About Joint Drill missions...

[Odzianna]

I do like to play against the Player-bots there as this allows you to see a few interesting builds, and gives you really just few, but very tough enemies. A few times I saw now a bot who fielded level 58 characters who pretty much all had Final Resistance and Second Heart.

And I wonder... Is the game just randomly throwing characters together from several players? Or does the entire setup of just one player get put into the match?

Also, has anyone ever managed to play such a mission against an actual player? So far I only ever saw 2 people who I could've invited for a round

[Hemmingfish]

The way it works is that any time someone wins an actual PVP match their team gets recorded to be put into the player-bot list. You're fighting actual players' characters that were strong enough to win against an actual Human.

I've played a bunch of PVP against real players. The number of people willing to play varies a lot from server to server. In my experience Asia is the best bet, followed by NA, then Europe. Most people in Asia can speak a little English even if they have a Japanese, Korean or Chinese name so it's not as hard as it seems to get a match. Sometimes people send PVP invites as I'm loading into town completely out of the blue.

I've never played on China's server so I don't know what things are like there.

[Odzianna]

Dang, so in theory you could fight your own team controlled by bots? Do the bot characters update with your own characters, or will they remain eternally that team that won the battle?

[Hemmingfish]

Originally posted by Odzianna:

Dang, so in theory you could fight your own team controlled by bots? Do the bot characters update with your own characters, or will they remain eternally that team that won the battle?

I've never fought a mirror match before of my own characters and I've played a lot of it, but maybe I was just unlucky.

I don't know if they update automatically, but maybe they do? When Crimson Crow was being released I played a lot of bot matches and most people in there were at the level cap at the time of each update, but now when I play in there the majority of parties are either 55 (the non-CC level cap) or 60.

I've also seen a bunch of teams that were obviously farm teams with their entire Support slots dedicated to drop rate increases and things like that. Would need a Dandylion confirmation on that one I think.

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[Odzianna]

I had a few matches against bots there that were quite intense. Not enough to actually make me lose, but it's quite fun to fight another players setup. I can only imagine how tense the fight against an actual human would be...

I saw a few 60erteams, and a few 58er. The 58 were all the same, though, I think, since they all used second heart. Even on Giselle!

[優心]

Translated into English.

I play on the Asian server.
The number of people is decreasing and it's almost a miracle that you can play PvP, so I'm fighting player-bots,
but I've never fought my own team.
I guess it's because there are so many registered users.
It's nerve-wracking when you fight bots for the first time. I was too. And it was a lot of fun.

In PvP, the opponents also use pets and drones, so it's very exciting and fun.
I hope you'll find an opponent someday and be able to play PvP.
If you ever come to the Asian server, please tell me the name of your company.
Let's PvP together then.

[Odzianna]

Haha, thank you, but it's best I stick to europe :D Fighting player bots is quite fun already, but unfortunately they can't use their drones nor beasts. Oh well... maybe the second game will make it easier to meet other players. I certainly hope so

[Hemmingfish]

I've done some testing in the time since I posted here last.
- Your company is registered whenever you defeat another player OR a team of player bots
- Your team gets updated with whatever builds and items you were using the last time you won. None of your teams are permanently locked in except your latest one.
- You will never face your current team, but if you play with multiple companies on the same server you can get matched against those (it's how I figured the specifics out)
- The characters the bots select are the same ones that you won with, but the order it picks them is random (so no deliberate sneakiness like picking Witches and Barbarian last)

[Odzianna]

Oh, that's good to know! While I would love to fight my own team, i don't think i would have it in me to start another company and do it all again. I'm also afraid my team would be rather easy to beat since I really rely on my drones and beasts to do stuff, and don't use any revival stuff

[JJ Black]

I actually fought against one of my own companies once. Exact same skins, team composition, equipment and masteries. Kinda funny but doens't happen often I guess. And yes if you want to pvp in the hopes that your team destroys other players remember that the AI doesn't summon pets (so no Hunter/Engineer).

Use Second heart as the automatic turn can really pull of some clutch kills+is available again when the AI reinforces. Annie with the mind control on death with second heart just running in and pretty much guaranteeing 2 kills off of it is also ridiculous. Ray with second heart will just delete a character in retaliation aswell with her overdrive spray rain. Protect your squishy characters from retaliation with impulse fields and lightning reflexes.

Design the most impossible AI team for others to fight against :3