Alright, I have to share something here.
I've never seen a "player bot" before. I'm aware of the solo farm bots, but never bots designed to run in groups (henches excluded of course). However, while in the Tombs Underworld tonight I was in a group that picked up TWO monk bots back to back! We realized the first monk was a bot, died, then got another monk - also a bot.
How did we come to the conclusion they were bots? They called thier heals for one thing. They moved akwardly...hench-esque. They didn't respond to flat out insults. They were very "bottish".
Anyone see anything like this on thier UW runs?
edit: It's probably worth mentioning that we were a b/p team. I'm speculating here, but as monk support is relatively minor in b/p teams as most players are safe from harm most of the time, I suspect monk bots will be targeting them.
-Jessyi
Monk Bots in Tombs Underworld?
Jessyi
thunderpower
Yeah, happened to me 2 weeks ago (my last old tombs farm). We got a bot monkey. The BOT was a bit dumb, somewhere a bit over the hench level maybe. annyoing stuff was that we had to pick up all the crap, because if the bot spotted anything that got unassigned, rushed to pick it up.
VGJustice
Wow... that's pretty sad. Person can't even be arsed to play the game.
That makes me sad. :'(
That makes me sad. :'(
TheMosesPHD
Did you report them to ANet? If you see anything suspicious like this you should write a report immediately because this kind of thing is a new low altogether. If you do come across these kinds of things please report them immediately. This needs to be stopped before it becomes prominent.
lishi
it suck and the bots should be banned.
but comeon! you are so in hurry to find a monk to take EVERONE?
if the monk arent very social or dont reply to your inquiry just kick him
but comeon! you are so in hurry to find a monk to take EVERONE?
if the monk arent very social or dont reply to your inquiry just kick him
TheMosesPHD
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it suck and the bots should be banned.
but comeon! you are so in hurry to find a monk to take EVERONE? if the monk arent very social or dont reply to your inquiry just kick him |
CorstedPirate
I think that I encountered one last time that I was in tombs as well. I was a monk looking for a BP team, but there were so many monks looking for the same that I went with balanced. The other monk didn't say anything the whole run, except once. To ask one of the players that had died a few times if they wanted to buy a candy cane! It seemed kindof like the heals they casted were automated too. They would cast heals on me when we weren't fighting, and when I was at full health. It was really quite odd, the run was successful, we did get the Darkness. The monk bot didn't get a green drop, and had no complaints about it either. So it isn't like I can blame the supposed bot for a failed run, but it was very weird none the less.
Matsumi
I've also noticed this kind of thing happening, but not in tombs (since I don't go there much anymore), in other missions. One of them I can remember fairly good is the one where you need to get the eye and find the chosen for the bonus. There was this caster type character kind of lower level like the rest of us, then there was this lvl 20 monk that was teamed up with him before I joined the group. The monk didn't seem to respond to anything, and quite often, the caster would respond for him, and said that it was his brother. So we were kind of like, "uh, ok". Then as the mission progressed, we noticed some kind of strange behavior, like you said about picking up the drops, well, the monk would do this no matter what was happening. We were in the middle of a fight and most of us were dying, and when I finally died, I looked back to check where the monk was... nowhere to be found, it was off picking up random items that became available. We were all yelling at the monk, and asking him what the hell was going on, no response at all after we all refused to continue, then the caster says, "sorry guys, my brother is retarded sometimes.". Unlike usual behavior, where the monk quits or has some really good explanation in response, nothing, it just stood there. So further on I started watching the monk more, and noticed that it was doing the pacing thing like Alesia does during a battle, and firing off a heal every now and then. I almost reported this guy at the time, but then went on to play other missions and forgot his name.
TheMosesPHD
Wow, I didn't know this kind of crap was so prominent.
RTSFirebat
Please always report any character names you see doing this sort of thing. Last thing we need is more bots running about ingame. It know you can sometimes forget but it does only take 5 seconds to jot a name down on paper.
Your'll do Guild Wars a massive favour
Your'll do Guild Wars a massive favour
Mithie
If the bot was asking if you wanted to buy a candy cane, then it probably wasn't a bot, and I've never personally seen a bot in Tombs before, but...
LET THE WITCH HUNT BEGIN!!!!
Some monk on my team yesterday got a victo's bulwark and I got nothing. HAX!!! HE MUST BE A BOT!! I've reported it to Anet I hope he gets banned.
LET THE WITCH HUNT BEGIN!!!!
Some monk on my team yesterday got a victo's bulwark and I got nothing. HAX!!! HE MUST BE A BOT!! I've reported it to Anet I hope he gets banned.
Silent Kitty
When bots start farming, the economy will go down the drain. I have seen this on DiabloII. 
Mithie
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When bots start farming, the economy will go down the drain. I have seen this on DiabloII.
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The bots weren't even making a dent.
Silent Kitty
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Diablo II's econ went down the drain when people started duping.
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fiery
Maybe was not english prown, and really didn't care what you were saying to them cause they didn't understand. Thought Bots like to solo, to get all drops than to fight and kill and let the other people in the party steal their drops?
and,
Stop the henchie bashing, henchies are way better than real players, where's that guy who completed tombs with him + all henchies.
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Stop the henchie bashing, henchies are way better than real players, where's that guy who completed tombs with him + all henchies
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Count to Potato
It happened to me beforein Thunderhead keep, but all you do is ask them questions, like what lvl are u who is president of the U.S. and like whats my name
fiery
Maybe they have the team and all chat off, cause many people who wants to finish the storyline doesn't want to read bickering in the chat.
Melkor_The_First
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Did you report them to ANet? If you see anything suspicious like this you should write a report immediately because this kind of thing is a new low altogether. If you do come across these kinds of things please report them immediately. This needs to be stopped before it becomes prominent.
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Kakumei
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When bots start farming, the economy will go down the drain. I have seen this on DiabloII.
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Loralai
Closest thing I've ever experienced like this was a necro that we got on a TK PUG who stayed out of harms way the entire time never participating in fights. We tried multiple times to take aggro to him just for the hell of it, and he would spam only Soul Feast then pick up his drops. I took him as just a lame coat-tail rider.
MasterThrawn
I had something weird happen to me a while back. To Monks blind invite me - and I accept just to see what they're up to. Next thing I know we are in Underworld and they are not responding to anything I ask them. Now they both died really quickly, so I don't get that. Than we go back - I was about to leave - than all of the sudden we're back in again. They die again - still not saying anything. Weird - I just left, but not sure what that was about....
Tarkin
I see bot monks in fow... sometime ago... funny... 55h bots monks... dont answer ofenses... dont answer nothing... follow you like a hench...
coldplay
bots are running in UW and troll farming. I've got it confirmed from sweatshop farmers
Scutilla
Good thing I always discuss builds with the other monks before going into something like FoW or Tombs- I think a couple minutes of talking at an unresponsive person would be a pretty big hint that he's a bot. (And no, I don't do the evil that is Barrageway.)
I'm counting the days until ANet puts a Kephet-like botkiller in Talus Chute... Droks Int 1 is crazy, just bots running in and out of Talus and spamming Local with trade offers in Chinese.
I'm counting the days until ANet puts a Kephet-like botkiller in Talus Chute... Droks Int 1 is crazy, just bots running in and out of Talus and spamming Local with trade offers in Chinese.
Diablo???
Bots really do get on my nerves. But if you guys are ever bored, and decided to screw with them... go to Drok's int 1, wait at the town door, and invite one of these "suspicious" looking monk names into your party. Sooner or later, when one of these monks join your party, jump outside to Talus Chute immediately, if they're truly a bot, they will automatically begin the mending, balthazar spirit, and protective spirit process. If they decide to go ahead and farm, cast Vital Blessing on them and screw up their 55 hp. Once they're dead, continously ressurect them, with only 1 hp left they die again instantly again and again. As long as you have this bot dead on the floor, he's not out ruining someone else's game. Sooner or later he'll just map out, but not for a while. When he does, go back to town, rinse and repeat.
Then again, you have to be really, hellishly bored to do this. But I tell ya, it was fun to watch a bot getting slaughtered again and again. They have no idea how to stop you from casting Vital Blessing on them.
Of course we could've just reported them, but since Anet isn't getting rid of these bots any sooner, I'd figured disrupting this bot's farming run might just help other people find legitimate monks easier. Imagine if all that anti-bot protestors did this instead, imagine if everyone did this instead...
Then again, you have to be really, hellishly bored to do this. But I tell ya, it was fun to watch a bot getting slaughtered again and again. They have no idea how to stop you from casting Vital Blessing on them.
Of course we could've just reported them, but since Anet isn't getting rid of these bots any sooner, I'd figured disrupting this bot's farming run might just help other people find legitimate monks easier. Imagine if all that anti-bot protestors did this instead, imagine if everyone did this instead...
TalonTheCat
How do bots join parties? Solo I can see.
Young Hero
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Bots really do get on my nerves. But if you guys are ever bored, and decided to screw with them... go to Drok's int 1, wait at the town door, and invite one of these "suspicious" looking monk names into your party. Sooner or later, when one of these monks join your party, jump outside to Talus Chute immediately, if they're truly a bot, they will automatically begin the mending, balthazar spirit, and protective spirit process. If they decide to go ahead and farm, cast Vital Blessing on them and screw up their 55 hp. Once they're dead, continously ressurect them, with only 1 hp left they die again instantly again and again. As long as you have this bot dead on the floor, he's not out ruining someone else's game. Sooner or later he'll just map out, but not for a while. When he does, go back to town, rinse and repeat.
Then again, you have to be really, hellishly bored to do this. But I tell ya, it was fun to watch a bot getting slaughtered again and again. They have no idea how to stop you from casting Vital Blessing on them. Of course we could've just reported them, but since Anet isn't getting rid of these bots any sooner, I'd figured disrupting this bot's farming run might just help other people find legitimate monks easier. Imagine if all that anti-bot protestors did this instead, imagine if everyone did this instead... |
lol thats great, gonna give it a try
Diablo???
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How do bots join parties? Solo I can see.
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"wo mai jin wu chi 3k"
That's when you invite them, they'll think you're a potential customer and accept your invitation. When they do, jump outside, since those stupid botters cant tell the difference between sales mode and farm mode, they automatically go into soloing mode casting all the enchantments and darting off to get killed
Sometimes you might get an asian farmer instead, they might try to say something thats impossible to read, but believe it or not, they act pretty much bottish too. Once outside they too go into soloing mode. Which is best that you follow them closely behind, and WAIT until the last second before they enter combat, do you cast Vital Blessing on them! It's like saying "SUPPLIES!" lol.
Tarkin
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Its true, they normally dont, and they just run outside to solo. But sometimes these bots would just stand there spamming their jibberish sales:
"wo mai jin wu chi 3k" That's when you invite them, they'll think you're a potential customer and accept your invitation. When they do, jump outside, since those stupid botters cant tell the difference between sales mode and farm mode, they automatically go into soloing mode casting all the enchantments and darting off to get killed Sometimes you might get an asian farmer instead, they might try to say something thats impossible to read, but believe it or not, they act pretty much bottish too. Once outside they too go into soloing mode. Which is best that you follow them closely behind, and WAIT until the last second before they enter combat, do you cast Vital Blessing on them! It's like saying "SUPPLIES!" lol. |
Young Hero
Diablo???
lol ya some of those bots just straight up suck. I use to think they had at least 50% success rate, turns out they're worse. I guess that's a big comforting to know
Iciris
what exactly is a "bot"
and the koreans in int d1 droks.. there "bots"? and not real ppl?
plz tell me what exactly a bot is......
and the koreans in int d1 droks.. there "bots"? and not real ppl?
plz tell me what exactly a bot is......
Farmermancer
Diablo 2 was much worst... Blizzard simply didn't care and had GFraizer balance the entire game soon after the expansion was released. General Blizzard trend seems to be make a great initial games base, bring out imbalanced expansions.
Heres what I think is going to happen, nothing for about another month... then boom! once factions is released... a new "momma" Tengu, with her 20 Avicara Guiles will make that cave their new home.
What would be even funnier is for a chinese farmer to run into that cave and all of sudden see nothing but a level 31 Stone Summit Heretic wandering around, with the words "YOU BUY 250 Extinct Mountain Troll Tusks for 6k OK?" above his head.
PS: 95% of the farmers in Droks Internation 1 are chinese... I know since I speak pin yin.
Heres what I think is going to happen, nothing for about another month... then boom! once factions is released... a new "momma" Tengu, with her 20 Avicara Guiles will make that cave their new home.
What would be even funnier is for a chinese farmer to run into that cave and all of sudden see nothing but a level 31 Stone Summit Heretic wandering around, with the words "YOU BUY 250 Extinct Mountain Troll Tusks for 6k OK?" above his head.
PS: 95% of the farmers in Droks Internation 1 are chinese... I know since I speak pin yin.
TheMosesPHD
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I had something weird happen to me a while back. To Monks blind invite me - and I accept just to see what they're up to. Next thing I know we are in Underworld and they are not responding to anything I ask them. Now they both died really quickly, so I don't get that. Than we go back - I was about to leave - than all of the sudden we're back in again. They die again - still not saying anything. Weird - I just left, but not sure what that was about....
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TheMosesPHD
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Originally Posted by Diablo™
Its true, they normally dont, and they just run outside to solo. But sometimes these bots would just stand there spamming their jibberish sales:
"wo mai jin wu chi 3k" That's when you invite them, they'll think you're a potential customer and accept your invitation. When they do, jump outside, since those stupid botters cant tell the difference between sales mode and farm mode, they automatically go into soloing mode casting all the enchantments and darting off to get killed Sometimes you might get an asian farmer instead, they might try to say something thats impossible to read, but believe it or not, they act pretty much bottish too. Once outside they too go into soloing mode. Which is best that you follow them closely behind, and WAIT until the last second before they enter combat, do you cast Vital Blessing on them! It's like saying "SUPPLIES!" lol. |
I managed to do the Vital Blessing thing once to a bot after random inviting all the ones that were running at the door, but it's good to know there is a strategic way to ruin their farming faster
Melkor_The_First
Im actually stealing their loot, lol its fun
EDIT - A nice way to be powerleveled too
EDIT - A nice way to be powerleveled too
My Sweet Revenga
Holy heavens I never thought about trying this. Here I always steered clear of bots because of what they stood for. But now that you guys point this out, I could have some real fun with these things lol! I hereby decree this...... BOT KITING!!!!! unless of course anybody else has a better definition
this sounds almost as fun as that WOW video where some guys kited a high level monster all the way back to a newbie town to watch the carnage bwahahaha
this sounds almost as fun as that WOW video where some guys kited a high level monster all the way back to a newbie town to watch the carnage bwahahaha
Melkor_The_First
How about, Exploiting A Exploit?
Diablo???
Glad you guys didn't think I was pathetically bored to be screwing around bunch of bots 
Dr Ripley
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Im actually stealing their loot, lol its fun
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LOL!! Now watch. You'll start seeing a huge group of bots next to the door at droks... right next to a large line of live players waiting their turn in line to leech off of them. Either that or:
Random farmer: "Who's that with you in your party right now?"
Random farmer#2: "Oh? Him? That's my bot companion. He's been my personal slave for awhile now. He doesn't talk much, but he farms like no tomorrow!"