Halflife Bots

valve90210

valve90210

valve90210

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Having just introduced my girlfriend to the world of fps games, I've setup halflife on a second computer and we've been playing deathmatch.

I want to get a bot working so we can team up against the comp. I've got TeamBot but it's been so long since I used it, that I've never used it with a steam install of halflife.

ANyone got any tips on how to get it working???

Any help very much appreciated

Valve
 
Unfortunately I only have one copy of HL2 at the moment...will be gifting her my copy when I buy the orange box after pay day, but until then I wanted to be able to get her into fps with half life.

The aim eventually is to get her playing insurgency with me.
 
I seem to remember Counterstrike comes with bots on Steam.

Back when STEAM was in beta I remember downloading it to give it a try and it let me download halflife, CS, DMC etc for free :)
 
Most if not all the bots on Half-life stopped working when it was integrated into steam.

If you have the old sierra halflife disk then you should be able to get them going.

Botman might have some bots that still work.
 
the parabots were the best for non-steam.
there are bots that work with steam and hldm but I can't remember the name, perhaps HPB bots.

If you post at www.hlccl.com/forums someone will probably remember. There are plenty of servers running hldm on steam with bots, perhaps contact the admin of one of those.

you'll find me over there as inspector-71
 
AFter a great deal of googling and reading I discovered it is possible to get bots working with Steam.

The key is a thing called metamod. This allows the use of admin type plugins in Steam, including bots.

It's a bit fiddly to get working. Actually let me clarify that... I had no luck whatsoever getting it to work with halflife deathmatch.

The idea is you install the metamod dll into a specific folder structure within the mod that you wish it to work with, then you edit the liblist.gam file for said mod, so for the game_dll it points to metamod, which in turn will run the actual game dll. However, for halflife death match there was no liblist.gam file.

I tried editing a copy of the one in the counterstrike folder but had no luck getting it to do anything. So I gave up with it.

Instead I turned my attention to Counterstrike, as really that's rather closer to the ultimate goal of playing insurgency anyway.

After a bit of messing about (read that as me naming a folder wrongly so counterstrike couldn't find the folder I pointed at in the liblist.gam file...doh) I got this working.

Then I instaled RealBot, which was simply a case of unzipping it into the correct folder structure (which was nicely explained in the readme), copying a command.txt file into the counterstrike folder and creating a file in the metamod folders which pointed to the Realbot dll.

Once in game there is an easy to use menu which is brought up at the press of a button which allows you to easily add/remove bots to/from either team.

Ofcourse as ever with computers, by the time I'd got it working, it was a bit late to actually try it so this evening my girlfriend and I are going to be taking on hordes of terrorist bots!!!

Valve
 
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