When people resort to bot farms to grind or have fun as many full lobbies are toxic, sweaty, quasi ESL like matches most of the time when it was the other way around in other FPS games where you would want to find full lobbies to have fun. If a chunk of the playerbase is active on finding the latest bot farm, then this game has a problem with no rewards and incentives like extra xp and extra ranking points for playing harder matches with a full lobby
Even the 5 battles a day event makes things even worse like players go to easy campaigns to finish the task much faster. This is another problem that the merge cannot fix unless they find a way to make populated lobbies more fun and not toxic sweatfest. Possibly even worse too with players may resort to scummy tactics across the board.
How about adding few bots squads to each match regardless of number of players.
They go in like 3 paths towards objective (like minions in lol, or infantry in titanfall) - incentive for players to seek them out, like bomb runs it’s free xp.
Would help prevent having all explosives spammed on objective, also more flanking to seek out those squads.
Also makes games more chill, 2 people in tanks, 2 in planes, one calling in artillery, few spamming granades or granade-launchers. It’s a mess when they all focus on one objective
the merge isn’t supposed to fix problems that does not has anything to do.
the merge is supposed to bring more players in queues and make things balanced to an extent ( and not having m5 vs tigers type of scenes )
the people finding bots matches just want to have it easy and try to play the easiest campaign.
and then the whole issue arises ( deserters, people just playing for challenges, etc ).
unlike many people ( which i understand and have sympathy ) is that, bots farm should get their own pves.
because most of these people that are there for bot farms, usually leaves, do not really care about the match it self, nor the teammates, etc.
hence, the “problem” should be, having two matchmakers. one pve where you can gain with either a daily cap, or reduced xps and another for pvp for those who don’t care and just want to play no restrictions outside the brs.
as much i understand tryharders experience can be unfun, one alone cannot hold on his own with people who coordinates etc.
Im more worry about being even longer matchmaking time. Currently 1~1.5min matchmaking is already pretty long. And you have to wait for loading and another 30s match starting time.
BTW I play game for relax and fun, and that’s why I choose Enlisted with plenty of bots. Not BF or HLL. Im already tired of tryhard time. And indeed I am shifting to other games.
Are there any actual humans playing anymore? The game used to be fun. Now it seems to be 70% bots. Just blobs of soldiers running erratically. After you shoot and miss they instantly drop on their bellies and shoot straight at you. After applying bandage they instantly headshot you. Add the obvious wallhacks some players are using this is not fun anymore.