Comments on: Just Tell Me It’s Human

by: Lord.Nagash

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:08:13 +0000

I think the major advantage of playing with humans is teamwork.

I mean, look at Battlefield. The bots are fair enough opponents, they drive the vehicles and shoot straight. But trying to coordinate teamwork with a bot is impossible.

Then you have the flip side of the coin also. In UT2004, if you tell a bot to stay somewhere it will. Good luck getting a human to do the same.

by: spootle

Thu, 27 Jan 2005 02:51:19 +0000

JohnDoe wrote:

“I know I would chose Ventrilo’d RvS over singleplayer RvS with bots any day! (and not just for the gay jokes)”

Dude, you know the gay jokes are the best part of Ventrillo gaming.

by: Cyrris

Sat, 22 Jan 2005 05:14:23 +0000

Well, now my new PC seems to be stable I loaded up CS:Source and played with the bots. It now runs well with the new processor, though I think my video card might be strained a bit, not sure. I can now see why the CS:S bots made you think to write this article - the interaction between them and you, and between themselves, is quite impressive. That is, at least, compared to original CS’s bot.

If I can make sure things will stay stable, I may get back into playing online as well.

by: Cyrris

Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:47:30 +0000

I think both humans and bots have their pros and cons. Humans I like to play with because they are indeed human - interaction with them can be more fun and make for a more fulfilling gaming experience. It is indeed nice to know that when I load up UT2004 (or at least the demo, when there used to be servers for it), I can be on the top half of the scoreboard, and have others undoubtably think “He’s a pretty decent player”.

On the other hand, playing with bots means I don’t need to turn voicecom off because of all the chipmunk voices swearing their heads off, and bots also don’t spam with text chat either. It also means that if my PC is running slow, the bots don’t have a big advantage - they’re powered by my CPU, so they’ll run as slow as it does. It’s quick and easy to set up and I can leave the game whenever I need to without feeling like I’m missing out on anything.

I really only game with other humans when the social interaction is better, like at a LAN event. There you get the benefits of PCs (the better platform) the benefits of consoles (having your friends there with you), no lag, and no smacktards.

by: Kelmon

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:50:45 +0000

To be fair, I generally prefer playing against bots that I do playing people, mostly for the following reasons:

1. I suck. A few people here can testify to this fact and losing to a bot is much less embarrassing

2. No Internet connection. You can play on the move or when your Internet connection is on the fritz. Zero ping is also pretty nice…

3. No people. Many of the matches that I’ve played have involved people that I expect I’d dislike greatly in real-life, so I refuse to spend any virtual time with them as well.

What is nice about playing someone else is that they’ll sometimes do stuff that a bot would never do (usually acts of amazing stupidity).

When it comes to multiplayer, I tend to favour the console experience of playing around a tv on the sofa. UT and that sort of thing are fun but nothing yet has beaten playing Goldeneye on the N64 at university with Proximity Mines. The Street Fighter 2 tournaments we used to run were a lot of fun as well…