Make better bots

[pale ocean]

I cant play sometimes because the lag is unbearable so i play against bots but even if i play 6 against just me ill still win like 8-0

[sharp hawk]

What behaviours would make them better in your opinion?

[lavish storm]

1. not obvious challenges (most of the time, if you hold the puck for long enough the walk towards you inwhich all you need to do is dash around them
2. bots dont seem to dash at all so make them dash into challenges etc
3. better passes and not slow rolling tap passes
4. bots dashing to intercept
5. try and make the bots stratigic ai better for example: bringing the puck behind the netwith a carry and not just glue to the wall most of the time

[analog berry]

bots don't use brake either which at high level is pretty huge

what if a better bot would cycle through different states, for example when it doesn't have the puck and is closest player on their team it choses to chases the puck, if the puck was touched by the player within x amount of time it will try to bump the player that touched away from the puck before attempting to take it.

[pale ocean]

these all seem like good additions

[lavish storm]

i think if it chased it would get annoying but if it had different styles like passive aggresive and inbetween that would work

but yeah chasing could be a mode

it does have chase mode tbh, if you hold the ouck for x amount of time itll just chase lol

[clear dock]

the number one issue with bots i feel rn is that if they were deployed into games they would get destroyed because they cant really bump how a player would

the bots kinda seem to do more singular simpler motions and because of that they are really easy to bump

as well they don't have built in reactions to getting bumped like to press stop or try and slow themselves down when they are moved manually they just kinda let themselves get thrown around

[analog berry]

yeah but it doesn't use brake or attempt to really hit the player