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Cruel Bots

@BakerBochMod , you can try to modify the cvars related to bots ("sb_" cvars). Afaik, some of the cvars that affect how fast bots react to zombies are cvars related to range (like "sb_threat_medium_range" etc, "sb_near_hearing_range" & other range-related cvars). If you modify those cvars, you can reduce bot's response speed on zombies.
There are also bots cvars started with "nb_", & I think the headshot rate can be found on "nb_" cvars.

Hi, I've been studying some of the AI behavior in L4D2 recently, and I noticed a pretty serious but often overlooked issue — the bots seem to have a kind of built-in "aim assist" during combat.
This is especially noticeable when using L4B2-style mods and engaging enemies at close to mid range — they can almost instantly lock onto targets and land perfect headshots.

In high difficulty or realism-focused gameplay, this kind of behavior really breaks immersion and throws off the balance of team dynamics.

I'm just an amateur modder with limited skills, but I wanted to ask:
Do you think it would be technically possible to create a mod that disables or at least reduces the bots' auto-aim, assuming someone had enough time, energy, and skill to tackle it?

Brother, may I ask if you can add a function to increase the bot's movement speed? In Left 4 Bot 2, there is a command that allows the bot to prioritize focusing fire on the position of your crosshair, but the bot moves really too slowly. I hope you can add a function to increase the bot's movement speed.

@kurochama sorry for the reply. I tested it and i did indeed disable instructor hints, so it works now. The reason i asked is because in the complete merciless survivor bots addon, with the grenadier and medic things being features in there, it used the chat window to display the numbers on how much items you stored.

It might be a nice option to add that for the notification system, incase people prefer to play with hte instructor hints off.

I was wondering how long it will take for the "Angry Bots" update to go live?

@Mickey Adaptus , did you disable instructor hints? On Paramedic Survivors & Grenadier Mode, the notification is via instructor hint. As bots can't display instructor hint, the number of medkit/ grenade bots have isn't visible either. But players can see their items in virtual inventory as long as instructor hint is enabled.

Ahhh thanks that is good to know. I think the notification option on the paramedic survivors and grenadier survivors mod are bugged tough, i couldn't get either of them to display the notifications when bots or i pick up items. I think i saw someone else mention this bug as well.

The notification options do work on the complete merciless bots mod tough, since i remember seeing those notifications when using the mod.

@Mickey Adaptus , I'm glad to know that you like this mod. For Grenadier Mode & Paramedic Survivors, they should work well with this mod. I also often use those 2 mods along with either Merciless Bots, Enhanced Angry Bots or this Cruel Bots when testing some custom campaigns, & they could work without problem.

Hey there, so i saw you integrated the grenadier mode thing into this mod as a feature. I tend to use your mods quite a bit (merciless bots in particiluar), but i want to use cruel bots now since its more lightweight and works more smoothly with other bot mods, but i also tend to use Grenadier mode and Paramedic survivors.

So if i use the seperate Grenadier mode and Paramedic survivor mods, will the features work well alongside the Cruel Bots mod? I was using those 2 mods alongside simple merciless survivors a while ago, but i couldn't quite figure out if the bots were picking up those extra medkits and grenades etc. The notification option did not seem to work fo those mods either, despite it being turned on.

I do really like your mods, they are some of the best on the entire workshop in my oppinion, alongside left 4 bots 2

@菠萝游侠 , yes. If you use a mod with 8 survivors, bots will kill many zombies faster than just with 4 survivors.