CS2 - adding bots - the PROPER way

This guide will quickly teach you how to setup the game so you can enjoy a training environment and play with as many as 10 bots in the enemy team and none in your own.

It contains commands to adjust real bot difficulty, money accrued during game play and how to adjust round time properly.

Also it shows how to unlock all weapons for bots and enjoy play beyond the limit of 13 rounds :)

These commands work for all game modes, but are best used for bomb defuse or hostage rescue maps.

1. Getting started

First step, launch CS2 and from the main menu, select PLAY.
Choose "PRACTICE", next select game type as "CASUAL".

From the left menu, the only option you might consider turning on is "infinite ammo", as this will provide your guns with plenty bullets and you'll never have to reload (useful if you want to practice AWP shots, for example).

NOTE! Before you proceed with this guide, please go to GAME OPTIONS and ENABLE DEVELOPER CONSOLE. The default key is "~" which is usually under the Escape key.
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At this point, click "GO" and let the game load your custom scenario.

2. Loading the game

Once the game loads, depending on the preference, select the TEAM you'd like to join and next, open the CONSOLE.

For this guide, I'll show the commands necessary to play as a T on Dust, against a team of 10 CTs.

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Once you've selected T, you'll see something close to the picture above.
Well done, now we start to customize our bot game.

3. Console COMMANDS with details

At this point, inside the game, both teams are set to 5 players, you having 4 bots to help out.
We'll have to change that.

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Next, open the CONSOLE (default key is "~"). Ignore whatever is happening in the game at this point.

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When you will start entering the console commands, it's enough to type the beginning part, as soon as you see the CONSOLE COMMAND you want, just press TAB and add the VALUE you require.

Command 1:

mp_limitteams 0

Reason: this will prevent bots from joining your team.

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Command 2:

mp_autoteambalance 0

Reason: this will prevent the game from balancing teams, so you can play VS more than 1 or 2 enemy bots.

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Command 3:

bot_kick all

Reason: this will kick the default bots from the game, allowing us to add our bots at a later point, with the desired difficulty and weapons.

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Command 4:

bot_difficulty 3

Reason: this command will allow us to control how easy or hard the enemy bots are. You can choose any value between 1 and 5, with 1 being easy and 5 being hard.

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Command 5:

custom_bot_difficulty 3

Reason: I'm unsure why this is required, but not using it will revert the bots to the default difficulty level of 1. Use the same value as you selected with the "bot_difficulty" command above.

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Command 6:

sv_auto_adjust_bot_difficulty 0

Reason: this command will prevent the game from changing the bot difficulty in regards to your skill, and allow you to play against the selected difficulty level for real.

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Command 7:

mp_freezetime 2

Reason: this value allows you to lock the start of the round for X seconds, so you have time to buy all required items. Can be 0 - which means NO FREEZE TIME, or whatever value you want. This will always be seconds, so 60 is 1 minute.

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Command 8:

mp_roundtime 9

Reason: this will set the length of time for a round. This command is useful for non-defuse and non-hostage maps. This value is set in minutes. Adjust it to your preference.

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Command 9:

mp_roundtime_defuse 9

Reason: this will set the lenght of time for a defuse map. This value is set in minutes. Adjust it to your preference.

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Command 10:

mp_roundtime_hostage 9

Reason: this will set the lenght of time for hostage rescue maps. This value is set in minutes. Adjust it to your preference.

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Command 11:

mp_maxmoney 80000

Reason: this sets the highest amount of money you can earn and save round to round. Default for bot games is 10,000 so I like to increase it to a higher value.

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Command 12:

mp_startmoney 20000

Reason: this sets the starting money for you and the bots. Default value is 1,000 and I like to increase it, in order to skip the pistol round.

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Command 13:

bot_join_team ct

Reason: this command forces the bots to only join t or ct or it can be used with the value "any" to let them join both teams. For this map, we'll force them all to join CT.

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Command 14:

bot_all_weapons 1

Reason: this command will allow bots to use all weapons against you, without restrictions.

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Command 15:

mp_maxrounds 99

Reason: this command lets us expand the game beyond the 13 rounds limit. Adjust it to your preference.

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Command 16:

bot_quota 11

Reason: this command will set the maximum number of PLAYERS for some reason, so if you want 10 bots, the value should always be number-of-bots + 1 (you). For 5 bots, use value 6. And so on.
Also, sometimes this command will trigger the bots to JOIN, sometimes it will not. If no bots join, use command 17. If the bots join, skip command 17 and go to command 18.

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Command 17

bot_add

Reason: use this command only if command 16 did not trigger the bots to join. This will add a bot to the game, or all bots to the game, using the values set before.

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Command 18:

mp_restartgame 1

Reason: this command will force the game to restart after X seconds, using the parameters set. Typing all commands takes a while and it's good to restart the game and start from a fresh score in order to see the gaming stats without the setup rounds when you can't play.

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4. End result

If everything went well, after restarting the game you should see something like this:

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Enjoy your 1 vs 10 game against 10 bots of level 3 with access to all weapons, starting money 20k, round time 9 minutes and game victory after 99 rounds!

THANK YOU FOR READING MY GUIDE!

If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave them as a comment below!

Annex - skip here for the COMMANDS

I've added this annex for those who don't want to read all the details and are interested to get the commands directly.

NOTE! The commands should be entered in this order for the end result to be ok.

mp_limitteams 0
mp_autoteambalance 0
bot_kick all
bot_difficulty 3
custom_bot_difficulty 3
sv_auto_adjust_bot_difficulty 0
mp_freezetime 2
mp_roundtime 9
mp_roundtime_defuse 9
mp_roundtime_hostage 9
mp_maxmoney 80000
mp_startmoney 20000
bot_join_team ct
bot_all_weapons 1
mp_maxrounds 99
bot_quota 11
bot_add
mp_restartgame 1

[red dye carmine]

mp_limitteams 0;
mp_autoteambalance 0;
bot_kick all;
bot_difficulty 3;
custom_bot_difficulty 3;
sv_auto_adjust_bot_difficulty 0;
mp_freezetime 2;
mp_roundtime 9;
mp_roundtime_defuse 9;
mp_roundtime_hostage 9;
mp_maxmoney 80000;
mp_startmoney 20000;
bot_join_team ct;
bot_all_weapons 1;
mp_maxrounds 99;
bot_quota 11;
bot_add;
mp_restartgame 1;

[Dick Von Assman]

It would be neat if they added a bot configuration menu. I play CS 1.6 and Condition Zero with bots and CS2 bots aren't up to par.

[King Kongz Dad]

Great post btw!

[King Kongz Dad]

Can I enter this as a file, instead of every single line? Some automation? :)