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Subject: Does anyone wish Bungie would hurry up and announce bots...or am i ...
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I mean seriouslyim sick of waiting. Does anyone believe annnouncing it now would ruin the experience of seeing them for the first time should they actually make it in the game. Because being out in the boondocks like me (where we have no broadband) not having bots would and is the biggest selling factor to me and many other people

  • 04.27.2004 8:12 AM PDT

bah

You are insane.

  • 04.27.2004 8:19 AM PDT

gamertag:CosmicThoughts

Indeed, go seek medical help NOW.

;)

  • 04.27.2004 8:20 AM PDT
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I'm sorry but I don't thinkthey will make it in. Personally I really don't care because I hate bots, but there are a lot of people out there that want em.

  • 04.27.2004 8:22 AM PDT
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The only way that bots would be worth having, would be if the programmers spent an extra year figuring out the details of how to program an AI that understood concepts like teamwork or strategy. Bots used only to work as killing machines that had a jumpy trigger finger. Halo is too complicated, with things like open maps and CTF games where just running straigh in and grabbig the flag won't work.
Even the best bots wouldn't have the sense to take anything but the most direct and effective route to it's goal. And what's more, bots run in straight lines. Even if the sniper on the cliff has killed them fifteen times already.
Bots are generally useless in a game as competitive as Halo.

Unless you want halo to come out mid 2005. And no-one wants that.

  • 04.27.2004 9:34 AM PDT
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I want bots. I don't have live and I don't want M$ to force me into getting it just so I can explore the damn multi maps. I have one controller and no friends that have the Xbox (I've tried to convince them but at this age buying a new system isn't worth the money unless it's free; rent and food are first). I myself sold my PS2 and 12 games just to get the box and it's the best thing I've done in those respects...oh ya, and bots would be good for me; harmless for others.

  • 04.27.2004 9:35 AM PDT
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I love bots they are good for training and i saw bots that were capable of ctf and avoid straight lines man those things could learn my tactic was sit on a hill and snipe them but after 5 times they went the other way for the first time should they actually make it in the game those are true words i am looking forward for bots (if they do that)

  • 04.27.2004 9:44 AM PDT

Hey! Guess what! There’s this thing called “E3” next week and…

You get where I’m going with this?



  • 04.27.2004 9:49 AM PDT
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The only way i would ever even want a bot in Halo (which i really dont) is if they were for OFFLINE USE ONLY! i hate playing games online and then being like .... DANGIT this whole time i was talking to a bot ? ... its really annoying and i hate bots any way ...

  • 04.27.2004 9:58 AM PDT
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That's what i figured they where for - online use only. Well that's all I'd need them for anyway.

  • 04.27.2004 10:02 AM PDT
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did you mean Offline when you said online ? lol cause if you ment Online .... ill Bonk you with a big blowup skqeekeeeey hammer .

  • 04.27.2004 10:05 AM PDT
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Regardless of how useful they COULD be, chances are they won't be that great even if you put them in. I doubt bungie has yet spent the time to program bots yet, so the time it would take to program a learning curve that adapts itself to the players' specific style would delay the game way longer than I want to have to wait.
And if you need to have bots, try getting something better, they're called "freinds".
Hell, you don't even need freinds, just like-minded Halo fanatics. All you have to do is ask random people in an EB store or any other local game shop. Thats how I netted a lot of the people I play with.

  • 04.27.2004 10:20 AM PDT
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For anyone who has read the Game Informer article... As you know they got to play the Alpha version of Halo with the bungie developers, and i think that If bungie was going to add bots that they would have played with them with the GI folks, so I have my doubts now. but none the less it would be really cool to have bots.

Another thing I would like to add, I think that the bungie staff really are noticing some of the things we talk about that we want in Halo 2, GI quoted a bungie developer saying talking about how there's great demand for classic maps liek BG and some other's and I think that he's talking about us in the Underground! oh and he did say that they are trying to include some of the old maps.

  • 04.27.2004 10:29 AM PDT
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Sweet. It's good that the fans are being noticed.

Game companies sometimes neglect the people they are making games for.

  • 04.27.2004 10:38 AM PDT