An argument for bots on our servers

[tyler]

I know I would notice because I do notice when it happens.

Fuck bots.

 

[Trotim]

are you running out of players now or something

 

[YM]

are you running out of players now or something

TF2m has never had enough players for non-scheduled events. I don't think I've ever seen strata on a full server here.

*checks http://feedback.tf2maps.net/group/16/

Turns out there were about 9 rounds (remembering a round is only until a team wins one of the six stages, not all of them) where there were 24 players, out of 367 rounds.

 

[Jeremy]

I find that bots can be useful when it comes to testing balance, particularly when they're on their highest difficulty settings, mainly because they have exactly the same skill-level (in general; obviously soldiers aren't as good at headshotting as snipers are) and they only use default weapons.

If they were recoded to actually work as a team (and special-jump properly), we'd be set.

 

[Sergis]

I find their playstyle to be too different from that of humans. I balanced my BatT map with bots to have the fight where i want it; ended up redoing all the spawntimes because half the map the cart was pushed with no resistance when the map was played by humans.