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Keep bot lancers out of tournament

Keep bot lancers out of tournament

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Jan 6, 2021, 22:5001/06/21
04/18/19
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Keep bot lancers out of tournament

We all accept we have to play with bots every now and again to keep the game times down but looking to your left and right and seeing multiple lancers in a tournament means you lose. If they are a starter mech thats fine but if your fooling yourselves into believing they are viable in tournament your doing everyone a disservice. You can throw 4 lancers at an ares and all you've accomplished is 4 deaths racked up. This forces the players on that team to make up 4 kills and makes them play more aggressively to play catch up. This allows the opposing team the comfort of camping aswell and essentially ruins the game. In the higher brackets playing against teams comprised of guardians ares and panthers the lancer is just an easy kill swap them to a killshot or even a jug would be better just stop ruining perfectly good games by telling yourself they are half decent mechs they are not look at the top players do they play Lancers... probably a good indicator 

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Jan 8, 2021, 23:1201/08/21
12/14/20
34

Lancers can be very formidable. 

1. a lancer can take 2 sometimes 3 javelin shots. 

2. they are quick and hard to target with longarms.  

3. compared to an ai paragon or even panther, they are harder to kill. 

Furthermore, I have never, ever had a full team of ai lancers to start a tourney. There are usually 1 or 2. 

As far as I am concerned, this is an insignificant request compared to other major tourney problems. 

RescueCommunity Manager
Jan 12, 2021, 15:3501/12/21
12/21/20
324

I love the Lancer mech but Lancer Bot AI needs a MASSIVE rework.

I have never seen a bot use the ability to jump onto anything for a better position.  They just run right at you and get blown to bits.  Even when a panther drops a fence they don't try to jump over it.  They just run straight on through, get slowed, and then get lit up.

I would guess they have the same AI as every other bot like Juggernaut so they are not individualized to their specific role or ability which is why their play is so atrocious.  

Until they can use their ability correctly they are cannon fodder in tournament play.

Jan 14, 2021, 02:1401/14/21
Jan 20, 2021, 04:51(edited)
04/18/19
46

Im not talking about if you like the Lancers if you do congrats play it ill be more then happy to have the extra kill its actually the problem that rescue addresses the ai and the players are very different i have seen players with real skill use Lancers i have never seen an ai do the same so when tournaments often require saved up or bought tickets and is not  much free to play i believe it could have a higher standard lets just swap them for jugs with shotguns those as ai can be effective if nothing more then providing players with a tank