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Steam News29 April 20188y ago

Devlog 42: Bots and Multiplayer

Bots are coming to multiplayer, along with improvements to the matchmaking flow of Survival Games. Keep reading to find out what's going on.

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changedBots are coming to multiplayer, along with improvements to the matchmaking flow of Survival Games. Keep reading to find out what's going on.
changedBots stealin' yo lootSurvival Games has a lot of game mechanics. Scavenging, killing players, hunting animals and eating are a few of the keys ones. Bots abide by these game mechanics just like players, and can navigate the terrain as well as any player. They are also aware of advanced mechanics such as footprints, and buff characteristics of foods.
addedSpreading the WordThe most obvious way to grow the multiplayer community, is simply for us to advertise. Go get more people. We're playing the long game with Survival Games, and will only knuckle down on marketing when the game has solved all the technical methods of building a multiplayer community. You'll see gaming events, key give aways and few other things like that later on. Community members have introduced us to things like SteamGifts, and Woovit which have been helpful! So if you know something, pass it on and we'll use it! --- Follow Survival Games on Steam to receive notifications on update and events

Bots are coming to multiplayer, along with improvements to the matchmaking flow of Survival Games. Keep reading to find out what's going on.

Building a community

When the 2014 edition of Survival Games shipped, the Xbox 360 player based simply existed from day one up until the end of XBLIG. Steam is an entirely different animal, so we at 2.0 at working on building up a larger community of active gamers. But it's a chicken and egg problem, where people want more people to play so that they as people can play against the people they need to play.

Bots Joining You

We are implementing bots as a ramp, to get games going. Bots will join newly created games, providing the minimum players needed to play a round of Battle Royale. They'll also quit games with high player counts, as we want the gamers behind the keyboard to get the satisfaction of kills, not my code.

Bots stealin' yo loot

Survival Games has a lot of game mechanics. Scavenging, killing players, hunting animals and eating are a few of the keys ones. Bots abide by these game mechanics just like players, and can navigate the terrain as well as any player. They are also aware of advanced mechanics such as footprints, and buff characteristics of foods.

Spreading the Word

The most obvious way to grow the multiplayer community, is simply for us to advertise. Go get more people. We're playing the long game with Survival Games, and will only knuckle down on marketing when the game has solved all the technical methods of building a multiplayer community. You'll see gaming events, key give aways and few other things like that later on. Community members have introduced us to things like SteamGifts, and Woovit which have been helpful! So if you know something, pass it on and we'll use it! --- Follow Survival Games on Steam to receive notifications on update and events

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Steam News / 29 April 2018

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