Bot's now in merc missions?

Solkazo · April 24, 2016, 12:03pm

Ok, this is bizarre but I think bot’s are now in merc missions.

Not sure if anyone else has seen any of them. We had a paladin who was clearly acting weird (stood around) and casted heal now and again on the edge of the arena when fighting the boss. He moved in almost “way points” fashion and did the same pattern throughout the map.

When we pulled the boss near the suspected bot, it would run away to the other side of the map. Stand still for 5 seconds, cast heal and then do nothing until the boss came close to it again and it would run to the other side of the map. (Programmed to keep away)

The “defend” the fire for 3 minutes, it stood on the fire and didn’t move. When we started fighting the last bosses he did the same thing (run to the other side of the map and cast heal).

It was very unhuman like and didn’t say a word after we asked him if he was a bot… not entirely sure really. Might be something to keep an eye out for?

Mooon · April 24, 2016, 2:16pm

They’ve supposedly popped out in dungeons too. See: that thread on the weird Scout that just hides in the middle of the mobs and AA. Personal experience: a weird priest that didn’t respond to requests for Res or do anything but heal, although that behaviour only started after the first boss of 145 dun.

Solkazo · April 24, 2016, 2:51pm

I noticed another cleric act in the same way on another run… Great, bots are in the dungeons and missions too…

Lenny · April 24, 2016, 4:04pm

is is just someone brother/sister playing…
but u should report

Darkon · April 24, 2016, 5:16pm

Made a post a little over a week ago with the same thing =( I hope it’s not a trend moving forward because bots in dungeons are a pain when it’s cross server lol

Bots in Dungeons/Missions?

lol yeah, I’ve encountered those too =P

But something has felt… off. Only in the last couple days actually. These players I suspect don’t do anything logically. No jumping at all at any given random point in the dungeon like everyone and their mom does for some reason (myself included). Self buffs are always cast in order in the same timing. And the best tell I can see is… nothing done is overly stupid or poorly done. Just simply not “smart” lol Like they can kill things effectively, as expected, but after that they sit around like “herpdederp, wut do” waiting for some trigger to happen it feels like.

B&S had proximity bots too in their dungeons; they’d run from one checkpoint to the next after everything was cleared. But they were purely AFK in the interim and didn’t contribute. It feels similar to that except if the party starts engaging in battle then they do to, but if there is no battle they just stand there until the party gets X distance away.