The Joy of playing vs AI Hard

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Damn hopefully in 2 they make everyone have an ai counter part, though I can imagine Hammond and doomfist being tough to do.

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I dunno, I’ve seen them in workshop games, so it’s just a matter of the devs being lazy. They haven’t added a new bot to the AI roster since Sombra even though they had to give Orisa AI programming for the Archives event and Symmetra programming for the Junk event. :woman_shrugging:

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I mainly want the ai for the sake of being able to play overwatch 2s campaign solo, the devs said as of the dev log it only worked with 4 real players and that they’d work on ai partners who aren’t idiots.

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Yeah that’s important to me too given how terrible people are at sticking around and actually playing the current PvE campaigns. So many leavers or afkers or griefers. Would be a nightmare in OW2.

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Plus being able to play it offline would be nice but I dunno if they’d even do that.

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i actually forgot that you can queue up with others against AI. just did one right now (hard) had a 2 minute queue time. not bad. just spawn camped the AI all game :crazy_face:

FDJMBV - if you want to see me miss 80 percent shots as widow

kind of boring but it probably be fun with friends and just be chilled relax and have conversations

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Plus I got 1.5k exp so you could probably farm vs ai.

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Doubt, everything is always server side for them, don’t think they’d change it. Would be too easy to cheat otherwise I think.

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Sadly but I like to hope still.

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There’s very few heroes I think that are actually fun (challenging) in AI. Some heroes are just way too OP for that mode and just suck the fun out of it for others.

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the anniversary AI scripted events are more of a challenge especially on the hardest settings. i think i only ever beat a couple of them. hopefully overwatch 2 will have lots of those type of scripted AI scenarios

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Are we the same person?

I have 1500hrs in this game. 800 of them against the AI.

I absolutely love AI. It allows me to play any hero I want to without fear of criticism or getting rolled. It allows me to do things I don’t always get to do when playing Roles I like (shielding Rezzes, teammates Ults or low health allies). And when my team is really bad due to it being 3am or I am just in a noob lobby, I can always carry a game on Roadhog.

AI is the best experience OW has to offer. Anyone can play anything at any time on any map. The toxicity is virtually non-existent. In my exp, people literally pick and play “better” heroes than in my comp games too, which is hilarious.

My only complaint? I wish there was more heroes especially tanks. I have some customs with AI Reins, and lemme tell how fun it is to counter pin and play shatter mind-games. I’d love to see Rein and Orisa added to the AI lineup.

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Pffft, lightweight. I have 1500+ in just AI. Get on my level, Mako. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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I used to be a QP warrior.

Me and Invader are preparing to send our tank duo to GM next season (or just be eternally stuck in plat hell) so I’ll be on an AI hiatus for a bit.

Once I have every tank and support gold gun I will never do anything more than placements in comp again.

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Playing against AIs gets very boring. They play very predictably, and teams usually end up spawn camping them endlessly. They can aim pretty well, especially on hard difficulty, but their strategies are mediocre at best, and there’s only around a dozen different heroes they play. They don’t even play Mercy.

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There really just needs to be an AI mode that cheats. AI mode so far just get near perfect aim, group up, and deal 1.0x of the player damage. Medium does only 50% dmg. We need a very hard mode where the AI deals 2.0x more damage. You are facing off 8v6 instead. Human players get ult charge deductions, etc. Get the people doing easy or better players into more challenging modes.

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All that would be good, but I think they just need to throw in the rest of the hero pool. Like, they call it a training mode and then don’t even have shields or snipers or aerial heroes to learn to fight against. And then they wonder why people need to go practice heroes in QP. How do you learn to counter a sniper in the game when the official training mode doesn’t even have a sniper?

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Another AI regular here. Been playing AI only for a few months at this point, and honestly it’s 100% better than QP, since you can pick any character you want and just have fun. No one gets sweaty. No one gets mad if you suck at your character. Just pick anything you want and have fun.

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I love playing against hard bots as well.

Sadly, they’ve been quite buggy since 2018 retribution which broke their AI a bit (headshots no longer applying to them, meaning no headshot damage/less damage, most likely disabling it for the NPCs due to legendary difficulty being tough), navigation was changed in Retribution.

Some of the characters reworks changed their AI like Torbjorn and Sombra (Torbjorn can be either smart or very dumb with his new ult).
Sombra bot is terrible after her perma invisibility change; her AI used to play like a scary flanking Tracer, but now she went from using invis when she saw an enemy, to always using invis, even in combat and hack interrupt when shot at breaks her AI at times and makes her just stand there lol.

I personally wish they fixed at least Sombra bot’s dumb behaviour and/or enable headshots for them again, since after 2018, they’re no longer a challenge without the actual real damage (2017 bots were way more deadlier and scary; it’s quite a pattern with games, where the bots slowly get more broken in games e.g. League of Legends, Dota 2 exception being Smite, which improved their bots). :+1:

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Don’t forget how Lucio-bot seems to have forgotten how to jump down off cliffs/edges. His skates just get caught up on the landscape and he bobbles there awkwardly in mid-air.

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