After 2 days of hunting/reporting them in Grathwood I decided to check newbie zones. I didn't pay attention to them in the past, but it's a nightmare actually. They are everywhere.

The difference I noticed is that those in newbie zones are of different type. If in Grathwood it's a train consisting from 3-4 bots of lvl ~15~20s, that kills easy mobs, then in newbie areas there are solo running lvl 3 node harvesters (thus they cover more area).

Their AI is somewhat similar to the automated vacuum cleaners: if they bump into an obstacle they first try to jump over, and if that doesn't work (in the case of a tall rock, or side of the mountain), they change direction of movement (after the jump attempt of course). One of them got stuck for a minute in the mini village bumping between 3 carts...

Besides improvement of the automated systems for bot detection as @LordSkyKnight mentioned it actually would be good also to have active GMs who would instantly react to reports, come on site, evaluate and ban obvious bots. While I have extremely bad memories about my overall experience in BDO one of good things they had were such GM bot-exterminators and it worked not bad.

Visit Camlorn, Glenumbra with a toon that hasn't completed the quest. There are CP level bots in there. Have been for years.

Bonzodog01 wrote: »

Says something about the XBox pop when you realise the bots have almost all gone. There is a group of them on Stros M'kai on the NA server camping jewelry nodes though. Not seen any on the EU server in a long while.

Is thats whats going on well fudge ill just tske the node next time ..

@ravenarc AI behaves very differently from real player. When you observe those synchronized "trains" for a while or watch those "vacuum cleaners" bumping into walls you can't mistake them for real people.
Plus ZOS verifies reports, so innocents are safe.

This game has no ingame GMs. Oh btw a long time ago a loading screen prompt said "In game game masters will have (ZOS logo) by there name" I have never seen that loading screen for a year now so they finally removed it becuase there was in fact no GMs ingame at all.

BurningLance wrote: »

man i guess many are getting fed up with these bots who ''mines'' gold etc to sell for real money on their websites.

this plague could have been prevented if either an active GM was playing and checking these ''farm spots'' and stop this.

or the devs here could just make a patch to remove the auto heavy attack looping which imo shouldnt be hard and it would most likely stop this kind of activity which kind of ruins for other players.


for those who dont know what these ''bots'' do is go as a group (mostly as sorcs with pets) with lots of weak mobs (in this case wolves) and rubberband they attack button to continuesly do heavy attack to kill the mobs with their pets while being AFK with one guy running around collecting the hides/gold and other junk

afterwards they sell the hides and junk for gold then they break the ToS by selling the gold they gotten on various websites for real money.


so dear Devs and Mods here can yah please find a way to end this please.

Which server do you see this on?

Ashilda_Dragonheart wrote: »

Zelos wrote: »

This game has no ingame GMs. Oh btw a long time ago a loading screen prompt said "In game game masters will have (ZOS logo) by there name" I have never seen that loading screen for a year now so they finally removed it becuase there was in fact no GMs ingame at all.

I see that loading screeb pretty much every time I play.

screen not screeb

They’re even on console. Always in the starter zones spamming bow and destro light attacks

Zweible wrote: »

Have you noticed that anytime a thread is in the forums that there is NEVER a ZOS reply or comment other than the scripted "use the ingame tool blah blah blah"

Zos has neither the ability or desire to curb bot behaviour.


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It's against TOS - what else do you expect them to say?

Fridays are always busy because weekend reports don't always have a good turnaround time, but I've definitely had results with a Saturday reported bot disappearing within hours. But yeah, starter zones on Fridays... yikes. lol

How does the one person gather the mats when you have to get a hit on the mobs in order to have a chance to loot them of any mats. They'd have to be hitting all of them and that's impossible unless they're grouped but then they have to have multiple accounts active on multiple consoles or PCs.

We try to report them as we run into them.
Issue we are finding is they use a speed hack or something.
You are at a node going to strike and they are on it and your next node and your next, You move to another area and you run into more bots most are dressed the same and have the long sword.
Would be nice if Zoe or devs would do something to stop them.

Vulsahdaal wrote: »

BWS2K wrote: »

Zelos wrote: »

This game has no ingame GMs.

Whether or not they are still active, they did, at one time, occasionally show up on-scene. You can find videos of it on YouTube but don't link them here if they show names.

Yep. not only show up on-scene, they would send a system message asking us to report any bots we noticed for immediate removal-



Ah, the good ole days...

I have never seen anything like this.

PS4 NA