You can fill in matches for people that leave with a bot that matches their K/D, and we could have some private match bots to practice new guns on!
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Been saying this forever. Unreal Tournament (1999) had better AI bots in PvP than D2 has now. Bungie should invest in some good AI programmers, especially if they want to maximize the utility of putting D2 on Google Stadia's cloud servers, so they could definitely leverage the computing power available. Or cut a deal with Microsoft and Sony to use Azure cloud services (and dedicated servers :P). CS:GO also has bots that are pretty good (didn't play enough to get a feel for how good, but I liked that you could just substitute in for a bot in an ongoing match, to prevent matches becoming too one-sided when players leave a match and the teams get unbalanced.