Abot

Bot Master Guide

Created by Demon(BTSLG)

Getting Started

    As a bot master you are the controller of your game.  No matter how many players are on you can always kick them all and have a blast killing bots.  There are a few things you must be aware of first.   Some classes are close to useless where others uncanny despite manipulations to their difficulty.  Engineers, medics, snipers and HWguys can be the most dangerous.   An engineer will build a gun run then hose down any enemy it encounters with a spread of devastating shotgun cartridges.  Medics make a deadly combination of speed and armor with their favored weapon the nail gun.  The sniper, though the sniper is only fairly good against other snipers it develops a extraordinary skill when guarding a single entrance.  And well the HWguys.  His biggest disadvantage is his speed.   Second to that is his inaccuracy.  Mainly due to poor skill on human players parts.  Well these don't.  When they see you, you had better start running.   Though this class almost never is ordered to take the flag it easily makes up those points through kills.  Particularity pathetic classes are soldiers and spies.   Soldiers tend to be fairly useless due to the fact that they aim directly at the enemy with their rockets.  Spies are pathetic due to the fact that they will not disguise themselves.

Server Commands

addbot team class name skill_level This function is the one used to add bots to the game.

        Team (1 or 2 on most maps, if you use a 0 the bot will be added to the team with the fewest players)

        Class (1 - 9)

        Name (can be anything without spaces)

        Skill Level (1 being best and 5 worst)

        You can leave any of the spaces blank, they will be filled in randomly.

        Example    Addbot 1 6 Big_Guy 2    Will add a HWguy to blue team who is named Big_Guy and he will have a difficulty rating of 2.

bots kickall     This helpful function sends all of the bots to the circular filing cabinet.  If these bots are once again added to the game they will retain their deaths but not their kills.

bots shoot (on or off)  I think this is pretty self explanatory.  Do not use brackets.

Cfg Files

OK cfg files are valuable tools you can use to customize your bots.  All of the following are best edited with notepad.  In the abot.cfg file you will find the default setting for all maps.  In the bot_names.txt file you will find spaces where you can change your random bot names.  To change the number any types of bots that appear on the start of maps simply open the mapname.bot file and change the settings.

Making Your Own Waypoints

This is both a challenging and fun routine.  Though OblivionSeeker the creator of Abbot Waypoint guide indicates the use of the autowaypoint feature I strongly diswaid its use.  Be sure you will regret it when you are forced to go over every waypoint to make sure they touch.  Even worse is when you have to go over waypoints which are close to each other but on the other side of the wall.  Besides that little disagreement I would recommend downloading it from the Abot main page.

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