This, this is what we call a rage post on how utterly horribad bots are right now! :la:
That said, I’ll try to make it a nice rage. I have not played against players in my last … oh… seven matches. The one player I MIGHT get on the OTHER side, is either a newb, or doesn’t really do anything anyways. So that said, make it open world, add grinding and quests, perfect.
But … it’s not. It’s a bunch of tech three AI shooting me down in three seconds. I can take players. I take them nicely - in fact matches with players I usually get 12-20% in the final score. But that skill doesn’t amount to _crap_ when faced with an equal (Or slightly equal) ship. I HAVE to be in a bigger, faster, better, (see what I did there?) Ship to win. I think I saw this before - but the game doesn’t feel like a space shooter, it feels like an mmo that’s missing everything because NPCs always hit. Period. End of story. Sniper frigate with lasers against an assault that theoretically can kill it in close range? Not on your life. Snipers at 9km shooting a target rolling, flipping, immelman turning and everything else possible in a spaceship? Dust in seconds. If I’m going to play against NPCs that hit everytime, give me armor, a cape and maybe… a shiny sword to reflect the danged lasers.
Bots =/= players. Bots = OP, fun ruining, gambles.
Once. And only once. In 20 or so matches total, have I won with a full team of bots. And you know what? I was a newb, and against three tech 2 players, my bots seemed to favor the lesser team and somehow were better. In fact, my bots were so much better, those players in great ships? (And mind you, my team was tech 1 bots.) wiped 'em. I followed ‘em in on the asteroid map and kaboom. Assaults n’ frigates vaporized without time to think. I almost pitied them - and that win, I did nothing. 0% contributed to victory. All bots.
So. My vote. This game sucks with bots, needs a point to level (Because right now the only motivation is a shiny frigate to be OP in, and then nothing.)
It’s beta. But. The game lacks the basic fundamentals of any shooter. Even bots in AVA or Black Prophecy aren’t this blatantly OP. They’re hard - but they aren’t game breaking.
That’s another thing. This last game I played (And the reason I’m writing this post.) I got 25% out of a team of… what, ten? And we got through half the match just fine. Then all of a sudden two points are capped, my entire team is down and I’m the last duck ready to get insta popped by YOU GUESSED IT! Lasers. Hiding? Doesn’t work. Head on and spinning; doesn’t work. Only brute force in numbers ever works, which irks me in a game that places so much emphasis on personal skill. That’s not the issue though - in a winning match with that high of a score, I’d get upwards of 7k exp, and 20k credits. That’s freaking awesome! But oh look. You lost so you lose 95% of everything. That’s such a slap in the face for great performance (Most games don’t do this, again I compare to AVA and Black Prophecy) that I want to ragequit and stop testing entirely. But. It’s just so addicting to do a radial 270 and then immelman turn to slap a missile into someone’s face.
GG Gaijin.