Can we get less bots? Why even have them?

[LuckiestMoFo]

Ive been getting back into this game after a long break and have only been playing solo FPP. I noticed some players with pretty odd behavior, quickly realized they were probably just bots.

So I looked up the stats and holy heck, 72% of the players in all my games have been bots. Only 28 of the 100 players in the lobby are humans!

This is super demoralizing. I don't want to play the game anymore. Id rather wait 4-5 times as long to play with a lobby filled with humans. Id rather play a lobby with just 28 humans, than 28 humans plus 72 bots. They don't add anything to the game, they aren't interesting, they are just there to fluff the numbers and fool the people who don't realize there are bots into thinking the game is more popular than it actually is.

Am I the only one who hates the idea of a BR game with 3 out of every 4 players being a bot?

[Poor Bastard]

It could be because you haven't played in a long time. New players and players who haven't been scored under the new mmr system will be put in mostly bot lobbies for the first ten or so matches. But Solo FPP is the least popular playlist so it could be that too.

[LuckiestMoFo]

Originally posted by Poor Bastard:

It could be because you haven't played in a long time. New players and players who haven't been scored under the new mmr system will be put in mostly bot lobbies for the first ten or so matches. But Solo FPP is the least popular playlist so it could be that too.

I haven't played in a long time, but I have ~50 matches since Ive returned and average 300+ ADR so I dont think that's the issue. And I get solo FPP is the least unpopular, but Id still rather any option other than 3/4 of the players being bots.

For example Counter Strike will not only give you estimated match times before you queue up, but it will also give you an alert if there arent even enough people searching in your server area (regardless of rank) to fill a lobby.

There are so many other better options than just filling 70+% of the lobby with bots. Can you think of any other competitive game where you average that many bots?