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Foxbot behavoir

• Foxbot was devised by Tom 'RedFox' Simpson then it was taken over by Zybby until 2010. FoxBot can be downloaded from this link. FoxBot v0.800 ZIP
• Foxbot relies on a system of navigation controls, called waypoints, specific to each map. 523 waypoints, for nearly as many maps, come with the installation of FoxBot.
• Foxbot is still being updated (the last update was September 2021). FoxBot Github
• Foxbots offer the following traits:
• Variable Skill
• Chat personalities available (aggressive, sarcastic, humorous, etc.)
• Attempt to report the location of dropped flags
• Bots will change classes if they are doing poorly against a particular threat
• If playing as civilian class, will attempt to stay near allies

Foxbot has been developed by:

• Tom "RedFox" Simpson
• Jordan Aka FURY
• Jeremy Aka DrEvil
• Paul Aka GoaT_RopeR
• Grubber
• Yuraj
• Richard Aka Zybby

Special thanks to:

• RoboCop
• Koala
• Safety1st
• Arkshine
• Globoss
• pizzahut
• jeefo

Foxbot commands

See the archived TF Wiki page.

Foxbot changelog

September-10-2021

• Added new waypoints:

   + axlfly
   + botspree
   + dustbowl_old
   + dustbowl2_v2
   + gen_complex
   + insideout
   + lbdustbowl
   + madcanyon
   + mulch_dm2b1
   + murderball1_3
   + osaka_l
   + osaka_r2
   + rats2v2
   + rock2_2way_r
   + rock2_open_r
   + sandbowl_r
   + turbine
   + warpath_r2

• Reinstated the 'foxbot_commander' feature
• Reduced fire delay for Sniper's Auto-Rifle
• Reduced further more redundant codes and added more C++14 support
• Reduced overflow issues and instability crashes
• Reduced Reachable Range to prevent waypoints creation from adding too many junctions
• Fixed Listenserver foxbot.cfg and other .cfg load failures
• Added some support for murderball, murderball1_3 and murderball-2002
• Fixed the unreachable waypoint in warpath as well as enhanced its other waypoints
• Reduced StartFrame stack by reducing some unwanted features and lines that exceed it
• Added more reaction time delay for bots to attack enemies as they were too quick to respond
• Improved dustbowl waypoint by removing rogue pathways in the Jump Point for Capture Point 1, 2 and 3
• bot_job_think.cpp adjusted for the Medic and Engineer bots to heal their team mates more often
• botdontmove, bot_chat, min_bots, max_bots, bot_bot_balance and bot_team_balance cvars should now operate properly

September-26-2020

• Fixed high bots CPU usage and buffer overruns
• Fixed load with non-metamod crashing the game
• Removed some more redundant codes
• Added some Clang compiler fixes and performance fixes
• Spies won't select enemy Scouts, Medics, HWs and Engineers disguises as their speeds and lame default weapons can easily blow their covers
• Repaired some rogue pathwaypoints for 2Fort, avanti, cz2, palermo, rock2, sandbowl_r2, shutdown2 and well
• Allowing bots to avoid firing lame weapons like nailguns, laser railguns and dart tranq guns too often
• Limited the bot frame rate movement to 60Hz
• Increased bot job priority for collecting ammo and healing teammates
• Added script for the bots to know how to disable flag room security
• Reduced bot job priority for solders to avoid rocket jumping too often
• Removed excess Conc/Rocket Jump waypoints in Dustbowl in awkward areas and due to the lack of conc nades
• Optimised 'foxbot_commander.txt' by removing excess 'strlen' loops

March-29-2020

• Further optimisation fixes
• Linux build compiled with the newer GCC/G++ 8
• Replaced most of the C style casts with C++ casts
• Increased Engineer priority task to maintain Sentry Guns
• Increased Medic priority task to buff and heal team mates
• Increased collect ammo priority to allow both Engineers and Snipers for defensive tasks
• Reduced Sniper accuracy for each of the 5 bot skill settings
• Enhanced the Dustbowl waypoints even further to remove lame sentry deployment areas
• Altered the Dustbowl map config to allow Red Engineers to spawn first
• Corrected the hunted map config where Sniper assassins could not spawn
• Fixed deprecation warning for 'SpyDetect'
• Fixed some potential code issues

August-07-2018

• Removed unwanted tchar.h dependancies that are no longer required - Thanks to Globoss
• Linux build should now work for Assault and Capture Point maps due to syntax error fixed - Thanks to Globoss
• Fixed Write Strings and compile time for version.cpp that fails on GCC 6+
• Fixed extdll.h that appears to fail to compile on GCC 6+ for #ifndef min and max
• Added optimisation for faster float point for Win32 build
• Linux build optimised for floating-point arithmetic and tuned for newer arch
• bot_job_think.cpp should be fairly adjusted for the bots to choose their paths and tasks wisely
• h_export.cpp Linux 'h_Library' can now detect both old and new TFC server build (tfc.so or tfc_i386.so)
• Added teleport waypoints for baconbowl_r, chimkey_l and siege
• Added more map configs for rats maps, plus turkeyburgers2002, fishburgers and donutburgers to spawn 1 Sniper per 4 teams
• Enhanced the map configs for the Assault & Defend maps, rock2 and flagrun to spawn the recommended bot classes for each team
• Enhanced the hunted waypoints to prevent the Red team and the Hunted wondering back and forth in entrance tunnel
• Added some more defensive waypoints for avanti, casbah, flagrun, chimkey_l and warpath
• Added some important conc/rocket jump waypoints for the stock maps, palermo, ksour, cornfield, baconbowl_r and sandbowl_r2
• Reduced the risk of bots invading enemy spawns for the stock maps, chimkey_l, tf2fort and ksour
• Reduced excessive waypoint and pathwaypoint quantity for rats, rats2 and rats3, rats_cmd, palermo and baconbowl_r
• Removed non recommended waypoints for Dustbowl that includes sentry that are not suitable for defending CP3
• Fixed the waypoint problems for 55, openfire_lowgrens, xpress2k4, destroy_l, phantom, shutdown2, sandbowl_r2 and tf2fort
• Added new waypoints for bases2k3, momentum_l, mortality_l and hellion

December-23-2016

• Renamed Win32 binary 'foxbot.dll' as 'foxbot_mm.dll'
• Both builds recompiled and added some FPU compile flag support for SSE2
• Removed further HLDM and Op4 support
• Fixed the 'check if entity is a Dispenser' coding that was mistyped
• Enhanced the Dustbowl waypoints for preventing blue bots from going backwards
• Enhanced the shutdown2 waypoints for preventing bots from spawn camping
• Enhanced the cornfield waypoints for using detpack and more teleports
• Increased bot priority tasks for allowing Engineers to focus more on building
• Removed ammo waypoints located in Nade Bag locations to reduce bots taking grenades to allow humans to obtain them
• Added some important concjump points for certain stock maps plus for palermo, destroy_l and shutdown2
• Added important FoxBot Map and Class Restriction map configs for TFC for like Sniper only maps and hunted
• Added 'foxbot_mm_i686.so' Linux HLDSUpdatetool TFC compatible binary version for legacy support
• Added teleport waypoints for warpath, shutdown2, avanti, schtop, monkey_l, ksour and palermo
• New waypoints for 55, openfire_lowgrens, rats, rats2, rats3, xpress2k4, destroy_l, phantom, rats_cmd and tf2fort
• baconbowl_r, siege, high_flag, mortality_l, ss_nyx_ectfc, alchimy_l2, bases2k3 and hellion (coming soon!)

August-20-2016

• Added 'bot_team_balance' external integer for bot.cpp
• Fixed the unwanted 'const' for the bot global variables that fail for Win32 build
• Drop the '_i386' suffix build name for Linux binary version
• Both builds compiled for SteamPipe using HLSDK v2.3p4 and Metamod v1.21-p37 source codes
• Fixed the 'snprint' script that was used for the older FoxBot cpp files
• Removed non-required entities for TFC that were used from the HPB Template
• Removed support for HLDM, CS, FLF and Op4 from HPB Template to focus support for TFC
• Fixed code typo error for 'bot_max_inaccuracy' in bot_combat.cpp
• Linux version optimised as i686 build and fixed Linux binary for TFC SteamPipe Servers
• Both builds optimised for SSE2 code generation
• Fixed '[META] WARNING: Plugin didn't set meta_result: foxbot.dll:engClientCommand() that appears to be fixed from the newer HLSDK and Metamod kits
• Added a config variable 'botdontmove' to spawn stationary bots for the purpose of minigolf maps