Erectin' A Dispenser - Games

[url]http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3279[/url] Tfbots? Developed by Valve? [quote= Mike Booth] With the success of the AI systems of Left 4 Dead, we've been continuing to develop these technologies to create new kinds of game experiences. Team Fortress 2 is an excellent "sandbox" for explorations of this sort, and we've been quietly doing so for much of this last year. Some of the results of these explorations are TF "bots" — AI-driven player proxies with simulated humanlike senses, reaction times, and tactics. Although the TFBots are not yet complete, they play a pretty decent game of King of the Hill. We thought you might enjoy testing your skill against these work-in-progress digital killing machines. We'd also like to hear your thoughts on how the bots are behaving. Although we have our list of behavior bugs to tackle (this is a beta after all), we're sure you'll discover issues we haven't yet seen. If you'd like to give us bot feedback, you can post your thoughts in our new Bot Feedback sub-forum, or send us an e-mail at [email]tfbots@valvesoftware.com[/email]. In either case, please tell us the three things you hate most about the bots, and the three things you like best about them (as well as anything else you think we should know). Since this is a beta test, the TFBots are only functional on these King of the Hill maps: koth_viaduct, koth_sawmill, and koth_nucleus. They don't understand the rules of multiple point capturing, cart pushing, or flag getting... yet. There's also no interface in the game to accessing them yet (we'll add one in an update shortly), so you'll need to access them manually. * To add bots to your game, use the console command tf_bot_add. This will drop a random bot onto a random team (assuming there is a free player slot). The tf_bot_add command can also take up to three optional arguments: , , and , in any order. For example, tf_bot_add 10 will add 10 random bots to the game with auto-assigned teams. Typing tf_bot_add pyro blue will add a Pyro to the blue team. Entering tf_bot_add red 5 will add 5 random bots to the red team. The command tf_bot_add red 3 heavyweapons will add three heavies to the red team. * In order to put specific bots on specific teams (for a bots-vs-humans game, for example), you may want to disable automatic team balancing. To do this, enter mp_autoteambalance 0 followed by mp_teams_unbalance_limit 0. * To remove a bot, use the console command kick . To remove all of the bots in the game, use the command tf_bot_kick all. TFBots are "players", and take up player slots. They run the exact same code that human players do, moving and firing weapons by pressing "virtual buttons". The bots have simulated humanlike senses, and only know what they see, hear, and touch. They also have realistic reaction times and aiming limitations. They don't "cheat" or use omniscient knowledge of the server state to make their decisions. If you're interested in the technical details, give this a read-through. [/quote]

[release] With the success of the AI systems of Left 4 Dead, we've been continuing to develop these technologies to create new kinds of game experiences. Team Fortress 2 is an excellent "sandbox" for explorations of this sort, and we've been quietly doing so for much of this last year. Some of the results of these explorations are TF "bots" — AI-driven player proxies with simulated humanlike senses, reaction times, and tactics. Although the TFBots are not yet complete, they play a pretty decent game of King of the Hill. We thought you might enjoy testing your skill against these work-in-progress digital killing machines. We'd also like to hear your thoughts on how the bots are behaving. Although we have our list of behavior bugs to tackle (this is a beta after all), we're sure you'll discover issues we haven't yet seen. If you'd like to give us bot feedback, you can post your thoughts in our new Bot Feedback sub-forum, or send us an e-mail at [email]tfbots@valvesoftware.com[/email]. In either case, please tell us the three things you hate most about the bots, and the three things you like best about them (as well as anything else you think we should know). Since this is a beta test, the TFBots are only functional on these King of the Hill maps: koth_viaduct, koth_sawmill, and koth_nucleus. They don't understand the rules of multiple point capturing, cart pushing, or flag getting... yet. There's also no interface in the game to accessing them yet (we'll add one in an update shortly), so you'll need to access them manually. * To add bots to your game, use the console command tf_bot_add. This will drop a random bot onto a random team (assuming there is a free player slot). The tf_bot_add command can also take up to three optional arguments: , , and , in any order. For example, tf_bot_add 10 will add 10 random bots to the game with auto-assigned teams. Typing tf_bot_add pyro blue will add a Pyro to the blue team. Entering tf_bot_add red 5 will add 5 random bots to the red team. The command tf_bot_add red 3 heavyweapons will add three heavies to the red team. * In order to put specific bots on specific teams (for a bots-vs-humans game, for example), you may want to disable automatic team balancing. To do this, enter mp_autoteambalance 0 followed by mp_teams_unbalance_limit 0. * To remove a bot, use the console command kick . To remove all of the bots in the game, use the command tf_bot_kick all. TFBots are "players", and take up player slots. They run the exact same code that human players do, moving and firing weapons by pressing "virtual buttons". The bots have simulated humanlike senses, and only know what they see, hear, and touch. They also have realistic reaction times and aiming limitations. They don't "cheat" or use omniscient knowledge of the server state to make their decisions. If you're interested in the technical details, give this a read-through. [/release] :eng101: Bitches dont rate my bocks I posted this before the edit

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They call L4D bots a success? Hmm. If they say so.

Success is a very lenient term. Bush called the Iraq war a success, remember?

[QUOTE=l337k1ll4;19113908]They call L4D bots a success? Hmm. If they say so.[/QUOTE] Well there exists games with worse AI than L4D series

Bots on servers everywhere :saddowns: Also still no mention of the propaganda poster contest runner-ups. Dammit.

The new ones are great. Though the part where they say the bots have realistic aim is bullshit. Those snipers are hackers.

I spawned 3 bots they were name CEDA, Robin, and Soulless It was hilarious.

Awesome. I've played around with these a lot now, and I must say they are quite good. Snipers are TOO good, though. The bot names are also hilarious. There's also a Experimental Aperture Science project around there somewhere. X-7 or something. Pretty awesome.

[QUOTE=Empty_Shadow;19113995]The new ones are great. Though the part where they say the bots have realistic aim is bullshit. Those snipers are hackers.[/QUOTE] I had a pyro do a 180 and airblast my rocket back at me.

Dispensin' an erection

Those little shits Heavyrushed me on Yukon.

[QUOTE=Swimbound;19114015]I spawned 3 bots they were name CEDA, Robin, and Soulless It was hilarious.[/QUOTE] They all have awesome names. I got Credit To Team GLaDoS Mindless Electrons This guy Some guy

HUMANS ARE WEAK John Freeman BoomerBile Hunter The Combine etc

All I can think of [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uF3CG7gbj0[/media]

GUYS. "Erectin' a despinser" is a quote from the Engie. Engie update next :aaaaa: [sp]/sarcasam[/sp]

I actually spawned a bot called fag18 (random) :ohdear:

[QUOTE=Mister B;19114451]GUYS. "Erectin' a despinser" is a quote from the Engie. Engie update next :aaaaa: [sp]/sarcasam[/sp][/QUOTE] Well we have updated every class in the whole game except the engineer...so..... [sp]ANOTHER HEAVY UPDATE!?[/sp]