While the addition of bots may be something which new players appreciate, it will likely prove to be divisive among long-time PUBGВ players. The company says they spent a long time making sure that the bots had proper navigation coding so that they didn't do things like ' throwing themselves off of a cliff or something else that, while hilarious, doesn't line up with its intended functions.'В They also took special care to ensure that these new bots in PUBG would still do things like real players, such as loot dead enemies and fire at opponents from great distances. The company seems to understand that AI opponents will always act and behave differently than their human counterparts, and they know that ' bots can have both positiveВ or negative effects on a game' depending on how well the AI is implemented.

Because, as the developer states, ' we're seeing more often that many newer players are being eliminated early with no kills - and oftentimes with no damage dealt' they have decided to add in bot opponents in order for these newer players 'to hone their skills and be able to fully enjoy what PUB has to offer.' The appearance of bots appears to be based on a PUBG player's matchmaking rating, with players who have a high MMR encountering less computer opponents than other, lower-ranked players. Now, according a a message from the developers posted to the official PUBG website, it looks like even more changes are coming to the game, this time in the form of AI bot players. Related: PUBG's Anniversary Skins Are The Opposite Of Good Camouflage

Recently, PUBG's fancy new blood effects had to be removed from the game to stop crashing issues, and while players are still waiting on new anti-cheat measures they have been enjoying the game's new rocket launchers and team deathmatch mode, both of which were only introduced to the game in the past few months. PUBG's developers areВ no stranger to making changes to their core gameplay systems if they think it will help improve the player experience, and the company isn't afraid to double-back on these decisions if it looks like things aren't going the way they planned. PUBG recently launched their seventh season, reintroducing players to the snow map of Vikendi (which now has a working train transit system and a redesigned dinosaur theme park) as well as giving them a semi-new weapon in the form of a Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle.

It looks like AI-controlled bots are finally coming to PlayerUnknown's BATTLEGROUNDS, according to a developer blog post.

Playerunknowns battlegrounds dev blog