PUBG adds bots to 'support' new players or approaching death

Although the bot has only been added to fill console games, it shows a sad situation of PUBG as the players are getting smaller.

In fact, the publisher 'dropping' the bot into PUBG matches is no longer a strange thing, when the PUBG Mobile version itself was released, players also caught a lot of bots. But recently, the bot will also be added to the console versions (Playstation and Xbox), with the purpose of announcing it to help newbie get the chance to get used to the game faster and help the old players. 'onion'.

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Accordingly, the release of this bot will start from PUBG 7.1, it will be calculated based on the number of hours played and the time in the game of the player. Because, according to the publisher of PUBG Corporation, they realized that there were new players in the game who were killed or worse, could not fire a single bullet, if that situation persisted, their experience will be very bad and the publisher doesn't like that. Note that this bot release only applies to the console version, but the PC still works normally.

In the past, there have been many complaints about bot bots in PUBG being inefficient, such as their path finding mechanism is very strange, often commits suicide or has ridiculous aiming screens. As a result, PUBG Corporation has announced an improvement, now the bot will follow a different route depending on the map, they will find the shortest path to the destination and stay away from dangerous areas, to avoid self-defense. close as before.

And also to help newbie not be shot dead too fast, the bot's shooting mechanism will be based on character movement, meaning that players will have a better chance of surviving when both move together. Finally, to balance the loot, the bot will prioritize taking weapons depending on the time of the game, such as SMG at the beginning and SR or DMR late game.

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However, regardless of what the publisher promises, PUBG players are not excited to receive this news. The reason is obvious because the nature of PUBG is a fighting game of 100 people seeking to destroy each other, so knowing that they will have to play with the bot will reduce the excitement, like no one. After installing CS: GO, go to 'Autism' alone with the device. In addition, the appearance of bots will make the player's mentality less natural, when they will see those with special characters (because bots often give meaningless names) in a very wary manner.

Actually adding bots in these battle royale games is not something new, as Fortnite also made it late last year. The most noticeable advantage is that it makes the game faster (because anyway waiting for 100 people is quite long), making the newbie satisfied with the feeling of killing the enemy in part as well as the illusion of a Exciting match.

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But in the case of PUBG it is a little different, because the number of players of this game is decreasing rapidly. The reason the publisher gave 'helping newcomers not get killed by veteran gamers' is actually quite meaningless, because with the normal matchmaking mechanism, gamers of the same level will be put together. (by playtime, achievement or rank if ranked).

The reason that PUBG said so may be the current number of their players is different, when the old players are still attached but new players do not appear. This leads to a skewed balance when ranking, simply saying that a player is older than a newbie, so there's no need to say which side will have an onion. Moreover, PUBG is not a free game, so the less the old players are excited to create new nick to 'chicken', it shows that PUBG is having a real problem.

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PUBG Mobile was created in just . four months

Senior figures from Lightspeed & Quantum developers and publisher Tencent share the success of PUBG Mobile and the time it was created.

It is also impossible to compare the creation of this bot to the PUBG Mobile version , because at that time, in order to push the number of full 100 rooms to the fastest as well as to advertise, the bot was released almost blatantly to stimulate demand. . So when PUBG Mobile just debuted, you could see the bot appear so idle and extremely stupid to the point of being silly, just like shooting beer for players. Of course, bot still exists over time, but it is not well received, because it creates a dependency when bot hunters used to look for good things (bot used guns as if they died, they were good products). ).

It is for this reason that PUBG Corporation emphasizes on how they have improved the bot, but that still does not hide the fact that it will make the gamers experience very bad. Imagine a console gamer who hasn't played for a long time suddenly encountered a bot, and he would probably find it weird because the 'name in front' behaves so strangely. This will make the experience of gamers gradually lose its characteristics because bots only act repeatedly, leading to quit the game sooner or later.

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But given the current situation, maybe PUBG has no other option, because the number of players is terrible decline, just waiting for a room of 100 people is probably enough to make newbie discouraged, at least create a feeling of "fast and a lot" to keep them. After all, even the official version is decreasing the number of players each month, so maybe at some point we will see PUBG drop bots into PC matches.