Why no bot for leavers as replacement?

[Dowsha-2613]

Its one of the most annoying things in the game.

When someone leaves the game.

WHy do we dont have a medi good bot that atleast does something.

It would only enter when someone leaves and not comes back in time.

[Ocelot-11840]

i play against living people sorry, titanfall is weird

[TheFoxPaw-1597]

Because that would be very annoying in OW. Not to mention very inconsistent and random. If a duo leaves then 2 bot appear… thats just kinda… pointless. Its not like the AI would play any better or it might? Go into an AI game and look at how the bots play. I assure you most players do not play like that.

Also, depending on the difficulty set on the AI, it can see every player in the match and their location. Tell me how the game would be consistent and fair if you were being tracked through a wall by an AI but visually in kill cams couldn’t see from the AI perspective how it would have known you were there.

This whole idea is…

Just play the game and wait for a backfill.

[Akary-1113]

@Dowsha-2613

Its one of the most annoying things in the game.

When someone leaves the game.

WHy do we dont have a medi good bot that atleast does something.

It would only enter when someone leaves and not comes back in time

Cause bots are ult feeders, i wouldnt like bots most of the time i usually win my 4v5 games, just means you got to play harder. If a bot was in play more chance for the enemy to ult.

[ĿȀŖǠǂ1ǾǂƑPŜǃ-2660]

Because blizzard doesn’t know the meaning of fairness when comes to competitive play.

[TheFoxPaw-1597]

So your idea of fair is to have an Artificial Intelligence player that knows every players location, ult charge, and HP come into a ranked game? This is just a hard cope. There’s no way that adding AI to ranked games is beneficial to anyone. Imagine being on the other team, knowing you lost to a team with an AI with no skill who knows everything about the state of the match.

Talk about not knowing the meaning of fairness.

[Dowsha-2613]

AN AI bot is still better then to have nothing. Also you can adjust a bot to only see on sight and not via map.

[TheFoxPaw-1597]

You are not understanding the concept of AI. It doesn’t matter how the AI is “tweaked”, its still an AI and will play with in its set range with minimal concern for what is really going on in-game. Adding AI to a game because of unbalanced team is not going to fix anything. If you are on the enemy team and you know that there is an AI player, you can easily exploit the AI’s weaknesses and essentially feed off its predictable play style and guess what… You cant report them, avoid them or even try to ask them to do anything. It will be a huge mess in-game.

Sorry, there is no way you can spin this AI in leaver games that makes sense.

[ĿȀŖǠǂ1ǾǂƑPŜǃ-2660]

As if the bots are any better the real player lmao.

[Sxmxrxi-1466]

Either way you look at it there is no right answer and this game is still mediocre no matter what.

[Comixfan-6222]

@Dowsha-2613

Its one of the most annoying things in the game.

When someone leaves the game.

I’ve been saying it for years at this point, Competitive needs backfill.

It’s the one game mode in Overwatch/Overwatch 2 that needs it the most!

Competitive needs backfill now more than ever

With the advent of 5v5 backfill in Competitve is needed now more than ever. If you end up 4v5 it will be an absolute miracle if you manage to win, especially if you’ve lost a Support or, even worse, your one and only tank. Come on, Blizzard. Now’s the time. Ensure that Competitive matches remain fair and balanced in this new Overwatch 2 5v5 landscape by adding backfill to Competitive.

[Moira-21906]

imo they should pause the match for the 2 minute timer if you’re talking about comp

[TheFoxPaw-1597]

Oh yeah… Lets just sit around for 2 minuets and do nothing, hoping that the player will come back. I am sure that will be fun. 2 min of our time just wasted. Then, if they never come back we wasted 2 min for nothing.

This is not OWL. If you want to play like that, you need to scrim with teams.

[Xanikk-1959]

@TheFoxPaw-1597

Adding AI to a game because of unbalanced team is not going to fix anything

It’s not a perfect solution but it’s better than being down one person.

[PerfectDark-11659]

have you played against aimbot difficulty soldier or hanzo?

[Boshy-11500]

@TheFoxPaw-1597

Its not like the AI would play any better or it might

Uhhh you’d be surprised lol

[Akary-1113]

@PerfectDark-11659

have you played against aimbot difficulty soldier or hanzo?

Yeah their ez you peak barrage like you do with torb turret, there is an intial delay defore AI starts to fire

[Sushi-31236]

@Dowsha-2613

WHy do we dont have a medi good bot that atleast does something.

…I don’t want the enemy team farming ult charge off an AI thanks…

[LuckyDucky12-11252]

@TheFoxPaw-1597

Its not like the AI would play any better or it might? Go into an AI game and look at how the bots play. I assure you most players do not play like that.

This is entirely a coding issue. You can make bots that play just like real people; I believe Halo Infinite did it, and that’s also a F2P game where developers put MTX (Macro Transactions) over good game design choices.

[PerfectDark-11659]

yeah but you are not taking into account that they are a leaver replacement and the entire enemy team may or may not be either protecting or surrounding him in that radius.

Literally there is no harm in a leaver replacement, and I would feel much better having dead-meat bait run in than a void spot. Now if it was Competitive that would be a different whole other issue. What I would suggest then is that the devs would play around with the idea of increasing ai’s adaptation awareness of the situation around the leaver’s team.