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Actually it just depends on the bot level. The bots that are currently in the game have an adaptive AI program. This means that they will slowly learn the patterns of what the enemy players are doing throughout the match making them progressively more difficult to deal with as the match progresses (well unless it’s a level 2 bot and the enemies are just gang banging them constantly because that’ll just cause the bot to have a mental breakdown/overload). The level 3 bots, however, are another story. If you make yourself predictable even the slightest they’ll start to counter you. Let me give you an example of this: I was going against a level 3 Shinobi bot named *shrug*(btw all bots have a specific set of names depending on their level so if you see a Shinobi bot named *shrug* it’s gonna be a level 3 bot every time) and after I did the same combo a second time in a row it did it’s “parry-counter” which is a parry and then light so the enemy bleeds. So after it did that I did another combo that wasn’t completely the same as before, but also still very similar. The Shinobi bot deflected a part of my combo, kicked me away, threw his sickle at me, rolled to me, and then finally kicked me away. When I saw that I knew from that very second that it was a level 3 bot.
So what’s the moral of the story? Don’t completely underestimate the bots and their effectiveness in the game. It’ll come back and screw you over later on if you do.
Also some quick notes to keep in mind:
1) Certain level 3 bots (one of them are raiders) primarily just parry and spam lights.
2) If you’re playing Dominion and you don’t trust your bot then you can just order them to stay at a specific zone that you want them to stay at. The bots are also programmed to be able to do stuff outside of combat now so that’s why you’re able to do this now.
3) If you do order a bot to stay at a zone keep in mind that they will eventually leave the zone after a certain amount of time of being on the zone (regardless if they end up fighting an enemy on the zone or not), if they die, or if someone pings another zone which is how you give them orders.
4) If they start to leave a zone they will occasionally ignore your orders at first depending on what’s happening with the team like if your team is far behind on points compared to the enemy team and they have more zones then your team and such.
5) They’ll also tend to stop going to the zone that you ordered them to go to if an enemy gets in their path.
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ah i kinda feel they're a little easy and I already figured the orders thing out but thanks. Good advice though. (I warm up and try different combinations with level 3 bots normally before going in matchmaking might be why I think they're a little weak honestly)Originally Posted by Azulra_1 Go to original post
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I’m glad that at some of the stuff that I said was useful. Also just letting you know that not a lot of people really miss the old bots because if you got stuck against a level 3 JJ bot you’d lose every time because the old bots wouldn’t be aggressive at all and would only parry and they couldn’t be tricked with a feint. So basically if you were to fight a level 3 JJ bot they’d jus parry you, choke you, and then the guaranteed zone attack every single time. You quite literally couldn’t win.
