I'm new to Counter Strike: Source and am playing with bots so I can sharpen my skills before playing with human players. However, I've noticed that my team of bots is virtually useless while the enemy team has incredible precision and accuracy. For example, my team will often run into a guarded bombsite and stare at the enemy while they get shot to pieces. Also, they will just sit there while the enemy team storm in and kill them all. I even had an instance where one of my team looked at an enemy on the balcony in de_inferno for a good 5 seconds before the enemy noticed and killed them. Because of this, I almost always lose and don't possess the skill to kill the entire enemy team on my own. Two questions:
- Is this normal bot behaviour?
- Are there any mods/options that fix this?
The bots are set to normal difficulty, and this happens whether I'm a terrorist or counter-terrorist.
Best Answer
Yes it is normal behavior, your team bots are not as efficient as the enemy. It even comes from old CS:CZ, at least I remember it that way. The thing is the AI of your team behaves different because you are in such team. In other words, you are the captain of your team.
That means you have control of the behavior of your teammates. You need to send radio commands with the tactical decisions you think are best. Are they storming like crazy? Send a "Regroup team". Are they camping? Send a "Storm the front". If you spot an enemy and you send the command they will re-position to try to get a shot at him. Asking for status also lets you analyze the current situation.
So the thing is, when there are players on their teams bots do act different to allow players to direct them, because, as Raestloz said, is not quite fun to let the game play itself.