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Subject: How many ppl want there to be bots in Muliplayer!?!?!
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i would like to see bots ONLY ON THE OTHER TEAM. i say this because i dont want to have to rely on a bot to help me out in a game it would only be good if bots could not under any circumstances be on your team, also if you are facing like 4 bots on same team it would be cool if they could run routes or plan an assault on a strong point by like flanking and stuff. they would work together.

  • 06.05.2004 5:54 PM PDT
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Well you could have bos on your team (but dont have to) so if you dont want them on your team dont put them on your team.

  • 06.05.2004 6:04 PM PDT
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bots wouldent be cool, theyd be frekin awesome!!!!!!!!, people who dont have XBL or LAN need to experience, that true halo 2 feel, we need bots, please bungie:)

  • 06.05.2004 7:23 PM PDT
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As long as bots don't make up one team, there should be at least one human on each team if there will be bots.

  • 06.05.2004 7:24 PM PDT
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Posted by: Tsmola
that'd be great I can rarely get more than 2 friends over to play at once

And if you play with 2 freinds the screens look all screwed up and small

  • 06.05.2004 7:47 PM PDT
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damn i completly forgot i made this post.

  • 06.05.2004 8:15 PM PDT
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Vote Vote Vote!

  • 06.05.2004 8:23 PM PDT
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Bots whould be cool but just think how many more years it whould take to make bots they'd have to build a new AI code im already mad that its not coming out for 5 more months thats why i said no. I think it whould be awsome but think about it time wise...

  • 06.05.2004 8:26 PM PDT
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i voted bots because people who wont be able to exerience the greatness of xbox live should be able to have a little with bots multiplayer.

  • 06.05.2004 8:27 PM PDT
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Bots are the only thing I'm worried about for halo 2, if they don't put them in I'll fell very disapointed...as for time, bungie already knows if there'll be bots and if there will be they probobly have started to implament them, bots wouldn't effect when halo 2 will be released..

  • 06.05.2004 8:29 PM PDT
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Yah i have XBL and bots whould be cool and unless they already did bots (witch they said they didnt) and i whuld like to play it while im still healty and living...

  • 06.05.2004 8:31 PM PDT
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then theirs not going to be any bots

  • 06.05.2004 8:34 PM PDT
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And if you saw the interveiw then you'd know that theris not going to be any bots and that their concentrating on trying to make 1on1 more fun

  • 06.05.2004 8:39 PM PDT
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Ok well I think there shouldn't be bots. They call it multiplayer for a reason. Multiple players. :P lol

  • 06.05.2004 8:47 PM PDT
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Hell jumper your kinda putting everyone down. WE can always hope for bots, Plus we need them!

  • 06.05.2004 9:07 PM PDT
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I seriously hope to god Bungie includes bots. Playing Single Player in Halo a billion times is starting to wear thin for me (Kind Of). If Bungie includes Bots, then it will shoot the replay value for Halo 2 through the roof. Playing against Bots (Or Comp) in Starcraft is still hella fun online. Plus Bots will allow me to get more familiar with the Multiplayer Maps. Since Bungie didn't inclide Bots for Halo (Which Sucked Monkey Balls), I had to press the Second player controller start button just for me to explore the maps myself.

For people that don't want bots, don't use them. Simple as that. However, many of you that don't want bots would probably use them anyway. And for the people that are saying bots will ruin the multiplayer experience because players won't go out and play against friends or competition are stupid beyond belief. If bots keeps you from finding competition or playing against friends, then you were never competitive in the first place. If you are a competitive Halo player, bots will not help you get better, but it will help to prevent your skills from diminishing if your somehow unable to invite friends over or unable to leave the house.

  • 06.05.2004 9:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: Aqua Snake
I seriously hope to god Bungie includes bots. Playing Single Player in Halo a billion times is starting to wear thin for me (Kind Of). If Bungie includes Bots, then it will shoot the replay value for Halo 2 through the roof. Playing against Bots (Or Comp) in Starcraft is still hella fun online. Plus Bots will allow me to get more familiar with the Multiplayer Maps. Since Bungie didn't inclide Bots for Halo (Which Sucked Monkey Balls), I had to press the Second player controller start button just for me to explore the maps myself.

For people that don't want bots, don't use them. Simple as that. However, many of you that don't want bots would probably use them anyway. And for the people that are saying bots will ruin the multiplayer experience because players won't go out and play against friends or competition are stupid beyond belief. If bots keeps you from finding competition or playing against friends, then you were never competitive in the first place. If you are a competitive Halo player, bots will not help you get better, but it will help to prevent your skills from diminishing if your somehow unable to invite friends over or unable to leave the house.



Every single word he said is exactly true. Bungie PLEASE WE NEED BOTS!

  • 06.05.2004 10:15 PM PDT
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Aqua Snake, I couldn't agree more. Everything you said is right on. I love bots; the bots in Perfect Dark were absolutely great. Me and a friend would play for hours and hours on end. The options provided were amazing, and with all the great AI in H2 I don't see why they couldn't at least provide rudimentary support for bots. I'm not saying that I don't want good bots, but I'd rather have some form of them rather than none at all.

  • 06.05.2004 10:17 PM PDT
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OH HELL YES I GET SO BORD OF PLAYING THE REAL GAME AND THEN I GO TO THE MULI-LEVELS and wonder around by my self thinking "god i wish there were kids my age to play halo or at least someone to play halo with. even a monkey would work."


Bots that you could set how hard they played would be really cool

  • 06.05.2004 10:18 PM PDT
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SO VERY TRUE SNAKE SO VERY TRUE :,-( *sniff*

one thing though FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT SAY HELLA drives me FUC.KING nuts!!!!!!!! SAY " ITS SO FUC.KING -blam!-EN UR EYES WILL FALL OUT" OR SOMETHING, JUST FOR THE LOVE OF GOD NOT HELLA >:O

[Edited on 6/5/2004 10:23:58 PM]

  • 06.05.2004 10:22 PM PDT
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I'm not really hoping for bots as much as some people, but I think they should have bots for multiplayer since some people don't have Xbox Live, OR for an XBL room that can't get alot of players. If Bungie does add bots though, they should be VERY smart, not like most MP bots that are annoying, but bots with a good variety choice of difficulties and that won't get in your way.

[Edited on 6/5/2004 10:26:39 PM]

  • 06.05.2004 10:24 PM PDT
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There is absolutely no reason to even say no really... If you don't like bots... There is a very simple solution...

TURN THEM OFF =P

  • 06.05.2004 10:24 PM PDT
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Exactly. There is no reason bots shouldn't be in Halo 2, and if they say there isn't enough time, well okay, but how hard could it be? If they don't add bots I'm going to cry

  • 06.05.2004 10:31 PM PDT
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If they dont add the bots i will be pretty made. Just maybe, MAYBE i will get over it.

  • 06.05.2004 11:06 PM PDT
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I had to vote no because (no offense to the remarkable work Bungie is accomplishing with AI) BOTS ARE DUMB. Period. Granted, the AI enemies for the Halo 2 campaign mode are going to be remarkably intelligent for pieces of code, they will still just be pieces of code. I know that there are plenty of people who don't mind shooting at and getting shot at by mindless bots, and others also make very good points about bots making multiplayer more enjoyable in ther absence of other human players or Xbox Live. However, I've played Halo, both in multiplayer and campaign, for hundreds of hours by this point and I have never, ever, ever ever ever wanted there to be bots in the multiplayer for any reason. Bots at best are slightly annoying targets and at worst are the king programs of cheap. I have been pretty fortunate in being able to find people to play with and against for Halo, but I can say for certain that even if my multiplayer forays in Halo 2 were to be minimal (which is a laughable idea, but hey, I'm trying to illustrate my opinion here), I would rather play against a miniscule number of human players than have the same number of human players bolstered by any number of mute, irritating, wandering bots. Even with this opinion, the only reason I am adamantly against bots in multiplayer is because chances are that those bots would end up on Xbox Live games, and I do NOT want to pay good money to have what is likely to be the most enjoyable game I have yet played be tarnished by having to forage through Live games in search of purely human opponents. If it could be guaranteed that bots would NOT be allowed on Live, then I'd completely agree with bots for multiplayer. Unfortunately, I doubt that this is what would happen if bots were included in the multiplayer. And although several members of this board have stated that the majority of Halo players want bots, I have to disagree and say that it's a vocal minority of players who want bots, since I have (seriously, I'm not kidding here) yet to encounter any opinions outside this forum calling for bots in Halo 2. I know this post is just asking for some serious flame-age, but since the gaming world rarely proves to be ideal (although everything I've seen and read for Halo 2 is the most ideal stuff I've seen yet), I think that bots could be nice, but would almost certainly be a really horrible, bad, poopy idea.

  • 06.05.2004 11:16 PM PDT