Need Evidence AFK bot medics refusing to heal

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Tayto

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AFK bot medics refusing to heal​
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Pretty much the thread title. They can't seem to figure out who to heal so they end up just turning in place healing no-one even if you're at half health right in front of one.

I don't know how much control you have for the behavior of these bots, but I feel that the medic AFK bots should be disabled until fixed. As they are right now, they are pretty much useless.

This post is to get a foot in the door about the problem and if this is something that you have any control over then I'll be gathering evidence.​
 
Could you also provide some more details, such as which map(s) this is happening on in specific?
 
D3xus Sensei said:
Do you have demos/screenshots of this happening?
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When I play and stand next to a medic, you have to keep continuously calling for them and even then they only heal you for a few seconds before stopping. This was on 2Fort in the sink room, he stood still in what I assume is a "safe zone" and stuck to that spot.
 
Meowcenary said:
Could you also provide some more details, such as which map(s) this is happening on in specific?
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This happened once in the US Borneo map where I kept calling the medic. I was a soldier at half health. The medic just stood there turning back and forth. It was strange and I wish I was recording at the time.

I'll be running record while in Skial servers so I can get some footage of this, Maybe I can get some volunteers to help me out.
 
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Alright, so I recorded a small video of my own AFK medic bot.

You could see how it just kinda ran around like a chicken with it's head cut off. I was not able to see the healing beam, but the medic was healing.. kinda. No, not really. It would be right in front of others and just not heal them.

I'm going to test a few more maps over a longer period of time and come back with some recorded vids. For now this is what I got.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/2z560ypymczc95h/afk.dem
 
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They are like that because of bad waypoints, and until they are updated they will continue to do this.
 
Biggie said:
They are like that because of bad waypoints, and until they are updated they will continue to do this.
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The way they are now, the AFK Medic bots are not even good as meat-shields since they're not performing the most basic parts of their class.

Are the AFK bots made by a 3rd party or did someone from Skial code them in? Is it out of the question to disable the AFK medic bots and have them switch to any other class?
 
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Honkzilla said:
Vote for disabling AFK bots altogether.
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Let's not forget you can literally add the name AFK on steam overlay and pretend to be the bot, which I was doing last night to see if it caught anyone off guard.

And Yes, I agree. AFK bots aren't healing at all as medic, I was burning and I just died by it. Thanks Bot! You're credit to the team.
 
Honkzilla said:
Vote for disabling AFK bots altogether.
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I'd rather have a bot when someone's AFK than to have no activity from that player slot at all. I've even seen bots do better than their human counterparts, and that's sad.
 
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