If the Dev’s are incapable of making an AI squad bot that can stay out of your line of fire, then make the miserable bastards invisible to your bullets. Our squad bots are the enemies best friend when they are soaking up all your bullets while the enemy is firing back killing both you and the dumbass bot. 
If bot tech is above the Dev’s paygrade (which seems obvious it is), then just make them invisible…Problem solved (for this “ONE” bot issue that is 
). Is improving the player AI squad bot too much to ask, or would improving them be considered a “KNEE JERK REACTION?” 
Three games played tonight, bots were so bad that three is enough, time to play something else. The kicker for me was having a tank lined up to take out with my AT weapon, only to have a bot step in as I am shooting and blowing myself to hell.
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I’ve recently started to bother with personal orders to keep AI out of my way when I pull out the AT weapons, tis not fun when they slide into my sights… needles to say though in a moment I often don’t bother telling my AI to stay back if I spot something while moving to the Objective. It’s also annoying when I have a good line of sight with my favorite MG or whatever else and my bots stand in front just as I’m letting rip. often this results in my squad getting ripped as I make noise but cant hit anything.
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My three games I played tonight the AI was especially bad. They wouldn’t stay, and they were in my way at every cap point. I felt like I was at a square dance and the bots were mirroring my moves, I move left, they move left, I move right, they move right and the dance just kept repeating.
I’m not sure how bots do it, but I can be glued tight enough to a wall shooting around a corner that you couldn’t slide a credit card between myself and the wall, and one of the bots will some how miraculously slide between me and the wall . That’s a game parameter issues and is annoying, but doesn’t really irritate me as much as them just constantly running into your line of fire and disobeying your orders.
I had a seven man squad and I ran in a building up to the second floor when I saw an enemy tank down the street. I ordered my bots to come and stay and not one of the morons left the street. Not a one of them tried to come and not a one of them fired a shot at the tank, they just stood their till the tank closed and killed them. I tried to switch to the next guy and start getting them one by one, but as soon as you switch the idiot you left in the room comes running right back outside into the street, ignoring the order to stay.
So, 3 to 5 games is all I can stomach anymore. Almost five years and I think the bots have just got worse and worse. The enemy AI has got better, but our squad bots IQ just keeps dropping as the years go by.
The sad thing is the ai will never improve unless large amounts of people badger the Dev’s about it. People are probably tired of me bot bitching, but my goal is to get the Dev’s tired of my bot bitching and do something about them. 
Probably a useless adventure as they don’t seem to shame easily. 
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Wait, what are you saying? Over a year ago, the devs released several patches claiming this was already fixed—not just for your bots, but also for allied bots they wouldn’t do it either (sarcasm intended). It’s not the first time the devs have invented solutions that don’t actually exist. The same thing happened with the patch where they claimed grenades would break windows. Guess what? Grenades still stick to the glass, but whatever… Until someone takes over this game, it’ll either break or never improve.
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Oh man remember game with escort mission but the VIP keep standing in front of us? I do and nowadays that what enlisted AI remind me of.
Just between you and me…and whoever else is reading this…but I think there might be some Dev’s that are in way above their paygrade.
Never had a problem with this… probably because i never stand still and now if i do to prop my bots behind me