sandbot - a work in progress bot with Natural Selection support
tschumann
Australia Join Date: 2010-05-26 Member: 71862Members
Australia Join Date: 2010-05-26 Member: 71862Members
So I've been working on a bot mod for various Half-Life engine games and mods and I've started adding support for Natural Selection lately.
I've currently got the bots playing Combat mode somewhat competently (they do upgrade a few things) but for some reason the skulks can get stuck on each other. Also, I've only added waypoints for co_core at this point, so it is a work in progress.
Anyway, you can try it at http://www.moddb.com/mods/sandbot
The source is public too: https://github.com/tschumann/sandbot
Any ideas or feedback you can leave here or at http://forums.bots-united.com/forumdisplay.php?f=85
I've currently got the bots playing Combat mode somewhat competently (they do upgrade a few things) but for some reason the skulks can get stuck on each other. Also, I've only added waypoints for co_core at this point, so it is a work in progress.
Anyway, you can try it at http://www.moddb.com/mods/sandbot
The source is public too: https://github.com/tschumann/sandbot
Any ideas or feedback you can leave here or at http://forums.bots-united.com/forumdisplay.php?f=85
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It still only supports Combat mode and co_core is still the only supported map but there are a number of improvements: bots will now rejoin the game after a round has ended, alien bots can now evolve to different lifeforms, bots now upgrade many more abilities, the alien bots should play better and the marine bots shouldn't play so perfectly any more.
Source code is at https://github.com/tschumann/sandbot/tree/v0.2.1 and if you're curious you can see the upgrade path at https://github.com/tschumann/sandbot/blob/v0.2.1/dlls/bot_ns.cpp#L155
Main Natural Selection-related changes are kicking a bot no longer crashes the game and bots can do slightly more in Classic (but still not play it fully).
It adds MetaMod support.
The bots will play Natural Selection Combat reasonably well on waypointed maps. Classic mode is still a work in progress but they bots will go around a waypointed map and attack the hives/command chair.
edit: also v0.4.1.1 has been released - see http://www.moddb.com/mods/sandbot/downloads/sandbot-v0411
If you have ideas about how it can better play I'm all ears - I've only ever played it with bots myself.
Care to join us in making the next version of natural selection ? We could use some hands. We fixed quite an amount of bugs and could use your bots and some of your advices here.
https://discord.gg/ZUSSBUA
See you soon !