Can you single player this game?

[DESTARD]

Does it have Bots or something I rather play MP.

[Pekmez Pita]

There's bots for Humans but no bots for Klowns.

And the human bots are pretty brain dead. Just aimlessly wandering around until you catch them. They may attack you if you get right next to them but that's about it.

That's the extend of the "singleplayer".

The bots in Spirits Unleashed were at least half decent. The bots in this are barely functional.

[wildgoose]

Originally posted by Pekmez Pita:

There's bots for Humans but no bots for Klowns.

And the human bots are pretty brain dead. Just aimlessly wandering around until you catch them. They may attack you if you get right next to them but that's about it.

That's the extend of the "singleplayer".

The bots in Spirits Unleashed were at least half decent. The bots in this are barely functional.

If I really cared about grinding levels/achievements, I'd just spam private lobby matches, but I played a single bot match and it was too boring. Multiplayer is really the only fun way to play.

[Pekmez Pita]

Originally posted by wildgoose:

Originally posted by Pekmez Pita:

There's bots for Humans but no bots for Klowns.

And the human bots are pretty brain dead. Just aimlessly wandering around until you catch them. They may attack you if you get right next to them but that's about it.

That's the extend of the "singleplayer".

The bots in Spirits Unleashed were at least half decent. The bots in this are barely functional.

If I really cared about grinding levels/achievements, I'd just spam private lobby matches, but I played a single bot match and it was too boring. Multiplayer is really the only fun way to play.

Yes. Multiplayer is the selling point but having functional bots means i won't have to worry about being unable to play the game because of the lack of players.

They did a really decent job with the Spirits Unleashed bots. Seeing them do a sloppy job like this again is not very reassuring to me.

Even the F13 bots managed to at least hide themselves. In this? They just wander aimlessly and maybe attack you if you stand right next to them. They will walk into and get stuck on solid objects when you chase them. They are barely functional.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

So just to clarify, now that the game has officially launched and there was some earlier ambiguity about whether this would still be the case at launch, is it still true that we cannot create a private match ala Spirits Unleashed and play against Klown bots? (Or more than one at least?) Only human bots? Game looks awesome and I'm a huge fan of the film and loved Spirits Unleashed largely because my buddy and I could play it just between us and bots, but if that's not an option here sadly I must pass personally.

[A-Space-Turkey]

I hope the devs add klown bots to play against offline, too. I'd actually prefer to play this offline or only with friends.

[gowon from loona]

Originally posted by DESTARD:

Does it have Bots or something I rather play MP.

how you gonna play a pvp game with bots...

[gowon from loona]

Originally posted by A-Space-Turkey:

I hope the devs add klown bots to play against offline, too. I'd actually prefer to play this offline or only with friends.

yall cannot bfr rn

[Udyrfrykte.ttv]

Originally posted by DESTARD:

Does it have Bots or something I rather play MP.

Originally posted by Aikido:

So just to clarify, now that the game has officially launched and there was some earlier ambiguity about whether this would still be the case at launch, is it still true that we cannot create a private match ala Spirits Unleashed and play against Klown bots? (Or more than one at least?) Only human bots? Game looks awesome and I'm a huge fan of the film and loved Spirits Unleashed largely because my buddy and I could play it just between us and bots, but if that's not an option here sadly I must pass personally.

It has bots. Launching a Private game with just yourself with always put you into the Klown role, you cannot play versus Klown bots at this time. Bots are very basic but hopefully they flesh out the bots as they rely on them in actual matches too and it would be nice for both MP and private games if bots were capable teammates.

My observations after a lot of bot games waiting for crossplatform so I can play with console friends:
> The current bots don't make any attempt to escape. I've had a bot right outside the escape opened by the ice cream truck and they stood idly as the Klownpocalypse rolled toward them.
> They won't rescue other survivors from cocoons whether the cocoon is hooked or on the ground. Edit: bots that are downed will recover and try to run away or attack you (dependent on having a weapon), but they won't help another bot or player up.
> Bots suffocate in cocoons in about 5 seconds, so you want to be within about 40-60m of the hook if you want the XP for hooking a human.
> They will pick up consumables and weapons but I've never had one use a knife to escape a cocoon.
> Because they won't interact with objectives they ignore and won't use the respawner, so a dead bot is just permanently dead.
> Unless they're running from a Klown and get chased to a different location, the bots tend to stay in the general area they spawn in and just wander around.
> You can literally walk up to bots sometimes and they don't run unless you hit them with a tracking ability or hit them with a thrown cocoon. Basically doing Health damage seems to get them running, but you get to 25-50% progress wrapping them in cotton candy with the rayguns before they'll run.
> They walk right into Lackeys rather than avoid them or bait them, so creating a bunch of Lackeys will net you an easy 100xp Lackey Grab events pretty frequently. Decent XP from hooking 4 cocoons on a hub, 15k XP per bot game has been my average so unlocking stuff isn't hard or time consuming pre-level 40/50.
> If they have a melee weapon they will fight you (if you get close enough), but if you get downed they seem to run away more often than stick around to finish you off. There's also a sweet-spot where you can dance on the outside of their engagement range and they'll shuffle between running away and trying to fight.
> While I haven't really seen them get stuck on objects due to bad pathing, they're incredibly dumb and will stack up on vault locations which sandbags the other bots. The extent of their ability to run a Klown is equivalent to a Dirt League DbD looper who's on a confidence high after seeing some edited clips but who goes down on the wrong side of Shack Pallet within the first 20 seconds of the trial starting with basement in Shack.

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

Originally posted by Tomes 'n Dailies:

Originally posted by DESTARD:

Does it have Bots or something I rather play MP.

Originally posted by Aikido:

So just to clarify, now that the game has officially launched and there was some earlier ambiguity about whether this would still be the case at launch, is it still true that we cannot create a private match ala Spirits Unleashed and play against Klown bots? (Or more than one at least?) Only human bots? Game looks awesome and I'm a huge fan of the film and loved Spirits Unleashed largely because my buddy and I could play it just between us and bots, but if that's not an option here sadly I must pass personally.

It has bots. Launching a Private game with just yourself with always put you into the Klown role, you cannot play versus Klown bots at this time. Bots are very basic but hopefully they flesh out the bots as they rely on them in actual matches too and it would be nice for both MP and private games if bots were capable teammates.

Thanks for the detailed response/clarification and the longer (omited for space) notes about the bots' behavior.

So, what happens if you start a private match with just one other human player? Can you choose to then play together as two humans or two klowns? Or are there just no klown bots in private matches at all?

[SpEciAl_K (kid)]

this game is pvp online only

["Dubbed one too many names."]

There is no offline-play as of yet; might be added later.

[Udyrfrykte.ttv]

Originally posted by Aikido:

Originally posted by Tomes 'n Dailies:

It has bots. Launching a Private game with just yourself with always put you into the Klown role, you cannot play versus Klown bots at this time. Bots are very basic but hopefully they flesh out the bots as they rely on them in actual matches too and it would be nice for both MP and private games if bots were capable teammates.

Thanks for the detailed response/clarification and the longer (omited for space) notes about the bots' behavior.

So, what happens if you start a private match with just one other human player? Can you choose to then play together as two humans or two klowns? Or are there just no klown bots in private matches at all?

No Klown bots at all at this time, so the game requires at least 1 human be a Klown. If you and a friend load into a private game you can either both be Klowns against bots or one of you can join the Humans with a team of bots while the other is a Klown, but both you won't be able to be human.