Report: Marvel Rivals Bots Are Snuck in by NetEase in Quick Match to Ensure a Win After Multiple Losses in a Row
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If you’re part of the millions of gamers currently playing Marvel Rivals, chances are you’ve experienced a few consecutive losses when playing Quick Match. While that’s part of the experience and isn’t indicative of someone’s skill level, given you could have been part of a bad team composition where everyone wanted to play as a damage character, or someone not taking matches seriously, there are still times that even if the entire team tries their best, it will still translate to a loss.
Based on new data uncovered, it seems NetEase has implemented a way for players to feel better about themselves if this happens multiple times in a row, and that’s by inserting bots who will play so bad that it guarantees a win.
Marvel Rivals Has Bots Pretending to Be Real Players in Quick Match
The new report comes from community member ciaranxy, who collected data after a week of playing and observers the following:
- Bots only appear in Quickplay not Competitive
- After two consecutive losses, your chances of being put into a bot lobby in Quickplay are very high.
- If put into a bot lobby, it will be 4 human teammates + 2 bot teammates VS 6 bot opponents.
- You will be penalized for leaving these bot lobbies.
- All bots are Account Level 1.
- All bot profiles have “restricted access” (as opposed to “limited access” for human profiles).
The person who collected the data is rallying for the community to spread the word and get NetEase’s attention. In ciaranxy’s opinion, here’s what NetEase’s plan is with bots:
- NetEase most likely knows that there are bots in Quickplay.
- These bots in Quickplay help to retain players by inflating their sense of skill.
- Players invest time into the game which makes it more likely players will buy the BattlePass/spend money on the Store.
- Players will eventually find out about bots, but NetEase will not make any changes until the community is REALLY angry about it.
- NetEase will then relent, apologize, and patch the bots out.
We’ve brought this topic up to content creators of the game, and while they wish to remain anonymous, they agree with the bot claims, and have said to have experienced it themselves. Mind, it seems the person who collected the data isn’t even against bots, but more on how the game pits you against bots without letting you have a choice about it.
We’ve reached out to NetEase since the report went up the other day and have not heard back. If we do, we’ll update the article to relay what the developers have to say about it.
As someone playing a lot of Marvel Rivals, I would want to know if I’m playing with or against bots. Hopefully, NetEase addresses the claims soon.
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To be fair, it’s the same shit as Fortnite does and has done for years…
I actually really like this idea. It doesn’t affect the ranked sessions, only the quickplay. Being put on a team vs bots also doesn’t do much damage because it isn’t an unfair situation. You’re never going to be on a team of bots against a full team of humans.
Let people have their fun and inflated sense of abilities, they will fight a few rounds and lose and end up in a round where they feel invincible.
I don’t see the issue, yea its for player retention but honestly some people want to come and play a video game like this and not need to try hard to be good at and if they are the worst they shouldn’t be given an experience that reflects that, I would be mad if they had bots fill in for missing player slots like 4 players + 2 bots vs 4 players + 2 bots, cause this can cause gameplay disruptions that Netease would be the fault of it.
Plus player retention isn’t the lord Voldemort of video game design, sometimes things like this being hidden are actually a good thing so it doesn’t break the people’s immersion that experience this.