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New wave of bot programs in bot matches.

Vyr Thirku·2/24/2018, 5:58:49 PM·16 votes·2,092 views

Now these ones don't even pretend to be people by afk jungling or half-assedly laning. No, these ones simply spawn in and immediately run it down mid for the ENTIRE duration of the game.

Can we PLEASE get something done about these bots, Riot? They're not just in bot games, but in level 4-12 PvP games as well. Is this really the kind of game you want new people to see? "Oh I can't play a single game without some guy throwing himself down the mid lane every time he spawns."

These bots have been an issue for YEARS now. WHY HAVE THEY NOT BEEN FIXED? WHY DO YOU CONTINUE TO LET ACCOUNT RESELLERS ON EBAY GET AWAY WITH THIS CRAP. THEY ARE MAKING MONEY OFF OF YOUR GAME. OFF OF TOXIC PLAYERS WHO WANT TO GET RIGHT BACK INTO RANKED. PLEASE DO SOMETHING. I AM AT MY WIT'S END CARRYING 2-4 OF THESE GODDAMN BOTS EVERY TIME I WANT MY GOD FORSAKEN FIRST WIN.

[sg-shisa] [sg-shisa] [sg-shisa] [sg-shisa] [UNINTELLIGIBLE SCREAMING.]

13 Comments

Nea1042/24/2018, 8:12:19 PM7 votes

I'd like to know why they don't actively stop Bots, not even after a report. The "wave ban" from time to time makes no sense, and sounds also like an excuse. If they really aren't silently allowing bot accounts, they just should add a "check" in Ai and Aram games (like a mini-game, same when you create an e-mail account for example), and pay attention for real to reports about (not that hard to track a bot that always follow the same path, or buy the same items, or deal 0 damage to champions).

Dead flag blues2/24/2018, 8:41:43 PM7 votes

When I had a smurf and played ARAM games with it, I always laughed my ass-off when there were bots in my games. Since I "pretended" to be noob, I wasn't queued with smurfs, and when bots started spawning in my games, people screamed things like "OMG REPORT random champion name SUPER DUPER NOOB THINKING HE'S GAREN" or "DO YOU SUFFER FROM CELEBRAL PALSY" because they had no idea these were bots.

Whatever, I do agree it's a huge problem, and it's still weird that they aren't removed yet

Alex h87212/24/2018, 8:46:28 PM3 votes

Tbh I think riot likes the bots b/c the artificially inflate the account numbers for the game.

Burijas2/24/2018, 9:18:37 PM2 votes

AMEN to this, just every game today has been 2-3 bots running down the middle lane feeding... this is ridiculous and the only game I've played that allows this much botting. How is it every other developer has tackled this issue? With as old as this game is, you'd think at least some option would be available for players to not have to deal with this. I've only been playing for maybe a moth now, but all I see are bots bots bots.

Barkley2/24/2018, 9:20:13 PM2 votes

upvote and comment for visibility.

I just recently leveled up a new account, and it was the worst experience I've ever had playing this game. Bots in just about every other game.

Riot you need to investigate this.

Handy Sandy 2/25/2018, 12:26:35 AM2 votes

WHY HAVE THEY NOT BEEN FIXED?

because the bots change every now and then doing different things to seem less/more like people. it's like the common cold you can't just get rid of it because it's constantly changing.

i actually dont know if any other mobas suffer from this tho so ima sound like an idiot if they found a solution

Pika Fox2/25/2018, 12:45:54 AM2 votes

They ban in waves so the botters cant just alter their programs and test for what in particular riot's algorithms are checking for.

And its difficult to keep up with people who are making hundreds of bot accounts/wave.

valoarevocebani2/25/2018, 8:21:48 AM2 votes

logged in just to upvote this

Fade to Black992/25/2018, 1:55:34 PM2 votes

Riot won't ban bots so easily. They found out that bots actually make game statistic look like there are more people playing this game. So it means ''more attractive''. As long as bots give a good amount of players database, they won't ban them so much.

Quarticus3/1/2018, 6:18:17 PM2 votes

Add a captcha.

Dantaell1/21/2019, 1:19:56 PM1 votes

Twisted Treeline is full of bots even in PvP games. This is just nightmare.