The AFK XP Farming Bots Are Getting Out Of Hand (VS AI Mode)

[HighLanderPony]

I can barely get my dailies sometimes (need to luck out on teammates) VS easy bots because 4 players on my team are consistently AFK XP farmers who literally do nothing to help win the game.

Sometimes it's winnable with 3 actual people but with 2 it's a struggle to impossible.

Fix it pls.

[MythicalTwinkie]

I don't think you get XP for Vs AI.

even then, the bots are complete garbage. just load up hard bots. you'll get either 5-1 human player teammates.

[HighLanderPony]

Originally posted by MythicalTwinkie:

I don't think you get XP for Vs AI.

even then, the bots are complete garbage. just load up hard bots. you'll get either 5-1 human player teammates.

You do get XP, thats why there are bots. To farm accounts to comp readiness.

Why'd I try to win 1-2v6 vs hard bots when it's nigh impossible even vs easy bots?

[Koro]

I've been having the same issues. Been reporting the players time and time and time again, never get a response from NetEase. Gotten responses about things being done as a result of my reports in the past. Like when I recently reported people for being racist in chat, I got a message back saying they'd been muted. No such messages for AFKers. NetEase clearly don't care, and it makes me so angry

[HighLanderPony]

Originally posted by Koro:

I've been having the same issues. Been reporting the players time and time and time again, never get a response from NetEase. Gotten responses about things being done as a result of my reports in the past. Like when I recently reported people for being racist in chat, I got a message back saying they'd been muted. No such messages for AFKers. NetEase clearly don't care, and it makes me so angry

Yeah, I also haven't been getting any confirmation that these people got punished.

[MythicalTwinkie]

Originally posted by HighLanderPony:

Originally posted by MythicalTwinkie:

I don't think you get XP for Vs AI.

even then, the bots are complete garbage. just load up hard bots. you'll get either 5-1 human player teammates.

You do get XP, thats why there are bots. To farm accounts to comp readiness.

Why'd I try to win 1-2v6 vs hard bots when it's nigh impossible even vs easy bots?

Ok, well excuse me for not knowing youget XP in Vs AI. no idea why Netease would allow a gamemode like that to give XP

Also, the hard bots are insanely stupid. every time I've played hard bots, it ends up with me spawn camping them. only time I've ever had issues playing against hard bots is when I've tried to learn how to play a dive character, and that's because dive characters are impossible to learn in bots because bots have have omnipotent game sense, can see you through walls, and have 1 frame reaction times.

other than that, they're stupid easy.

if hard bots are too hard, then maybe you do need the practice against them.

[THAT Guy]

Originally posted by Koro:

I've been having the same issues. Been reporting the players time and time and time again, never get a response from NetEase. Gotten responses about things being done as a result of my reports in the past. Like when I recently reported people for being racist in chat, I got a message back saying they'd been muted. No such messages for AFKers. NetEase clearly don't care, and it makes me so angry

Netease doesn't care, because they are likely indirectly involved with the operation or are at very least benefiting from it financially.

Developers like netease only care about player experience up to the point it stops benefiting profits, and they won't hesitate to make player experience worse if the profit potential is high enough

[sir_sasquatch]

Had the same experience in easy vs AI matches, didn't have it in medium and hard.
For now this is the only solution I can think of, and if you still run into them better take a moment to report them and advise your team to do the same.
Action against them is usually taken when the amount of reports piles up.

[Sheepysheepy]

put it on hard bots, done all my event missions there for weeks, never had any afks..

if you have some sort of anxiety about playing vs harder bots dont worry they're almost exactly the same as easy bots

[Arcius Tiger]

They are only in 1-star, and yes I've reported literally 40+ of them, I've lost count. I have gotten punishment reports, but only a LONG time after the report. I'm willing to bet the account got bought by a hacker then was banned after it was already leveled.
They won't punish these accounts for VS AI behavior - Netease seems to also think it's "Throw VS AI" rather than "Practice VS AI".

[HighLanderPony]

Thx for the tips. The reason I didn't put it on harder diffic was because 1. I wasn't sure whether the bots would be there and 2. even though it's still not that hard, some people do throw vs anything over Easy + it made the match longer for no good reason (till the bots showed up anyway).

[Grammeland]

Just did 5 games and had 15 different bots just walking into walls. One of those games had 5 of them so I was just playing alone.

[Arcius Tiger]

Originally posted by Grammeland:

Just did 5 games and had 15 different bots just walking into walls. One of those games had 5 of them so I was just playing alone.

Just had a 1-star VS AI match with 3 of them at once, one got inactivity kicked and, guess what? We got bots as replacements! The bots are out in force again, so 1-star VS AI is not viable anymore.
All it takes to trick the system is to walk forward at an angle, jump, walk backwards, walk forwards, and jump - repeat. These bots aren't even firing a single shot yet NetEase hasn't decided to auto-kick this kind of behavior. I wonder how long until they update their inactivity kick mechanic, because this is extremely disappointing.

[Terotrous]

A 2v6 vs the easy bots might actually be a reasonable challenge.