Well, again, the dumbest BOTS in the gaming world showed up to play on my squads. 
I lost three straight squads of BOTS because they were to stupid to use the very same back of the building window I crawled through on the last cap point. Instead they had to run around to the front of the building to use the front door where “ALL” the enemy was located and get themselves killed. The sheer stupidity of Enlisted BOTS is mind boggling. 
I try and save my BOTS when I can, but they usually are dead before I can find a decent place within 50 meters so hopefully they will stay while I fight. NTM they cross maps like they have a giant stick up their butts. So, unless I physically walk and hold their hands, most will never get near the battlefront. As much as I get mad and cuss at poor teammates, I cuss far more at my braindead BOTS then anything else. My girlfriend will attest to that as she has to listen to every four letter word I know. 
Seriously though, can’t these things be programmed to run when you run, go through the very same entrance you go through? Is it really that hard to program a BOT with more common sense then a three year old?
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I haven’t seen this issue raised anywhere but the biggest problem I notice with my own bots is that they react to other people’s marks.
The direction a bot is facing have a huge influence on their survivability as their POV affect the time it take for them to acquire a target. When I lost a fight and switch to a bot, the bot seem to be looking at a random direction or they all turned to face a wall but they actually turn to face the marks placed by people somewhere else on the map that doesn’t concern me.
- Your own bots shouldn’t look at other people’s marks
At least make the bot perceive a nearby enemy sound within a few meter radius, even without having a line of sight. The bots should prioritize on facing the perceived sound more than a mark outside of that radius.
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Bots are smart.
You aim with your AT weapon - Fritz: “Oi I saw a penny, let me just run in front of you to pick it up!”
You aim your smg in a tidy room and have three enemies infront of you - Hans: “Naah, I will prevent too much blood in here, the curtains can get dirty. So I will catch your bullets, master!”
Artillery strike while you hide in a house - Franz: “Did I hear something outside? Come Hans, lets step outside and look!”
You throw a grenade on a tank - Walter: “Stop stop stop, explosives are not allowed here! I’ll catch it for you!”
You throw a grenade in a window - Siegfried: "I catched it! Wait, we don’t play “catch the Ball” yet?! "
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To be blunt most AI game bots are bottom of the barrel besides FEAR what bots are smart. No rts games do not count can you name one fps besides fear with smart AI.
