Tech Olive

Although it’s still in an early testing stage, Valve’s Team Fortress 2 development team has announced the inclusion of AI bots in TF2‘s newest update. Currently, the bots only support the KOTH gametypes/maps, but Valve promises to have them working globally soon. They’re also planning a menu-spawning system in a future update, but for now you can add and assign bots using the in-game console. Follow the break for instructions.

• To add bots to your game, use the console command tf_bot_add. This will drop a random bot onto a random team (assuming there is a free player slot). The tf_bot_add command can also take up to three optional arguments: <count>, <class>, and <team>, in any order. For example, tf_bot_add 10 will add 10 random bots to the game with auto-assigned teams. Typing tf_bot_add pyro blue will add a Pyro to the blue team. Entering tf_bot_add red 5 will add 5 random bots to the red team. The command tf_bot_add red 3 heavyweapons will add three heavies to the red team.
• In order to put specific bots on specific teams (for a bots-vs-humans game, for example), you may want to disable automatic team balancing. To do this, enter mp_autoteambalance 0 followed by mp_teams_unbalance_limit 0.
• To remove a bot, use the console command kick <bot name>. To remove all of the bots in the game, use the command tf_bot_kick all.

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