All lovers of the popular MOBA genre have certainly already got used to the fact that bots in these games are just cannon fodder. There is no greater challenge with them, and their abilities and capabilities are far from what real players can do. Riot Games has decided to change this and plans to implement huge improvements to the computer NPC control systems in the next major update.
League of Legends, released in 2009, boasts millions of active players to this day. The production is constantly developed and modified, and the studio introduces experimental and unexpected changes, wanting to introduce a regular breath of fresh air. Some time ago it was announced that the gameplay would be slightly slowed down, and now we find out that bots will be a huge challenge. Their behavior is supposed to resemble real players. According to the official information prepared by the studio, the goal is for the computer opponents to be able to free the dragon, gank and fight in the jungle. They are also supposed to learn teamwork and approach the game more strategically, regularly learning new tricks and opportunities with each skirmish played (for which a special artificial intelligence system is to be responsible).
In all this, the developers want the bots to be fully programmable, which will allow you to create new game modes. In addition, the goal is also to make them make mistakes. Typical of humans. They can’t be infallible, or they’ll become irritating, and that’s not the point. As the creators say: “Our current approach is to develop a new behavior tree system for the decision logic of bots.” The long-term plans even talk about elements such as special tutorials where bots will teach people a few tricks and proper practices during the game. It is not easy to create a system that perfectly masters as many as 163 characters available in the game, but Riot Games has set itself very ambitious goals. We keep our fingers crossed for all of them to come to fruition, because it will make the MOBA genre even more interesting.
Source: League of Legends website