’s not even funny anymore at this point.
lol, i just came to report this. doesnt bode well for ow2 pve if they cant even get AI game bots to work after years.
I’d guess that developers simply ignore the AI programming so far as the “practice” games are concerned. They haven’t introduced a new AI character in at least a couple of years, despite having programmed some for the events (e.g. Symmetra and Junkrat for Junkenstein’s Revenge).
Edit: Code - ZRKCSS Lucio bot gets stuck on Hanamura during second point attack.
Yeah, I wish they added those bots to the roster, since not all of them have to use their abilities, since Reaper bot never uses teleport.
Sombra bot was broken, since her changes to her kit such as perma-invisibility, where they just made her activate it as soon as its available.
Her AI also seems to think her translocator still has a countdown, even though it’s permanent as well.
Bastion bot seems to now repair during his ult though.
The bots were at their best when I first started back in September 2017, 2018 was when they were changed, such as their navigation (making them jump down from higher places, which caused them to do weird high Genji jumps and get stuck, still do in fact); I remember when they used to flank underneath Oasis: University with their old nav, shame they no longer do that.
Lastly, bots lost their ability to headshot, ever since Retribution existing (no red arrows on the killfeed ever since).