quake/articles/1997/art-975

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From: ronb@powernet.net (R. Bardarson)

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Subject: Re: Announcing CTF Bot

Date: 20 Jan 1997 19:52:43 -0000

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From: "Drew Davidson"

Date: 16 Jan 1997 16:32:11 -0000

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.

I played this on some distant server (my pings were over 700). I

spawned two bots to help me against a couple of 150 ping players. I

found that the bots would get 'stuck' trying to get to a weapon thru a

too small window (Da Ancient War Grounds) and off a small table

(Vertigo). You need to add a timeout (or something) to give up

attempts to reach an object. You need to add jumping to bots

attempting to obtain an object.

One was a pretty good defender, but the other was a terrible runner

(except for one level, Tale of Two Cities (I think)). Bots don't seem

to recognize a Quad'ed player as very dangerous, and got easily

fragged charging into a Quad rocket with a shotgun blazing away...

You should take a look at Terminator, your bot stands still to fire

too much and charges into the line of fire. That gives a modem player

a chance, but better tactics would be more interesting to play

against. You can always make the bot 'easy' by having it play with

the shotgun only, if complaints about it's superior tactical ability

arise (as with Terminator).

An interesting mod for those times when there is a player shortage,

but give me a good team of humans anyday.

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