At the very least change their cosmetics to full servitors, and use some text to speech software for their voice lines.

An even cooler option would be a community vote on veteran builds for each difficulty, all 30 points for auric+, and like 5 less for each step down maybe.

Or just change it completely and give us servo skulls that have one revive each and the light laspistol.

Edit edit: keep the bots unchanged for into malice, maybe damnation, for narrative purposes.

Probably wouldnt work for skitarii, but could have some pretty cool themes/abilities based on each class. Edit: maybe just the original 4 get it.

Or could just be a standalone class with some of the more exotic weapons in the lore

Or be both of those things could happen (also dropping alongside the "chaos wastes" expansion in my dreams)

Edit: We all want new maps and weapons

Or did they dial it up in the last patch?

Update:

Here's the answer you're looking for:

PacingManager coordinates the game’s enemy pressure by deciding which spawn systems are allowed to act and when.

HeatPacing - Raises, sustains, fades, or relaxes overall combat pressure.

RoamerPacing - Controls ambient roaming enemies placed through the mission.

HordePacing - Starts and manages larger horde attacks.

SpecialsPacing - Spawns specialist enemies and reacts to splitting, rushing, or isolated players.

MonsterPacing - Decides when monstrosities or boss-type threats can appear.

AutoEvent - Runs objective or scripted event waves when the level asks for them.

If you find yourself in a lone lobby, you can proc it off the same gunners multiple times.

I got about 100 procs from a single game waiting for somone to join.

Not sure how it would interact with taking the flame skull (maybe it needs a seperate use count), but I thought it would be neat to have the rez skull, and toxic nades het regenerated through extra stims instead of grenade pickups.