I don't know when exactly I will be able to work on this again (it will be soon though), so I'd like to release the alpha version so you can get an idea of what I'm talking about.
A couple of things to keep in mind:
The bot doesn't make sounds
The direction the bot faces is not updated
The bot is not animated
The bot can only replay your movements, things like firing a weapon do not get recorded
The bot doesn't interact with entities, if you use an elevator while recording it will not react during playback so the bot will apear to fly up
This one is funny, if you kill the bot it will die, but keep replaying your movements, it will literally become a walking/flying corpse
Here are the new commands:
trecord <name> - record a route tstop - stop recording tplay <name> - replay a route
I'm using the following convenience script:
alias rec "trecord test; bind alt st" alias st "tstop; bind alt rec"
bind alt rec bind ctrl "tplay test"
So you just need to press ALT to start recording, press it again to stop, and press CTRL to replay.
That said I hope you have fun with the mod, I certainly do
Get it here. Unpack the rar in your Quake 2 folder and start the game with +set game tmod.
UPDATE: Please use the R1Q2 client. Nocheat seams to crash, don't know about other clients.
Yesterday I finally got around to implementing an idea of mine I've been having for a long long time.
Imagine there's a map you aren't very familiar with; you want to improve but the only way is to play against better players. In the heat of the game you have to listen to sounds, keep track of which items you and your opponent have, time weapons, adjust your tactics etc etc. Basically you don't have much "brain power" left to memorize rocket and grenade timings. You have to rely on your experience and "feeling" so that you shoot that rocket exactly 1.5 seconds after you hear the mega pick-up sound.... then you hope.
The best way to practice is to just have the same thing happen over and over again until your reactions are perfect. Then, in a real game, you subconsciously would do the right thing. It's the same with jumps - rarely is there a player who has mastered a jump by solely playing against other people. Managing to perform a perfect jump in-game is the result of long hours of "offline" training, where you did the same jump over and over again until you were confident that you are good enough.
Why not apply the same thing for in-game "situations", things that happen often (statistically speaking), but not often enough in a real game so that you can practice effectively? You'd just record your opponent's route and then let a bot replay it until your stairs-to-mega air rocket is perfect.
I was anxious too see it in action myself, so I made a quick dirty alpha after a few hours of digging in the q2 source. It is merely a proof of concept, because the fake player doesn't make any sounds and the angles are not updated, but it is possible to shoot him in the face and make him die , although I miss in the video...
It is really addictive. After coding all night I finally got around to playing with it a little and couldn't let it go for an hour although I was dead tired.
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-age, but does anybody have it--the link appears broken
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