Bots are frustrating the crap out of me right now. I just did a run where I should have got at least a merchants chest maybe even a soldier chest but thanks to the moron bots I had a far worse paycheck I found all three tomes and should have had a huge reward buff but the bots were to freaking stupid to pick them up!
I tried moving the books by swapping it with hp potions so the bots could reach them easier, I tried marking them so the bots would pick them up I even shoved them on top of the books so they were standing on them and then highlighted it and still wouldn’t pick it up. Why are the bots fantastic at stealing health potions and buff potions when you want or need them but have the brain of a caterpillar when you try to give them orders? Why can they pick up everything except what I want them to?
Lastly I’ve been playing on vet and I can tell right now based on what I’ve seen in match making the moment you play with bots on a difficulty harder than vet you go from the bots helping to them dying at the drop of a hat. If I wanted to be a babysitter to bots constantly reviving them while getting 0 return on your investment or any kind of help I’d play starfeild.
Since my previous post some of the past issues I’ve had seem to be either bug related or a ui problem that made my life harder because the game gives you very little info about a lot of its deeper mechanics but I also still wish we could get a sprint and slide option like in darktide at least with the more nimble classes because I keep thinking of the potential there would be for awesome trick shots and melee gameplay. Be honest the idea of pulling off a headshot while power sliding with a single shot rifle or longbow on a rat gunner would be a massive hit of dopamine.
They have promised a month ago that they will improve them, i hope they havent forgot about it.
You have to give them the command to pick it up, not only marking.
Make them tanky, give them shield weapons. And give them as much block cost reduction as you can. Also give them stamina recovery and care about stagger breakpoints for the shield weapons and oneshot breakpoints for the range weapons. Then they are “okayish” but sadly they are chasing specials a lot with melee weapons out and totally forget to block while doing it. So if you play with bots try to shoot all specials as fast as possible. The bots are doing fine with the horde and elites. Dont run too far away because if you run away they will follow you and turning their back to the elites and will likely get and overhead or backstab. Only run ahead if you want them to teleport.
I still dont like the idea because Vermintide 2 works with weapon movement mechanics. And dodge range, you can do pretty cool things if you get into the movement mechanics. If you want to know more about the hidden mechanics take a look at this youtube channel:
He is a good when it comes to mechanics and explains them very detailed.
it’s incredibly frustrating getting a worse paycheck because of crappy design instead of failing the mission through your own failures. I’d still be ticked off either way but part of the problem as well is I don’t just need loot with better stats I need more of everything I need crafting materials for example and I need decent loot rolls for good scrap too. I feel like I’m being hurt as a player by bad code and not because of my player skill. Failing of your own agency due mistakes doesn’t bug me because its a learning experience. Loosing out on loot because of bad ai is frustrating because I have no agency of my own to combat it.
Do you have a someone who is already level 35 on your friendslist? You can glitch a double EMP legend deed and activate it on recruit. Speedrun it on screaming bell and get your red items ;). One run takes 4-5 minutes.
tbh I barely have any friends period let alone with the game I’ve only got one guy I know and maybe his other friend in terms of people to play with on a frequent basis and they’re online.
also the reason this drives me nuts is I’m one of those guys who loves to tick all of the boxes on every lvl in games like vermintide and darktide but the problem with that is in match making most players are in a hurry so you cant scavenge very well or they get angry at you falling behind so if you want to hunt down the tombs grims and art like I do bots are your best bet so this is an issue for me that they are so unreliable in multiple ways. I saw your thing about commands though is that in the social and emote wheel or something else?