[TUTORIAL] How to Make Your Own Bots

[fortegigasgospel]

The "skin = " field needs to be their actual skin names, not their sprite codes. So it'd be wetman and not wetm.

Ah its working, thank you.

[? Manibogi ?]

Can someone help me? My bot doesn't say any frag nor killed strings. Here's the bot chat:

[IntroStrings]
"Let's get started!"
"It begins..."

[FragStrings]
"Defense is the best offense"
"You should stop shooting recklessly"
"You can't stand your own power"
"I see, you chose death"

[KilledStrings]
"I'll get you for this, $player_killedby!"
"You weren't supposed to choose life, you know"
"$player_inlead is next!"

[RareRoamingStrings]
"If you fight, I fight. If you use magic so will I!"

[RoamingStrings]
"Life or death, you choose"
"Let's do this, $player_random_notself!"
"Don't shoot me, or I'll shoot back at ya"

[WinStrings]
"I hope all of you learnt something today!"
"This won't be the last time I win"

[LoseStrings]
"I won't lose again, promise!"
"What happened?"

[RollComment]
"Will you ever show me your FullMetal Armor, Mani?"

[HD_]

How would I make the bots smarter. Possibly preventing them from getting stuck on walls? :P

Would increasing intellect do the trick?

[BiscuitSlash]

Not much you can do about that I'm afraid. CutmanMike put a special coding in the bots that stops bots from passing any lines on a map that are set to block monsters. If it wasn't for that, they would just fall into pits or run to the same spot and get easy kills think of elecman

The only stats that make a 'major' difference is accuracy and perception. The lower the accuracy, the more they will randomly spread their shots and the higher the perception, the more they can see distant enemies. Even so, that doesn't change things a huge amount.

[HD_]

Okay I made a bot for UnEpic classes' Tactical Bomber. However:

It doesn't botchat (haven't tested in vanilla)
It repeatedly says that there's an unknown script 992. Can someone help please?

[CHAOS_FANTAZY]

Would it be possible to make Bot strings other than Roaming rare?
Like, if I put in [RareIntroStrings], would that make a line the Bot says rarely upon entering or no?

[CHAOS_FANTAZY]

Okay, after the previous question I answered myself (Which was "no"), I thought I'd mention a couple additional Bot Strings I've noticed that aren't mentioned in this tutorial.

[LosingRoamingStrings]
Your bot will only say these Roaming Strings while it's not in the lead.

[DemoralizedStrings]
I am actually not exactly sure when these play, but I imagine it relates to when something bad is occurring in Team Gamemodes (Last man on his team for TLMS, losing by multiple points in CTF, teammate dies in Survival Co-Op, etc.).  Naturally, I could be completely wrong.

[FrustratedStrings] & [PissedStrings]
I had actually never even heard of these until today, and I haven't the slightest what they do.  They sound similar to [EnragedStrings], so perhaps they are like multiple levels of the same happening.

If any Botting expert could tell me what these do and perhaps add any more mysteries to the list, that would be great.

[Gummywormz]

The "frustrated" strings would probably never be used because I think it relates to the BFG10K. Enraged strings occur when the bot gets a "you fail it medal". Demoralized strings occur when the bot gets a "Your skill is not enough" medal. Pissed strings occur when the bot gets llama'd.

[Igorthecrafter]

I made commandoman with commandoman skin made by someone
And he actually say nothing!

[GameAndWatcher]

Could you hand me the bot?

[Tfp BreakDown]

Yeah I have a problem. I have made some bots to play against and when ever I load them up in the launcher i get this error

"Execution could not continue"
BOTS_ParseBotInfo: Missing "=" in BOTINFO lump for field "MegaBusterWep"

Anyone have any tips to fix this?

Nvm I fixed it by copy and pasting the Favoriteweapon = "MegaBusterWep" from the mm8bdmv3a pk3

[Colonel ServBot]

I actually have a question. What is a [RollComment]?
I've been seeing those around and I've been wondering what they are.

[Ivory]

They aren't used for anything. The actual roll comments are hardcoded in Dr. Light's lab.
Those [RollComment] you see people add is just for the hypothetical what would Roll say if this skin was in the skin changer. The game doesn't actually read them at all.

[Loppyq]

This helped so much! Thank you!

[Geno]

Just wondering, about the bot chats.

Mainly about how there's the category "[LosingRoamingStrings]".

Is there another one called "[WinningRoamingStrings]"? Becuase no matter how many custom bots I go through, or how many Doom sites I go on with info on Bot Chats, there's no mention of any "Good" version of "[LosingRoamingStrings]".