Guild Wars 2

This is so stupid x.x

I don’t believe that Anet would generate bots to populate sPvP during low population times. I find it much easier to believe that people are greedy and making use of the flawed system to easily farm up the new rewards from sPvP.

Occasionally the players will disable their bots and play a game for themselves for whatever reason. They will vehemently deny that they are botting, and try to stir up aggression against anyone who calls them out.
It’s obvious when they do this, as their entire playstyle changes – they play like humans.

As far as I’m concerned the people who deny that botting is happening in PvP are either too high in the rankings to see it, are botters, or are naive. It’s happening, and it’s rampant. I see at least one bot almost every game.
The same ones pop up so often that I’ve started recording their names so that I can alert players on both sides. The fact that botters like Fresh Shark and Sashimir are so well known is ridiculous.

Just got out of a Khylo match with a team of bots. The past 5 games that I’ve been in tonight have been seeded with bots as well.
How do I know this? I was having a chat with the other team as they farmed my bot team for kills. They pointed out other names they had seen that followed the exact same behavior tonight.

All 4 stood at spawn (not gate). All 4 ran together at the exact same time to home. They then all left home uncapped to chase one person halfway across the map.
Eventually they killed the guy and all went back to stand at home on the exact same spot
From here they all paraded on to mid. This is about the time I alerted the other team to my bots. They gathered up and killed the bots in one spot. They then continued to do this every time the lot of them spawned.
One of them got stuck in a wall at one point.
They quite often ignored players who weren’t in their direct path.
They would never try to evade a fight, always running right into it no matter where it was.
They would always follow a player relentlessly until the player died (or they were killed)
I was in communication with the entire enemy team for the whole game, and didn’t hear a single word from my team.

Naturally we agreed to report them all, and they apologized for my bad luck. We swapped names of other bots that we’d seen tonight so that we could check and report them when we saw them.

I’m NA servers in mid silver. It’s currently 7am EST.
What is the situation on this? It’s clearly profitable for bots to run 24/7 to earn the participation awards. Is there anything we can do to push Anet for more focus on this issue, or do we just have to wait for the season to end before we can be guaranteed to be playing with actual players?

As a side note, the bots seem to be more common from about 3am to 8am EST. I wasn’t ever 100% certain of bots in sPvP until this last game when it became painfully obvious.

Much sadness

Visual Armour Bug.

Asura, Female, All Light Classes.

The Asuran Cultural T3 Light armour chestpiece causes a bug which causes the shoulder items to become invisible on females.

This bug affects NPCs, players and even Zojia.

This has been present since Alpha, Zojia has -never- had her shoulder armour, and neither have players.
It’s about time this one got fixed, don’t’cha think? :/

https://i.gyazo.com/e40c61be2e49c9576e56a96db9a51abd.png

Light Armour model bug:

Race: Asura
Sex: Female
Class: Irrelevant (Light Armour)

The T3 Cultural chestpiece for Asuran Light Armour has been bugged since release. When wearing the T3 chestpiece as a female Asura, no shoulder-slot armour will display. This affects the in-game model of Zojja as well.
On the male counterpart of the armour, shoulder models can be seen, but they will not appear on females if the T3 chestpiece is worn.