r/heroesofthestorm • u/NHLKazl • 19h ago

Gameplay Quickmatch

I am a new player and want to understand is QM filled with bots? I haven’t seen any at the start, but now it feels like I have at least 3 per both teams, they all do the same things movement and focus on stuff feels robotic

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u/rinaldi224 19h ago

Not sure how it is for the new player experience but mine isn't like that at all.

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u/NHLKazl 19h ago

Actually I really like ranked and overall game is really good, but I hit a rough patch with QMs

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u/rinaldi224 14h ago

Yeah someone who is sufficiently new to MOBAs may seem almost bot like. If you play a few games vs AI, you should be able to better tell the game AI vs just bad players.

There are some players who run bots out there but this is really only at the absolute bottom of the player pool. You won't really see anything like this once you get even slightly better than absolute beginner level.

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u/imokay4747 19h ago

The only bots I've seen are the ones that go to base and relog back in to farm experience afk for the accounts people sell.

Can you share one of your games you think people are acting like bots in?

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u/NHLKazl 19h ago

Maybe it’s real players then, don’t want to sound like a douche, but they looked questionable. I’ll share if I stumble upon them again.

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u/imokay4747 18h ago

No judgement, im just curious what behavior looks suspicious for you.

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u/NHLKazl 18h ago

Jaina was killing a camp with just auto attacks, not moving, not using spells, died and then went right back at it, Qhira was moving to the same camp, but as soon as Jaina threw her auto attack, Qhira stopped for a 0.5s and went the other way

Edit: that qhira movement looked like queued movement input

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u/imokay4747 18h ago

It's probably someone new to mobas or someone intentionally throwing the game.

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u/NHLKazl 18h ago

Gotcha, thanks for the reply, was wondering whether this game has a bot issue (played lots of OSRS, I’ve seen my share of those) but as you said it’s probably a new player or a player not as invested as I am

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u/imokay4747 18h ago

There are bots designed specifically to throw games and farm experience but those bots aren't "playing the game." They're mostly centered around joining games, sitting afk in base, logging back in if the game tries to afk you out, losing the game so the mmr/rank goes down and to collect some passive experience points along the way. Then those accounts are sold to people that want to smurf or just want the better queue times that come with a lower rank. All of that being said, ive noticed less of those bots around these days.

Side note, ive been thinking of booting up my old osrs account. How's the state of the game right now?

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u/NHLKazl 17h ago

Haven’t played in a while actually and don’t know when you played, but it’s an amazing game nonetheless. Played ironman, hence bots/item value fluctuations didn’t have an impact on the game.

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u/imokay4747 16h ago

I first played when I was a child, lost my account and picked it up during COVID. The Ironman experience is what's tempting me to come back

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u/NHLKazl 16h ago

So after covid this game just got better. For me personally it’s the best game, but it requires just too much time (especially ironman), however that time is therapeutic! So if you want to come back to the game there is no better time, on top of that raids 4 is coming this year I think, should be a blast.

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u/AndorFangor 18h ago

Your overall MMR, what day/time you are playing and what region all have an impact on the playerbase you encounter in qm.

This past thursday evening I dont know what the hell was up with the playerbase in NA because 8 out of 10 games I had people leaving after the first couple minutes or doing that annoying thing where they keep coming back so you dont even get a bot and they just sit at base.

Last night same time same region felt like a fever dream. People actually willing to play the game they queued for and ggs and not me having to remind toxic players it wasnt my job to humor their undiagnossed mental illness.

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u/NHLKazl 17h ago

Noted, I will probably then spend some time in AI to understand certain heroes I want to play and just play ranked, QM had other issues I wasn’t fan of, so probably this is the way

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u/AndorFangor 16h ago

This game has highs and lows. The highs make this game so addicting and amazing. The low points can make you question your existence.

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u/namewithanumber Genji 17h ago

QM just averages MMR and goes "lol welp good luck".

So can often end up two teams that are technically "gold". But one is all golds and the other is like bronzes with diamonds or whatever.

So can end up with insanely terrible people that don't know they can dodge siege giant shots and just die to them and you're supposed to carry them to victory.

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u/CambriaKilgannonn Tyrande 19h ago

At low levels, I think you do see bots. Once you get to upper bronze I think they go away.

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u/NHLKazl 19h ago

I’m in silver now, but I only saw these questionable players in QMs, but as other said probably it was just real players, maybe new as well

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u/JRTerrierBestDoggo Nazeebo 17h ago

There’s no bots even at low bronze. What you get are bunch of people who got no clue how to win a game

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u/CambriaKilgannonn Tyrande 16h ago

You definitely get bots, there's been multiple posts in the past with video evidence of bots and it was pretty heavily agreed upon.

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u/JRTerrierBestDoggo Nazeebo 12h ago

those aren’t bots, just a dude alt tabbing to control different accounts.

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u/Turbulent_Writing231 12m ago

With something like ~6k games in QM — I've never played with or against a bot.