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Bot for CS: Source to be Released
quan74 writes "The folks at Valve have announced that "The official Counter-Strike Bot will be released for Counter-Strike: Source on Monday (January 17th)." This is great news for those of us that have been anxiously awaiting the feature." The new CS bots have been enhanced with some improved pathing, a better understanding of the foibles of grenades, and a more human-like attention system. Details on the bots available on the forums.
Now those of us who are sick of aimbot users, speed hackers and other kinds of cheaters have an alternative besides spending half an hour finding a cheat-free server. So these poor bastards won't have nearly as many fair players to abuse.
Here is PA's take on the new bot.
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Never rub another man's rhubarb - The Joker
You'd think I would've learned by now that just because a story has the words "Counterstrike" and "Source", it doesn't mean that Counterstrike's source code has been released or anything like that. But no, I get my hopes up every time.
This sig is only here so people stop skipping the last lines of my posts.
I'm trying to work out if this is free software or "shared source" like Microsoft's stuff - ie you can download the Bot for CS's source, but you can't actually do anything with it. None of the links really answer that, they just talk about the Bot itself.
can the bots say things like 'haha ur ghey', 'pwned', and 'newbee fag' while spraypainting your dead body with a large phallis... and more importantly, will they teabag my corpse? Those are the classic points that make me cherish CS most of all. :/
Get Virtual.
I remember hearing a while ago (When the bots were available for CS 1.6 for free) that they were among the smartest bots for a game, ranking in at #2 with Unreal Tournament bots being #1. I'm glad that they finally brought them back without requiring one to own CS: Condition Zero.
Does this mean people will stop emailing and asking "how do i get ur aimbot to work in cs"?
aimbot = AIM bot, not aiming bot.
This is the same bot thats been in there since the beta, just always disabled. Download the original leak and you'll note the bots are fully functional. It would be different if they even tested it during this time, but instead they just use it to buy time so they can pretend to be doing something good for the community, when instead theyre just rationing out what little they have.
Call me when they do something new.
Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive. Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
So I just got Half-Life 2 and played a little CS: Source over the weekend.
How common are cheaters?
And how do you know.
For instance, I died early in a round and follow one of the players with a high score. I noticed he head shot someone even though it looked to me like he was off.
The other person(who had the highest score) said he is sick of cheaters and left soon after.
Later I followed the "cheater" and he wasn't doing so good, missing plenty of people.
And I have also been accused of cheating though I never have?
Valve has finally created an AI that passes the Turing test.
Is it just me, or the agitated fanbase doesn't know the difference between non-deterministic state machines (which is essentially what these bots are) and AI?
Or, perhaps, you were eager for it to be released.
This is great news for those of us that have been anxiously awaiting the feature.
You don't say! What an informative sentence!
how do you play with bots? I only get a Find Servers, or Create Server option...
Is pretty easy to spot - just see someone running at warp speed to the extent they've knifed the other teams 2 seconds after spawn.
de_chateau: Great map - defend the house as a CT with great defensive positions, in which you defend from an elevated position. As a terrorist, you can only break a good CT team if you work together to penetrate their defenses. I used to love cs_mansion, but this map seems like a better version of that.
de_prodigy: Is this a new map to source? Maybe I missed it on CS 1.6, but it's a great map with an "Aliens" feel to it (i.e. enclosed base) with a good amount of nooks and crannies to keep it fun.
de_dust: Need I say more? Still a classic map.
Any comments? Your favorite maps/most disliked?
I've gotten to a point where I can usually break even on kills/deaths and occasionally luck out with a 2:1 or 3:1 round.
I've noticed though, that unless you've memorized every single possible camping position and all of the normal routes people take from point A to point B, most of the encounters are pure luck, where whoever snags the hitbox for a headshot first wins.
There are people much more skilled than us of course, who know exactly how to aim and where to aim to produce those headshots much more often, as well as being much better at jumping all around and anticipating what semi-n00bs and n00bs are going to do in a firefight.
Stuff is still a bit strange though, I cannot for the life of me figure out how some people can be nearly 100% accurate with the sniper rifles, VERY RARELY missing, while I can sit there all fucking day and never hit a damn thing.
Shotgun at range is also a bit fucked up, as with the deagle, they're so accurate it's scary.
All your base are belong to Google.
This game is the same thing over and over and over again with a fanbase from hicksville USA and the KKK I can never go into a server and not hear someone say "queer" "fag" "gay" "nigger" "spic" "jew" What a shitty game. This is the most intellegent thing I have ever seen a bot say "Boom lol" that saying something?
Eat sleep die
Almost as good as the real thing...
And the masses cried out, "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!"
these bots cheat worse than humans do. anyone else getting his/her ass handed to him/her on 'normal'? my best run was 5 kills total.
Get Virtual.
Has anyone ever hooked up an arena and invited a bunch of bot developers to go at each other, sort of like an AI-based deathmatch? Never mind the in-game bots, as they generally suck. I'm talking about fan built bots.
Unless it is a blatant lie, I think that it is pretty interesting...