I'm still convinced.
Where does all those blueberries come from?
There are not enough players? No problem, unleash the bots, i don't even have to play tell this, it's enough to watch the player list.

zpiez

Either there are bots in Dust or 80% of humans are much less removed from monkeys than we thought.

Either there are bots in Dust or 80% of humans are much less removed from monkeys than we thought.

There's probably some university test lab somewhere with a room full of monkeys, all playing Dust 514, manipulating the controller with their feet and flinging poo at the screen -- some massive sociological experiment.

It's the only plausible explanation.

If you give an infinite amount of Monkey's an Infinite amount of contollers, one day, we will win DUST 514, Legion or wjatever the equivalent is, in its entirety.

And when that day comes, we will be more than just a planet of the Apes, we will be a galaxy of the Apes!
APES TOGETHER, STRONG!!

I'm still convinced.
Where does all those blueberries come from?
There are not enough players? No problem, unleash the bots, i don't even have to play tell this, it's enough to watch the player list.

zpiez

There's probably some university test lab somewhere with a room full of monkeys, all playing Dust 514, manipulating the controller with their feet and flinging poo at the screen -- some massive sociological experiment.

It's the only plausible explanation.

you would think bots could at least shoot better than that

What was that about railgun installations that could snipe you out of a moving lav from the other side of the map?

It's a test lab in Iceland. And the blueberries are actually controlled by lobsters wired with surgically implanted neural connections. These connections are sent to a very sophisticated neural impulse-to-DS3 realtime emulator. It's really quite impressive.

The major frustrations in the research are twofold.

Firstly the expense. The nephrops lobster is exported as scampi and can be expensive to replace enmasse. Unfortunately when DUST hangs the neural feedback from the emulator cooks the lobsters' brains. This is hard on the research budget, but as icelanders typically love cooked lobster brain, protection circuits have not been installed on the emulators. Given the rate at which DUST hangs, there is some concern regarding the cholesterol intake of the researchers.

Secondly, it has been found that the nephrops are a less than ideal test species. After some time with the game the lobsters have taken to ragequitting whenever they get hung up on a 2" ledge and subsequently gunned down, resulting in dirty and incomplete datasets. When consulted, the CCP liaison to the research project stated that the nephrops lobsters had picked up a bad attitude on the forums and should probably be dumped in favor of a new testing platform, possibly involving the garden snail.

What was that about railgun installations that could snipe you out of a moving lav from the other side of the map?