Recently bots were changed to completely ignore Poxbursters, however this should also be the other way around. I play a lot of duo missions with a friend and we get blown up so many times by Poxbursters because if the burster is targeting a bot following you, it will most likely start leaping in your direction where it is too close to dodge back and too far to push it.
I’m fine with bots being bad and dropping to the ground all the time but regarding Poxbursters they actively get the players killed and if you play duo high shock troop this happens sometimes 3 times a round with no real counterplay, especially with the specials sound still broken many times.
Just make the Poxbursters ignore bots, it will make it easier for the players to deal with them on their own.
The best thing to do in any game with bots, is to just wait and let them die and not revive/rescue, the bots literally only make the game harder about 95% of the time. Don’t get me wrong, bots can be really really great at pulling enemy aggro and taking damage, but thats all the bots are good at.
This. Saving the bots is high risk and low or negative reward. It also does nothing for incoming players: the new player will join play right away will full health.
95% of the time they make it harder is a big exaggeration. I constantly revive bots and they are definitely worth it, except for the poxburster situation. The only other things they can technically hurt the player is getting hit by a sniper, trapper or crusher overhead aimed at the bots, which hasn’t happened in like a month of daily high shock troop duo. Yes, they also soak up the med stations but that is another problem that Fatshark should fix.
This might depend on the difficulty you’re playing on. Under auric, maybe they are helpful. In an Auric Maelstrom, they die in the first few minutes. Remember, they are level 1 players.
Its not an exaggeration, they ignore bursters now, they don’t dodge most ranged attacks, they waste medicae and ammo pickups, they don’t carry mission luggables, they don’t have/use their grenades or abilities, they have no way to prioritize enemies, they don’t watch out for barrels, they can’t help with objectives. The only thing the bots are capable of, is taking enemy aggro and damage. Which yeah makes speedrunning through a map a whole lot easier cause you just leave the bots behind and run to the end, but any mission played through at normal speed is just made worse if you constantly worry about reviving the bots every 30 seconds.