Others have said about this, but I think it’s worth making another thread to truly hammer-home the point that this is a good addition that should be added.
A bots-v-players mode, say bot Wave defence and the like, would be the perfect addition to help provide a relatively tame experience for those who are playing Enlisted and might like to enjoy PVE for a change - I personally enjoy the PVP element of Enlisted, but I also enjoy fighting the bots. How it’s implemented is up to various interpretations, but overall a PVE element is a positive for the game and I hope the devs acknowledge that.
PVE vs the bots we had in Customs would honestly be p challenging
They dialed their difficulty up quite a bit compared to in standard matchmaking and it was a real challenge
I’ll admit, I’m pret-ty trash as a fragger. I’m more useful as a support and air suppression. Most games, if I’m being forced to work on the ground as boots, I’m only grabbing about 50-60 kills. Some occasions, I get a few more as a byproduct of just playing the objective, but I genuinely don’t enjoy being forced out of support role.
It’s why I prefer playing with dedicated fraggers so I can work on being a dedicated support (building rallies, ammo boxes, forts, that sort of thing). If I’m in the air, my kills are generally a quarter of my on-ground time, though I still come in top 4 or so because vehicle kills are valuable in their own way.
All-in-all, I’d get more enjoyment out of the game by having bots be more aggressive and accurate (not so much precise, I’d hate to get no-scoped chrome-domed from 100m every time my threat-gen crawls above threshold.
bot wave
every bot wave has 10 levels
for each level the bot’s experience and weapon equipment changes
in between waves, bots may have the chance to send aircraft or a tank wave
in each bot wave there are officers that hold a fuckton of xp but are incredibly few in numbers
engineer squads gain buffs to their resources as well as the amount of things they can build (i.e from 10 sandbags to 20 or 2 AA canons to 5 AA canons)
gaining multiple kills in a row can net you a chance to drive vehicles (plane or tank)
Arty squads now have the option to use white phosphorus (American) or napalm for area denial (Germany and USSR)
players can now bring more than one mine