I know this has been brought up most likely more than once… but please, please nerf the bots. I do believe they should be removed from PvE, but I also participate in co-op and it is extremely unbalanced. Bots will dog-pile/focus-fire on one player sometimes and that’s really not fair if you’re someone like me who prefers frigates and destroyers and main ships, even my interceptors get shot down in 5 seconds by a surprise beam cannon, and I have no time to take cover or avoid it. LRF bots will also fire in unison which I can’t even begin to tell you how annoying and infuriating that is. There are players that will say I or my ships need to “git gud”, but none of that makes a difference when no matter how good your ships are, the bots will still take you down in a short amount of time.
This isn’t how it should be and I’m not sure how many more complaints need to be made before this is changed, because it needs to be soon. I want to keep playing this game, but not like this, and I’m pretty sure the same goes for a lot of other players who are tempted to leave the game, but don’t cause they still have some small shred of hope or interest in the game. I really don’t understand how making the bots so unbelievably Skynet-strong was considered balanced in any way at all. As some have said before, the devs don’t play the game anymore, so they wouldn’t know what’s going on. If this is the case, please hear out our opinions, cause honestly this is so mind-blowingly absurd and I don’t how to put it any other way. This game can be so good and have so much to offer, but with more than just recent updates, things have gone downhill very fast, and with the fact that this game continues to push updates, I’m somewhat convinced the devs don’t want this game to die out like some players truly believe.
There have been numerous players even veteran players that have left the game due to these kinds of things, and when some of the most notorious players leave, then that’s when something needs be done, when even the most dedicated feel completely cheated by the very game they invested so much time and effort in. Is it really too much to ask for this to change? Too much to see it from the players’ point of view? There has to be some explanation other that the devs are “tired/sick/bored of the game” or “they’re Russian”, I’m not so sure being Russian is even part of the issue, and if the devs were truly sick of the game, wouldn’t it make more sense to just shut it down enitrely rather than subject players to this… ? There has to be logic here all jokes aside.
So in conclusion… please remove bots from PvP and PvE, and re-balance them in co-op. I know you can’t make everyone happy, but the least you can do is try. A lot of these updates have received a lot of heat in terms of how it affects the game, and I’d hope in any dev’s perspective that’d be taken into consideration, even if the devs don’t play their own game.
I really hope that something is changed in the next patch, and I hope this post even makes some difference rather than none, cause I know complaining in-game chat doesn’t do anything as my messages fall on deaf ears…