I know FS has a lot of stuff to fix in the pipeline, but IMO the lowest effort way to make this game a lot more playable would be to just give the Bots a 75% or even 90% damage reduction passive depending on the difficulty.
This way a player can just boot up a lobby and let players backfill, or won’t be automatched into a Damnation lobby with only 1 other player and get immediately wiped.
The bots then wouldn’t be able to carry since they have Meh CC and meh DPS, but would be able to just tank and distract to allow players to carry.
IMO trying to find a match in steam in Australia on higher difficulties is already becoming problematic.
I’ve had to quit a few times already in favor of other games just because I couldn’t find enough pubs to fill up an entire lobby for higher level content. IMO this results in a Death Spiral where as players cannot find anyone to play with in certain difficulty modes, they leave to play harder content in different games.
I keep finding myself having to go play DRG or Vermintide 2, simply because I cannot find people to do harder content with.
FS pls, its a quick band-aid fix that would help this games pub lobby ecosystem a lot.
In the future a better bot rework might come, but for now it would be an easy way to quickly fix the problems caused by low pop count game modes like Max difficulty in certain time zones.