Add more bots

my reasoning being that bots unlike players do not worry about dying, they both push and defend the objective letting people enjoy more stuff than meat grinding each other, with this simple change there will be more play styles that will come into play, players will be able to play passively and win as long as they will support their bots effectively. I knew from the start that after the merge games would become more passive, because players usually play passive.

I’ve had much more games in which in order to have some decent shooting I had to reach the boundaries of enemy grey zone because objectives were simply a ghost town and vice versa, I have been the only attacker reaching the objective because teammates didn’t want to push at all.

moreover players are often last man standing in their squads which is making things worse, there are times where I open the map only to find literally few friendly icons, bots on the other hand wouldn’t worry about dying with their last soldier and would simply respawn as soon as needed delivering this way more action to the battlefield.

I think my suggestion would simply help the battle flow, I guess players do not push unless the point being captured announcement comes up, with the difference that now I have to clear the point myself.

It would make games more decisive too, if you’re an attacker and you let your bots die quickly they will burn your tickets as well, so if it takes forever for you to take an upper hand position it’s down to you.

alternatively it could be a great ability for some class to bring more reserves aka cannon fodder when needed, most preferably I would want more players per match anyway, but this suggestion is only relevant if we can’t have this in first place.

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That’s exactly what I hate the most.
While I build a rally point, my team loses ±100 reserves/tickets. That’s certainly not frustrating at all.

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as I said it would be double edged sword but in the end it could help the battle flow.

bots making distraction can actually help you get to better position for rally point, I mean try to get some nice position by yourself good luck since your enemy will most likely spot your squad running by yourself on the horizon, this is exactly the reason why lonefighters suck, there’s not enough distraction going on.

alternatively bot squads could drain no tickets although I wouldn’t be so sure about this since bots would have technically capturing power.

100 people dead and you haven’t even reached the battlefield - yeah pretty realistic and indeed super frustrating.

However often this isn’t even an AI issue, instead there are more than enough braindead players that dive into death like the moth does into the flame.

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The amount of people I’ve seen ignore a AT team trying to get to a friendly tank and usually managing to get to the tank or ignore a HMG position has been astounding.

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