Play With Bots?

[Scorch]

Seeing as how multiplayer is kinda dead, is there a way to play with bots in skirmish mode or something? I want to have a few squadmates when I try to shoot down aliens. Singleplayer doesn't cut it when you can't force the allied AI to move in a specific direction, since they just walk around like they're in a daze.

[Sir Tricky]

i wouldnt say multiplayer is dead, the players are still out there waiting to play, i have had many succesful multiplayer games, if you host it they will come, in response to the bots i do not think there is an option to do so.

[Olde]

You can't force spawn human bots in skirmish mode. If you have AVP 99 or Gold Edition on disc you might be able to spawn them by typing "-debug -lampcxtr" in the command line.

I might be wrong, but I think it's possible to get bots to follow you in single-player by pressing the operate key on them, but it's worthless because one hit usually kills them.

[Scorch]

I cant do it in Skirmish. What about multiplayer?

[Olde]

Same thing. Skirmish and coop multiplayer operate with the same conditions. Incidentally, you can play the singleplayer campaign cooperatively in multiplayer if you have someone to play with.

[Mad Max RW]

You can play with bots, but it requires you to make a duplicate of the skirmish map. Open with the official map editor (called Inteng, and the editors will not install if you don't have AvP Gold), add the desired NPCs you want, save and rename the skirmish map file to one of the existing singleplayer maps, start AvP and select whatever episode you just replaced. So for example, if I copied Stranded (called kens-co-op.RIF), added some marines to run around with me, then renamed that file to Derelict.RIF (remembering to backup the original) I can now play Stranded with friendly marines and the usual swarms of aliens in place of the first Marine singleplayer mission.

That's just a really basic way of doing it. You can get crazy and add a constant stream of respawning marines, different aliens such as queens and facehuggers, advanced stuff like triggers to drop a predator into the mix, or whatever else you desire.

[Olde]

Mad Max is right, but that's assuming you have AvP Gold and Inteng will work on your computer, which, because of driver issues, is actually a fairly tall order these days. No kidding, I'm reinstalling Windows XP on an old laptop just because my video drivers won't support Inteng. Not to mention you would need to know how to add the NPCs, which not everyone does. In my opinion, it would probably be much easier to bind the spawn commands and spawn bots as you go.

Max, is there a way to get the "-lampcxtr" command to work? I know I've seen screenshots of predators, xenoborgs, marines, androids, aliens, praetorians, facehuggers, and a queen all together so I'm pretty sure that command line worked at one point. Do you know if it was just for AvP 99 and/or Gold?

[Scorch]

I don't know if thats how it works in AvP2, but it's unfortunate that you cant force marines in AvP 1999 to follow you. I just want to fight aliens with some marine bots.

[Mad Max RW]

Marines will follow if you hit the taunt key within sight of them. In fact, if you get way too far in a level they will teleport to keep up. When an enemy is nearby they stop everything and move to engage, then continue following when it's dead. It's kind of primitive but works.

Right click AvP Classic 2000 in the Steam window, click Properties, then Set Launch Options. Add -debug -lampcxtr and hit OK. The spawn command works, however only for NPCs that exist in the current map you are playing. So if you try to spawn a predator in the first marine mission it won't do anything. At the end of the day you need the editors.

[Olde]

I've confirmed that -lampcxtr will spawn bots not normally found in particular levels with the vanilla version of AVP Gold. That was -lampcxtr's intended function, to allow you to spawn bots that don't appear in those maps. It will not work with Classic 2000, so there's no point in adding it to the command line.

[Olde]

I talked to sirlemonhead about this and he patched his mod so you can spawn any bots anywhere. I made a guide on it here: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=371760803