Improve Bot Navigation, Awareness, and Combat Behaviour
Under considerationby HeyBiggin · 28 Aug
Private matches against bots can be a useful way to warm up before entering matchmaking, but the current AI behaviour needs improvement.
Bots often follow the same routes, move slowly through exposed areas instead of sprinting to safety, and target distant enemies while ignoring opponents directly in front of them or actively shooting at them. Their predictable movement and reactions also make them immediately distinguishable from real players.
Giving bots more varied routes, better threat prioritisation, smarter movement through dangerous areas, and less predictable behaviour would make private matches more challenging, believable, and useful as preparation for online play.
Vikingrad02 Sept
Improve AI team mates and enemies to make the game feel more fun when wanting to just play alone.
dylan02 Sept
The bots follow the same route, tactic and grouping every time. It'd be really cool to have variation
john02 Sept
the bots act stupid and stand in the same spot for almost the whole round of verses
Thibault Catimel02 Sept
"fix bots" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-09-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
Christoffer03 Sept
Aí needs a little rework in better pathfinding/navmesh, also a little weapon variety would be Nice and maybe even the ability for ai controlled drones, not only for PvE players but better practice in general
Thibault Catimel03 Sept
"Ai rework" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-09-03), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
Thibault Catimel03 Sept
"Bot Variation - Paths, Grouping, etc." (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-09-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
Thibault Catimel03 Sept
"Improvements to AI" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-09-02), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
BootySmasher03 Sept
Bots do need the difficulty cranked or something, they straight up miss at point blank.
k_rz03 Sept
It would be nice if there was an option to save your behavior on maps and for AI bots to learn when I'm not playing, or a button for AI to start learning from the collected user data.
Mara04 Sept
Yeah, every map has one-two routes and all bots go this way. You just have to sit in one place and kill them at once. Worsk with Team Deathmatch and Versus.
Nice way to grind the points but it is really a waste of time.
Mihai04 Sept
Please move away from this adaptive bots setup. Add different difficulty options for bots. If you could implement something like sain for Sptarkov for bots, that would be amazing for offline play.
Boshi05 Sept
The bots are terrible, they run straight thru the middle of the map every time. Versus bots is the easiest point farm by far.
Patrick Cimino09 Sept
The bots tend to go in the same direction as every other bot and really have no 'personality'. they wander in the same spots and don't really explore as they should. playing alone with bots usually ends with a gunfight in the same exact location every time.
Random10 Sept
Even farming points becomes less of an option. At least give them some kind of aim.
Thibault Catimel23 Sept
"optimize bots paths" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-09-09), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
Thibault Catimel23 Sept
"Bots - make them not dumb" (suggested by <Hidden> on 2026-09-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.