Comments on: Bots!

By: Nobody Important

Nobody Important — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:38:24 +0000

Absolutely. The only reason why I bought Enemy Territory Quake Wars was because it was this huge, complex multiplayer game whose single player is the multiplayer but with bots. Well, that and Linux support. Perfect.

but i’m there with you on timesplitters 2. Man, those were the days.

By: Cooper

Cooper — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:46:49 +0000

I played far too much Perfect Dark as a kid. I remember the hardest bot on there just being – obviously – inhumanly good. Multiple headshots with pistols from half the map away… Every know and then the four of us used to play against one of these bots and see who could survive the longest, occasionally we’d kill it. Rarely though. I do know now, though, that when the robots eventually rise up. We’re fucked.

By: Spybreak

Spybreak — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:38:59 +0000

Having played a bunch of games online like Battlefield 2 and Halo 2 when I was going to college a few years ago I totally agree. Now that I’m back to the country where we have broadband but its satellite broadband so online gaming is not ideal, I use bots all the time. That’s one of the reasons I still play Battlefield 2 with bots, Perfect Dark Zero with bots, Gears of War 2 with bots (thank you Epic!), the C&C games with AI, Unreal Tourne 3 with bots, or any strategy game for that matter. I bought COD4 even though I couldn’t participate in the online awesomeness and I have to agree the single player was great but I would have rented that game that is if I wasn’t wanting to help out the developers. I don’t think Bots will die but yea they are declining which is sad. I mean you play AI in RTS games to brush off your rusty skills before going online to a global competitor.

By: Seniath

Seniath — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:00:50 +0000

Ahh, I remember the heady days of my youth, struggling to get the Eraser Bot working in Quake II without any idea what the hell I was doing and no internet to fall back on. And this was after I’d figured out what on earth a “Zip” file was.

Oh, such innocence…

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:16:35 +0000

In Timesplitters 2 I made a map with one big room, then a long corridor – the end of which was filled with massive guns and loads of ammo. All the bots against me, I suppose it was like a crap version of Killing Floor.

Also, I used to mess around with them loads on Perfect Dark. You could order them around so I got all of them to line up in a room on Facility with pistols, then get one to stand against a wall. I then switched the loners team. Lols.