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Subject: halo reach won't have multiplayer bots
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I keep hearing people say that bungie should have multiplayer bots like gears 2.
Although that would be great, it more than likely wouldn't happen.
For one, halo's sandbox is far more open and variable. gears 2 has a very limited sandbox and writing AI for that sandbox is far easier. The more open and variable a sandbox is the harder it is to write AI for. It would take bungie years to write even a passable AI for multiplayer considering things like custom game types and forge, and there's no way it could compete with human players.

  • 06.23.2009 12:25 AM PDT

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Posted by: techfreak1
I keep hearing people say that bungie should have multiplayer bots like gears 2.
Although that would be great, it more than likely wouldn't happen.
For one, halo's sandbox is far more open and variable. gears 2 has a very limited sandbox and writing AI for that sandbox is far easier. The more open and variable a sandbox is the harder it is to write AI for. It would take bungie years to write even a passable AI for multiplayer considering things like custom game types and forge, and there's no way it could compete with human players.
True, I would like to see maybe some Custom game bots :P Just stupid AI or something, maybe some grunts or elites or something, just to play around with.

  • 06.23.2009 1:12 AM PDT
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theyshouldmakebots but smart like in gow2 they were good the difficultly was your life not the bots

[Edited on 07.15.2009 8:50 AM PDT]

  • 07.15.2009 8:50 AM PDT
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theyshouldmakebots but smart like in gow2 they were good the difficultly was your life not the bots

Actually Gears 2 bots were VERY simple and fairly predictable and dumb. I actually play a modded version of DOOM, and no I dont mean DOOM 3, I mean 1993 DOOM, with much better bots than Gears 2.

But Halo would require bots that are more advanced than they can really pull off at this point.

  • 07.15.2009 9:06 AM PDT
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Posted by: techfreak1
I keep hearing people say that bungie should have multiplayer bots like gears 2.
Although that would be great, it more than likely wouldn't happen.
For one, halo's sandbox is far more open and variable. gears 2 has a very limited sandbox and writing AI for that sandbox is far easier. The more open and variable a sandbox is the harder it is to write AI for. It would take bungie years to write even a passable AI for multiplayer considering things like custom game types and forge, and there's no way it could compete with human players.

i dont think people realize how complicated the simple maneuver called JUMPING would be to turn into ai. Bots would probably take an extremely long time, id rather not have them then have ones that are terrible.

  • 07.15.2009 9:56 AM PDT
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maybe put some covenant AI that isnt that complicated would be cool.

  • 07.15.2009 10:09 AM PDT

very true gear 2 has no jumping in it which would make bots into halo reach very unlikely and a bot wouldnt be able to know all strategy jumps

  • 07.15.2009 10:12 AM PDT

-blam!- Was that actually blammed out? Or did I just type it? You'll never know.

We can't have bots because that means that we can play by ourselves. Whereas if there are no bots, we need more people to buy the game to play with.

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  • 07.15.2009 10:14 AM PDT
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we need bots because Match MatchMaking is so annoying and shots never register

  • 07.18.2009 2:12 PM PDT

The problem with bots is that you have to program them to work in all the multiplayer environments. If you have them on the Guardian you have to take the jumping into account or else they'll fall off the cliff. Halo has so many custom game options the only way they can do bots is if they give the players the ability to somehow program the bots around their custom gametypes and maps.

[Edited on 07.18.2009 2:17 PM PDT]

  • 07.18.2009 2:16 PM PDT