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Advantages and disadvantages with bots

By swift

When someone leaves a server on expert, you believe you're doomed because you're teaming up with a bot. That is sometimes the case and sometimes not the case. This guide will show you that bots arent all that bad. Of course, they do have many weaknesses.

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Category: Co-op, Gameplay Basics, Multiplayer, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

Game Modes: Campaigns

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6 Apr, 2015 @ 6:26pm

7 Sep, 2015 @ 1:56pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Advantages

Disadvantages

Conclusion

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Advantages

First of, let's begin with the advantages:
-They provide plenty of cover.
Like humans, they'll always provide cover if they can. With their aimbot, they can easily pick off the enemies without doing friendly fire, which brings up to the next point.

-They almost never do friendly fire
You have NO idea how important that is. How many times on expert did you see a person trying to cover you, only to get incapped by the player? A lot, right? That's not the case with bots. You can walk freely in front of them without worrying getting damaged. (WARNING: IF YOU HAVE 20 HP OR LOWER, WATCH OUT, THEY MIGHT INCAP YOU. I TRIED THIS ON EXPERT)

-They have aimbot.
With the aimbot, they can track down enemies such as smokers running away, chargers going after a player, or even help you while picking them up.

Disadvantages

Now here comes the disadvantages you must expect when teaming up with a bot.

-They'll heal themselves or you when you're 40 or under.
You have NO idea how annoying that is. Many times I pop in some pills and with 45 temp hp left, the bot attempts to heal me! Note: you can stop them by pulling out a medical item. However, it'll stop them for a good 5-10 seconds, then after that, they'll go back to healing you.

-They'll pick you up no matter what.
I know what you're thinking. "But that's an advantage! Why is that a disadvantage?!" In expert, you have NO idea how terrible that is. A huuuuge horde comes out and when I get incapped, they try to save me, thus leading them to be incapped. It does not help unless its on easy/normal. Other than that, terrible and useless.

-They can't pick up grenades.
I know they cannot pick up grenades but you gotta admit, that's terrible. You need all grenades equipped by all teammates to complete the stage easily. Bots cannot do that, so completing the stage, if not the campaign is going to be difficult.

-They're unreliable aganist special infected.
As reported by many players and experienced by me, bots will stand in spitter goo, watch you get destroyed by chargers and get tangled by smokers. Yes, I said they will cover you when they have the chance but thats aganist commons. Special infected is when you gotta watch for yourself and not depend on a bot to help you out.

-They can't pick up defibs.
This is annoying on single player because if you die at lets say right near the saferoom, the WHOLE game starts over. It's annoying and frustrating!

Conclusion

I hope this helps to point out the advantages to the people who think bots are worthless and pointing out the disadvantages to the people who think they're just perfect. But in the end, this is a co-op game, bring some friends! I'll make some new guides soon. Share this with some friends, comment and have an excellent day.

I will be starting a series of guides with this.

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67 Comments

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-Aya 8 Dec, 2019 @ 5:11am

part of disadvantages is fixed with this addon if anyones intrested
https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=121071938
"• Bots will continue to play after you have died instead of ending the game."
"• Bots will move around a player instead of shooting through them."
"• Bots are much more likely to save their first aid kits for a player."

Used 2009 Honda Civic LX 30 Apr, 2017 @ 7:40pm

there are a couple mods to make the bots smarter, but the base ones are like there autistc

Wan Li 万里 3 Feb, 2017 @ 3:10am

@dannyjohnson57, I'm sorry but have you even played this game before?

Basileus 7 Jun, 2016 @ 11:54pm

@dannyjohnson757 what ?

DannyJohnson757 7 Jun, 2016 @ 12:26pm

you can still shoot a pistol/magnum even if you are carrying a melee weapon... that's an advantage

Zap2Strike 4 Jun, 2016 @ 7:36am

I suppose another advantage would be is when they're picking you up, if you get hit by a common zombie it won't reset the bar, it'll keep going, unlike when other players do it

Division 28 Apr, 2016 @ 3:08pm

I seen them in youtube

Time Lady 27 Oct, 2015 @ 11:41pm

sometimes they are useful to kill a hunter or a jockey but others... they just apear to standing there and watch you get incap before doing anithing.

Oh and you forget the other disvantage: you will have aways to go first and be the target then for hunters, jokeys, chargers and boomers waiting for you what sucks if they have plenity of health and you are on the red .-.

ThunderKiss65 20 Oct, 2015 @ 10:19pm

usually when you are hit by a smoker or a charger it takes the bots literally 7 seconds to stare at you then try to save you

Grolgatha 13 Oct, 2015 @ 3:02pm

playing a fun cheat server: AHHH A SMOKER ROCHELLE HELP:Rochelle

HELP ME ROCHELLE

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH:Rochelle after 23 seconds:SMOKER *shoots smoker* :Me:steamfacepalm:

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