New Akimbot Version

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Oh come on, you guys... just turn podbot's skill level up to 100, and then it brings back memories of what it used to be like in pubs before VAC.



On a serious note, though, I find podbot to be quite useful for working on my aim, trying to get only headshots in "jason mode" on good rushing maps like de_dust. Not really a ton of fun to play with, but it certainly can help you bring up your aiming skill if you find it lacking.



Biggest downside to podbot is simply that it doesn't react in human ways. The error margin on aiming is consistant in degrees to skill levels. This means that given all the time in the world, a bot still won't line up exactly for a long-distance shot (against a stationary opponent) if their skill level is mediocre, so their sniping becomes useless. But at close range, where 2 degrees one way or the other makes no difference, they're deadly, landing every shot and firing every gun (like pistols) at maximum fire rate. Real players tend to miss a lot of shots at very close range when both players are jumping around each other and such.



Also, as far as turn-rates go, podbots simply turn at a limited (by skill level) rate until they are on target. Real players turn very quickly towards the general area of the enemy, then more slowly turn for exact aim. Typically real players also require a moment to figure out where the enemy is shooting from, as well.



Unfortunately, as easy as most of these edits would be to make... they haven't been made. So, while podbot is cool, it's not what it could be. Pity that it seems all the other bots are even further behind in CS ability from podbot, in my experience.

[busterrifle]

well, what if we use a multi-bot program and pit the 100 skill podbots against, for example, the god-like setting realbots? then we can find out which one is better, if you want to talk about CS ability. Not that i dont agree with what Nighthawk says, of course, i think he's right.



forgive my stupidity, ive been playing sports for three days and im as dead as hitler

[lyndonl337]

I think PODbot is cheating.They always get headshots unlike REAL.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

All bots have to "cheat" to aim at you. There aren't little men living inside of your computer to control the bots, so the computer has to. As such, it always knows exactly where every player is, and the exact angle to aim to hit any place on your it chooses. That's the only way to make bots, currently.



However, to make bots seem more like humans, error margins are entered to the angle that they aim at (if the skill level is lower than 100) and how often they choose to shoot at your head. They also won't react to your presence if you're outside of their field of "vision", even though they know you're there, until you make noise. At that point in time, they're instantly allowed to use their knowledge of where you are, and will spin at an incredible speed (unless set on a very low skill level) to point right at you.



Basically, with higher-skilled bots, if you're anywhere near them, they'll instantly turn and shoot you, often in the face. The highest skill level of bot can turn 180 degrees and shoot you in the head in the time between your first and second shots at them. So attacking a "perfectly" skilled bot is usually fatal to yourself, even from behind, simply because they can aim perfectly and instantly.



It's not really "cheating" it's just how the bots have to be made. Granted, as I stated above, I think there are definite problems with the aiming formulas and such, but that doesn't change what the bots are. If you're annoyed with the frequency of headshots while playing with bots, you can mess with the configuration files to lower the percentage of shots they'll attempt to fire at your head. Or alternately, just turn down the skill level of the bots you regularly play with, and try to keep your distance while attacking them, and you should be able to come out on top.



Or, as a final resort... there's always knives-only mode, heh. :)

[nix]

podbot is a cheater ! lol ....omg feels like



if you look at the botskill.cfg config file !



HEADSHOT_ALLOW 30

HEAR_SHOOTTHRU_PROB 0

SEEN_SHOOTTHRU_PROB 50



i have play with these settings and they feel less cheater !!!

[sniv]

bots are only good in very-close combat. (ie deagle5, zshotgun, assault in the vents, back door... popup right around corner...)



They just suck the rest of the time.



(thats PODbot at least)

[Rufus!]

Realbot is funny when they runs into walls......

[DY357LX]

MikeJ wrote..

I use to be on the RealBot team heh. Check the readme ;x Yea realbot has gotten some bad comments I liked it and Stefan rocks

Yeah I think i remember from RealBot AI preview or something.

I stop using the RealBot's because they tend to freeze on the spot for minutes at a time. Then, as you approach, the spin 180 degree's and headshot you with their Glock18 on Burst-fire :-/

SO I started using Podbot's, putting them on "Knife mode", and chasing them with Pump-action shotgun's whenever they killed me :-)



As for the RB Team, I agree, Stefan is "sound" (as my cousin keeps saying), Tub on the otherhand..... <insert random insult here>.