Bot and shooting

[Szaman]

Hi,

When the bot is too far from the player and his bullets can not reach the enemy (player) the bot should - in my opinion - try to get closer to the enemy and then shoot again.
The attached picture shows the problem - bot is sitting there and shooting pointlessly, even if it's hit by a player.

It would be nice if bot could be more intelligent

Best regards,
Szaman.

[Falcon`]

... or it should run away, depending on it's health and ammo status, whenever it's carrying flag, current terrain conditions, positions of possible teammates and so on. Yes, bots could be more intelligent, i agree but as you can see this isn't exactly simplest thing to code. Although anything would be better than current implementation i guess, maybe except no implementation.

[DorkeyDear]

Do you think it is remotely feasible to even consider scriptable bots in the distant future? (anything from "go left for X time" to "go to location X" or something)

[Szaman]

For me it would be great if bots could be scriptable
One more option in bot ini file:

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custom_engine=bot.pas
And in bot.pas (example made without deep thinking about API :p):

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procedure OnEnemySpotted(ID : integer);
procedure OnEnemyKill(ID : integer);
procedure OnEnemyDamage(ID : integer, Damage : integer, Weapon : integer);
procedure OnMyDamage(ID : integer, Damage : integer, Weapon : integer);
...
procedure OnMyFlagGrabbed(ID : integer);
procedure OnMyFlagDropped(ID : integer);
procedure OnOtherFlagGrabbed(ID : integer, FlagID : integer);
procedure OnOtherFlagDropped(ID : integer, FlagID : integer);
...
procedure OnTargetCrouch(ID : integer);
procedure OnTargetLayDown(ID : integer);
...

It would be really useful

[nosejj]

To be honest, I never quite understood why bots in Soldat can't provide a good level of gameplay.
When I first tried games like unreal tournament on the hardest level, I just said wow comparing to Soldat's bots.

[smiluu]

It would be nice if bots would actually see the enemies from behind polygons like players do and then be able to predict projectiles to hit them as they walk into line of fire. 

[Shoozza]

Yeah bots need some improvements.
I'm not sure if Falcon or ExHunter want to work on this though. It's up to them.

There are a lot of possible things one could implement (bots following players, giving replies, tutorials for new players, story mode servers).

It would be nice if bots would actually see the enemies from behind polygons like players do and then be able to predict projectiles to hit them as they walk into line of fire. 

Yes it should be possible to limit the view of the bot to the real players view or to the actual view in realistic (or even non limited view for special use cases).