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Bot-players ruining normals Twisted Treeline

Ghost Detective·5/6/2015, 11:22:00 PM·5 votes·1,145 views

In my last match of 3v3, literally half the players in it were bots. Both of my teammates simply ran forward into minions and turrets, flinging spells wherever until they died. They didn't talk, Kalista didn't soul bind with anyone, they never went anywhere but the lane, straight forward. Super clearly OBVIOUSLY not human players. And this has become a regular occurrence on TT. People pretty quickly go "aw crap, I think [insert champ] is a bot" and then 3 minutes later we go "aggh, definitely is a bot, sorry guys, looks like a crap game."

My question is when will this be fixed, or at least acknowledged? I've check the league main site regularly for years and read all the patch notes, but never see any mention of it. I don't expect it to be out front in center if the don't have a fix yet, I get that, but SOMETHING would be nice. This isn't something new: I made a similar post about this half a year ago, and it was old news then. Why is it ignored when it ruins a match so completely and has become common knowledge among regular 3v3 players. It's just a shame because Twisted Treeline is my favorite mode, I'd like to be able to play it reliably in solo queue...

6 Comments

FDru5/7/2015, 4:11:33 AM2 votes

Welcome to Crystal Scar 2.0

Enjoy your bots and Riot neglect until your map dies.

itsCHANCEyo5/7/2015, 4:35:50 AM1 votes

Yeah, definitely a common problem for the 3v3 community. I've only seen riot indirectly mention it. I guess they don't want to bring light to the fact that these bots are out there in fear that it will inspire copycat behaviour and drive people to seek out how to use the bot programs. I do wish we could at least get a, "Hey guys, we know this is an issue, and here are some things we're going to try to help fix it."

From the year and a half that I've been playing, I've noticed they tend to come in waves, so the bot problem will be really bad, and then dies down again. So maybe they are making changes on their end and just not mentioning anything? IDK... but it's definitely frustrating to see 3v3 solo queue get so messed up. For now, I've just tried to queue up with others whenever I can, even finding random people online to join up with just so we arent paired with bots.

Nimba5/7/2015, 6:01:17 AM1 votes

If I play with just one other person I often get a bot 3rd vs an entire team of enemy bots. Unless you're grouped 3 you're going to get bots and it's unfortunate because I'd like to play it more.

Really would like it to be addressed, it's not mentioned at all but it's a very poorly concealed problem.