The shortest version is if the bots are at a flat 10 skill it’d be nice to see them dialed in at 8-9 instead to account for the fact that they don’t seem to pull bad RNG. Eventually it won’t matter what skill level they are at with enough people playing the game.

At this point there is enough people joining just to sit and do nothing to get tickets rather than try to play because they might not want to deal with them.

Rather than lowering the difficulty across the board [which runs into a risk of making it Really Boring for people that got a hang of it] maybe additional 'easy' and 'hard' difficulties that award less or more tickets? Because if anything, after a little getting used to it's Far Too Easy to coast above every bot forever and I would actually readily welcome an optional extra bit of challenge

For anyone that IS struggling in the meanwhile i would highly recommend the arena guide as well as check out party comps of real players that seem to do better than you in your lobby however!

bless for the tips

i struggle with arena even with help cause rng decided i deserve to be cursed
so i often end up lower lvl / starred then all my opponents-

any assistance / easier modes would really be appreciated cause rn, getting the exclusive fams from it feels impossible.

I do not support this, the bots are fine, they were op before when they made 3 star fighters every second battle in early access but they are very balanced now in my opinion.

I support this. in a way...

Arena is still one of the most, if not the most, unpopular activities on Lorwolf. Don't get me wrong, I understand that for people who play a lot or Arena bots are far too easy. But the problem doesn't lay there. For the majority of players of Lorwolf they are far too hard, making them the reason why there are so few natural player encounter. If I'm not wrong, most Arena players organize sessions on Discord. This should be the way.

The way Arena is built is to meet with random players, and bot should be there only to fill a couple of empty slots during slow times. But right now, there are not enough players in Arena. And with new players only encountering and being pushed away by bots that are too hard for them this is just a loop.

I don't think the overall level of the bots should be reduced. Rather, I'd suggest having something like 5 "training" games the first time you play arena with a tutorial with easier bot and a 6th that the player will play by themselves. That should make the bot less of a barrier of entry to the arena. To that I would add in the normal queue the number of players in the arena (waiting and playing) so people roughly know how much they will have to wait before getting a game started. Make so the bots can't take more than 4 arena slots. And my last suggestion would be to add a site wide alert system that you can only trigger when there is less than X number of players in arena so people can seek for players ore easily within the whole population of Lorwolf and not just on discord. Of course this alert system would be optin for arena player so only them can see the alert.

I know this is a lot of suggestions and I may not be clear enough. Don't hesitate to ask questions about my ideas, maybe together we can improve it for every one.

I dont support this. I think the difficulty of the bots is just right. Like someone else said the actual players are more difficult usually for me to beat since they can adjust, assuming they know what they are doing. Arena is actually my favorite game.