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  • Poll [22 votes]: should H2 multiplayer have bots?
Subject: H2 bots
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Poll: should H2 multiplayer have bots?  [closed]
it should have bots:  86%
(19 Votes)
it shouldnt have bots:  14%
(3 Votes)
Total Votes: 22

wouln't it be great to have your buds over, eveybody on a team, engaging in a huge H2 bot massacre. Imagine... no one blaming you for screen watching AND you get huge battles with these bots, AND WHAT IF IT COULD BE USED ON XBOX LIVE!! t'would be a great thing indeed! It would definatly give it the adrenelien pumping action, heartracing heroism, and the sweet satisfaction that only a halo game can give.

  • 04.15.2004 11:28 AM PDT

I would like to see it as an option. However, Bungie obviously knows best, and if they don't think they can do Halo 2 justice with bots, then thats what I want too. All or nothing basically.

  • 04.15.2004 11:30 AM PDT
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No, I want Bungie doing something more useful with their time. Bots get boring after a short while anyway, they'll never behave lifelike. And it sucks joining a server (in Unreal) and finding more than half of the players to be bots.

But if they do add them, but they can't be enabled on Live. That's fine by me.

  • 04.15.2004 11:33 AM PDT
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Think of it this way, you are siting around. A cold coke in your hand, you have nothing to do. Your friends are on vacation so they cant play H2 with you, only one of your friends come over. Since two person multiplayer gets realy predictable with all the screen looking and only one target, you decide to put in some bots. You set the bots to the max difficulty, theres many of them (H2 AI is top notch so it can be 99.9% realistic), you and your freind are on a team against lots of bots, who aren't as stupid and predictable as normal AI bots. You and your friend keep having to think quick because the bots are pinning you down with hot lead (or plasma :) ). You look over to your friend and you know what to do. You both run straight at the hordes of bots, guns blazing as lead is streaming through the air, suddenly a Bot, yes a bot, kills you with his pistol at long range OR a group of bots mows you down with the warthog. Either way the bots (AI) in H2, is realistic. If you havent seen the trailer for H2, the marines are now smart enough to protect themselves and drive vehicles with the precision of a human.
Although normal bots get boring after awhile, H2 is not normal...Its better.
I argree that human players are smaterter and more fun than bots, but somtimes its fun to massacure a huge number of bots with heavy weapons.

  • 04.15.2004 11:53 AM PDT

You know my style.....Five Elements!

It doesn't make much sense to have bots, when you can just go online and kill some real people, besides the $h*t talking is half the fun in mutliplayer:)

[Edited on 4/15/2004 12:01:26 PM]

  • 04.15.2004 11:59 AM PDT
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It makes sense when your board and noting to do, besides some people are too LAZY to get Xbox live and set it up

  • 04.15.2004 12:02 PM PDT
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I'd love to see bots. Red Faction has some of the best (I have'nt played CS yet). But it's not so easy to do. If Bungie was to do it, I'm sure they'd make the smartest and most realistic bots ever, but I doubt they have any time to do it. I'd give it a 15% possibility.

  • 04.15.2004 12:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: SolarStance
It doesn't make much sense to have bots, when you can just go online and kill some real people, besides the $h*t talking is half the fun in mutliplayer:)

Not everyone has Live, and not everone will get Live, you gotta think of everybody here.

  • 04.15.2004 12:03 PM PDT

You know my style.....Five Elements!

True, I don't even have live right now. But as soon as halo2 comes out won't you need it. There is supposed to be a lot of downloadable content, wouldn't wanna miss that.

  • 04.15.2004 12:06 PM PDT
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I'm all for bots. Somtimes, it's just 4 friends of mine and we aren't near a broadband connection. It would be great to be able to play together and practice for real matches. That's one of the great things about bots, they aren't as great as human players, but they are great for practcie.

If done like coutnerstrike, I'm all for it. Those bots, for the most part, are smart, innovative, and remember YOUR techniques so you cant' do the same thing round after round.

  • 04.15.2004 12:08 PM PDT
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Bots are boring when you have friends over, But this is HALO 2! It would be great to have your friends over and see who can kill the most bots AND YOU GET BRAGING RIGHTS IF YOU WIN, thats somthin to talk or brag about BECAUSE TALKING (bragging) IS HALF THE FUN

  • 04.15.2004 12:09 PM PDT
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Practice on bots ALL THE WAY

  • 04.15.2004 12:10 PM PDT
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Bots are fun, they =practice and competition. Have 3 friends over and see who can kill the most bots (especialy when you have lots of bots). Then the winner gets to rub it in to his friends. BESIDES TALKING (bragging) IS HALF THE FUN!!!

  • 04.15.2004 12:14 PM PDT