Bots too stupid????

[Jojoke]

Is it just me, or are the bots shooting the walls and completely ignoring the ghost 24/7, it sucks playing solo because this is every game

[Vezner]

Yeah, they aren't the best AI in the world. I've seen worse though.

[Jojoke]

Just had a game yesterday, was holding the ghost and a bot ran over, threw the trap, just to immediately take it back and talk to a civ (wasn't panicked or anything)

[Kirbizard]

I've found them to be all over the place, mostly good compared to other games I've played, but they are certainly far from flawless. Occasionally had them capture the ghost completely on their own, on the other hand, just had a match where all three of them stood in one place firing at a wall.

The one consistent part I've found about them is how they tag and then promptly ignore rifts, which makes it frustrating when they rarely help you close them.

[The Knight of Faerie]

Believe it or not, the AI for bot busters and bot ghosts HAS been improved a lot. Buster bots use to all run over at the same time to revive someone who's downed, thus grouping up and making themselves vulnerable. They use to PKE burst exposed rifts, then run off. Or PKE burst an artifact (which does not expose the rift), then run off. Or throw a trap without opening it. Or PKE burst in the middle of a hallway without any reason to.

[kyorinrin]

Honestly if they would attack known rifts this would go a long ways, it takes forever to destroy one by yourself.

I’ve had them doing a bunch of awesome stuff but than in other matches be useless. Mostly I just shrug and figure RL players would be about the same sometimes.

Ideally a few commands like “assist me” and “stay with me” while using the directional arrows to specify which buster comes would be nice.

[Jojoke]

yea, being able to command the bots to do actions or behave a certain way would be a game changer

[[{******---Dead4Life---******}]]

That sucks, was gonna buy but coop is almost dead, and bots are as dumb as in L4D... ok.

[Lucifer]

Originally posted by The Knight of Faerie:

Believe it or not, the AI for bot busters and bot ghosts HAS been improved a lot. Buster bots use to all run over at the same time to revive someone who's downed, thus grouping up and making themselves vulnerable. They use to PKE burst exposed rifts, then run off. Or PKE burst an artifact (which does not expose the rift), then run off. Or throw a trap without opening it. Or PKE burst in the middle of a hallway without any reason to.

They still do. Been playing since Halloween and every time ALL buster bots drop what they're doing to run to a downed buster... it makes playing as a Ghost super easy if you manage to down one the others just swarm to them ignoring you. The only way I have gotten trapped by them is going into the trap manually, they don't drag me towards them, and I've had to do that multiple times just for a contract. The AI for ghosts can be scaled and can be good at times and when I am a buster, the other busters are somewhat useful (they do occassionally get solo captures against AI ghosts but it's not due to the tether but managing to pop a trap under one).

As a player ghost, staying high enough not to get sucked into a trap without being dragged down seems to confuse them.

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

Originally posted by Dead4Life The Original One:

That sucks, was gonna buy but coop is almost dead, and bots are as dumb as in L4D... ok.

Its not dead by any means, the game has crossplay so you're constantly getting games and getting matched with people from Epic or consoles...

[Tyrannosaurus Rex]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3077095456

Regarding bots, yes, they're extremely stupid. I just had a game where two of them just kept shooting at one spot in the ceiling for some reason, and they did this for most of the match. Extremely annoying.

[[{******---Dead4Life---******}]]

Originally posted by Tyrannosaurus Rex:

Originally posted by Dead4Life The Original One:

That sucks, was gonna buy but coop is almost dead, and bots are as dumb as in L4D... ok.

Its not dead by any means, the game has crossplay so you're constantly getting games and getting matched with people from Epic or consoles...

Oh ok, cool. I might try the game with some friends, down the road. Thanks.

[Lucifer]

Originally posted by Tyrannosaurus Rex:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3077095456

Regarding bots, yes, they're extremely stupid. I just had a game where two of them just kept shooting at one spot in the ceiling for some reason, and they did this for most of the match. Extremely annoying.

They do that when shooting at a haunted or possessed object or artifact with a rift to which they don’t technically have line of sight. If you go around the obstacle in the direction they are shooting you can destroy whatever is there to free them from their loop… it’s usually an object the ghost possessed then exited.

[PumpkinSpiceGob.ttv]

Yeah something's funky with the buster AI lately... sometimes the bots are cracked, other times they'll fire at the floor all match. But yeah, overall, bots are in a better place than they were, but still need work.

[Terotrous]

The bots are completely nonviable, both as busters and ghosts. It's unfortunate because the ability to play private matches would be a HUGE plus for the game if the AI was even tolerable, but it's simply not interesting due to how bad the AI is.

[[HdF] Almut Grete]

I played 2 games as a ghost and noticed the bots just shoot at sight - no matter what is in the way. It is nearly impossible to loose.
I also played 2 games as Busters and from what i saw, the bots did capture ghosts and destroy rifts. Since i am new to the game i was prone to turn them off, because i wanted to explore the game more.

Could use some work.