note, this part of the guide is how you would normally spawn in bots on certain koth and cp maps, This is not the method for all maps...

The first thing you want to do once you have launched TF2 is click the little [+] button in the Servers button:


Then select one of the KOTH maps, or the cp maps (some will not work with this method)

Once you have done that, click the start button, to launch the server...

Once you have done this, open the console and type in tf_bot_add 12 to add 6 bots to each team



Now there should be some action in your game... the map resets around 20 seconds into the game to allow other players to join, but once this happens, you can play to your heart's content (Achievements work in this mode, since sv_cheats is set to 0.)

With other maps, the method shown above does not work, and this is because there are no navigation files saved for these maps, this is what happens if you use the other method, if you are not interested, or short for time, please skip to the next section.

Let's say for example we want to play a bit of offline 2fort, the normal thing to do would be to create a new server with ctf_2fort selected as a map.


Then we would insert the bots by using tf_bot_add 12:


However, in this case, the bots do spawn in, but they do not move... (e.g. they just stand in spawn, and the medic will try and uber everyone...)

If you haven't already, let's kick all the bots, to make sure the map is clear, to do this, use the tf_bot_kick all command in the console

Then we need to enable sv_cheats, to do this, type in sv_cheats 1


Once you have done that, type in nav_generate into the console:


You should then start to see items popping up into the console such as Sampling walkable space


(Note your computer will lag, quite a lot during this stage, so try and close other windows on your computer before doing this...

once this has finished, you should see the loading screen for joining a server:


When this has loaded, simply type in the tf_bot_add 12 command into the console, and you're good to go :D
(Don't forget to turn off sv_cheats!)

Look, they move!



Thank you for reading this tutorial, I hope it has helped you play offline, whether its because you have no internet, want practise, or just fancy playing on your own.

This has been my first ever guide, so I hope it has helped you a lot, thanks! ~teska77