Bots

[Cola Kid 230]

Im sure none of you probably use the servers when they are empty but Kringe and I sometimes will go to a hightower to practice. Is it possible to increase the bots difficulty? Maybe with a vote? or perhaps add more of them as the server increases in size with people until it hits a threshold? A few times we have played alone and then others will join which can be fun however it doesn't "increase" player count. It just replaces bots. I know some will say its pointless because no one plays against bots because they don't log kills etc. question really is i suppose do you think everyone logs stats and plays lobbies or some just log on to blow shit up.. including bots.

[Mana 3,867]

Bots don't work on hightower.  Not officially anyway so they are quite stupid. More of them wouldn't help nor would increasing their difficulty. You'd just get sniped by the sniper bots the moment you step outside.

 

Bots are required in order to have players join. Since shooting walls isn't what anyone wants to do. However ideally we'd want to have as few bots as possible, so once humans join the bots start getting replaced.

[+JB. 4,800]

Why don't they work btw? On hightower they move somewhere and cluster at some specific points (cliff, betwen the cappoints, cart startpoint). Is it a gamemode thing and the same on pipeline and nightfall?

[Cola Kid 230]

I didnt mean specificaly on hightower more as an example.. is there no level between basic and die when leaving spawn?

[+JB. 4,800]

I didnt mean specificaly on hightower more as an example.. is there no level between basic and die when leaving spawn?

There are 4 difficulties for standard AI bots.

0 - easy

1 - normal

2 - hard

3 - expert

[Mana 3,867]

I didnt mean specificaly on hightower more as an example.. is there no level between basic and die when leaving spawn?

 

It is already set to an intermediate level. And I've had complains that the bots are too hard. Upping the difficulty would just increase those.

 

You're the only one that I can recall who's asked for harder bots. Guess most people don't actually like a challenge .

Why don't they work btw? On hightower they move somewhere and cluster at some specific points (cliff, betwen the cappoints, cart startpoint). Is it a gamemode thing and the same on pipeline and nightfall?

They don't know what to do. Valve never added logic for handling other game modes. It's weird how its like that. I would just prefer the bots play TDM then in unsupported game types. But valve instead just makes them stand in spawn and do nothing. A while back when bots didn't work in CTF I had to sort of trick the bots into thinking its a CP map (whitout of course changing the map itself). Then they would play. But this is not the way to do it.