Port the bots from CS to Quake.

Professional campers for Quake :) 

In the early days I used bgbot. It was laughably poor.

I ended up using reaperbot for the longest time. I recall people saying good things about frogbot, I did like the feature to "watch" the game from the bots perspective but it never felt as "playerlike" as reaperbots.

Were there any others that were considered good? 

was probably the best one IMO but it had to be properly coded to work. I believe Reaperbot was the least hassle to get working on a map 

ZUES is an oldie but goodie. It may not be the best, but it works well. 

The code is great, easy to implement and behaves really well. 

Yeah frog and frik are both pretty darn good.

Omicron actually isn't bad either. If you are playing a map that has waypoints for all the bot types then probably frog or frik are better? The neat thing about Omicron tho is that it can learn on-the-fly, so for a waypointless map you can still get some good fun from Omicron. It's also decent at rocket arena. 

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdaqCHrVAAEW2AU.jpg 

 

(Bloodborne boss spoilers)

Finally killed this guy after 6 days of trying! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTu4aGdOU0U

Seriously, by the time I got good enough to kill him I could practice fighting him in my sleep because I knew all the attack timings so well :P

Fuuuuuuck this game is so good :o 

what an awesome encounter! 

 

Anyone know some great custom Q2 levels? 

Google's car is a good test for modern AI.
But I for one, will never be getting in the car with it.. though i think it's probably better than the average asian backpacker driving around our country town. Scary. 

https://www.quaddicted.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=159

Don't know if this helps...? 

For anyone just trying to find stuff (rather than looking for specific recommendations), https://www.gog.com/forum/quake_series/quake_2_single_player_pack could be useful. Haven't tried that myself, just saw it posted recently. 

There wasn't a lot that really impressed me in the Q2 mapping scene, perhaps because I didn't like the guns and enemies as much as Q1. But, these stand out in my memory:

Powersphere Quest -- impressive visuals, 5-level hub, seems to be tuned for coop so the combats are ridiculous and I had to cheat to play it, but worth it just for the layout and visuals.

SPOGSP1 -- another impressive looking level, lots of great brushwork by one of the guys who figured out how to do curves really well in radiant. 

THIS MAP IS GOD FUN

http://www.somethingawful.com/hosted/cranky/index.php?review=28 

I agree, Spogsp1 was easily one of the best user made maps for any of the id games.

I know there were other decent Quake 2 maps. I played almost one that was released, but I've played very little Q2 in the last 10 years, so I can't remember the names off the top of my head. 

I played almost every one that was released


(edit button needed badly) 

That's interesting because I played almost one. 

My Quake 2 folder is over 2 GB. I know a lot of that is DM maps, but there's a bunch of SP maps also. 

Is Quake 2's Marcher Fortress. Unfortunately, it did not inspire people in the same way as Marcher did. 

Premonition of Angron
Monumental Misery
Back at the Front
Castles of Stroggos 3
Dark Undergrowth

Much more I'm forgetting.

Would anyone be interested in a Quake 2 SP map jam?
I'm kicking around the idea of running one later in the year...