Was doing tons of random Battleground’s tonight and thought of a suggestion to resolve the premade issue that many players have encountered for the past while.
Did some Comp Stomp since it’s easy to win via the AI you battle against and this got me thinking. Why not add an option to do random Battleground’s against AI and not against actual players?
This would help with the premade issue for those not interested in fighting actual players AND on top of this, Would make numerous PvP achievements a lot easier to obtain. Such achievements like Double Jeopardy for example.
If Blizzard were to do this, I would suggest the AI be re-worked a little bit to make them more harder to kill than in Comp Stomp which is really easy to win in a matter of minutes. But still make it so the match is enjoyable in the end!
As for AI kills counting for PvP Honorable Kills. Not sure how this would work since I’ve noticed in the current Comp Stomp event that AI kills currently don’t count towards the Honorable Kills achievements in-game.
Genuine question: Is this a troll post? Or are you sincere in this suggestion.
I ask not out of any intention of disrespect and I really want to give the benefit of the doubt here but this is coming across as a bit passive aggressive and insulting. I’m sure it’s not how you meant it to be, but that’s just what it seems like with comments like:
While I cannot speak for all players, I would feel safe in saying that most people probably play PvP specifically TO fight other players. They just want fair and balanced matches.
It seems incredibly tone deaf to give a solution for a PvP problem that doesn’t involve, you know, any actual PvP.
But again I may be overreacting to your post here.
I will say that a practice mode vs AI would be a good thing to add, but NOT as a replacement for actual PvP nor as a “solution” to queue sync premades.
This is not a troll post. I posted this as a suggestion as I have a very low win-rate when it comes to doing Battleground’s. Lost well over 90% of the matches I’ve been in this season.
Yes. This is one of the reasons I do Battleground’s. However, With the amount of premade matches, I’ve encountered which result in losses. I thought this could be an alternative to getting your Honor to help you gear up to get into Rated PvP.
I’ve been finding it hard to gear up this season due to the amount of losses I’ve been in. I’ve only obtained (2) epic pieces of PvP gear during Season 2 so far as finding it really hard to obtain Conquest Points as a result.
I am high enough PvP iLevel to get into rated. But I don’t want to get removed either because majority of my PvP gear is for basic non-rated PvP. Also, I don’t want to hinder any team’s in rated until I get mostly epic PvP geared as I die really fast in non-rated Battleground’s.
If this option came to play - You would still be able to choose to play against other players in-game! This would be an option like Comp Stomp currently. So you would be able to choose if you want an AI match for easy Honor or choose if you want to play against other players.
My suggestion for the past… Several years… Has been making all battlegrounds cross faction and adding in some sane group/role/ilvl balancing between teams.
I think that would be a much better solution. The idea should be to encourage players to participate in PvP by giving them better matches and feeling like their time is rewarded, not encouraging them to fight AI bots in a comp stomp type mode.
I explain this a little more here:
However I also think there should be a training mode/proving grounds type thing you can use to learn PvP and the maps and maybe earn some starter pieces of PvP gear to help new players not be at such a disadvantage when just starting, as well as conquest catchup mechanisms for alts or players who are behind.
Creating a comp stomp for players would just be a band-aid fix for the real issue.
I’d say bring solo/duo to random bgs as a seperate game mode, and then see whether normal bgs or the solo duo only bgs are more popular. Whichever game mode is more popular gets to stay and the less engaging one gets axed.
If people still want to premade as 5 let them fight in epic bgs, they just need to add a cap to premades for that bg mode.
Where as a lot of human players really enjoy going out of their way to grief and be toxic bot players would never do that.
Bots can also despite popular opinion be absolutely god tier at the game if they were allowed in their full power. One of them smoked pikaboo on his own class.
A mere mortal man cannot compete with the reaction time and infinite game knowledge of a bot.
So there is potential for a difficulty scaler.
But unleashing a bot at its full game knowledge and full reaction time is a ban worthy offense already.
Cause the human players simply can’t compete with them.
It wouldn’t be “single player” i really like how people really enjoy the prospect of ai doing their jobs for them so they have to do nothing but then hate the idea of ai smoking them in their video games.
The best solution I’ve came up with is one group that queued together(2-5 players) max per team per match. If they put all premades on teams where the rest are solo queued players there is no more premade problem. If 5 players that queued together play well, especially together thats good, thats the spirt of the current 5 player limit for queuing random BGs and brawls. Cross faction is another half measure but helpful addition.
Versus AI option should exist at all times imo, it’s a valid mode in many games. But giving it achievements and HKs etc would defeat the purpose of them.
OP, I’ll kindly remind you that this is the “Forums > PVP > Battlegrounds” forum and pvp stands for player versus player, that alone makes this entire suggestion not belong in this forum but on something like the quest forum or something like that.
Maybe the dungeon forum (if there is one), thanks for your input though.
You’d still be in pvp combat just not against other players.
Almost every other aspect of the game has some sort of solo option which was added for a reason and thats cause increasingly having to deal with other players who go out of their way to be obnoxious is to much work.
Adding a “vs AI” mode to battlegrounds is like adding a PvP difficulty to raids.
People don’t do battlegrounds to fight the AI, just like people don’t raid to fight other players.
