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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 26, 2025

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Speaking of bots and team-based PvP games, the recent hero shooter hit Marvel Rivals has an open secret regarding the quick game mode. Whenever you lose a few times in a row, your next game will contain 6 bots on the enemy side and up to 2 on your own (presumably to fill out the bot lobby and provide you with at least 2 allies who pick tank/healer).

Of those who discuss the feature on Reddit, most are extremely unhappy, stating that they'd rather pick the "vs AI" mode themselves if they wanted a faceroll-tier easy match. But how large is the portion of QP players who know compared to those that don't?

Bot mode basically is the game acknowledging that you suck, and the game gives a few wins to keep the player presumably happy and not frustrated at sucking so hard. Bad for griefers who suck for the sake of sucking, or failsons with an overinflated sense of their own power level, but great for normies who feel emotionally satisfied enough to continue playing and provide free meme points once they return to Jeffs suckhole.

Does the normie not care that the sudden increase in performance is due to the opponent being a toaster designed to throw the game, and not due to the normie doing better/being luckier, in your opinion?

I think normies dont recognize the botting, or at least are ok with it as a brief respite. I certainly don't play enough to recognize meta compositions or optimal states of play, and getting botted only marginally affects my already poor performance because I'm just jumping around and spinning the camera to get the best shots of ass.

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