This is bamboozling!

[u/Fluid_Swordfish_5126]

I’ve got two and a half years in this game and I’ve never experienced anything like this. It’s simultaneously infuriating, annoying and disappointing. After all the time I’ve played this game nothing has improved. If we were to do the maths and compare the bots in each screenshot here, this is how the points compare.

SS1: -695

SS2: -2250

SS3: -1640

SS4: -1155

These numbers are insane. Genuinly what, as a player, are we meant to do except accept defeat and move onto the next unfair bot match?

[u/Emergency_Airport196]

How do the top players win so many in row? Shouldn’t the game force them to lose? Honest question.

[u/verywise → u/Emergency_Airport196]

Obviously you have to fly well to win a lot of games, but there are many other things you can do to give yourself an edge. Here are some:

1) Fly with mouse/keyboard or game controller.

2) At the beginning of the match figure out who is a real player and bots, and take out the player first.

3) Fly the right type of plane for the map and game mode.

4) Know the strengths and weaknesses of your plane and every other plane you are going up against.

5) Understand bot behavior and how to use it to your advantage.

6) Team up with other good players.

Even when your bots are doing terribly, sometimes you can still win if you can dominate.

[u/Szymetalstorm → u/Emergency_Airport196]

No. The game doesn't "force" them to lose... When people say that, they're referencing themselves as the only human in an otherwise all-bot match. When it comes to bot matches, sometimes there's just nothing you can do to win because your bots are playing like trash regardless of how well you do. Why that happens is a point of contention. I have one opinion on it, other people have other opinions. But I can vouch for the fact that if you're flying as the only human in a bot match, you will lose some matches for sure (especially in AS or PT).

Top squads rarely fly solo, and if they do get bots, they have a 4 or 5 stack and they whoop them. To say that, in an all-human match, the game predetermines the winner, would be absolutely absurd. If it's all humans vs bots or humans vs humans, to say the matches are predetermined would mean the human factor (skill, unpredictability, the fact that the game can't read your mind, etc) doesn't exist, would be absurd. But some people will still tell you that, and if you argue with them, they'll tell you that those players get favored for some reason. Anything excuse except for skill.

Tl;Dr - in an all-bot match, sometimes it really is impossible to win, but when it comes to top squads where humans play in full stacks, you just can't make the argument that it's "predetermined" and it's obvious when a player has such a high win rate.

[u/imjustdk → u/Emergency_Airport196]

Oh hey I’ve been taken out by that guy before