Did they fix the AI yet?

[WickedKae]

The AI in this game was trash a year ago which made me stop playing. In a time where AI is now advanced everywhere, has this dev stepped up yet? Or are they still not able to get NPCs to do basic stuff yet?

[schicic]

I think so. They take different classes like fixer, medic, rifleman. The fixer will lay down an ammo box, and throw smoke when outnumbered. The rifleman throws nades at groups of zeke, sometimes at you like a random in public matches lol. The medic will stim you and heal for 10% health. You can tell them to pick up meds, or heal you if they have a medkit.

They may not be too great against a jug or bull though. I think they still melee those in close range.

[BORG]

Long story short, don't expect much greatness out of them.

They're so so. Definitely not the sharpest knives on the block. Pretty much what schicic said. They are definitely idiots dealing with Bulls and Juggernauts. They can pick heavies up, but still can't use them. They will often get themselves killed with their stupid. Their AI logic hasn't been improved a lot if at all really. They're still dumb and walk in front of friendly fire too. It's pretty much the same crappy AI it's always been.

[⬛⬜🟥 🅿🅷Ɛ🅽🅾]

Even worse...
running infront of Static MGs
and Devs think is funny to add mutators where the AI not can follow you in 5m range...
etc.

[xLєgєиdαяy]

i was going to say yes, the AI is good now (at least for me)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3206397401

and then, one of the bots decided to rush and stay still in the middle of the horde, then the other bot went to help him, both died, i lost the mission

[Ninethousand]

The devs keep adjusting the bots to their own IQ...

[BORG]

Originally posted by xLєgєиdαяy:

i was going to say yes, the AI is good now (at least for me)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3206397401

and then, one of the bots decided to rush and stay still in the middle of the horde, then the other bot went to help him, both died, i lost the mission

Sadly, the bots have been doing that for years. They have absolutely no sense of self awareness of danger around them and decision making processes are nonexistent.

Originally posted by Ninethousand:

The devs keep adjusting the bots to their own IQ...

That's funny. Really cracked me up. 🤣

The fact that these bots are even called AI bots is an insult to AI itself. There really is nothing artificially intelligent about these bots at all. They're bots with programming that dictates how they operate. They're just programmed with instruction sets and that's it. They have no adaptive learning mechanisms and they aren't intelligent with knowing when it's safe or not to go pick up a downed player or bot. They can't even tell when they're standing in front of a friendly fire gun barrel aiming point blank at their head and move the out of the way. We can empty mags into their dome and they drop dead without even trying to get out of the line of fire.

Here we are in an age of amazing AI systems and this is all we get. 🤣

[⬛⬜🟥 🅿🅷Ɛ🅽🅾]

Originally posted by Ninethousand:

The devs keep adjusting the bots to their own IQ...

Got it dude...brainless like Zeds =)

[Sasha Pines (no brain)]

nope bots is still pretty bad in every single way it not even fun when playing with them

[BORG]

Originally posted by Sasha Pines (no brain):

nope bots is still pretty bad in every single way it not even fun when playing with them

The Juggernaut is as stupid as the bots too. Both make the game a lot less fun. I don't even like playing solo anymore. They're both annoying and not fun.

[Gustave Murdoch]

They AI has gotten better, but they have added new things which give the AI trouble (mainly the juggernaut).

You can definitely beat any missions with them, but you can't count on them to reliably give you assistance, so if you're using them for more than mules or meat shields you bound to get frustrated by their inconsistency.

While people complain about them, they are honestly much better than about 20-30% of the randos I get matched with.

[BORG]

Originally posted by Gustave Murdoch:

They AI has gotten better, but they have added new things which give the AI trouble (mainly the juggernaut).

You can definitely beat any missions with them, but you can't count on them to reliably give you assistance, so if you're using them for more than mules or meat shields you bound to get frustrated by their inconsistency.

While people complain about them, they are honestly much better than about 20-30% of the randos I get matched with.

Of all the randoms I've played with over a span of more than 600+ hours over Steam and Epic Games, I've honestly never encountered any that are quite as useless as the bots are. I would say maybe a handful of players out of hundreds were actually worse than the bots. I'd argue that maybe a dozen out of 100 players are actually worse than the bots.

Regardless, there is absolutely no good excuse for the ridiculously bad state the bots are in. The bots should be more reliable for assistance than they are and that is something I'm sure we can all agree on. There is a lot of room for improvement and we all know it. Will Saber make it so though? Probably not.

[Sasha Pines (no brain)]

Originally posted by Gustave Murdoch:

They AI has gotten better, but they have added new things which give the AI trouble (mainly the juggernaut).

You can definitely beat any missions with them, but you can't count on them to reliably give you assistance, so if you're using them for more than mules or meat shields you bound to get frustrated by their inconsistency.

While people complain about them, they are honestly much better than about 20-30% of the randos I get matched with.

god awful i rather play with level 1 team on insane then those bots

[Optimus Prime]

They attempt to melee the juggernaut that is all you need to know to know how much they suck.