Quake3World

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!

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.

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.

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

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

i stand corrected

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

and it is an utterly stupid feature

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.

this

wtf bro

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

Oh hi a13n, aren't you banned?