Remove thermo-immunity on bots

[JimladSeraph]

The title pretty much says it all! It's a nightmare fighting bots as an explodet because they'll take thermos and shrug them off, like how mouse users used to behave. It's very obvious when you're playing against a bot as opposed to a human player.

I guess the title isn't quite accurate; this is more about implementing an "affected by thermo" algorithm to the bot AI which, let's be honest, should be pretty simple, although obviously it would need a little tweaking to get right. For example, giving them some sort of delayed reaction to the thermo effects would be a good place to start. Even a slight change would be much better than what we have now.

This especially affects games like ball and TBD where it makes it very hard for an explodet to stop a bot going for the target, where a human player would be misdirected every time. Bots just end up being disproportionately effective vs. thermo explodets.

[Carlos98]

Unless I am grossly mistaken:
bots don't use afterburner
and thermo is easy to shrug off if you don't use afterburner

[JimladSeraph]

Nope... it has little to do with afterburner, it's just the fact that bots are able to react perfectly and instantaneously to any course changes caused by thermo. As I said, we had the same problem before with mouse users, where the controls would automagically correct the plane's course without players having to do anything. That was fixed, but the same issue with bots was never addressed.

[Boko]

Lol bots way 2 ez

If you were to nerf one nerf aimbot randa plx

[Ribilla]

Originally Posted by Boko

Lol bots way 2 ez

If you were to nerf one nerf aimbot randa plx

Wow, I was sure this was going to be a

"Whale OP, don't change bots, make players auto-correct, then it's fair"

response.