HurricaneBot

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January 2024

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This mod for Source has been released! Download it now.

Overview

This is a server-side bot for Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. It has been written mostly in order to fill a server with more opponents when there are not many players around. The current version of the bot has been reported to work with Half-Life Deathmatch: Source. In the future, more Steam servers mods will be supported.

Its current strength has been improved a lot since the original public availability.

Features

  • Server-side fake player.
  • No manual waypoints. The analysis of each map is automatic.

Media

Being a pure binary add-on, there are not a lot of media available around right now.

History

A friend bought Half-Life 2 around Christmas 2006 as its first FPS since years. Playing and training against bots sounded like a good thing at the time so I started to write one.

To guide a blind character unable to know what it has in its pockets in order to inflict pain to players was a bit harder than I expected but here it is.

Team

  • Hurricane : Geek and computer scientist

Localized versions

Pain is an international language.

Anyway ...

The bot "speech" is in a very basic status and has been set with English text. There are plans to develop this specific part and add languages.

E.G. of server.cfg settings

//Hurricane Bot settings
hrcbot_enabled 1
hrcbot_minplayers 0
hrcbot_maxplayers 5
hrcbot_handicap 65
hrcbot_motd 0
hrcbot_dialogmsg 1
hrcbot_freezeifnoplayers 0
hrcbot_spawnprotectionseconds 2
hrcbot_spawnprotectedhealth 125
hrcbot_player_spawnweapon smg1
hrcbot_clan ""

Add More Bots to Server Command

hrcbot_add (can only work with 'hrcbot_autobalancebots 0')

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