@Ambatunissan , it's "Bot Merciless Mode". If it's enabled, bots will do some cover fires when grenade is thrown.

hello, kurochama. I have a question.

Where do I find that mode (in cfg) to turn off to prevent bots start firing weapons while throwing grenades?

@CATSarekittens , the scavenge here uses "warp hands" instead, so bots can grab gascans from 2-3 feet away. As this mod focuses on bot's aggressiveness, so for scavenge, defib features etc, I only made them with simple mechanisms instead. As for coloring an object, that's possible, but probably that's not useful enough for bot mods.

I think they will also pink up the gnome if I remember correctly

There's a feature I like in the advanced ai mod where they grab supplies aka gas cans, propane tanks, and air tanks and put them on their backs idk if you'd wanna add a feature like that cuz it's kinda useful to have.

they do not friendly fire but i believe you could still be in the way sometimes
but even then, the screen would have some kind of nudging effect
however, there wouldn't be any damage to you

@Epiceratos , normally bots can't do friendlyfire to players. Did you probably enable "sb_friendlyfire"? It's not recommended to enable "sb_friendlyfire", as even it's also difficult enough to avoid friendlyfire even on vanilla bots with "sb_friendlyfire" active.

The bot are bit annoying, they do friendly fire to each other, although they are meant to shoot the zombies. Sorry but any idea for turn this mod off? (When I just want to play game without mods, the bots often do friendly fire to other and me.)

@Sasha Pines (no brain) , no, it won't. Last time I use this together with Left 4 Bots to make bots scavenge the gascans, they still picked & filled the gas properly.

does this have conflict with left 4 bot tho ?

@CATSarekittens , set "Bot Detection Range" to 8 instead.

How do I stop all the bots from shooting at once? like when one bot sees and shoots a zombie the other bots will also shoot but will just be shooting the ground or a wall.

@Joe , set "NormalMode" to 1 to disable pills for bots.

Why do all bots starts the map with pills?

@౿౿౿౿Evanescence 伊凡塞斯 , did you enable "AutobuySILv1"? If tank summons a witch, it means that he has accumulated enough exp (more than 300 exp) to spawn a witch. This skill actually only has 2% chance of activation, but if several survivors keep shooting him at the same time, 2% chance is still possible to trigger more than once. For now there's no way to stop it via cfg file. So if you use "AutobuySILv1", it's better to burn the tank with molotov or gascan & then run, because tank gets more dangerous the more he gets exp, & he can get exp by taking damage from survivor (for 1000 damage he takes, he gets 100 exp). Tank from usually can only spawn witch once on normal difficulty (4000 health = only 400 exp max), twice on advanced (6000 health= 600 exp max), & 3 times on expert (8000 health= 800 exp max).

the tank keeps spamming witch how do i make him use that skill once?

@Doctor X , I'll try to check there soon. Last time I checked google & what I found so far was about editing cvars.

You can try using SourceMod,If it doesn't work, forget it.

I'm sorry, L4D1 doesn't have Vscript... but I see that many people on the forum at <https://forums.alliedmods.net> have created plugins using SourceMod.

This is not just a bot mod. There is a lot of settings in ems folder. I love it! i am using both this and left 4 bots

thanks mate

@Americo , iif you know any of script mods for L4D1 that use vscripts, you can send me the links here & I'll take a look into them. I only need to know whether L4D1 also has vscript files like "director_base_addon.nut", "mapspawn_addon.nut" etc to execute script mods without conflicting with other mods..

emmm... You can try contacting the author of Competitive-Bots+, who may have experience in this area

@Americo , @Trunten , probably if it's just via cvars, L4D1 bots could still be modified. But I don't know if L4D1 also has same script functions (there's no page to visit L4D1 script functions, unlike L4D2 that has the page for the script functions) especially "Traceline" or not, as those are needed to modify several bot's behaviors via vscript.

I'm not aware of the first game having the same scripting abilities

Bit "kuro" could investigate if he has the first game

Would you consider porting the Left 4 Bot module to Left 4 Dead 1

@Sultan Abu Al Pepsi , you can try to change "Bot Detection Range" on "mercilesstoggles.txt" to anything other than 3 & 5.

its laggy and seem to be CPU intensive. is there any options to improve performance ?

@kurochama thank you!

@demojix9 , set "NormalMode" to 1. That will prevent auto revive when special infected or tank is killed. I think there's also "Auto Revive" feature in the cfg file that you'll need to turn off. For autobuy for bots, check "AutobuySurvivorLv1" in the cfg file & turn it off to make bots stop buying items.

How to prevent bots using defribillators and autobuy adrenalines, medkit? I always revived after I died in survival. Which I continued the game for almost 30+ minuters lol, seems like unkillable haha

my only gripe with this mod is they mow down infected going for pipe bombs, the actively seek and destroy those mobs before the bomb if blows up. but other than that its a solid OP mod for higher difficulty

Oh man this mod is so reliable to use on survival

I thought simple version covered that

@TheAmazingBlitzø78 , which chat? When they buy something, or when avoiding acid? If it's the chat when avoiding acid, there's a feature to disable it in "acid evasion" cfg file.

Where do I find this "simple" version

I believe we have a "simple" version, yes

Is there a version of this where they dont use chat? Or a way to disable it

@WuChan , there is, I think. If you set "NormalMode" to 0 or 2, survivors can crawl.

wish this had crawl while incapped

That was during the times of 2012-2020 before the Last Stand update that made them now less over powered today and act alike to us.

Merciless bots? I think I remember the bots being merciless back then when the game was released and they were MAD insane when the difficulty was cramped up to expert. Likely possible to help players play against infected players in versus mode, but made them over powered in single player campaign and co-op only matches. They used to also skeet hunters so easily as well with any guns.

Is there a way to disable the uneeded text they have? "spitter acid, move!", "i got laser sights", etc?
Also, is there a way to prevent them from buying things, or make it rarer?

Elon Musk probably toggled it for $8 a month.
while spreading his homophobia about political figures.

Seems like Melee Dash Toggle isn't working.

is there a way to disable to text for bot it abit weird seeing them say something in the chat

This works perfectly with Left 4 Bots. I'm glad it's here now. I don't like GameMaps' community. Haha.

thanks for investigating, maybe it's something we can fix.

@Trunten Ok, I've tested it although it doesn't conflict with competitive bots+, it bugs when having them together because of its similar traits. I'll stick with competitive bots+ since its focuses to have great challenge among AI's even though competitive bots+ focuses on cvars, the merciless survivor bots commands still has the same effects ingame which is bugging out.

@Trunten I see, I'll test this with Competitive-Bots+ to see some improvements on the bots.