Last month’s Halo Infinite technical test revealed a whole lot about the upcoming game. While it was primarily focussed on the bots for the multiplayer mode, we also got some leaked information about the campaign and story. Amongst other things revealed during the test, players also found themselves being utterly pwned by the bots. It seems that the bots were teabagging some players after getting a kill.
Videos of such instances were uploaded to Reddit, showing the bots humiliating their prey. While this is a common occurrence in multiplayer shooters of all kinds, it’s not something that you’d expect from a bot. However, 343 Industries clarified that the teabagging was not intended, and was merely a glitch of some kind.
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“We don’t have explicit programming that tells the bots to teabag or taunt you in any way,” said a 343 representative to Kotaku. “We never want to punish learning, especially not by having bots engage in behaviors that a player could feel is exclusionary. […] The bots are meant to be welcoming and fun for players of all skill levels, and a feature designed to taunt a player would oppose that goal.”
According to the developer, this was a technical glitch with the bot’s traversal programming. Apparently, there was a particular bug in the preview build that caused issues when bots attempted to jump or climb surfaces like stairs. This would result in the bot continuously playing the landing animation until it corrected itself. “If that happened to be observed shortly after a kill, or near a player’s body, it can definitely feel like an intentional behavior,” said 343. “In reality, the bot was just struggling to go up the stairs.”
While the developer wanted to focus on the bots during the technical test, they ended up making some headlines for themselves. While they were pretty easy to deal with in the initial part of the test, 343 eventually changed that, giving players a hard time with extremely skilled and dangerous bots. Even seasoned Halo veterans found themselves struggling.
But that’s not all. Besides ruthlessly murdering and teabagging players, the bots were also given joke gamertags to further rub it in our faces.
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