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Subject: Why doesn't Halo have bots?

Poll: Why doesn't Halo have bots?  [closed]
Bungie is lazy:  10%
(1 Votes)
Bungie is incompetent:  10%
(1 Votes)
All of the above:  80%
(8 Votes)
Total Votes: 10

Seriously, why doesn't Halo have bots? I'd love to play with bots if only for target practice. Obviously I can't use real people for practice as they won't have enough spare time. I remember playing Unreal Tournament, it had bots and that was released YEARS ago. How is the inclusion of bots not standard by now? Sometimes you just want to mess around and putting bots on easy mode or maybe on a really hard mode where they have 100% accuracy would be fun. If they don't bother putting bots in Halo 4 I won't be buying it, it's just ridiculous.

  • 11.21.2011 9:56 PM PDT
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Firefight?

  • 11.21.2011 9:57 PM PDT

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yes?

  • 11.21.2011 9:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: tsujen
Firefight.



If you want to get better, you play against actual players. Bots are extremely predictable and defiantly don't make good target practice.

[Edited on 11.21.2011 10:01 PM PST]

  • 11.21.2011 9:59 PM PDT

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I guess it was forgotten or tossed on their to-do list because they ran out of time making the game, or simply didn't think of it. Hopefully it comes in Halo 4.

  • 11.21.2011 10:00 PM PDT

Posted by: tsujen
Firefight?

I'm talking about bots in multiplayers games like Slayer or Capture the Flag where they are just like any other person. Firefight is something diffeerent.

  • 11.21.2011 10:01 PM PDT

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I have always thought this!!

Then I could play against Legendary bots! Offline or online irrespective, great for practice and you can just pause halfway through a game to answer the phone or whatever...

There would be:
No lag, No latency, No packet data loss, No host required, No getting host booted, No getting standbyed, No waiting for 1/2hr to find a match, No squeakers, No A holes, No hate mail ... etc etc etc...

Bots would be good for Halo, now how we going to tell 343?

  • 11.21.2011 10:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Disparil
No lag, No latency, No packet data loss, No host required, No getting host booted, No getting standbyed, No waiting for 1/2hr to find a match, No squeakers, No A holes, No hate mail ... etc etc etc...
Sounds like non-MM/on host MM Firefight.

[Edited on 11.21.2011 10:12 PM PST]

  • 11.21.2011 10:11 PM PDT

~Never judge a book by its cover.

This sounds alot like Black OPS Combat training.

  • 11.21.2011 10:15 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Bias poll?
Also, Bungie doesn't handle Halo anymore, ask 343.

  • 11.21.2011 10:16 PM PDT
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Posted by: TehBot
This sounds alot like Black OPS Combat training.
Yes because BLOPS was the first to do bots.

/sarcasm

  • 11.21.2011 10:16 PM PDT


Posted by: Boomdeyadahh
Posted by: tsujen
Firefight.



If you want to get better, you play against actual players. Bots are extremely predictable and defiantly don't make good target practice.

Bots are not extremely predictable. Have you ever played unreal tournament against bots on Godlike difficulty? Didn't think so. They were really tough to play against and that was many years ago. since then there have been many developments in the field of AI and computers are significantly more powerful. There's no reason for reach to not have bots.

You're just wrong if you think practicing against bots won't help. Sometimes it's better than the real thing. For example, if 8 players in a clan all want to practice using the banshee to take out the enemy, they can't all do that at once can they (there's not enough banshees on the map) - unless they each play in their own game against bots where they can get the banshee first (rather than it being taken by an idiot).

[Edited on 11.21.2011 10:24 PM PST]

  • 11.21.2011 10:16 PM PDT

Something like Combat Training would be perfect. Great for testing maps and practicing. It would need to have some smart AI.

  • 11.21.2011 10:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: Disparil
No lag, No latency, No packet data loss, No host required, No getting host booted, No getting standbyed, No waiting for 1/2hr to find a match, No squeakers, No A holes, No hate mail ... etc etc etc...
Sounds like non-MM/on host MM Firefight.

Come on now Boomy, Fire fight is nothing like standard Halo multiplayer (as you know)

If bots were included in Multiplayer they should implement it much like Epic have in Gears Of War. Its great fun if no ones online and its taking ages to connect to matches. It would be good for LANing with a small group too of say 2 or 3 friends, you could pad out some TS or BTB with bots. And as most are saying here, great for target practice. I'd say it would be a good way to warm up too.

Im not sure why bungie never explored putting bots in custom games, perhaps it was too hard to do? Maybe 343 could have a crack at it? It probably wont happen though..

  • 11.21.2011 10:23 PM PDT

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Posted by: Boomdeyadahh
Posted by: TehBot
This sounds alot like Black OPS Combat training.
Yes because BLOPS was the first to do bots.

/sarcasm

lol I remember playing 007 Nightfire and pitting all the bots against me. Beeline to the golden gun.

  • 11.21.2011 10:29 PM PDT
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Bots are not extremely predictable.Yes they are lmao.
You're just wrong if you think practicing against bots won't help. Sometimes it's better than the real thing.Bots are not better than playing against decent real players. You don't know what a real person will do, and bots don't work the best with one another. A bot will never be as a good of an enemy as a real player. (or atleast not for a while)
For example, if 8 players in a clan all want to practice using the banshee to take out the enemy, they can't all do that at once can theylolClans. BTB, there's your practicing ground.

[Edited on 11.21.2011 10:34 PM PST]

  • 11.21.2011 10:33 PM PDT
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Posted by: Disparil
Come on now Boomy,
Full stop right there.

  • 11.21.2011 10:36 PM PDT


Posted by: Boomdeyadahh
Bots are not extremely predictable.Yes they are lmao.

What makes you think bots are predictable??

You're just wrong if you think practicing against bots won't help. Sometimes it's better than the real thing.Bots are not better than playing against decent real players. You don't know what a real person will do, and bots don't work the best with one another. A bot will never be as a good of an enemy as a real player. (or atleast not for a while)
For example, if 8 players in a clan all want to practice using the banshee to take out the enemy, they can't all do that at once can theylolClans. BTB, there's your practicing ground.

Yeah, BTB. When you're lucky if there's even one Banshee on the map, how are you supposed to practice?? You can't keep quitting until you get a banshee as you'll get banned. Your idea of practice in BTB is retarded.

  • 11.21.2011 10:46 PM PDT

would be good if the game had bots for replacing players only if teams are unbalanced, otherwise people would boost all the time

  • 11.21.2011 10:48 PM PDT
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Posted by: KaRiK
Yeah, BTB. When you're lucky if there's even one Banshee on the map, how are you supposed to practice?? You can't keep quitting until you get a banshee as you'll get banned. Your idea of practice in BTB is retarded.
Go in as a full team and vote for maps with Banshee's? lmao, that should of been obvious.

  • 11.21.2011 10:51 PM PDT


Posted by: Boomdeyadahh
Posted by: KaRiK
Yeah, BTB. When you're lucky if there's even one Banshee on the map, how are you supposed to practice?? You can't keep quitting until you get a banshee as you'll get banned. Your idea of practice in BTB is retarded.
Go in as a full team and vote for maps with Banshee's? lmao, that should of been obvious.

Right, but only 1 of the 8 (if that) will be able to be in the banshee at once rather than all 8 who want to practice. Do you understand the problem now?

Besides, not everyone will have 7 friends online who would be willing to play with you in BTB just so you can practice with the Banshee. having bots makes it much more convinient. I don't know why you are struggling so much to understand this.

  • 11.21.2011 11:04 PM PDT

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  • 11.22.2011 12:18 AM PDT

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Posted by: Boomdeyadahh
Posted by: Disparil
Come on now Boomy,
Full stop right there.

So you dont like Bots I gather?

Full stop because you would prefer not to entertain the idea?

Just because your opinion differs from the thoughts presented doesnt mean they're invalid. Your arguing against an idea, and the fact that implementation of Bots to you has already been done through FF? Well no it hasnt, it seems your choosing to miss the point.

While the poll is retarded and the way the OP has delivered his idea is flawed, the idea of bots is worth a look into, it would keep the game alive for much longer and there would be less people discarding it for new titles as they can enjoy an experience as close to MM with out the need for internet and without having to put up with all the BS that comes along with going into MM I even listed some of this earlier.

You dont like the idea, just come out with it, dont be so damn vague

  • 11.22.2011 12:38 AM PDT

I remember Perfect Dark (released in 2000 I believe) had bots, and you could change their difficulties, teams, looks, and even personalities. Vengesim, Judgesim, Meatsim, all those guys.

Bots would be cool, but it would take alot of time.

  • 11.22.2011 12:56 AM PDT

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