PRSP bots and ladders

[dmpk2k]

Two definite bugs:

• Occasionally medics ignore me completely, even if they're not engaged and standing right next to me.
  
• More often, squad leaders seem to get stuck. They just stand at one location with the rest of the team when all the action is at the other end of the map. They remain this way until the end of the game (I haven't tried killing them to see if this unsticks them).

I'm sorry I can't be more specific for the above; it seems quite random.

I'm not sure if the following two should be classified as bugs or feature requests. They make going lone wolf too easy in PRSP:

• I can sit on a building or tower that's accessible solely by ladders and pick bots off by the dozens. I have yet to see a bot try to scale a ladder to get at me or take advantage of similar positions against my team. On some maps this really matters.
  
• Also, I don't think I've ever seen bots try flanking in CQC. You only need to be careful of their grenades while retreating before picking them off as they follow.

[Solid Knight]

Bots are incapable of climbing ladders. It's an engine limitation.

Bots are incapable of flanking tactics. They pick a path based on some criteria (I'm not sure what exactly) but they never pick an indirect path due for tactical advantages. This is why you'll never seen them set up cross fires or what not. They are barely aware of their teammates which makes coordination amongst them impossible.

The bots are very limited on what they can do. The only thing you have real control over is what weapons they choose to use against different classes of enemies and at what range they use the weapon at.

[Stigma]

So i guess that they are to dumb to land a chopper and get the rest out of it is also caused by the limited bot skills?
Its just annoying when you play muttrah and you have to fly the bots yourself to the docks and give them the order to get out, otherwise they will stay in the chopper floating exactly above the flag until they are wiped out by the enemy attack chopper or more often by friendly chopper crashing into them because they all have the same destination. Once that happened with 3 (!) choppers at one time.
But hey, i am always playing SP just to train aim skills. So its not the worst thing that they cant climb ladders when you are on a tower sniping.

[happycamper]

Bots aren't perfect, can't really make a bot think like a person. That's how it is.

[Herbiie]

Originally Posted by Solid Knight

Bots are incapable of flanking tactics. They pick a path based on some criteria (I'm not sure what exactly) but they never pick an indirect path due for tactical advantages. This is why you'll never seen them set up cross fires or what not. They are barely aware of their teammates which makes coordination amongst them impossible.

Due to small squads if you have 2 players on TS then you can act as fire team leaders and spoon feed the bots directions to do flanking. Though sometimes they ignore you and go rambo. Ah well...