It’s risky to build a game around 128 simultaneous players (64 players on PS4 and Xbox One), when you never know how long your multiplayer game might be able to keep users around.

I wish EA had competent bots in 2014 when it released the original Titanfall, a 6v6 game that died far too soon because of all the ways it divided its playerbase (across Xbox and PC, across game modes, and with iffy matchmaking), and it wasn’t long before my buddies and I couldn’t find a decent match on PC at all.

If you like them, you’ll be able to see more of them if you want: while Battlefield 2042 won’t have a single-player campaign, you’ll be able to play any map and any game mode solo against a team of bots, or bring along your friends to battle in a co-op mode