Guild Wars 2

So, I went to our borderlands today (Drakkar Lake [DE]) – where we were doing surprisingly well, noticed one particular ‘battle’ indicator on the map, swam into the lake to take a look…..

… and found two dozen bots happily killing Kraits. They were all doing exactly the same thing: blasting away at everything and nothing, no matter if there were enemies or not. Over 80% were wearing the same outfit. Two were even guilded – I’m assuming their guilds didn’t actually invite a bot, but someone is being naughty and getting powerleveled permabanned.

I managed to report several of them, but since they were clustered this close, I’m sure I missed several and possibly reported others multiple times.

These are some of the ‘fishy’ names I read in my screenshots:
Kingwei, Xxwdxssd, Wongtungby, Dddfrgvc, Fhuwura, Eluhna, Grwfeqfe, Gdnfgiewu, Krngdjsys, Ugfughf, Whiing, Hnvgujhty
I actually have more screenshot of this “bot hive” than I posted here.

I’m not sure if there’s a better way to report this, since these morons not only do the usual damage to the game ecosystem any bot does, they also take up slots on the WvW maps – preventing legit players from enjoying them.

So has anybody else observed this before? Especially with such large clusters of bots?

Yes this is a serious issue. I first noticed it when there would be swords in the skritt cave. In short, it looks like the bots transfer to server where its safe and farm.

In our last matchup against Dzag we went to their homelands and saw a group of bots. What you can actually do is wait for the guardian shield to go down, then scorp wire one out of the cluster. Since they auto attack whats nearest to them you can draw them out like a normal mob and kill it.

This is why collision detection is a good thing.

Allowing players to clip through one another gives way for botters to simply stack a half dozen characters directly on top of one another, increase the power of a single character exponentially and farm without fear. At least with collision detection, bots would have to be more sophisticated so they didn’t get in each other’s way. They also stand out more.

You’ve probably seen these bot clusters and never even realized it because they were stacked so perfectly.