Bots

Krupaz·Mar 6, 2018·4 votes·442 views

I have no idea what category to put this under but since they're masquerading as players this seems to tentatively be the best. I'm losing my mind playing vs bots game and getting sometimes 1 but usually 2 bots on my team that just go stand in the jungle and occasionally int to camps. It makes the games harder than they need to be and it's really frustrating especially when some of the only real people on your team are new and don't know how to not int. It's doable but sometimes you as Trist and your mid lane Teemo have to legitimately 2v5 the bots all game because your Ahri dc's immediately.

7 Comments

Jo0oMar 6, 20181 votes

It's a shitty reality of the F2P model. Riot does ban these bots, but they're easy to make and flood the game with. Hopefully Riot gets better at it.

I don't think Riot is much interested in making Co-Op vs. AI a sustained source of entertainment for the players. You're essentially supposed to use it to learn the basics, then stop playing it.

KrupazMar 6, 20181 votes

I guess that's fair but I (and I think a lot of people) use it for first win and I definitely use it to practice champs that I don't mechanically feel comfortable playing against other people. I also play it when I want to get a quick game in to derust or if I don't have time for a proper game but still want to play.

BlindAshMar 6, 20181 votes

I personally use the bot game for a few reasons, one is eyesight issues prevent me from having good map awareness which would result in a human player being able to gank me easily and it would not be fair on my team to have to carry me. Then I like what is normally a short game which you can play and chill out at the same time. The most important factor is avoiding getting grouped with toxic players I play games for fun and entertainment not to be stressed out. Even if RIOT only intends for the AI games to be used for practice it is ridiculous that they allow them to become infested with players using bots. You could easily avoid this by making it so that when you go to start a game you had to enter a random three digit code and then every 3 games or so you had to enter a new code, would make it much more difficult for bots to then play in games.

fuzzbucket01Mar 7, 20181 votes

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I personally use the bot game for a few reasons, one is eyesight issues prevent me from having good map awareness which would result in a human player being able to gank me easily and it would not be fair on my team to have to carry me. Then I like what is normally a short game which you can play and chill out at the same time. The most important factor is avoiding getting grouped with toxic players I play games for fun and entertainment not to be stressed out. Even if RIOT only intends for the AI games to be used for practice it is ridiculous that they allow them to become infested with players using bots. You could easily avoid this by making it so that when you go to start a game you had to enter a random three digit code and then every 3 games or so you had to enter a new code, would make it much more difficult for bots to then play in games.

Not necessarily, someone could have a bot program running but still be at the computer. It would also not be hard to make the bot detect what the code is and type it in.

XaintrixMar 7, 20181 votes

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It's a shitty reality of the F2P model. Riot does ban these bots, but they're easy to make and flood the game with. Hopefully Riot gets better at it.

I don't think Riot is much interested in making Co-Op vs. AI a sustained source of entertainment for the players. You're essentially supposed to use it to learn the basics, then stop playing it.

Which is a damn shame. I really like a co-op environment, and it's rather embarrassing to see similar games have a way more fleshed out system and game options. After work sometimes I don't want the stress of a PvP environment - just hop on with some friends and smash some AI heads without the people in the game actually losing their head. : )

fuzzbucket01Mar 7, 20181 votes

How do you have trouble with bots at all? They are super easy to outplay and take no skill to beat even on the hardest difficulty. It would be incredibly easy to beat them with only 3 people.

KrupazMar 7, 20182 votes

Today I had 2 bots on my team and a disconnect. It was just me on Trist and a Teemo. That was it. We won but it took 40 mins