Dota 2
Edge AI Bot Experiment [Deprecated]
Ricky Juno  [developer] May 11, 2022 @ 5:29pm
Bots switching to default bots fix
For people who cannot use this bot because the default valve bots keep overwriting the selection:

First an explanation of the issue:
Valve allegedly only supports the top 3 bot AI scripts in the workshop. Without this support from valve this bug will always occur. so until this bot reaches that status of "one of the most popular bot AI scripts" use the following bypass instructions to play with your friends:

Bypass of the bug

Step 1:
go to this file path, depending on where Dota is installed:
steamapps\workshop\content\570\2801265602
Once you are in this folder hit Ctrl A + Ctrl C, this copies all contents of this folder.

Step 2:
go to this file path, which should be on the save drive as the folder above:
steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\game\dota\scripts\vscripts
Create a folder titled "bots" without the quotes if you do not have one already.
Now paste all the contents you copied from Step 1 into this new bots folder.

Step 3:
Boot up Dota 2.
Create a custom Lobby, invite your friends.
Make sure to set the Server Location for this lobby to "Local Host".
Fill empty slots with bots should be checked, both teams bot scripts should be set to "Local Dev Script".
When you start the lobby it should run the Edge AI script.

Hopefully this more detailed explanation will help people bypass this for now.
Last edited by Ricky Juno; May 11, 2022 @ 5:29pm
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Evittalex May 12, 2022 @ 1:01pm 
:steamthumbsup: :steamthumbsup:
Awesome! Thank you!
bluescreen Jun 5, 2022 @ 4:06am 
:steamthumbsup: thanks for the explanation! So if I understand correctly, when this script updates, we need to re-copy the files from 2801265602 ?
Ricky Juno  [developer] Jun 5, 2022 @ 5:21am 
Originally posted by Quentin.Quarantino:
:steamthumbsup: thanks for the explanation! So if I understand correctly, when this script updates, we need to re-copy the files from 2801265602 ?

Correct! but it should still work (just be un-updated) if you don't re-copy the files.
doublesdoublet Jun 30, 2022 @ 6:06pm 
works flawlessly, thanks!
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