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A serious botting issue in Domination

drkbodhidrkbodhi Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,378 Arc User
in PvP Discussion
There is no other way to see this. 0ver 180 players all between the levels of 20 and 29, mostly 20 to 23, filled the Dom instances last night.

Guildless, basic random names, and basic camouflaged account names. This started during the Solo queue, but there were so many players entering that the bots were not as numerous.

I can see this as one drawback of not having Gateway... the botters are adapting. That may be so, but this way they are blatantly botting.
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  • drkbodhidrkbodhi Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,378 Arc User
    BTW... this is more because I cannot report it, in game and I cannot PM anyone that would care.
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    Atwil "At" - Tiefling TR / Saardush - Black Dragonborn GWF / White - Tiefling OP
    Leadership Council of Civil Anarchy
    SYNERGY Alliance
  • dupeksdupeks Member Posts: 1,789 Arc User
    edited September 2016
    AD & Exp removed from PVP in 3... 2... 1...

    But yes you're right botting has always been a factor in low level PVP. Since the Gateway shutdown there has been an "uptick" let's call it. Shame, because I doubt that the devs will offer any solution other than taking away more from the already struggling PVP community.

    BTW: they have a hilariously clunky suggested way of reporting bots in game. You're supposed to add them to your ignore list one by one so that you can get their @handles. Then you file a bug report with a title of botting, and list out all of the handles you ignored. I used to do this with node bots but you can do the same in PVP.
  • kvetkvet Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 2,700 Arc User
    On one of my many alts, I used pvp to level it. One match, it was the 20 or 30 bracket, I found that I was clearly the only human player. 4 on my team would run to 2 and stay there. 5 of the other team would do the same. They'd fight... But never went to cap 1 or 3. So. I just left them uncapped and spent some time camping their spawn racking up stuff for the pvp campaign.

    Eventually I got bored, reported all 9 accounts and capped the other two points.... Was an interesting time for sure.

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  • turloghobrienturloghobrien Member Posts: 13 Arc User
    And I thought the game is bugged. I am not playing PvP so often, but in 4 of 5 instances during last weeks, I found myself being the only human in the arena. It is actually nice way to get the kills, double kills and triple kills in Domination campaign. However, it sort of lacks the thrill.
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