Request to allow experimental heroes to be played in private bot matches

[Mogwai]

I believe this can be done with console commands (may have been disabled since the heroes were added into Hero Labs), but it would be nice to be able to have access to these heroes to mess around with against bots.

Could also be helpful and fun to let friends go into a lobby and experiment with the new heroes in a duo lane against bots as well.

 

[d-man.12]

Agreed. Seems like a good idea. Allows players to get comfortable with the characters without being at a disadvantage in game.

 

[Mogwai]

Agreed. Seems like a good idea. Allows players to get comfortable with the characters without being at a disadvantage in game.

For sure, also let's people noodle around with the heroes (granted in bot and private lobby matches) outside of the short two hour Hero Labs window.

 

[angryponystar]

This should be added. This should have been in the game from the start since the update, it's a big oversight and it might be lowering the quality of hero labs matches since people don't really know how to play the new heroes.

 

[MissPotato]

I think the problem is that the bots might have no idea how to deal with the heroes. So it might not just be as easy as "allow them in bots" but I do agree, it would be very nice to be able to test the heroes out on bots a bit.

 

[PKPenguin]

Bumping, it's odd that you can't enable sv_cheats in bot matches

 

[PKPenguin]

This was added today. Thank you!