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Offline Greenwood

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Playing Against Bots
« on: March 27, 2009, 12:24:26 PM »
How do you guys feel about playing against bots in deathmatch like the eraser etc? I think they're ok but it's not really the same as playing against human players. It's just not as satisfying, somehow, which is weird because it's really just the same gameplay. Does anyone else feel the same?

I wonder if it might be possible to make playing against bots a bit more entertaining by having some kind of a levels system or something.
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Re: Playing Against Bots
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2009, 12:55:35 PM »
Gladiator bots kept me sane when I had no internet.

The game play is definitely NOT the same..  bots don't straf jump,  double jump, or wait in any kind of a strategic manner.

They are incredibly useful in learning the pickup and spawn sounds on a map though,  as they pickup just about everything.
I got alot of dm1 sounds down pat from playing them for a 3 month spat of no internet.

on a side note, early in my q2 days I connected to a server that had about 5 or 6 Gladiator bots running.
after playing a few maps with them I asked what clan GB was, and if they would like to have some matches sometime  ;D
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Re: Playing Against Bots
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2009, 01:06:00 PM »
They can definitely force you to up your aiming skills if you play against them enough.

occasionally I'll run a server on my local machine with either erasers or my very tweaked gladiator bots and set up an instagib configuration.

They're wicked with a railgun and you have to learn to use cover constantly and make every shot count when you're in the open.
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Re: Playing Against Bots
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2009, 02:48:38 PM »
Gladiator bots are cool. Tweak each bot for skill and chat.

http://leesvoer.com/zooi/projects/gladiator/download.shtml.htm


Example of tweaked chat:
------- Server Initialization -------
Loading map: carena
High scores loaded.
MOTD: Reading from "motd/dmmotd.txt"
0 entities inhibited
0 teams with 0 entities
[ SERVERTIME (port 27910) : Thu Jul 31 23:20:46 ]
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travolta connected
(travolta connected from 154.5.163.19)
loaded 18 bots from .\tourney\botcfg/botsdm.cfg
travolta has initiated a vote!
Proposal: Add 1 Gladiator bot.
Type "yes" at console to accept.
Type "no" at console to decline.
Vote passed!
loading...
Bot: "Slipknot" added!
------- BotLib Initialization -------
BotLib v0.96
loaded .\tourney\pak7.pak\sounds.c
loaded .\tourney\pak7.pak\weapons.c
loaded .\tourney\pak7.pak\items.c
loaded .\tourney\pak7.pak\syn.c
loaded .\tourney\pak7.pak\rnd.c
loaded .\tourney\pak7.pak\match.c
loaded .\tourney\pak7.pak\rchat.c
-------------------------------------
------------ Map Loading ------------
loaded maps\carena.bsp
loaded .\baseq2\maps\carena.aas
found 15 level items
-------------------------------------
loaded .\tourney\gladiator.dll
Slipknot connected
(Slipknot connected from SERVER_BOT)
loaded slip from .\tourney\pak7.pak\bots/Slip_c.c
loaded .\tourney\pak7.pak\bots/slip_i.c
loaded .\tourney\pak7.pak\bots/slip_w.c
loaded slip from .\tourney\pak7.pak\bots/slip_t.c
AAS initialized.
Slipknot entered the game (clients = 1)
travolta entered the game (clients = 2)
Slipknot was machinegunned by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
travolta was railed by Slipknot
travolta was railed by Slipknot
Slipknot was blown away by travolta's super shotgun
Slipknot was blown away by travolta's super shotgun
Slipknot: This game makes me ANGRY! ARGGGH!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: i HAit YOU!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I don't like BOTS!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: i HAit YOU!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: This game makes me ANGRY! ARGGGH!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I don't like BOTS!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: i HAit YOU!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: i HAit YOU!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: i HAit YOU!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I don't like BOTS!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: This game makes me ANGRY! ARGGGH!
Slipknot: bots, bots I want to play the bots!
travolta was railed by Slipknot
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: This game makes me ANGRY! ARGGGH!
travolta was railed by Slipknot
Slipknot almost dodged travolta's rocket
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
Sending heartbeat to 192.246.40.37:27900
Sending heartbeat to 216.144.239.34:27900
travolta was railed by Slipknot
travolta was railed by Slipknot
travolta was railed by Slipknot
travolta was railed by Slipknot
Slipknot was blown away by travolta's super shotgun
Slipknot: I don't like BOTS!
Slipknot was blown away by travolta's super shotgun
Slipknot: This game makes me ANGRY! ARGGGH!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: i HAit YOU!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: This game makes me ANGRY! ARGGGH!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: This game makes me ANGRY! ARGGGH!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I don't like BOTS!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: This game makes me ANGRY! ARGGGH!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
Slipknot was railed by travolta
10 minutes remaining in match.
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: i HAit YOU!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I don't like BOTS!
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
Slipknot was railed by travolta
Slipknot: I meant to die,sie
travolta was machinegunned by Slipknot
travolta wimped out and left. (clients = 1)
Slipknot: ARRRGGGH!
Slipknot wimped out and left. (clients = 0)
AAS shutdown.
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if i was able to play here on even ping i would probably be in the top 5 insta players easily.

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Re: Playing Against Bots
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2009, 03:47:56 PM »
Maybe some bots could run around in the less populated servers to encourage people to play in them ,like Pigmy. And as humans show up have them displaced.

Sometimes when I am really bored I fire up the Erasers and toss in a random bunch,all made from the various models I have.,like guest stars in my own personal hell! That could be cool too for those empty servers :)
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Re: Playing Against Bots
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2009, 07:49:37 PM »
lmao at slipknot bot,   you left out map haxors and concole comments.  But still VERY NICE!
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Re: Playing Against Bots
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2009, 12:28:16 AM »
that was from 2003 or so. was a work in progress.

 gonna go play me some slipbot!
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if i was able to play here on even ping i would probably be in the top 5 insta players easily.

 

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