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- Quake2 Bots are computer controlled multiplayers. Playing a bot is like playing another player in deathmatch (DM) except the other player is not
- really another player but the computer controlling its own generated player (It's a mouthful but I hope you understand that)! Bots are not only
- limited to DM play - but this is their most common use.
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- A lot of people, who either can't connect to Quake2 servers on the net with a respectable ping or have limited access time to the net, resort to bots
- for their DM adventures.
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- BUT, most people play bots to gain Quake2 DM experience. If you want to become a resonable DM player and never played a DM game before then
- a bot is a great introduction to DM play! Bots give the feel of other REAL LIFE players (wellĂ most of them) where you can run around the map
- and kill and be killed!
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- Bots are smarter and harder to kill than the standard quake2 monsters. They will strafe and fire, duck rockets, jump over lava, retreat for health and
- ammo, use the best weapon they have (if they haven't got a desent weapon they'll go find one), and the list goes on and on!
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- The bots make it seem that you truly are playing other players and not some stupid monster. They are a great learning tool and will bring you up to
- standards in online DM games!
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- First of all, go to the downloads section and get the latest version of the C.R.Bot.
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- Make sure you have the latest patch for Quake2! If not go to the downloads section.
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- I will assume you are using Win95/NT.
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- Unzip the downloaded file into your quake2 directory. For example: If you are using winzip extract all files (overwirting existing and using folders)
- into c:\quake2\ given that quake2 is installed on your C drive in the directory \quake2. Change accordingly. If you don't understand this then I can't
- really help you.
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- Make a new shortcut of quake2. You can do this by right clicking in a blank space on your desktop. Select "new" then "shortcut" then click
- "browse". Select the quake2 directory and double click on quake2.exe. Click "next" then "finish". You have now made a new quake2 shortcut.
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- Right click on your new quake2 shortcut and select "properties". Then click the "Shortcut" menu bar. Click at the end of the "target" field and add
- the following:
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- +set game crbot
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- Now click "Apply" then "Ok" and you are done! Now left click on the shortcut to run it.
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- When Quake2 has loaded bring down the console by pressing "`" (tilde) which is left of the number 1 key. Now type in the following:
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- deathmatch 1
- map base1
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- Note: You are not limited to playing on base1. If you want to play on a different map then instead of typing base1 type the maps name you want to
- play on!
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- Now wait until the map has loaded. Now type the following at the console:
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- addbots 5 1
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- This will spawn 1 C.R.Bot on the level (somewhere so go find it) with a difficulty setting of 5. If you want more than 1 bot type "addbots 1 #" where
- # is the number of bots you want. If you want a challenge you can up the difficulty of the bots by increasing setting 5 to any number up to 10. So if
- you wanted 5 of the toughest bots type:
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- addbots 10 5
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- There is a complete command list here.
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- There is a Bugs/FAQ page here.
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- If you still can't get it working go here.
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- Complete Command List
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- addbots -- to spawn several bots; could be a number from 1(low) to 10(most advanced), or could be a range like this: .. that'll allow you to
- create random set of bots with different skills; example: addbots 3..6 5 it'll create 5 bots with random skills from 3 to 6;
- cmd addbot "" -- add a bot, where is a number from 1 (low) to 10 (most advanced); is 0 if you want female bot or 1 if you want it male; you
- can repeat this command to add more bots; you can also use this command in .CFG files (see BOTS.CFG for example how to do this) to
- create predefined set of bots by typing "exec bots.cfg" in console window;
- killbot -- remove bot with name from the game permanently;
- bot_team # -- (# is a number from 0 to 9) you can assign next created bot to specified team; bots from the same team don't attack each other
- unless they'll accidentally hurt each other; team 0 has special meaning, all bots in that team fight for themselves (default team).
- cmd set_team # -- put yourself into the team number # together with bots;
- bot_skin # -- default is 1; as bot_team command this one presets the skin for all bots created afterwards;
- bot_male # -- if 0 than next bot gonna be female, if 1 -- male;
- obituray_msgs # -- deafult is 1; if it's set to 0 you will not see any "bot killed by bot", "human killed by bot", etc., messages;
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- Here is list of all skins you can use and their numbers:
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- Male: 0: cipher 5: major 10: razor 1: claymore 6: nightops 11: recon 2: flak 7: pointman 12: scout 3: grunt 8: psycho 13: sniper 4: howitzer 9: rampage 14:
- viper
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- Female: 0: athena 5: jungle 1: brianna 6: lotus 2: cobalt 7: stiletto 3: ensign 8: venus 4: jezebel 9: voodoo
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- Note: All commands will be effective only if typed on server; All 'bot_' vars will be saved in config.cfg.
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- For example, if you want to start the game with 8 bots, two female ones in one team with skill 3, three males in another team with skill 5, three
- individual bots with skills 6, 8 and 10 and names, and assign distinctive skins to every team and to individual bots, you have to type in console
- window:
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- bot_male 0
- bot_skin 1
- bot_team 1
- addbots 3 2
- bot_male 1
- bot_skin 2
- bot_team 2
- addbots 5 3
- cmd addbot scout 6 1 3 0
- cmd addbot bitch 8 0 4 0
- cmd addbot "ultimate bot" 10 1 5 0
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- External Config file:
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- There are four text files you can edit which contain lines bot will say in different situations:
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- DEATH.TXT -- when bot dies
- KILL.TXT -- when bot kills somebody
- PAIN.TXT -- when bot gets hurt by somebody
- FIGHT.TXT -- random saying during melee
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- For more help go here!
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- Download the latest version of the C.R.Bot.
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- Read the Full Review on the C.R.Bot.
- Check out the Buglist/FAQ.
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