How to ease bots (AI) management and configuration

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I play CS:GO with my roommate against bots and we like to make custom games, say 2 CT's (us) vs 5 T's. Doing this in CS:GO requires some console commands. My question is, can we batch these commands somehow, or make a script that runs on server startup? The goal being to jump right into our custom setup without typing in a bunch of console commands and then restarting the server by hand.

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LorenzoDB was on track although probably a touch more complex than it needed to be.

The most straightforward solution would be to create a config file with a custom name. And inside of that config file put all the command you would manually type.

Then when you want to play, load up CS:GO and do exec my_script.cfg in the console. It'll just run all of your commands batched and you should be good to go.

You could also bind it to a button on your keyboard (say an unused f key or something, but I'd lean towards a script you'd execute (per my first suggestion). You probably only need to run it at the start and then the match would just go from there.

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Bot difficulty can be changed at the console and in the configuration files by changing the bot_difficulty variable, which can be set to one of the following values:

Easy:   0   bot_difficulty 0 
Normal: 1   bot_difficulty 1
Hard:   2   bot_difficulty 2
Expert: 3   bot_difficulty 3

There are also the following two commands which are supposed to re-scale bot difficulty depending on the average scores of the "human" players on the server;

bot_autodifficulty_threshold_low    defaults to -2
bot_autodifficulty_threshold_high   defaults to 0

bot_autodifficulty_threshold_low is the value used to determine that the bot needs to make itself harder, and bot_autodifficulty_threshold_high is the value used to determine that the bot needs to make itself easier. These values can be set to any number between 20.0 and -20.0 but apparently this may be bugged.

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There are a couple of ways to accomplish this, namely editing config files. However, the easiest way is for you to use console commands once you are in a game to fill it however you like. You will start with a standard 5 vs 5 setup and by using the following commands you can then clear the server and fill it with the amount of bots you so desire.

bot_kick - This command will remove all bots from the game.

bot_quota # - By replacing the "#" with a number you will spawn in that amount of bots. Take into account that YOU are included in that number. For instance if you type "bot_quota 2" it will simply add 1 bot in addition to yourself.

You can find additional bot-related console commands HERE.

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