Reviving an old idea

So I was looking through the old forums, and I saw an old post by our "good" "friend" Kabooshka, and I rather liked it! It involved a lot of stuff, so I will just copy paste here.



So servers like Lazytown have bots almost all the time, sometimes more and sometimes less, and fighting them often gets a little stale after a while so I did some searching and found some bot plugins to enhance gameplay and to add on I found some other plugins on AlliedModders that I would like to suggest for possible implementation on the VG servers.

1)Bot Weapon "Randomizer"

This plugin allows bots to have other weapons other than the defaults and in my opinion should be a must on servers where bots are online almost all of the time. By now I am somewhat tired of the same old bots with their same old stock weapons so it would be very nice to spice things up with this plugin. In my opinion this would also be nice when practicing against bots since you would have to vary your tactics somewhat to combat different weapons which is obviously useful against humans since little people use fully stock loadouts.

2)Bot Management Plugin

This plugin I am not exactly sure if it is needed or is already in use but self-explanatory, it helps manage the bots more easily which could be useful in some situations but generally I do not notice any problems with the bots that would require easy management so I am just throwing this plugin out just in case. But this plugin does allow bot customization (such as their names) and would have some cool uses.

(P.S. another cool plugin for bot names is this automatic bot naming tool)

3)Bot Chat

This is a nice and a little silly plugin which allows bots to say things in chat. From what I know this plugin has a lot of events in it so it should keep things unique and it is a nice touch to make the bots seem a bit more human. I doubt this is really needed but it would be nice for a player like me that may come on the server late when there are only bots.

4)Bot Ping

Speaking of making bots more human this plugin gives bots a fake ping. Obviously this is just for shits and giggles but once against a nice touch as paired up with a random non-bot name and different weapons give the illusion of an actual player (and also will confuse other players )

EXTRA:

Here are a few extra plugins I found but I don't think these are needed or will be implemented but am throwing them out for possible consideration.

1)AFK Players Become Bots (Medics)

I found this and this plugin which turn AFK players into bots instead of bringing them into spectator, which in my opinion is a cool concept but I do not exactly know how well it would work out in practice so this (if considered) would need extreme testing just to make sure it functions properly.

2)Bots on Team RED in MvM

This plugin allows bots to play and function on team RED in MvM. Once again I believe this is a nice concept for when MvM servers are empty and you want to play some MvM. The chance of an empty MvM server is slim, as usually they are full, so I think this plugin isn't really needed but also decided to throw it into the mix for possible consideration as it could be useful in certain scenarios.

All right that is it, hopefully you read till the end , I honestly did not see or ask if any of the mentioned plugins have been considered or implemented and I did not look into these plugins myself much so if half of them aren't working anymore sorry. I hope at least the first 2-3 are considered and really hope the first one gets implemented because as I mentioned above they would be a really nice touch/improvement to bots.

Thank you for reading and please post your feedback below!

 

We talked about this but never got a full feed back from our regular players.

 

even though im new player u can call me a regular now cuz VG servers are the best!! so i think if yalls need feeback u should use dooms idea and put the mods on the server and see how everybody reacts and if its positiv then just keep it and if its bad then tweak it or something so ye i think it may be good mods cuz i came on the server once and it was BOTS and it was boring.

 

well i used to be somewhat active on gamebanana and this mod looks hella good does it work?? http://gamebanana.com/wips/44386

 

yo so are u guys checking out this stuff or is it a no no?