Most people on my server dont like them and they strip away all the fun of the game. Killing a bot brings no satisfaction, as they are just a bot. On the other hand, dying to a bot is extra stressful, since they are a bot, supposed to be bad. They become even more annoying when they are heavies and engies.
Another problem is that the bots are very unnatural. Some of them basically have aimbot, and they also move weirdly. Just today a heavy afk bot was sniping me from across the map and started shooting me through the 2fort bridge roof cracks. This pseudo aimbot is specially annoying on demo and heavy. Ofc, they aren't any near to good, but at close range the aim thing becomes pretty evident, specially with demo. Most times they wont even kill you, only injure, which makes them feel kinda barrier between you and the real players. I will be fighting a guy only for this stupid shit to leave me on low health and have to run for a kit. They feel just like mosquitos.
Because of that, i suggest adding a vote option that would allow the server to vote for disabling the afk and normal bots. This would shutdown the ai on the afk bots or kick the normal bots from the server, while also preventing new one from joining. You would just need to make shure the afks aren't counted on the vote. I personally see no downsides to it. I can see the bots being very usefull on servers where people are doing the objective, but on the likes of 2fort and hightower, where it's just a deathmatch, they become just an unpleasent annoyence.
Another problem is that the bots are very unnatural. Some of them basically have aimbot, and they also move weirdly. Just today a heavy afk bot was sniping me from across the map and started shooting me through the 2fort bridge roof cracks. This pseudo aimbot is specially annoying on demo and heavy. Ofc, they aren't any near to good, but at close range the aim thing becomes pretty evident, specially with demo. Most times they wont even kill you, only injure, which makes them feel kinda barrier between you and the real players. I will be fighting a guy only for this stupid shit to leave me on low health and have to run for a kit. They feel just like mosquitos.
Because of that, i suggest adding a vote option that would allow the server to vote for disabling the afk and normal bots. This would shutdown the ai on the afk bots or kick the normal bots from the server, while also preventing new one from joining. You would just need to make shure the afks aren't counted on the vote. I personally see no downsides to it. I can see the bots being very usefull on servers where people are doing the objective, but on the likes of 2fort and hightower, where it's just a deathmatch, they become just an unpleasent annoyence.
