Have you ever considered that when darkflow developed the AI for a team-based game of capturing points - they provided a directive for bots to constantly attack / defend the current point?
Those whom you constantly see in the bushes are thousands of 10yo kids who have flown into the f2p game, and often do not quite understand the principle of the game, and play it in their own way.
I often play very aggro and when our team gets heavily outmatched I sometimes end up losing my 10 squads limit well before we actually lose the game. So I did get quite a few opportunities to spectate people play in Conquest and in many cases our bottom 2-4 players were legitimate bots.
You can easily identify them by how relatively slow they turn their head (rotate) while moving and whatnot. Also, they never run into artillery fire, so when you have to capture a point the path to which is warded off by arty and whatnot, they bug out in their pathing and sit around spawn points doing nothing. If they manage to compute a path, they start running towards a point until their “main” guy gets stuck on an object and then the rest of his squad bugs out as well and does nothing.
Yes, there are new players out there who will play passive and try to sit in a building and snipe with their Kar98 or Lee Enfield after being mowed down by high level players and tanks and whatnot. But, from what I noticed, more often than not, these kind of players will just leave the game and be replaced by fill-in bots.
If you open scoreboard and see, let’s say, 16 people on the list, it means 6 legitimate players left and were replaced by fill-in bots, additionally to how many matchmaking allows from the go.
This could be what you were already trying to say, but if the scoreboard has 16 players on it, that means 6 players left and were replaced by bots. Meaning theres only 4 actual players in the lobby.
How do you guys manage to make 100+ kills i play for a month already, yeah i do 3-4 battles daily because i am getting too much punish and if i do 20+ kills its a huge succes for me 
(i play with both factions max is lvl 6 on normandy with US troops). Also how do you recognize bots as all the time i see the names of players they seems proper player names, maybe you choose only 1 server or play at night (i live in europe) but still i have played once full night and havent seen a bots filling the playlist.
Bots only fill in for when players leave. Except on lone fighters around 0200-0400 EST where the player count is low enough that it will queue in bots
Get good at blind firing, FLANK, change your switch soldier key to something you can hit fast, Strafe, throw grenades with the hotkeys (G-N-,) have an engineer on each of your squads and drop a rally point outside of the common route to use, don’t stay in one place too long, play a tank, etc.
There’s some really good players out there… I do decent (usually about a 1 K/D,) die a lot, and am always in the thick of it… You don’t lose exp points for dying though… Next guy, let’s get that point!
Mortars deserved the bug nerf. Made them a high skill support weapon and not clicker mini artillery.
Only tank HE needed the buff. Artillery, mortars, and bombs did NOT need the buff.
Artillery is extremely strong now with basically the same cooldown.
Really fucked up this time, DF.
I literally just run straight for a flank then to objective and shoot/ blow up anything that gets in my way.
infantry fights are fun
then why is the entire match centered around 20-30 people getting killed all at once via artillery, bombs or camped by tank HE.
good post dude. I echo your sentiments and I’m contemplating uninstalling for awhile. This game is absolutely no fun anymore. I really miss CBT days.
And it’s definitely not a L2P issue. I’ve played against you, you’re good, and not a cheesy player, just plain good.
I take first place or in top 3 in most matches. Game is just not fun with the current meta being piledrived.
He effect is out of control for now that’s sure…
Especially for the bomber planes you mean, that’s a much bigger issue.
just finished a game. Half my squads never got off a shot. Barrages and bombs from aircraft. Game going downhill quickly.
I more or less quit playing because of explosives, it’s actually insane now.
Majority of my deaths are from detpacks being spammed all over the capture point rather than actual infantry pushing and taking it.
It’s just not fun anymore. There’s no incentive to play infantry as…infantry, just hop in tanks, spam HE at the objective, eventually die, hop in infantry, spam detpacks and grenades all over the objective, kill everything, run in, capture, repeat.
Instead of being fun to play, it’s just frustrating.
bumping thread, because i had to play normandy today for a battle task and my GOD is it so unplayable, you literally cannot move more than 5 feet without being dogpiled by every explosive in the game, the maps are horribly designed and favor tanks camping and spamming HE, and just ugh
Moscow is at least usually fun, but you can only play invasion so many times on the same 3 maps before youd rather just play a new game