Your Ai allies in the zombie apocalyspe, the ones they call Francis, Zoey, Louis, and Bill. In the times when you have no online, or poor connection, they are your only hope to survive this sdisaster alive. Back in the days of the demo, when the game was like a revolution to game mechancis and the such. Back then, they were treated like mastrs of the game. Shooting the special infected before you can even name which one is which, sticking extremely close, protecting you at all costs, healing you, reviving you, and being the player youd one day hope to be.
Till you got the game.
Yes, after youd grown accustomed to the game, the Ai, and rbeing able to play online, you begin to realise just how patheticly mediocre the bots are. Taken ages to save you from that hunter, healing you at bad moments, jumping in the way if bullets, or off a cliff, the bots end up making you join team zombie and kill them all.
But should we be so tough on them. I mean, before hand we used to look up to them, learn from them, rely on them. Now we lead them through like petrified children, but they were the ones who taught us to do it. Yes, as much as we despise them now, I can admit that they literally taught me how to survive horde after horde.
So what have they taught us, you may ask? Well, theyve taught ME...
1) Group spacing- Where to stand in a group, especially during hordes. Watching out for any unguarded openings, and not shooting teamates in the back, but trusting them.
2)Healing Teamates- When to heal, where to heal, why to heal? (if that makes sense) and to not be a selfish faggot and share amongst the team, considering everyones chances of survival.
3) Stick together- As much as you learn this from one of the AI's flaws, you learn that running ahead causes a snaeaky hunter to pounce you, draining your life points before you can say, 'wow, this hear hoodie guy appears to look infected, and hes clawing the shit out of me'
4) Know your infected- What type is it, when am I at risk, what the best weapon to use, whats the best stragety, run or shoot? RUN OR SHOOT? OR BOTH?
5) Aim, ya faggot- Not only shooting where ther be zombies, but not shooting when ther be humans.
6)Strategy trying- When you play with bots, you have the ability to try out stuff at your will, without pissing off any online players. What works and what doesen't
7) New grenade type- Due to the fact that Ai cant use grenades, you have the disadvantage of only having one grenade at once. Therefore strategy is essential, which is good for further games.
8) Know your equipment- Wepons and the such, watching the ai makes you realise tactics such as using the hunting rifle and what guns work well together in what situations
9) Know your role- What are you doing in the team, are you the short range close quarters guy, the sniper, the healer. Knowing when to do what actions are essential.
10) And last but not least, all the little things- Searching rooms, saving people from tanks, knowing where your allies are etc etc etc, this goes on for ever and ever
So next time you insult francis for teabagging your corpse, the next time Bill jumps in the way of a shotgun blast, the times when zoey commits suicide, or when lois heals you as a tank approaches, remember that they taught you what you know about survival, and without them could be very underskilled...or you could just sigh and team kill them all, up to you?
Also, has everyone else noticed that the aperfect online team is 3 players and a bot. The bot helps get rid of tricky infected, as well as other stuff, without being too much of a blunder.
Also, L4d2 bots? better than the 1st? we could never answer this, but now we have no mercy on both games, we could give a accurate guess.
NOTE: I did have many other points in this topic, but forgot them along the way. If you have any more ideas, post them below, thanks.
