Part 23

Bot Difficulty Adjustment: You can change bot attributes, which is useful for bots like Loque with high accuracy. This feature is only usable on bots not in team games but can help balance DM ladder matches.

Recommended Bot Difficulty: For a balanced challenge, choose a difficulty no lower than Adept and no higher than Masterful. Adept bots move at less than 100% speed, making them too easy. Masterful bots do not cheat (except for instantly homing rockets), while difficulties higher than Masterful involve bots that always cheat.

Friendly Bots: Your team-mates are often less capable than you, especially in Assault mode. Use them to draw enemy fire while you complete objectives. They react predictably, so you are the key to success. Issue orders via the Orders menu (F12) or Speech Binder, or use hotkeys (see Section 3.1.2). You can spectate (F5) bot team-mates for advance warning of enemy positions, but be aware you are vulnerable while spectating.

Enemy Bots: On lower difficulties, enemy bots shoot at your current location. At higher levels, they shoot at where you are going to be, making them more dangerous. They are proficient at all ranges.

Enemy Team Orders: Enemy bot orders are based on counteracting your team's orders. If your team attacks, the enemy base will have a greater defense. Aim for a balance or adapt to the situation. This strategy is harder to exploit in the GOTY edition.

Exploiting Enemy Bots: In Assault or CTF, use tricks and shortcuts to outwit enemy teams, as they never learn and follow the same paths.

Bot Behavior: When fighting a bot one-on-one, note when it moves away; it's likely seeking health or ammo, which you can target.

Spawn Points: When you die, you respawn (be brought back to life at a checkpoint after death) with a pistol and hammer unless it's Last Man Standing (LMS) and you've lost your last life.

DM and DOM Spawn Points: Spawn points are randomized to prevent player advantage. Each map has preset spawn points, but the computer chooses which one you will use upon respawn to prevent spawn-camping. This also prevents enemies from knowing where you will reappear. You might respawn in front of an opponent, which is a double-edged sword.

Assault (AS) Spawn Points: AS uses preset spawn-rooms where you always reappear. Which spawn-room you use depends on objectives completed, which is crucial for online play, especially on custom maps.

CTF Spawn Points: CTF spawns are more randomized than AS but less so than DM or DOM. You will generally respawn inside your own base or sometimes in the neutral zone, but never in the enemy base.

Map Knowledge: Knowing each map is advantageous, allowing you to orient yourself upon respawn and quickly reach weapons or power-ups, especially in DM maps for quick weapon access or shield belt control.