Bots' refusal to prioritize downed/disabled players is rage-inducing

[hollerbach]

@GiantFriendCrab

recent patches seem to have completely broken the bot improvement mod
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99 times out of 100 if I go down or get disabled, at least 1 of the bots will also get grabbed at the same time, while the others waddle ineptly through a cluster of ambient enemies to try to melee the special and leave me to die. Or they’ll run off to try to melee a gasrat or blightstormer

Recently broken, in what way? The “bots’ refusal to prioritize downed/disabled players” bug has been around since the game’s release. Here’s part of my post from 2020 in reply to a post that is also complaining about the same bot behavior (AI bots are still Quite thickheaded):

@hollerbach

Here’s a pre-Outcast Engineer update screenshot of me getting stabbed by an assassin rat while the three other bots wander off (one bot actually passed by me and ignored me):