Offline/Solo mode

[i eat fabric]

Is this in the game?

[BrattySue]

you always will be a fireteam out of three, but you can choose the combat androids alfa and beta as 2nd and 3rd member of your fireteam.

unitl intense it works kinda out, on extreme and insane the bots are just not helpful. too low of firepower but what is much worse, they constantly step in front of you. not that smart with friendly fire enabled.

on another thought... 2/3 of human players also run constantly in front of you.. so maybe a training for what you have to suffer in matches with other players

[i eat fabric]

Originally posted by Nazanin:

you always will be a fireteam out of three, but you can choose the combat androids alfa and beta as 2nd and 3rd member of your fireteam.

unitl intense it works kinda out, on extreme and insane the bots are just not helpful. too low of firepower but what is much worse, they constantly step in front of you. not that smart with friendly fire enabled.

on another thought... 2/3 of human players also run constantly in front of you.. so maybe a training for what you have to suffer in matches with other players :theskull:

?

[BrattySue]

offline: no, solo: no, you as the only human player with two npc bots: yes

[SpecialEllio]

what he means to say is, "yes but the bots aren't any good past the normal difficulty"

[i eat fabric]

aight thx <3

[dioramic_life]

Yea you can play offline but I am not certain your progress is saved, even if you reconnect to a network later. For solo, you would be stuck with Working Joe soldiers, who are pretty unsophisticated. Joes are really only effective for up to Intense difficulty. (Extreme and Insane difficulty are too difficult for solo play.)

[TangoBravo]

Those bots are aweful. There is no chance of pulling back and the defensive classes are useless, as those two idiots will always run ahead, trying to shield the aliens with their bodies to protect them from being hurt by the player. That AI is not just underdeveloped, it is aggressively stupid.

[Boboscus]

If you have a flamethrower you can get rid of bots almost instantly, other than that, playing alone is not possible nor wanted as a single pounce will end your run, especially if you have no skill in the game, as a veteran you already know every enemy spawn position and to predict it.

[RMOR]

can play solo in mode standard and intense.

[black Harlekin]

if you want to play solo you can also install some mods to make the Bots more usefull in the game =)

[Landoro]

can you customise the bots?

[Xero]

No, not by default. But heard there are mods. Maybe play with the bot mod config file.

[drh]

Originally posted by TangoBravo:

Those bots are aweful. There is no chance of pulling back and the defensive classes are useless, as those two idiots will always run ahead, trying to shield the aliens with their bodies to protect them from being hurt by the player. That AI is not just underdeveloped, it is aggressively stupid.

It's an online co-op game by its very nature, any development resources diverted to AI would have been to the detriment of the rest of the game.

[TangoBravo]

Originally posted by drh:

It's an online co-op game by its very nature, any development resources diverted to AI would have been to the detriment of the rest of the game.

There is just a baseline what people expect from a game they pay money for. And in this case - and I think you can see that through all discussions of this kind - having an AI which is not mind-numbingly stupid would have been this baseline. Even just making them less erratic or controlling their states or having them look into one direction (using a feature already implemented prominently) would have worked. This does not require that much resources. Nobody is asking them to replace human players. It is much more about bots failing at the level of their strength and the players inability to utilize it rather than randomly glaring into the opposite direction while the player is torn apart.

[Xero]

If they just made the bots smarter for all difficulties. To stay behind the human players point of view ( Not being in front of live fire and or preventing human players from shooting the aliens ) With the possible addition of commands.

- Hold / Guard This Position
- Follow / Guard Pinged Human Player
- Grab A Aid Kit
- Get The Door
- Toggle Button / Switch
- Follow Commands Of Pinged Human Player (Gives Other Humans Command Of Bot)

Then I'd be even happier with offline play. I'm currently on insane and, yes, it's possible solo but very tedious and annoying. When on multiplayer insane and one human player leaves, leaving us with a bot in their place, the bot ends up dying because it's always in the way of fire in tight corridors. Also die in the process of trying to rescue the downed bot.