They can res you a limited number of times, perhaps each Servo skull can res you once. so you have three on your team and doing a solo run, then you get ressed 3 times. if you have just one, they can only res you once. But its a guaranteed res, not one of those that can get interrupted.
and they have noospheric command and snipe specials for you - just like vermintide. I swear the bots in Vermintide were so good - they all sniped assassins or blightstormers.
and perhaps - only perhaps, if you are playing solo, they can also do the hacking objectives for you. You can opt to activate them like you do a normal servo skull.
This would open up solo gameplay - you go in, they can res you, they cover you slightly, and help you with hacking objectives if you opt for it.
Because the bots, as they are currently, are very very bad. Better to have nothing in some cases, than bots.
I still really like payday 2’s method for bots where you have a bot “loadout” where you can set what gear they take and they’re substantially tankier to compensate for being utterly useless
They have the perfect roadmap for bots which is vermintide 2’s. The bots are literally just your own characters that you select priority on. Imagine being able to pick your own ogryn squad out! It would be legendary and they’d never fail to at least pick you up when kark is hitting the fan.
to clarify payday 2’s bots actually have a separate loadout than players, with simplified weapons and perks that just provide buffs based on how many bots are present in a lobby, it avoids issues with bots not knowing when is appropriate to use abilities
i think just having 1:1 player loadouts for bots will mean they’re still extremely useless on high difficulties
