This bug was in Vermintide 1 as well.
Bots take out their ranged weapon, but never use it - instead they run up to the assassin, take out their melee weapon and attack him with it, thus wasting a lot of time.
I dont know if that’s a bug. Bots just dont use their range-weapons in case of friendly fire.
That’s why you mostly see them sniping specials and not more.
Yeah it’s pretty annoying but intended behavior , that they don’t use their range that often.
Hi QP10. I guess you were playing on Champion or Legend? In that case (as Darth_Angeal mentioned) it is caused by the bots trying to avoid doing friendly fire. We have some plans on improving this in the near future.