![]() ![]() Might as well learn to fight them.ĬS:GO, Rocket League, For Honor and Overwatch - as well as many others - are using bots in one form or another to help players sharpen their skills, and their comeback fills me with joy. In fact, if we cut to the present day, the advent of better tech, stronger CPUs and greater demands from players has meant bots are making a resurgence, just not as we knew them. Not only that, but when games went online, the level of competition shifted from ‘schoolyard’ to ‘world-class’, and with it, upped the performance anxiety of millions of gamers who were suddenly faced with the very real prospect of being tea-bagged by a faceless avatar from the other side of the world named “xXxHedshotZxXx”.īots faded away, then, but they never completely disappeared. Games moved into the online space, and the importance of good multiplayer AI fell away once gamers the world over could connect to each other. They would seek out ammo and health, check their corners for opponents and leap around like jumpy idiots when fired at, generally behaving as you’d expect other players might. Games like Counter-Strike-which retained the ability to play with bots in CS:GO-and Unreal Tournament 2004 were mainstays in my apartment purely on the strength of their bot play. The idea of jumping online to play a few quick rounds of deathmatch was but a dream at that point, but the creation of AI bots meant that solo players could have a sweet taste of the action.įor a long time that was my favourite way to play games, especially shooters. ![]() Without the Internet, multiplayer gaming was restricted wholly to local multiplayer, or to a LAN if you were lucky enough to have multiple PCs and the space. This was a time before digital downloads, one click matchmaking and vast online communities became commonplace and the novelty factor of playing with or against AI bots was enormous. Not against each other, but a team of simulants, or bots-AI designed to mirror the playing tactics and styles of real players. One of my favourite memories from my teen years is teaming up with my siblings to play Perfect Dark deathmatch on the Nintendo 64. ![]()
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