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Haha, no, what I'm saying is that they say they added bots to help empower less skilled players but it'll just be another tool to aid the already skilled players. It sounds unbalanced in the sense that'll it'll be a chaotic mess of ideas crammed into a single mode, not that better players will obviously take home more wins.

And that's the thing, they drop single player but then include all the single player elements into a multiplayer mode. All I'm saying, is why not just remove the player controlled opponents and include that lore and story into a single player? The work is already done, there's just multiplayer crammed in there. I'm all for multiplayer and single player being blended (Dark Souls is one of my favorite games) but why not just drop the other 5 players and let someone who wants to play it at their own pace do so? It sounds like the bulk of the work is already done.

I'm interested to see how in depth the story elements will be. Will it just be a lazy, crappy story told amid glorified deathmatch modes or will it be something interesting? The way these ideas will be executed are the only reason I'm still interesting in this game, even if my current opinion is negative.

The way you described the point system contradicts their entire reasoning behind the bots, so it continues to sound like an unbalanced mess. You're just going to get skilled players racking up an insane amount of bot kills while the less skilled guys run around and get dominated.

My point about it's existence is that the guys at Respawn made it very clear there wasn't going to be a story driven single player mode and that had a lot to do with very few people playing the CoD campaigns. That's fine, but then they create a mode meant to mimic everything a single player campaign does but with forced multiplayer? My point being, why create something to appeal to fans you already abandoned.

It's an additional game mode, no shit, and again, as an added bonus to the traditional modes it's a welcome addition. However, I don't understand why you'd straight up say "no single player, no one played it" and then go "but here's a multiplayer only mode that has campaign stuff" instead of just removing that element and adding in an actual campaign. I'm not at all against multiplayer only games, for the record, I just think it's weird to completely drop campaign and then include a mode meant to appeal to those fans. Even though those people won't want the competitive and the competitive crowd won't likely be interested with the bot filled bullshit.

I understand how it works, I don't grasp the logic behind the reasoning for its existence. If it was an added bonus, cool, but I don't necessarily get why'd you'd go the multiplayer only route and then shoehorn singleplayer elements in under the guise of "balancing".

Especially since, in this case, it sounds like it's just going to unbalance the game if anything else. Adding in cannon fodder bots so the newbies can get some killstreaks is fine, but those bots are still there for the skilled players and making them more powerful is just going to ruin the fun for those wanting a single player experience. My friends and I played Black Ops II with half people, half bots, and all that'd happen is the skilled players would sit back, kill the brain dead AI, and dominate the other team with killstreaks.

Of course, it could be all exceptional and executed extremely well, but right now it sounds like a clusterfuck of bad design decisions. Reading it sounds like they're throwing everything into the pot and hoping for the best, and I hope I'm wrong because the game looks cool.

I don't necessarily get their logic behind this. So they're adding bots for a story, because there isn't one, and for players bad at multiplayer because there's no single player? Why not just make a single player then instead of just forcing it into the multiplayer? I'm genuinely confused.