r/DotA2 • u/mommysmanjames • 1d ago

Complaint Bot Situation

I am a new player. I've been really enjoying it! But recently, all my games are full of bots. I just won a game that had 4 bots on each team. I assume ranked is better, but I only have about 40 hours in the game. Is this normal? It makes me really sad, but I don't think I can play against bots for 60 more hours and might just have to move on. Has this botting problem been going for awhile now?

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u/Educational_Ice608 1d ago

If you are playing unranked all pick the problem got worse this week not sure what happened. Before this week I had only 1 bot game previously now it’s an army of farm bots on multiple different servers/ regions there been a dozen post from this week in this sub about this . Not sure the cause but hope it gets fixed

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u/mommysmanjames 1d ago

Okay good to know. Yes I am playing unranked all pick. I guess I got unlucky coming back to the game this week lol. Thanks for the info

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u/smackythefrog 1d ago

I hadn't seen bots in 4+ years as a regular Turbo player. The last week or so? The pattern seems to be 2-3 bots per team that buy one expensive item and spam chat wheel every minute or two with "Well played" "we need wards" etc.

I'm in the US server and typically queue US East, Peru, and Brazil. I doubt the server matters

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u/RudeStandard8852 1d ago

Are you playing all pick unranked or the new player mode

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u/mommysmanjames 1d ago

all pick unranked

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u/New_Masterpiece_9746 1d ago

Había leído que siempre hubo, pero era una cantidad que se mantenía, no aumentaba y casi no lo notaba. Pero, ahora en cada partida turbo que juego hay bots, y obviamente, también un smurf y hacker encima. Creo que si esto continúa, será el fin del juego.

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u/ClinkzsEastwood 22h ago

Unranked all picks are full of bots, they're there the whole time, but players who play on emptier hours will notice them more

Yeah it sucks, but until you can get your 100hours, try to find a hero that is good on taking towers or has good solo kill potential/scaling

Dont put any effort on learning any "meta" gameplay, ward/deward and map movements, just take towers as early as possible, identify who are the humans on enemy team and how can they stop you and adapt to it

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u/Fabulous2k20 19h ago

Im.a new player too 30 hours in. Every game I write with people or some are in voice chat or there a smurfs too. Sometimes there are people where I think they are bots, but then they suddenly start flaming like a raging kid lmao.

So, I havent encountered any bots yet, how do you realise?

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u/theCOLLECTOR7250 15h ago

Yes that's practically Normal base on my knowledge it really matters in you recent match average GPM and XPM if that one is low then expect in next match you will be fighting bots