Bot latency?

[haternet]

Hi there...

I ought to know this, but I never messed with the Q3 bots much: is there a way to simulate latency for individual bots? E.g., could I pit Xaero 5 with fake ping of 25 against Xaero 5 with fake ping of 50? I'm guessing not, since that would be too interesting to have remained under my radar. But is there perhaps a mod that'll do it?

Thanks!

[MKJ]

by use of the /addbot command in the console;

/addbot [botname] [skill 1-5] [team] [msec delay] [altname]

e.g.
/addbot Xaero 5 red 250 Carl

would add a Nightmare Xaero on the Red team with simulated ping of 250ms named Carl.

[menkent]

are you sure? i was under the impression that that "msec delay" was how long it took the bot to enter the match. ie- in your example the xaero named carl would join 1/4 second after you enter that in the console.
try:
/addbot xaero 5 red 5000 carl
and watch what happens.

[MKJ]

i was in doubt myself and i dont have q3 installed ( ), but then I thought to myself, what use would a join-delay have? :[

in other words, if you tested it then you're probably right

[^misantropia^]

menkent's right, it's the spawn delay.

[MKJ]

i stand corrected

and also a bit ashamed; i used to pride myself for knowing all this

[menkent]

and it is an utterly stupid feature

[^misantropia^]

Maybe not entirely. Add 10 bots all at once and things will lag like hell on slow machines. A spawn delay evens out the pain.

[hareluya666]

this

[MKJ]

wtf bro

[haternet]

I guess that's a "No," then.

[obsidian]

Oh hi a13n, aren't you banned?