From GWN:
[Super] Smash Bros. Brawl will replace players who get disconnected or exit early from online matches with computer-controlled bots to prevent a match from ending or becoming unbalanced.
This feature only comes in to place in the “With Anyone” multiplayer mode, where players who have not exchanged friend codes are matched anonymously with players across the Internet with whom they cannot communicate or even see a screen name. The bots will seamlessly take over for drop-outs, so players will not be able to tell when a human player or the computer is in control.
SSBB will have many interesting features, such as the ability to record replays. But this is the most interesting. Why have a bot take over for a dropped player? Does losing one player really ruin a match? What if this same feature were added to a multiplayer online FPS?
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Why is this even news? Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, for one, does the same thing if a player drops.
Does it? Then how does that affect multi-player if the guy’s on your team?
heh wonder if they will have rankings for this game and what nots and what type of difficulty CPU will get replaced? as if there is rankings and 2 people playing the person losing drops and gets replaced with a level 9 cpu and the person winning isnt good enough to beat it….