The return of the bots...
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JohnsOlaid
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I have been in a bot game but it seems like the bot went to the wp and then ended up straight at the throne?:shocked:
HardyTarget
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They do tele quite fast obviously because they know where to go.
I followed a bot in a few runs and it took always ~ 5 sec or less for it to make tp in the throne.
Superfast castrate helps too.
Blizzard is banning people and closing accounts so I wouldn't call it a "return", or if it's a return, it's only temporary.
Not many risk their accounts knowing their hacks aren't safe.
As I said in the first page in my post; ladder results speak for themselves.
I followed a bot in a few runs and it took always ~ 5 sec or less for it to make tp in the throne.
Superfast castrate helps too.
Blizzard is banning people and closing accounts so I wouldn't call it a "return", or if it's a return, it's only temporary.
Not many risk their accounts knowing their hacks aren't safe.
As I said in the first page in my post; ladder results speak for themselves.
Zalcitabine
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LOL..good one :thumbsup:k/t said:
Cannon Fodder1
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Hmmm, so how about a poison based bot hunter? Nail him with some wicked poison and pray a monster takes him out before he can chicken. That way, he loses exp and you get an even better laugh out of it. I've got a poison nec who could prolly drop an average hammerdin's life to 1 in just a second or two, and I'm betting there are some pvp poison zons that could do it even faster.
And superfast adultery is punishment enough in itself for the woman...
And superfast adultery is punishment enough in itself for the woman...
Cannon Fodder said:
Poison nova isn't going to do much more than 5k damage. After the pvp penalty and resists, that's nothing. A poison javazon, however, can do something like 100k over 40 seconds (or something like that). But then, that's so slow that he can just drink pots. I don't think there's any poison damage/per second fast enough.
CandidusMortis
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So how do you tell if it's a bot? I'm interested in hunting me a bot. We could even set up a group account to place all the hunted bots ears in. 
Cannon Fodder1
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Ummm, poison explosion and poison dagger are both pretty ridiculous. Poison explosion especially. I've had some people let me hit them with it and it decimated their life. I can't remember the damage I've gotten explosion up to and I'm not at home to check it, but I'm thinking it was up around 60k over 10 secs. As for resists, a lil curse called Lower Resist helps out quite a lot with that, since no bot in its right mind would stack poison resist. Also, you can get nova a few thousand over 5 with the right equipment, but it is still admittedly slow.
Besides, the point here is to kill bots and laugh maniacally while doing so. If I got even one bot killed by a monster in this way it would make my week.
Besides, the point here is to kill bots and laugh maniacally while doing so. If I got even one bot killed by a monster in this way it would make my week.
One of the problems of bothunting is they chcken out of games if they lose to much life. I once crfeated a bothunter trapsin and didn't work so well cuz a lot of bots quit immediatly after taking some dmg (or they evn quit immediatly after hostiled) so it wasn't easy to kill them at all. Some say javzon or necro worrks better but haven't tried that. Anyways, a good bothunt char would need to do big dmg over short time (instantkill-like), like CS javzon / lightsorc / maybe barb...
Evrae Altana
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A "bothunt" isn't a quest to get all the account names of bots down. It's just going into Baal bot games and killing the bot that's running, that's all.MikeFord said:
Evrae Altana said:
Yep. As was mentioned before, it strips them of their gold - which, yes, is considered vital to a bot. Have you noticed the trip they always make to Malah before they start tele'ing? They're buying potions. I've seen some of the procedures the botmakers use to create these things... it's actually incredibly simple. Add specific image to the screen to differentiate between monsters, bot tracks these images. Do the same, with different images, to read the names of items - pick up these items if they're fascinating. If (Health <= x%); use a pot.
They drop tp's in bad places because it's difficult to tell when you've got almost all the monsters dead - once they reach the throne, they have a set script, because of the set map, which makes them tele straight up one area, drop a TP (notice they always TP in the lower right hand corner?) and then go after monsters. It's a scripted behavior, and doesn't take into account anything but the location.
But anyway... yeah. PK'ing bots strips them of their gold, which in turn makes them unable to buy more health/mana pots. I don't know what bots do when they're out of mana AND out of pots. But I do know this - it will not only piss off the botters to keep having their bots lose gold and have to abort runs (I think for most it's either at 50%/75% life, pot, below 10%/25% S&E), without the gold to buy pots, and possible pot loss on death since a bunch will drop to the ground, they'll be forced to abort more runs, meaning a whole bunch of unreliable bot behavior, coupled with their inability to replenish their life when they're low, but on top of everything else, it'll piss off people going into bot runs to find that the bots keep aborting - which, if we make a concentrated enough effort, we could potentially bring down the number of bot games by making them that much less profitable. Or, force them to go private.
AnimeCraze
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I heard about using a tele CE necro for hunting players in a Baal game...... There is no way do dodge this, really, except to kill the necro first. But then......, you will kill everyone in the game, not only the bot.Leohappy said:
Necrochild313
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Leohappy said:
That's why you generally need something that can do a one-hit KO. Blizzard is great at this, but corpse explosion is pretty damn cool too.
AnimeCraze said:
I was thinking about this, I guess the only thing you could do is issue a fair warning ahead of time to the actual players in the game. You'll probably have a minion stack so not too many are going to successfully pk you while your bot hunting, and with CE, they wouldn't have much of a chance. Perhaps a second warning once the Throne of Destruction is reached.
quietus said:
I was talking to my friend and he basically told me the same thing. He said his friend told him that if he didn't have gold, his bot couldn't resurrect his merc or buy pots, making the bot pretty much disfunctional. Who knew gold would actually have a big purpose in this game (even though bots are technically not part of the game), as well as the lack of.
Merick said:
Actually it can hit 10k damage without bramble, couple that with the base -100% poison length reduction in hell, and lower resistance coupled with deaths web and you've got yourself a beastly attack. Most bots don't stack poison resistance too high, so it could actually be pretty damn damaging.
If we can get situated an organize an effort this could really catch on and hurt the pubby botters. I don't know if they can make bots target hostile players though...
CandidusMortis
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I'm up for it, I just have no idea how to spot-the-bot.
Necrochild313 said:
I'm not 100% certain, but I suspect they can. The bot works by placing specific 'boxes' of color near to names to be able to read them - I don't think the game really makes a difference between hostile monsters and hostile players, with the exception that there's a human in charge of the player. I'd expect the bot to attack you. But hey, it's no worse than PvP, but with a mindless drone behind the bot.
