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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.
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.
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These bots were first featured on Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, and they're actually very smart. They do respond to radio commands, most of the time. Each bot has it's own stats (bravery, teamwork, skill, etc.) -- if he has a low teamwork score, he's more likely to ignore your commands and just do his own thing.
Also, these bots can work online, as far as I know. I too hope there will be some way to filter them out. I hate loading up Unreal Tournament 2003/2004 and finding a nice low ping server, only to discover all the other players are bots.
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That is the question that may never be answered. "How good of a score do you have to have to be considered a cheater?"
I know for a fact i've been accused of a cheater and by most accounts I suck. I have noticed that i play in spurts. One round i'll be 4-15, the next i'll be 15-1. Sometimes it depends on your teammates, or the lack of teamwork on the other side. The type of weapon (auto-snipers...) or the map itself.
I play on a group of servers that usually brings in high quality gamers and you rugularliy see 20-2 scores. (and my 4-15...) I have to say though that not one of them is a cheater.
And about the "headshot and it didn't even look close..." issue; CS:S has some bad hit boxes and will dole out random headshots. It sucks, i know. From compiling some stats on those servers it's usually 1 in 4 kills is a headshot. Also, it could be lag that you made it look like he was way off, but in reality could be right on.
Oh yea, and cheaters aren't that prominent. Stay away from non-admined servers. Usually when there is an active community around the server they have admins in there cleaning out the cheaters. Also, People just like to complain... "He is 20-1, he must be a h@x0r" when in reality he's just that damm good.