Modern Warfare 3: Players Convinced AI Bots Are Being Placed Into Real Matches

Reports from players have surfaced stating that they believe they are playing with or against AI controlled bots in Modern Warfare 3.

[Jin_Sakai]

Wouldn’t doubt it. Enemies are either bad or incredibly good. Something just feels off about this game.

[excaliburps]

Yep. I've experienced this "bot-like" moment as well. It just looked weird and unnatural.

[BeHunted]

You're probably a noob. You'll end up in lobbies that has the same skill set as other players.

[excaliburps]

Nope. Doubt it. You can check YouTube to see videos of this being widespread.

[fr0sty]

Probably because sales are so low that they have to fake it to make people think that the game is still being played.

[outsider1624]

Im guessing that too. Im playing CodMw2 atm and i don't need MW3. What i hate though is they force you to download Mw3 to play mw2.

[purple101]

sales low, but still in the multiple millions so wouldn't be a problem id have thought, ??

[Jin_Sakai]

Recently played a game on Quarry and there was a guy killing everyone on our team and was on top of the scoreboard. Ended up watching the kill cam and he was under the map raking up kills. Saved a clip in PS5 with his name also.

[SyntheticForm]

I've seen this guy.

[Jin_Sakai]

“I've seen this guy.“

Here’s the clip.

https://streamable.com/22bz...

[Abear21]

This is why I stopped playing COD a couple years ago, if it’s not OP operators or perks destroying you it’s lame cheaters. Just too much cheese.

[Mr_cheese]

@abear

Don't drag me into it, haven't played cod in years 🤣

[XiNatsuDragnel]

I'm not doubting either tbh

[thorstein]

BF 2042 already has them to keep lobbies full and the bots leave when someone new joins. DICE announced this at launch because people were afraid they wouldn't ind 128 player games.

[PassNextquestion]

Counter strike 2 does the same thing

[Flakegriffin]

Same as Halo.

[purple101]

they were open about it though, cod at least, mw2 I've got, has ground war or capture or something, where they mix bots with real players to keep a constant large team, but again their open with that one,,

is this article perhaps talking about the traditional 6v6 maps, where, one would think, there's no need to fill a spot with a bot as many millions play this mode, specially, on the week of release / holiday period etc..

[frostypants]

Why does anybody play that game instead of BF5 or BF1? Or Hell Let Loose for that matter?

[Shane Kim]

Hell let Loose is the best one. Hard imo, but fun.

[frostypants]

@Shane great community too. I think everyone knowing it's so hard actually makes people kind of chill about stuff as long as you actually try to play with the team.

[Plague-Doctor27]

These might just be bots being run by users to level up faster or something and not bots set up by activision to fill lobbies

[Good-Smurf]

I can already sense them using Bots to manipulate their player count anytime their games are underperform or lack real players.
If these guys really do cared about their games once the servers are closed they should give us bots to play with in offline matches but again greed gets in the way so most of these are paperweight vaporware years down the line and fans have to keep prop it up modding it.

[Mr_cheese]

Unless they do something drastically innovative to make the game feel fresh again, I'll happily never buy or play it ever.

Used to buy it every release until black ops which was fantastic online. Had a brief spell with warzone because it was free and enjoyed that for a short time because it was something a bit different for them.

[Ironmike]

They used bots in every cod since 2019 there an actual utube video highlighting all three cods

[frostypants]

Almost every online-oriented game by a major publisher is doing this now. If they won't clearly deny it, they're doing it.

[Knightofelemia]

AI getting rid of cheaters I'd have a good laugh.

[Amplitude]

I mean, probably - but this article sources bunch of tweets and none of the tweets have a single video or even image of an AI bot in a multiplayer map. I remember blacklisting this site a while back for stuff like this but i guess it still loads on my phone lol.

It's the internet. Anybody can search anything on twitter, find people that think the same random thing they typed and then post a blog with links to those baseless tweets and call it "players are reporting that...!". It's like if AI Twitter bots wrote articles

[jznrpg]

Not sure what the motivation would be besides lack of players and to slow down wait time in lobby’s. But if players don’t want bots they shouldn’t be there without notification that there could be bots and a way to avoid those matches.