What's up with the afk bots during events?

MarkleZero

I wanted to play HMX but I keep seeing these guys everywhere.

Maybe I'm asking much, but Is this something that could be fixed?

Ixith

If you run into botters, and if you play HMX you almost certainly will..., then save the replay and report them. Using scripts/3rd party programs and what not to bot is a report-able offense and can be reported leading to a ban. Albeit I believe the first offense is temporary. People mainly do this in HMX rooms because those rooms usually last a long time and people generally don't care and they can't be kicked due to the no kick voting in those rooms so they can sit around during weekends for the EP per minute of gameplay. (and don't suggest adding the kick vote back. it gets SUPER abused in modes like HMX to the point it's pretty hard to actually just play and finish out a match especially if you join at the start.)

Utmost

In the end, the best way is reporting them, it's very hard to implement a system that identifies players using a AFK bot.

Painanator

Report them and see them as free kills until they are banned.