Call of Duty: Black ops to have BOTS?

[mParadox]

Treyarch gets more respect from me than IW ever did.

This is good. Plus bots don't threaten to rape you every time you own them and don't teabag after they do manage to kill you.

 

[Tsaba]

leveling up my bot in Red faction 2, then me and my friend fighting them when we maxed them out, as long as they didn't get the rail, we could live.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Yet another reason I'm prepared to put my cynicism aside and believe that Treyarch can really rescue the series.

Now if they'd just get rid of Second Chance...

 

[Hogbinladen]

Red Faction 2, I've spent so much time with that game just playing it with bots over and over again. Looking back, I don't think I've ever stuck with another FPS for as long as that game.

Now Treyarch, remove Second Chance and I will hail you as my new God.

 

[ReckzB]

I probably won't get Black Ops - not really a fan of the modern FPS - but I will applaud them for having the guts to put bots back into the genre. I really can't fathom why bots seem to have gone the way of local split-screen four player, they seem like such a simple thing to add. But I don't know.

It's little things like this that add just that extra bit of fun-factor to a game.

Personally, I play Jedi Academy whenever I feel like a good bot slaughterfest, and one of my favourite things to do is set up a team deathmatch, set god mode on myself, add fifteen of the highest difficulty level bots on the enemy team and wait for them to come to me. Dismemberment mods and playing as Starkiller make it all the more amusing.

If we were to go without cheats; same game, I slashed my way through nine power duels (2v1, for those who want to know) as the solo combatant, with decently difficult bots. Then some stupid imperial pilot got me, one point away from victory. Bastard.

 

[Godhead]

This could make my cry tears of joy if it's true. Yahtzee might actually dwell into this if playing only against bots.

OT: I just had a match of me against 5 hunters in the Silent Hill map for l4d.

 

[Squilookle]

Nightfire had great bots, and great multiplayer. Easily the best 007 game multiplayer, except Goldeneye ofcourse.

Yeah I'm gonna have to disagree with that. After getting used to Perfect Dark and Timesplitters multiplayer, Nightfire was awful. I traded it in the day after I finished the singleplayer. The World Is Not Enough, by the same dev team, was a much more fun and creative bond multiplayer with bots.

Mind you, I thought having mini helicopters and tanks in the multiplayer maps in Nightfire was a stroke of genius. Pity about the rest of it though.

leveling up my bot in Red faction 2, then me and my friend fighting them when we maxed them out, as long as they didn't get the rail, we could live.

Red Faction 2, I've spent so much time with that game just playing it with bots over and over again. Looking back, I don't think I've ever stuck with another FPS for as long as that game.

Now Treyarch, remove Second Chance and I will hail you as my new God.

I dunno how but somehow Red Faction completely slipped past me back in the day- I think I must have thought it's only sellable feature was destructible environments, without realising it had bots. Now that I've read up on it and seen some gloriously Quake 2-looking multiplayer, I think I'll have to go and get RF2. Just out of interest will I miss out on any story if I pass up the first one?

 

[Timmons]

Ahhhh easily Unreal Tournament 1... putting all the bots on Novice mode on the map Face_Off with the 2 towers, running to the top of one tower with the sniper and plenty of sniper ammo and just headshotting every single bot running round the side of the other tower. M-m-m-m-mon m-m-m-m-monst m-m-m-m-monster kill kill kill M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL. AWH YEAAAH

 

[Meggiepants]

Holy crap! I'm buying this game just to support the resurrection of an awesome gaming mechanic!

That is awesome!

... wait! No it's not! Now I have another game I have to buy! Dammit!

 

[ImprovizoR]

Practicing AWP skill in Counter Strike with 25 bots with knives coming for you is more horrifying than most horror games. That's what I like to do. If I end up buying Black Ops I'll probably spend more time playing with bots than online. Bots are the only reason I still consider getting this game. It's not set in stone yet because I always wait for user reviews.
Also Quake 3 with bots. For some reason it was more fun than online.

 

[No_Remainders]

I love Treyarch...

IW just faceplanted off a metaphorical 400 story building with MW2.
To be honest, I actually preferred W@W to CoD4. Yes. I'm prepared to commit social suicide.

 

[freedomweasel]

Can someone pinch me?

Here at last, is a triple-A FPS title bringing bots back to a genre from which they should never have strayed? Man, I'm sold. I'm buying this sucker. Bots in FPS games needs a comeback and I'm damn well going to support it. In this one move Treyarch has won more respect from me than Infinity Ward ever had. Good job, team.

Um, so yeah... discussion value. Tell us your best in-game moment with multiplayer bots. Can be any game. One of my favourites was setting up a king of the hill match in a Perfect Dark arena called Fortress, which had a gladiator like pit in the centre. A shield in the middle, and lasers all around, I'd watch all those HardSims rush in and laser each other to win the hill. Change the team names to friends of mine and it was comedy GOLD!

only in certain training multiplayer modes though I think (and of course single player)

It was my understanding that most of the multilplayer was available for play with bots. You gain XP and level up just the same as in multiplayer, but with a separate tree. That's what I got from a recent article at least. Hopefully it's useful.

Most recently Vegas 2 terrorist hunts have been the most fun. Before that probably Unreal 2k3

 

[Tsaba]

Nightfire had great bots, and great multiplayer. Easily the best 007 game multiplayer, except Goldeneye ofcourse.

Yeah I'm gonna have to disagree with that. After getting used to Perfect Dark and Timesplitters multiplayer, Nightfire was awful. I traded it in the day after I finished the singleplayer. The World Is Not Enough, by the same dev team, was a much more fun and creative bond multiplayer with bots.

Mind you, I thought having mini helicopters and tanks in the multiplayer maps in Nightfire was a stroke of genius. Pity about the rest of it though.

leveling up my bot in Red faction 2, then me and my friend fighting them when we maxed them out, as long as they didn't get the rail, we could live.

Red Faction 2, I've spent so much time with that game just playing it with bots over and over again. Looking back, I don't think I've ever stuck with another FPS for as long as that game.

Now Treyarch, remove Second Chance and I will hail you as my new God.

I dunno how but somehow Red Faction completely slipped past me back in the day- I think I must have thought it's only sellable feature was destructible environments, without realising it had bots. Now that I've read up on it and seen some gloriously Quake 2-looking multiplayer, I think I'll have to go and get RF2. Just out of interest will I miss out on any story if I pass up the first one?

not really the first takes place on mars, the second on earth.

 

[Giantcain]

Nightfire had great bots, and great multiplayer. Easily the best 007 game multiplayer, except Goldeneye ofcourse.

apart from the character it was stupidly hard to hit as he was below the cross-hair but that character could allways hit you. But it was good.

 

[NoNameMcgee]

Do you have a source?

Usually I'm not a dick enough to ask that, I just haven't heard of bots in multiplayer for quite a while. If true that's fantastic. I wonder if you can still level up in like a separate bot-mode or something.

 

[Elemental]

I... Can't believe this... I'm actually gonna get Black Ops.
Thanks for leting me know though P:

 

[LawlessSquirrel]

Not getting Black Ops, but anyway, as for the discussion...

Unreal Tournament and Time-splitters Future Perfect probably take the cake for best games to play with bots. Mostly because they're both frantic, for-the-fun-of-it styled games that can't always be filled with players. It's just a wise backup for developers to include them.

Oh, but then there's Quake 3. I adored the bots in Quake 3, which are easily the most entertaining foes I've played with. In retrospect it's stupid, but you could chat to the bots in game and have them respond to you psuedo-realistically. It used to amuse me immensely to try talking enemies into teaming up with me to take each other on. Ahh nostalgia..

 

[soilent]

me and a mate Vs every other slot as fist bots on Perfect dark.

SO, VERY, HARD.

I was just about to say the same thing, except with coward bots, jesus those fuckers like to run.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Bots have always been second to actual players in terms of intelligence and ability. The only reason we ever used them was for single player or to make teams when other people weren't available to play. That was before the internet. Now there are always people online who can play a match, making bots obsolete, at least in multiplayer. There are notable exceptions to this, such as the zombies in L4D or the jets and helicopters in modern warfare, but enemies who have all the same abilities as the player might as well be controlled by players.

Except you're missing a vital point:
It's not split screen.

I find split screen CoD or Halo or whatever infinitely more fun that their online counterparts. I have great memories of Perfect Dark games when it was 4 players versus the 4 bots, or even having human players as captains of the bot teams (you can give your bots basic orders in perfect dark.)

I sorely miss that.

Do you have a source?

Usually I'm not a dick enough to ask that, I just haven't heard of bots in multiplayer for quite a while. If true that's fantastic. I wonder if you can still level up in like a separate bot-mode or something.

Modern Warfare 2 introduced a separate splitscreen levelling up system, so here's hoping!