I just wish the AI could actually be useful during boss fights beyond just being distractions, like at least let them do marginal damage to bosses for goodness sake.

Recently got a Carnifex spawn in Inferno before the drop down to the swamp section. Kited it towards the little opening down the slope from where it crawls from and managed to get the bots to engage it. I sat for 15 minutes watching them endlessly plink away at it doing precisely zero damage. 

(Not to mention the countless times I've watched them stand still, not engaging a single enemy, while I'm being swarmed by everything on the map.)

Bots do zero damage because Saber thinks they can somehow outshine(read: carry) the player which just isn't possible. This is evident by the fact that you can out melee the Bulwark/Assault bots as a Heavy and out range the Sniper/Heavy as a Bulwark. The only way the bots could ensure a victory is if they could pick you up indefinitely, which they can't since you're restricted to a single down when playing solo if you don't have a Guardian Relic. So what's the actual reason for bots being so useless other than to frustrate people into co-op? 

As an exclusively solo player, I truly do not understand why it's even an option. The game clearly wasn't designed to be played solo and the devs clearly don't care about it as an option.

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IHaveMaxedTheGameDontAtMe wrote:

Recently got a Carnifex spawn in Inferno before the drop down to the swamp section. Kited it towards the little opening down the slope from where it crawls from and managed to get the bots to engage it. I sat for 15 minutes watching them endlessly plink away at it doing precisely zero damage. 

(Not to mention the countless times I've watched them stand still, not engaging a single enemy, while I'm being swarmed by everything on the map.)

Bots do zero damage because Saber thinks they can somehow outshine(read: carry) the player which just isn't possible. This is evident by the fact that you can out melee the Bulwark/Assault bots as a Heavy and out range the Sniper/Heavy as a Bulwark. The only way the bots could ensure a victory is if they could pick you up indefinitely, which they can't since you're restricted to a single down when playing solo if you don't have a Guardian Relic. So what's the actual reason for bots being so useless other than to frustrate people into co-op? 

As an exclusively solo player, I truly do not understand why it's even an option. The game clearly wasn't designed to be played solo and the devs clearly don't care about it as an option.

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