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Posted by: S2K ViP3R
there is not point in saying hey i got a 40- HIGH RANK MEANS NOTHING, it means you either bridged host or cheated...and the skillfull player like myself have 27s cause of cheating.
Gamertag: StlcKs <-- i is an "L"
Posted by: Tai MT
Bots... The Age old question...
Bots, I believe, were first introduced in games like "Perfect Dark" for the N64. They were around in case you didn't want to splurge for another $20 or $30 for a controller, or even have a friend come over to play it with you.
The N64 and other consoles had NO internet connections and you needed other players or bots to even USE the multiplayer aspect of the games.
But since the introduction to Consoles to this wonderful thing we call "The Internet"... You don't need Bots unless you simply suck at the game or can't pay the yearly fee of $50 for XBL.
Let's also be honest, Bots aren't very satisfying to even KILL. On PDZ, they're used to quickly get some of your achievements or to simply fill in a few slots to balance out a team.
Sure, you could make them harder, but all it does is take more ammo to kill them and they get more headshots. They also don't stand still as much and let you shoot them.
And in Halo 2, you don't need Bots or another player to even EXPLORE a map. Just load it up, one player, and you can explore the map to your hearts' content. As long as you want, you don't even have to be online.
Bots are typically VERY stupid and not even worth implementing, unless you've got no friends and no money.
Honestly, I've never seen a bot even come CLOSE to thinking for itself. You play against them long enough, and you've got their coding figured out. You know exactly what they'll do in every situation and even "high traffic" areas for bots. You'll figure out their weapons of choice (most Bots just pick up the strongest weapon they can, then try to kill you with it). They have trouble distinguishing between targets of opportunity as well as priority targets (power weapon whores are priority targets) within a battle. In Capture the Flag, they often ignore a flag carrier, and sometimes even ignore the dropped flag. They stand mindlessly on the flag capture point when they have the flag, and die just as mindlessly there.
I use Bots for nothing more than getting Achievements. They're stupid, useless, and worthless. Unless they implement a feature where I can program behaviors into my OWN Bots for gameplay... They're going to continue to be this way.
Bots don't even try to snipe! Or pin down spawn areas! They don't even attempt to hold an area!
Halo has NEVER needed bots. It's never going to need them, ever. It has enough Bots in the Campaign that it should satisfy you. And if they're not enough... Imagine a dumbed down version of the Campaign AI on a Multiplayer map.
Yeah, you didn't think this through, did you?
But that is the beauty of the 360 dude, one of the big new things in the 360 is its ability to have much smarter AI. If you read bungies updates then you would see that even the bungie guys are talking about the new smarter AI in campaign mode. Even after saying all that, I still don't think their should be bots. Bots makes you think your good then you get owned on Xbox Live.