disable bots option

issue

you cannot immerse yourself into being a part of a squad of Primaris (which supposed to be superior to SM1's Firstborn in every way) if you are forced to have these useless bots in your squad.

not to mention how you can only deploy a squad of Ultramarines if you have a bot in the squad, and how they prevent the player from deploying only 1 or 2 marines if they want to.

it results in players who want to deploy alone joining public operations to run away from the squad and try to get squad members killed so they can finally fight uninterrupted by other marines.

solution

make an operations option to not replace missing squad members with bots, letting players deploy just 2 or 1 marines. let that option be controlled by the squad leader and not affect the matchmaking.

ideally player should be able to set the number of bot marines they want (0, 1, or 2), and how many players can join their lobby from matchmaking (0, 1, or 2). this way players will be able to deploy only 2 marines in matchmaking.

I made a post here explaining why this option is so much needed.