Another thing that feels extremely frustrating in Tournament mode is the way bots behave during fights.

I had a situation where I stunned a bot with Surge, was about to finish it and suddenly the bot destroyed itself before I could get the kill. So I got no kill for it at all. That honestly feels broken and manipulated.

And yes sometimes kill stealing can happen naturally in multiplayer games, that’s normal. But in Mech Arena it happens way too often with bots suddenly appearing out of nowhere just to take the final shot.

After a while it stops feeling random and starts feeling artificial.

Tournament mode is supposed to reward player performance, but bots constantly interfering with kills completely ruins the competitive aspect of the mode.

100% agree with you on bots removal.. They are so annoying.. Make players decide to play with bots or without, make on/off button!

1) I stay behind the wall taking cover, bots run through me and knock me out of cover, all the f@king time. Can't you freaking program them to avoid smashing into own players??? 

2) Today enemy bots had wortexes and all kind of salvors and things (and guns like quashers and railguns), mine didn't, and why is that? How does the tournament matchmaking God decides which team to give better guns and mechs? Its very annoying that Im the only human in the team and the match is decided for me by matchmaking creators. And these stupid bots have no ranks, they are just random, do they belong to my league at all? Prove it, rank them! Stop randomizing bots in unfair manner. Random = Unfair. Rank them like humans in tournament!

3) No matter how much I kill these idiots keep dying faster. And then when you are like oh yes we are winning 15/14 and hiding to make sure they dont kill you, my allied bots run and die in last 5 seconds making it 15/17. Stop shit SH!T PLEASE 

BOTS CAN NOT REPLACE HUMANS, they ruin everything. If it continues like this I'm sure I will leave sooner, and so will many others, especially when amount of rewarded a-coins depends on that.

Here is the FFA proof that bots are idiots, when they are not part of team is clear that their skills level is chiken sh1t, they are worms, you cant make them smart, they are just moving failures:

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Thats how great your great bots are, I can enter FFA and take all 3 MVPs against bots. BECAUSE THEY ARE SH!TS

Here the screenshots where bots are 8 out of 10, they literarily decide the game for you, you can do nothing:

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I think the bots are ok, maybe they should be programmed to make smarter decisions like a real player with skill would. 

If there aren’t enough players in queue, then increase queue times instead of filling matches with bots. Most competitive players would rather wait a little longer for a fair match than play against fake opponents.

I don't think most would wait minutes just to get a match with real players, most would rather do custom games or play with 2-3 friends - which increases the chance at which you get real opponents. 

For example, in hangar showdown, we are made to face either 2 real players or 1 and a bot. Currently, im unable to get consistent games or none at all after queuing for at least 30 minutes (unless i play at inconvenient times) because of the "at least 1 real player" factor.  

Yeah not having any bots at all would probably make wait times impractical, but the OP did suggest a toggle so that players can decide, which addresses that problem.

Bots intelligence has gotten better.. they hide better, for example. I think the main points of feedback from this thread are:

1. Be better at collision detection and repathing. This will prevent bots from pushing players or stepping right into active crossfire.

2. Don't blindly randomize mechs and weapons. A pulse gun wielding arachnos bot in my team is just cannon fodder for the citadel + revoker on the opponent team.

Both of these should be relatively easy fixes without having to mess with more complex "AI" or decision making logic. Good pathing logic has existed in games for decades now.

Minor correction: the toggle was suggested by @Papa .

Bots can often make inept decisions. But they make the worst ones when you're not staring at them. Explain that