Player or bot?

[Anezka de Astora]

Newbie here. So... how do I tell if I'm against a bot or a player? :\

Thank you!

[Tex Conway]

If you kill an enemy, and their corpse has a purple Captain's Keycard, you killed a player guaranteed. However, not all players are captains and thus carry the card initially. In terms of recognizing players during firefights, players are obviously less linear and seldom rush, and are almost always utilizing fully-automatic weapons. Bots tend to do stupid things and never try to camp or circle back.

[Macdallan]

Well, when you're in first person combat it's usually movement, and Tex is right that most of the bots tend to do stupid things. I've seen them just slowly strafe without shooting even though they're aiming at me, sometimes they just stand still if they've heard but not seen you. I even had one standing dead center at an airlock door as the door opened, right in the open. I expected it to move because of the noise the door made but it didn't. Lined up a headshot and I think that was my easiest kill in the game so far...

Keep in mind that only the ship's captain carries a keycard and you can team up with 3 other people meaning 3 of the 4 don't have a keycard on them.

Getting killed? The bots have names but usually you can tell if it's a player name or not. I mean, I got killed by MoistCostcoHotdog in one game and I'm 99% sure that was not a bot. Why only 99%? Because the developers just might have a strange sense of humour (which would be a good thing) and may have given a name like that to a bot.

[DaRaygenkgenTtv]

Originally posted by Tex Conway:

If you kill an enemy, and their corpse as a purple Captain's Keycard, you killed a player. In terms of recognizing players during firefights, players are obviously less linear and seldom rush, and are almost always utilizing fully-automatic weapons. Bots tend to do stupid things and never try to camp or circle back.

also some players don't have key cards cause they are not the captain so that's not always true.

[Tex Conway]

Originally posted by DaRaygenkgenTtv:

Originally posted by Tex Conway:

If you kill an enemy, and their corpse as a purple Captain's Keycard, you killed a player. In terms of recognizing players during firefights, players are obviously less linear and seldom rush, and are almost always utilizing fully-automatic weapons. Bots tend to do stupid things and never try to camp or circle back.

also some players don't have key cards cause they are not the captain so that's not always true.

Yes, very true. I should have clarified that better.

[A TIN OF JAR]

Originally posted by Tex Conway:

If you kill an enemy, and their corpse as a purple Captain's Keycard.

Only the party leader has the purple key-card so not every human player will have a key-card, if you are playing and the party leader dies you would have to take the key-card from him in-order to escape otherwise you cannot open the airlock.

As said usually the best way to tell human vs AI is by the movement