Seems Spartan Bots are being destroyed too, they don't seem any different to ODST Bots, a bit disappointing with how hyped the Bots were...Ah well, onto PVP and hopefully they up the difficulty before launch and I'm just going off what I'm watching/reading.

Nah 343 employees were really overhyping the bots on Twitter, they were in particular hyping up the Spartan Bots as being powerful, I agree that it's just a test but 343 shouldn't have overhyped them, Lol, Spartan Bots were slaughtered too. I'm assuming there's a massive gap in the skill level of 343 employees and the players in the preview

But, 343 were overhyping the Bots prior to release, I saw multiple employees bragging about how challenging they were, I'm not going to scour Twitter back days but even last night we have Joe Staten.

And then Spartan Bots were slaughtered and almost no different to ODST Bots.

As I said above, I'm just going to assume there is a massive skill gap between 343 employees and players in the preview but it makes me wonder if the Bots will see much improvement if 343 already considers them to be challenging.

The Bots from everywhere I read/looked just didn't sound/look challenging at all, each level was easily being dominated and the gaps between Marine/ODST/Spartan were tiny.

Bots are still cool but at the same time, they're still a disappointment, at this current level I don't see them being useful to anyone but brand new players and I can't judge that yet because I'm assuming the majority in the preview were experienced players and they were slaughtering the Bots so that's all the evidence I have to go on so far, it's yet to be seen how useful they are for newbies.

Spartan Bots and even ODST definitely need a larger kill gap than only performing around 2-4 kills better overall, Lol.

I would even consider using Bots to replace quitters in certain modes (because MCC has a massive quit problem) but I would definitely not with these current Bots, they'd be more of a hinderance, haha. I hope they're place-able in Forge though, that'd be cool, but for Player vs Bots, they look weak AF and useless for experienced players, I know you could say well, the Bots are aimed at casual players, but isn't that the whole point of difficulty differences? Marine Bots could be aimed at casual players and Spartan Bots could be aimed at experienced players.

@Spade Sorry bro, Halo Infinite is going to steal Forza Horizon's one and only chance at GOTY.

@Spade Sorry bro, Halo Infinite is going to steal Forza Horizon's one and only chance at GOTY.

"Don't say we didn't warn you" implies that the Spartan Bots would be challenging, as they warned us about them.

They weren't.

Looking at ResetEra/Watching Twitch, I repeat that there was almost no difference between ODST/Spartan Bots, they were barely getting anymore kills than ODST Bots. Looking at folk in the actual Preview, they seemed to also say that the Spartan Bots did change behaviours slightly but it wasn't anything significant, as they were still being destroyed.

Bots were in part used first because they can test stuff in a larger scale, 4 Players vs 4 Bots results in more matches being played than 4 Players vs 4 Players (they went over this in a blog post) but that's not to say they weren't testing the Bots, I know they will improve them, but by how much? I don't know, Spartans definitely need a huge improvement though.

Like I saw a lot, after every Bot difficulty was added, it only took like an hour for folk to start wanting PVP again because the Bots weren't challenging at all.

I know this is a Technical Preview, I'm not sure why I can't say the Bots are far too weak in the preview and I hope they improve? That's feedback as intended from this Technical Preview, I'm doing exactly what it is meant for and once I'm in I will submit my feedback as intended. I said as much in my original post that they are too weak but hopefully they up the difficulty before launch, I am more disappointed in that 343 overhyped the current iteration.

I'd agree that Marine Bots should be for newbies but what is the point in having difficulty options if there's so little difference? Why can't Spartan Bots provide a challenge to experienced players? That's the whole point of difficulty options, Marine-ODST can be for newer players and Spartan can be for the more experienced. Bots right now don't really play a decent game on any level, they get destroyed overall, Lol.

But yes it's a preview and stuff may improve, I'm sure it will improve because I'm far from the only one saying Bots are way too weak.

Yes, I have been playing the game on the series X and the game is definitely gorgeous.  I always thought this was a twin stick shooter so I always aim with the right stick.  Also ducking behind cover and aiming high will save you from dying a lot since the AI cannot shot you behind cover.  You have to be careful when you see someone duck as aiming high will miss then and you have to come out of cover to take them down.  Circle strafing is also your best friend as it will allow single shot guns to miss you more often as well.  During missions its always good to do a little scouting as you will find all kinds of upgrades and side missions.  I never seem to need to purchase any guns or armor because I pick up so much on mission runs as I usually go off and search the area and find all types of goodies.  Currently only playing solo so it can be challenging with a lot of enemies but so far the game is fun.