Painkeep v3 - Blast your opponents with 3 times the Pain. Deathmatch mod - make other players "die." Disclaimer - this is a free product with no warranty - see disclaimer.txt for details. Number Six - welcome to the village.
Where have all the bots gone?
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Running a stress test of new code with my usual 3v3 bots. And the map is real quiet... Start looking around, no blasts, no rockets, no nails, nothing. A few revisions back I put in the respawning boom box code from chaos - somehow a large number of bots are stuck in a corner behind 3 boxes! Heh heh. Apparently they have sense not to shoot and seem to be using axes. Damn, looks like the latest bot update has made a mess of viswep again.
interesting, so they understand that they are near explosive boxes and wont use ranged weapons. but why they cant hit each other ?!
It isn't that I coded them to avoid range weps around barrels & exploders. Its the culmination of some odd bot code and resultant bugs.
There seems to be a bug between pk*bots and frikbots using axes. Of all the code I'm least familiar with is the bot AI stuff.
So far as I understand if a bot runs out of ammo and starts attacking with an axe, once they have the target even if they pick up ammo for a ranged wep. - they keep the axe until they get shot by another bot (acquiring another target). As to why the axe damage fails I suspect its in the way the pk*bots do movement. Frikbots use player physics movement, but pk*bots have a custom routine I haven't looked at closely. So the pk*bots cheat a bit on movement (and they do - I've watched them) thus staying just beyond axe strike range.
This (bot on bot axe dmg.) will prob. be one of the last bugs I fix.