Single player Question

[Ciaran]

Is their anyway of changing the maps from 16 player to 32 or 64 and add more bots?

[NoB33r4u]

Re: Single player Question

do a search!

theres some 32 and 64 sp mods around here somewhere and as for more bots thats definitely around here!

You'll have to search for the mods but instructions to add more bots are here:

http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28145

[Ciaran]

Re: Single player Question

Cant seem to find the ones that have 32 or 64 player maps.

Can you just not edit the maps in the directorys?

[a1pointguard]

Re: Single player Question

you can only add players, not change the map size. I am pretty sure.

[ConscriptVirus]

Re: Single player Question

doubt it

[Hound_Dawg]

Re: Single player Question

Viathon created the 64 map size mod, but it currently doesn't support bots outside the default 16 player area, and if it is installed you cannot play mulitplayer. viathon is currently working on v1.04 and said it will include bot support outside the regular area, it is supposed to be released early next week he says.
[EDIT] also to change the bots number from anything from 22-whatever your comp can take, you have to edit something in the defaultAI file under mods, ai. Anyways do a search for that, its enabled, but i dont have the time.

[jdrou]

Re: Single player Question

Cant seem to find the ones that have 32 or 64 player maps.

Can you just not edit the maps in the directorys?

Well, you can, but it isn't easy. That's exactly what the several 32/64p map mods do. You have to add bot support to maps that don't have it (and there are no official tools to help with that yet). Note codebasher's mod is called "a co-op mod" but it's really just 32-player SP maps and a few other tweaks. Co-op in BF2 is just an SP game with other computers connected to it. No modding needed for that.

[AwShoot]

Re: Single player Question

If you want more bots on the 16-player sized maps you can simply change one file. The path is:

C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2\mods\bf2\AI\AIDefault.ai

I had trouble trying to upload my modded copy but here's a description of the changes to the file:

**** Make a copy of the original file before modding!!!! ****
Find the three lines that read:

aiSettings.setMaxNBots 64
aiSettings.maxBotsIncludeHumans 1
aiSettings.setBotSkill 0.4

Add 'rem ' at the beginning, like so:

rem aiSettings.setMaxNBots 64
rem aiSettings.maxBotsIncludeHumans 1
rem aiSettings.setBotSkill 0.4

Then find the three lines that read:

rem aiSettings.overrideMenuSettings 1
rem aiSettings.setMaxNBots 32
rem aiSettings.maxBotsIncludeHumans 0
rem aiSettings.setBotSkill 1.0

and remove the 'rem ' from the beginning of each:

aiSettings.overrideMenuSettings 1
aiSettings.setMaxNBots 32
aiSettings.maxBotsIncludeHumans 0
aiSettings.setBotSkill 1.0

You can change the setMaxNBots line to whatever bot count you want, this will be the total of all players. You can also adjust the skill with setBotSkill, I believe 0.4 equals the lowest menu option and 1.0 the highest. I have a low-mid CPU and max out at 30 bots with 0.6 skill and about 24 with 1.0 skill. To go back to original settings simply rename the modded file to something new and rename the samed file to the original name.