Intermediate Bots Bug

Icy Hot Shoto·Jul 26, 2018·10 votes·11,590 views

Alright so, something me and a few friends noticed yesterday is that one bot for some reason will not leave spawn, even when our entire team was there from the start. Originally, we thought it was because someone took smite and/or was in the jungle. However, I just played a bot game and none of us had smite nor did anyone start in the jungle.

Here's a screenshot from 9 minutes into the game, when I noticed the one bot wasn't there. As you can tell, everyone but the Volibear bot has items, so he hadn't left spawn at all.

https://i.gyazo.com/6164cfdd8a78630327908a66b91737bf.jpg

Happens in both beginner and intermediate summoners rift bot games.

19 Comments

RiotRiot StephirothJul 26, 201812 votes

Hey friends. :3

We are looking into this! We haven't touched Bots' core AI in a while, so we've gotta really dig through some fettuccine here to see what's going on :<

Thanks for your report. <3

AtaxiChaosJul 27, 20187 votes

Different bug: bots having different summoner spells in-game than listed on load-in. Not major, but worth noting.

XaintrixJul 27, 20181 votes

[{quoted}](name=Riot Stephiroth,realm=NA,application-id=LqLKtMpN,discussion-id=QNqM1eTg,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2018-07-26T23:06:46.137+0000)

Hey friends. :3

We are looking into this! We haven't touched Bots' core AI in a while, so we've gotta really dig through some fettuccine here to see what's going on :<

Thanks for your report. <3

Our group's guess (we play 99% Co-Op vs AI for fun and stupid builds to challenge us) is that the trigger that identifies a player AFK and deactivates a bot to balance is just triggering constantly. Slot 2 top designated bot.

We also have PBE setup so if you need a group to blitz some games let us know!

RiotRiot StephirothJul 27, 20183 votes

That is my guess too. :) Internally I'm able to reproduce 1 standing in base from beginning of the game. we also have several reports of them stopping mid way through a game.

XaintrixJul 28, 20181 votes

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That is my guess too. :) Internally I'm able to reproduce 1 standing in base from beginning of the game. we also have several reports of them stopping mid way through a game.

So we tried a custom game and sure enough slot 2 bot worked as normal!

Fodder1969Jul 30, 20182 votes

Probably related to the scoreboard bug,

DARCKD00MAug 9, 20181 votes

Hi and thanks for looking into it i did some testing since i play vs bot a lot and i noticed some things that may help you find the problem

so first off, i noticed that no matter how many people disc from the game NO BOT will stop fighting except the one afk since start

then if u get close to him early in game he will wait for allies and waves to engage u and will chase u(acts normally) but always go back to waiting in base...even late game when he seems ''unlocked'' he only responds to us being near base i dont think he will ever push lane if we all go away and wait

so theres really something telling him to ignore enemies unless they are real close and also to go back to base and wait problem imo is related to vision and afk coding also why did this happen in 8.14, try to find what changed then ;p i hope it helps

Garen of DemaciaAug 10, 20181 votes

Hi, As a S2 player with over 2k wins on this mode, may i ask for any sort of new additions to break the stagnation? Like adding doom bots as a difficulty setting or improving Ai pathing as to be less exploitable ? If you need someone to work on the team free of charge i'm willing to help. I got Computer networking system experience/degree. thank you.

SirLucseanAug 10, 20181 votes

2K wins that's not something to be proud of*[slayer-pantheon-rainbows]*.

Sometimes bots are better than my teammates which is uncommon by it happens. _(Did Riot fixed them from running down Mid all the time? which can include ally bots) _

rubberbrainAug 10, 20181 votes

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Hi, As a S2 player with over 2k wins on this mode, may i ask for any sort of new additions to break the stagnation? Like adding doom bots as a difficulty setting or improving Ai pathing as to be less exploitable ? If you need someone to work on the team free of charge i'm willing to help. I got Computer networking system experience/degree. thank you.

As a season 3 player, I only have 1300 games :( I will catch up to you one day.

SUPP 2 DIAMONDAug 10, 20181 votes

Can you please add more bots to the game and some bots like sion and ahri for the custom game? :)

KaseraAug 4, 20181 votes

Any news for us on this issue? The 4v5 game mode has been quite a sad time for my friends who only play Co-op Vs Ai modes.

MgVue3Sep 9, 20181 votes

Its been about awhile since this bug was posted. Any chance its still being looked into or is this just shoved to the side at the moment?

RiotRiot StephirothSep 14, 20182 votes

I actually have an update on this!

We have a fix and I believe we are trying to figure out if we can get it onto the Live servers for 8.18; Otherwise, it'll go in for 8.19

We are sorry it took so long to fix T_T

XaintrixSep 14, 20181 votes

[{quoted}](name=Riot Stephiroth,realm=NA,application-id=LqLKtMpN,discussion-id=QNqM1eTg,comment-id=000200030000,timestamp=2018-09-14T01:04:00.386+0000)

I actually have an update on this!

We have a fix and I believe we are trying to figure out if we can get it onto the Live servers for 8.18; Otherwise, it'll go in for 8.19

We are sorry it took so long to fix T_T

Oh god finally! Thank you!