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By: Curt

Curt — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:16:43 +0000

I suggest allowing users to change bot tactics when certain things happen, such as a Soldat-survival equivalent mode, once a bot is by himself, he starts running a different tactic file(s).
Another case would be a human can tell a bot to “Wait for my mark” and such other possibilities.

By: MM

MM — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:00:24 +0000

thought so and I’m happy to hear it but wouldn’t it have a side effect?
Like Player A plays with the standard bot tactics while Player B plays with his own super-customized-über-man-slaughtering bot tactics
The bots will have certain restrictions that won’t allow this kind of cheating. But I do want the player with better scripts, within the games constraints, to win.

It was an attempt at corpsehumping, but i forgot to add, move to enemy.
LOL can’t wait to see this. You gave me more motivation to make this.

By: Gnoblar

Gnoblar — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:52:31 +0000

That’d be the biggest lol. ‘bagged by a bot.

By: Makron666

Makron666 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:12:58 +0000

@Tenshi: It was an attempt at corpsehumping, but i forgot to add, move to enemy.

By: Gnoblar

Gnoblar — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:10:33 +0000

Can I ask what language you’re programming in?

And will there be armoured suits?

By: Tenshi

Tenshi — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:12:12 +0000

“eg. If enemy is dead for < 5 seconds, crouch then stand 3 times."

Wtf kind of tactic is this?

By: Makron666

Makron666 — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:27:33 +0000

Allow IF statements aswell, so we can have certain condition based tactics (eg. If enemy is dead for < 5 seconds, crouch then stand 3 times.)
Also make it possibe to save our tactic scripts to a file and apply different tactics to each bot, that would make for great tournaments and tactic competitions.

By: Chutem

Chutem — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:49:14 +0000

User made tactics = super win

By: curious

curious — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:05:57 +0000

I thought so and I’m happy to hear it but wouldn’t it have a side effect?
Like Player A plays with the standard bot tactics while Player B plays with his own super-customized-über-man-slaughtering bot tactics then no matter how clever Player A is he will get beaten (or feel cheated) by Player B simply because he didn’t prepare beforehand.

By: MM

MM — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:06:40 +0000

Give us an example what you mean by tactics.
Duck, reload, stand up fire 3 times, duck, retreat. Etc. tactics = patterns for combat.

Will these tactics be used in the RTS part or only in the temp DM?
Both. The bots have to be able to fight for themselves. The success of the RTS part lies in the success of DM bots. They should be able to fight and survive on their own without the player micromanaging the units.

Tenshi: recording paths like you describe would be possible. I would have to invent a way for the bot to learn the interesting movements. So he won’t learn stuff the player does randomly like walking into a wall.