Originally posted by Fvlse_:

You need to start listening to your player base. If you don't, this game won't survive the winter.

Don't get me wrong, I've been a clanker hater since day 1, but they aren't reading this forum bro. An angry review seems to do the trick, they seem to respond to most of them.

Personally, I don't mind fighting bots, but I don't think a player should ever have to play with them on their team.

If my team mates in Mashmak don't use heal stationsafter I point it out, don't heal each other, and keep fighting random mobs instead of enemy players or bosses I'm going to assume they are bots.

I've just left a game of Mashmak where the Tricera didn't heal themselves once, my teams Panther died twice and ignored the heal station that was free after we cleared the area, both died and I left them to extract. I killed the person guarding the extract, saw no reason to wait 30 seconds for my summon beacon to cooldown (after resing panther) and just left because I think either of my team mates were human.

Maybe the majority of players have no clue that bots are in every part of this game, but personally I wish I knew so I wasn't abandoning new players or wasting Restricted Zone Keys on bots that only seem to be conerned with fighting every patch of regular mobs we come across.

Originally posted by PhellAsleep:

Personally, I don't mind fighting bots, but I don't think a player should ever have to play with them on their team.

If the tracker site is anything to go by, matchmaking seems to at least group as many humans available on one team before adding bots; if it manages to fill one team, then it just makes the other team all bots. Not that the situation is necessarily any better by this margin, of course.

Sadly there is simply not enough players to get ride of bots with 11 ranks and players like me who only do the weekly missions and don't play till the next one :p

Seeing the number on steam chart go down everyday it is not going to get better

They need to go; they cause so many problems for people's enjoyment of the game. Whats disgusting is that they doubled down on trying to hide bots better but they still have some stand out habits.

Once the illusion is broken for players it just feels kind of gross.

Originally posted by PhellAsleep:

Personally, I don't mind fighting bots, but I don't think a player should ever have to play with them on their team.

We won’t be heard anyway and bots won’t go away, so we just vent here our frustration.

Originally posted by Nostromeo:

Sadly there is simply not enough players to get ride of bots with 11 ranks and players like me who only do the weekly missions and don't play till the next one :p

Seeing the number on steam chart go down everyday it is not going to get better

11 ranks of Ranked Verge
1 Casual Verge
1 Custom
6 different Mashmak games

I think the problem is we have too many types of games for the NA, SA, EU regions. This game doesn't have enough players to fully get rid of bots but it's very annoying to not know if your team mates are bots or real players.

It's entirely a waste of time to take Ranked seriously in its current state.

Originally posted by pseudo:

Originally posted by Fvlse_:

You need to start listening to your player base. If you don't, this game won't survive the winter.

Don't get me wrong, I've been a clanker hater since day 1, but they aren't reading this forum bro. An angry review seems to do the trick, they seem to respond to most of them.

I'm just venting. I left a review too lol.
It's just ridiculous to me.

Originally posted by Nostromeo:

Sadly there is simply not enough players to get ride of bots with 11 ranks and players like me who only do the weekly missions and don't play till the next one :p

Seeing the number on steam chart go down everyday it is not going to get better

I barely even touched ranked. You can't tell me not enough people play casual, it's a new game! If that's the case, I don't mind bots, but I don't want to be forced to fight bots. I'd much rather have 5-10 minute queues personally.

Originally posted by NeonRed:

They need to go; they cause so many problems for people's enjoyment of the game. Whats disgusting is that they doubled down on trying to hide bots better but they still have some stand out habits.

Once the illusion is broken for players it just feels kind of gross.

exactly. As soon as I had the realization I lost all interest in the game.

Originally posted by Kujou:

Originally posted by PhellAsleep:

Personally, I don't mind fighting bots, but I don't think a player should ever have to play with them on their team.

If the tracker site is anything to go by, matchmaking seems to at least group as many humans available on one team before adding bots; if it manages to fill one team, then it just makes the other team all bots. Not that the situation is necessarily any better by this margin, of course.

Do I have a better chance of playing humans if I ignore the "default strikers" option? Say if I select every single striker as my default. I know the game matchmakes with that in mind so i assume so.

Originally posted by PhellAsleep:

Personally, I don't mind fighting bots, but I don't think a player should ever have to play with them on their team.

Exactly, however I personally despise bots.

I don't hate the bots inherently I hate how they flip flop on playing the objective and completely ignoring it throughout different matches sometimes even after winning the 1st round and then become completely useless and die over and over giving the enemy team free points.
You don't always run into bots but when you do it can be annoying for this reason.

I was told they're listening to feedback and potentially planning some sort of new PvE only mode.
After a month haven't seen anything like that in the game yet so didn't bother buying the one time limited outfit I wanted and now I have even less reason to be invested in the game.