quake/articles/1997/art-950

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From: "Drew Davidson"

Newsgroups: rec.games.computer.quake.announce

Subject: Announcing CTF Bot

Date: 16 Jan 1997 16:32:13 -0000

Organization: Interpath

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CTF Bot is a totally new Quake C bot combined with ThreeWave Capture the

Flag version 3.5. With CTF Bot you can play ThreeWave Capture the Flag by

yourself, against a team of bots. You can also spawn bots on your team to

help you.

CTF Bot is now available on the CTF Bot Home Page at:

http://www.interpath.com/~davidson/ctfbot.htm

You also need the ThreeWave CTF client side mod from:

http://www.planetquake.com/quakex/threewave/

CTF Bot has been coded from the ground up specifically for CTF. CTF Bot

knows how to use the grappling hook, and will try to use the hook to get

normally inaccessible items or to escort human players. For example, CTF

Bot can use the hook to get the Quad, megahealth, and red armor in The

Strongbox (ctf8).

In addition, CTF Bot uses a waypoint scheme on certain maps so that it can

find its way in and out of the bases. The maps that CTF Bot currently has

waypoints for include ctf1 through ctf8 (i.e. the maps in the ThreeWave

CTF client mod). On waypoint maps CTF Bot may capture your flag very

quickly if you're not careful! CTF Bot can also be played on other maps,

it just won't capture your flag.

CTF Bot also features dynamic CTF map creation, so you can easily turn any

map into a CTF map. With an impulse you can create the red or blue flag

and team spawn points, or create a respawning base stockpile of health,

armor, ammo and weapons.

CTF Bot contains many other features, including detailed scoring, ordering

bots on your team to attack or defend, bot in-game chatter, and 100

different names for bots. Source code included.

CTF Bot 1.1 is available for download now. Check it out!

(Soon available from cdrom.com also)

CTF Bot by Drew 'BZ' Davidson

drew@interpath.com