Prevalence of bots in random games

[loppantorkel]

It seems to fluctuate a lot. Can't be sure about who is a bot or not, but there seems to be more of odd plays lately. So - poll about your feelings..

[Gojuadorai]

if there was an option for 0-5% i'd press it.

 

honestly ive senn like maybe 1-2 bots in 100 games

rest just were afk or really bad players

[bushwacker001]

educated guess????    0%-0.5% 

[Unintentional_submarine]

Heh... 11-25% of all players encountered are bots? That amounts to 2-5ish players per match. I find it hard to imagine anyone seeing that many bots every game. It would be a special case blown up on these forums if it happened once, but every game? Nah.

[Admiral_noodle]

Afk about 1 in 3 games. Which is still too many. Bots? Hardly any. I've seen a few but mostly you think "bot" then they reply in chat...

[loppantorkel]

Heh... 11-25% of all players encountered are bots? That amounts to 2-5ish players per match. I find it hard to imagine anyone seeing that many bots every game. It would be a special case blown up on these forums if it happened once, but every game? Nah.

 

One in each team per game..? I wouldn't be surprised at all given the behaviour and none-answers by some ships.

[AnotherDuck]

I've reported three for being bots (two in the same division). They could've been really, really bad players (the single one was a borderhugging destroyer, on Ocean), but they didn't respond in chat. Those are the only three I've ever noticed.

 

AFKers are far more common, and they're more noticeable now with the better load times.

[KaraMon]

so there are some players that have "naruto" based names and play t5 t6 cruisers  , 99% bots :p

[N00b32]

As far as I understand the system, bot is the code for afk. Wargaming should really clarify what bot means. because poor play does not translate to every complain and there is no option to complain about afk players. 

[txtspeak]

actually not seen much in the way of bots, apart from bot battles.

[Gojuadorai]

As far as I understand the system, bot is the code for afk. Wargaming should really clarify what bot means. because poor play does not translate to every complain and there is no option to complain about afk players. 

 

 

well that depends on the type of bot used...

 

a program that starts matches (where you then are afk) is a bot

and a program that plays for you is a bot

thereforth the the unclear usage of the word bot

[Pekoe_Darjeeling]

There's little difference between bad player and a bot. I mean they both will not react to incoming torpedoes. They both mostly have tunnel vision on one ship ignoring other ships. Chasing destroyers in a battleship or exposing broadside to enemy battleships without even trying to angle. 

 

If you also count such bad players as bots then I would go for like 25%. But if not then you know...

[robihr]

so there are some players that have "naruto" based names and play t5 t6 cruisers  , 99% bots :p

 

seems like they were banned 2 weeks ago. but then again there are some smarter bots also...

[Venatacia]

I would say there are way more afk'ers than there is bots. AFK players are not making battles fair, if there is such a thing as fair in WG battles. To be honest I can't say I have seen a bot to date and if there are bots in the game, then that would be a huge surprise to me.

[Capra76]

To be honest I can't say I have seen a bot to date and if there are bots in the game, then that would be a huge surprise to me.

 

According to WT there are 17 accounts that managed to play over 500 games last week, all doing about 12,000 damage and all of which surely must be bots, below that are another 15 250+ game accounts many of which must be suspicious.

 

Just looking at yesterday's stats I'd guess there were somewhere in the region of 2,000 obvious bot games, which I'd say means very roughly 2% of all games, or 1 in 50 players, so on average one bot somewhere in every 2 games played.

[lilgoth]

i think it might be more prevelant than people think, bots are pretty sophisticated... 

this is from a World Of Tanks, late at night on the RU server, during a 'grind for free premium tank' event 

alot of players on an unofficial group figured that by flooding a specific server cluster full of bots, then some of them will qualify for the 'Finnish in top 10' 


also dont forget
'Bots do not exist in this game. Do not discuss them further. Any such discussion will result in a ban' - WOT moderator
 

[Admiral_noodle]

I'm sure some bot programs are more use than some players...

[robihr]

oh it seems there is a new batch of stupid bots.

nothing says not suspicious like 170 battles played in one day...

[EsaTuunanen]

Sure met Gnevny which must have been bot.

Instead of capping that west cap in Trident despite of area being safe for that he just went past it humping border to NW corner and then turning east to go behind that island like looking for carrier...

While match didn't have any carriers.

 

In other New Dawn match had New Mexico which went uselessly to f*ck that NW corner behind islands to be basically totally useless for the team.

 

I'm sure some bot programs are more use than some players...

Co-op bots sure would be better than some players.

[Pekoe_Darjeeling]

To be honest I can't say I have seen a bot to date and if there are bots in the game, then that would be a huge surprise to me.

 

Most likely you wold not recognize a bot anyway if you would have one right in front of you.

[Venatacia]

 

According to WT there are 17 accounts that managed to play over 500 games last week, all doing about 12,000 damage and all of which surely must be bots, below that are another 15 250+ game accounts many of which must be suspicious.

 

Just looking at yesterday's stats I'd guess there were somewhere in the region of 2,000 obvious bot games, which I'd say means very roughly 2% of all games, or 1 in 50 players, so on average one bot somewhere in every 2 games played.

 

Darn, must be them BB players at the edges of the maps then.

[Venatacia]

 

Most likely you wold not recognize a bot anyway if you would have one right in front of you.

I know I'm blind at times but hay! .

[Unintentional_submarine]

 

One in each team per game..? I wouldn't be surprised at all given the behaviour and none-answers by some ships.

 

I mistyped. 11% would be at least 3 players per every single match. We are talking average here. Not how many games might have bots. But the number in total.

 

That two people have selected 51-75% is just absurd in the extreme. Or maybe they are just that arrogant. 13-18 players per battle. I know people like to [edited]about the quality of the average player, but this isn't helping.

 

Bot exists, I have met them, but most battles don't have them. Even the most potato player you can see their decision process, no matter how flawed. With bots you see some pretty erratic or highly static behavior. Like going towards a border and having the turrets move back and forth out over the border itself. Especially the back and forth movement of the turrets is a dead giveaway. A potato will move his turrets towards a single point continually. A bot seems like it is moving it's viewpoint constantly from side to side until a target is picked. Even that it can fail as I noticed recently with a battleship ignoring a cruiser (the only target for the guns) at 10km, with the guns jerking back and forth. Finally a target seemed to fit the algorithm and it locked on and fired when it could.

Another good indicator is a ship that never fixes a problem, such as fires, flooding and engines (can't really see rudders). Even the most potato player will stop a fire (sometimes players don't stop a flooding or fire if they would only have 10 HP left, and sometimes the DCP tick simply isn't fast enough).

[Anjin_sama]

I have never before seen so many people in mid-high tier with no camo on their ships, DDs included. Also the way some people play is cringeing.

 

That might be indicative of a bot?

[Guest]

There's never been bots in a WG game before, can you prove it?