The bots in this game have a huge amount of problems due to poor design.
If Saber are not going to let us set our own bots or have any level of customization on which we choose, they should at least fix the glaring errors and atrocious bot intelligence.

Bots will walk in front of your gun as you're firing and block your shots. This can ruin entire runs as they chew up your ranged attacks by running in front of them as you're firing causing you to miss contested health.

Bots can literally walk through you, As your firing a plasma pistol a bot can walk through you and absorb the attack, absolutely stupid game design. I can't walk through Tyranids so why can I walk through bots and vice versa?

Bots also are completely intangible and all attacks go right through them. The bots will block your line of site but a bolter round from a rubric marine or a devourer from a Tyranid Warrior will go right through them to damage the player. If I can't shoot through them, don't let the enemy do so

This also works for all enemies which shoot through each other as if they aren't there. Doing this limits tactical game play as you cannot position yourself to put enemies in the way of others to block attacks. enemies can shoot through themselves but you can't shoot through your own allies. This is exceptionally lazy game design. If you are going to have this immersion breaking game design choice where enemies fire through their allies, at least be consistent and let players do the same.

There are other issues with bots but these are fundamental game design choices that can easily be fixed as opposed to other more bug related errors or behavior changes which may be harder to diagnose and alter. I've always been very pro Saber and what they and their dev team have been doing however this game is now over 6 months old and there's no real excuse to still have these kinds of issues still in the game as they effect every game with bots.

I would like bots in pvp private lobby for shooting practice purposes. They can be stupid, I don't care.

Agree on this as well. Bots are still a pain in the ass. Mainly that shot blocking is awful. Somehow they always manage to get in front of you - it's crazy.

Regarding terminus enemies - it is atrocious. No damage at all - or so tiny th.at you're not noticing it so you're always 1v1 vs the terminus enemy in dealing damage - eating your ammo. Should be looked at 100% in lot of aspects.

I'm just sad, that we are still here like this 7 months after release.

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Bladerunner777 wrote:

I would like bots in pvp private lobby for shooting practice purposes. They can be stupid, I don't care.

Haha agreed. They need to put a test dummy in the practice area that reads out the damage you do so we can see what the weapons actually do given the stats they gave them are utterly useless.

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Bladerunner777 wrote:

I would like bots in pvp private lobby for shooting practice purposes. They can be stupid, I don't care.

Lol sure, you just wanna farm these crap PvP ordeals.

Same for me though. 

If we can ever customize bots, they should have the skins we've created for our characters. Not the default ones from each chapter. 

I like the bots. They're good at distracting enemies and don't die to Easily Preventable Mistakes like so many pubs do.

I wouldn't mind having them have team perks, 100% damage against enemies and bosses, and so on.

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ChickenTsunami wrote:

Bots can literally walk through you, As your firing a plasma pistol a bot can walk through you and absorb the attack, absolutely stupid game design. I can't walk through Tyranids so why can I walk through bots and vice versa?

There's something called corner trapping that players used to do in MP games, and sometimes bots would definitely get in the way. I'm actually glad this exists.

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Selphic wrote:

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ChickenTsunami wrote:

Bots can literally walk through you, As your firing a plasma pistol a bot can walk through you and absorb the attack, absolutely stupid game design. I can't walk through Tyranids so why can I walk through bots and vice versa?

There's something called corner trapping that players used to do in MP games, and sometimes bots would definitely get in the way. I'm actually glad this exists.

That's fine but then don't make them block your attacks. They don't block enemy attacks, You can't have it both ways, it makes no sense and is poor game design. A simpler solution to being blocked would just have them give way to you at all times. they will just move out of your way which would actually solve a lot of issues.