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Posted by: Ric_Adbur
No one should ever be afraid of looking stupid, so long as they are making a rational effort to expand their understanding.
Bring on the Bots.
1. For the guy w/o XBL. 39 million have boradband, vs. 298 million in the US.
I'd say when only 13% of your possible customers have broadband, it is wise to have offline options.
2. Bots can play objective. Quake 3 Arena (multiplatofrm) had Bots, as does every Unreal Tournamment (multiplatform) I can think of. Those bots weren't exactly pushovers, especially in the objective gametypes. GRAW and PDZ have done bots successfully, as did others. So why can't it work in Halo 3?
3. Bots are fun. When friends come over (you know, the kind who don't have xbl) and want to play on your team, you can actually have opponents. This is great for not pushing your friends away by beating them senseless. Subnote, bots make it plausible to actually earn some multiplayer achievements. How many have the 10,000 kills in Quake 4 vs. 10,000 kills in GRAW?
4. LAN Party. Only got 8 guys? Now you can do 8 vs. 8. Maybe even work up a working strategy to test against Bots. I know, it isn't as good as testing against thinking humans, but that is a good thing. How many routes/strategies get scrapped because some human beat them? If bots beat you, tweak it until they don't. Then when it is great vs. bots, play against people and tweak it until it works. Forget strategy!!!! I for one know that not everyone at the LAN is capable. With Bots, you don't have to worry about balance, and you certainly don't have to worry about Louis McLoses crying about getting last place every damn game. Now he has fun too...