[Calm down a bit, please take 5 mins to read through]

Content below is the tutorial that can help you to 1, enable enhanced mode, 2, resolve the problem in case the bots revert to default bots with random names, and 3, make bots use neutral items.

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The script right now only works in "Custom Lobby", and set "Local Host" as your Server Location - this is CRITICAL.

If the script is installed correctly, the bots in game should have names with postfix ".OHA", for example: OG.ana.OHA

If you ever feel all existing bot scripts lack of excitement. You can boost the bots with huge unfair advantages to make bot games a lot more challenging - enable the Fretbots mode by following the steps below.


1. Subscribe to Open Hyper AI in Dota2 client. Wait for the script be fully downloaded.
2. Open folder: "Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\570\3246316298\Install-to-vscript", and double click the file `quick-install-oha.bat` to install.

Install OHA to vscript 

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If you completed step 2 successfully, you can skip steps 3 and 4 below, and go to the next section to "enable Fretbots mode in game".

3. If you don't know where the Steam folder is, right click `Dota2` in Steam `Library`, select `Properties` > `Installed Files` > `Browse`. It will open the folder: "Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta", now replace the path text "common\dota 2 beta" in the address to be "workshop\content\570\3246316298\Install-to-vscript", hit Enter to open the correct folder.
4. If you see a warning "Windows protected your PC", because it's 3rd party script. Click on "More Info" > "Run anyway".

By doing this, any new updates to the script content will automatically available in your Local dev script folder, so you don't need to copy files again. Alternatively, check out Appendix below for other install options.

1. When creating a Lobby game, ensure that Enable Cheat is checked. Choose the Server Location to be Local Server. Select Open Hyper AI as the bot script.
2. When the lobby game gets started, e.g. in the hero selection phase. Open the console, and input the following command and hit enter:

Image showing the correct Lobby settings:

How To Enable Fretbots 

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3. When enabled correctly, there will be notification text and sound in game.

If you completed above steps successfully and saw the Fretbots texts, you are done. Skip all the reset of steps below.

4. If you don't know how to start to use console in Dota2: In Steam, edit Dota2 Properties, in General > Launch Options, add -console, then close the window, launch Dota2. Or follow this video for using Console:
5. If you see bots somehow get reverted to default bots in game, select Local Dev Script as the script for your bots.





1. If you or your team think Fretbots mode is too hard or unfair. Try `Buff mode`, which is the lighter version of Fretbots mode. You can enable Buff mode by entering following command in console: "sv_cheats 1; script_reload_code bots/Buff/buff"
2 Note that in Buff mode, all heroes has the same amount of bonus, and this mode will ONLY give GPM, XPM, and neutral item bonus.



You only need to do the installation steps once. In subsequent new games, you only need to input the text command in console again after the game starts.





[Option 1] Install & keep script up to date automatically, by running one single command. It's really simple.

1. Open the pre-installed Windows application: CMD or PowerShell. Open it by pressing the "Windows" bottom on keyboard and type "cmd", right click on it to run as administrator.
   
2. Use the `mklink` command to make a shortcut/symbolic link, replace the texts inside the quotation marks with your actual folder path:
   
   mklink /d "<Steam_local_bot_dev_folder>" "<Steam_workshop_item_folder>"
3. For example where I installed Dota2 in C:\
   
   mklink /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\dota 2 beta\game\dota\scripts\vscripts\bots" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\570\3246316298"

By doing this, you do not need to manually copy/paste the content. Anything updated in the workshop content folder will get synced to the local dev bots folder as they point to the same location.

[Option 2] Install a version of the script manually. Instructions here: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/3246316298/4520010047766285327/

I have not really tried or tested the installation for Mac myself despite I have 3+ macbooks at home. So I encourage you to try crafting and test the commands yourself.
In general, it should be similar to what we have for Windows but replace the command code and filepath.
For example, like this:
ln -s "/Users/YourUsername/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/570/3246316298" \
"/Users/YourUsername/Library/Application Support/Steam/steamapps/common/dota 2 beta/game/dota/scripts/vscripts/bots"

1. If you don't know where the Steam folder is, right click Dota2 in Steam Library, select Properties > Installed Files > Browse.
   
2. The `mklink` command in CMD requires admin access, so you need to right click on the CMD or PowerShell app to run as administrator to execute this command.
   
3. If the command failed due to some conflicts, you need to rename or delete the bots folder that already exist in the vscript directory first and the run the mklink command to create the shortcut.
   
4. If there is any space in the name of one of the folders, make sure to put the entire path in "quotation marks".
   
5. Make sure to subscribe this script inside dota2 client and dota2 should have downloaded the workshop content to your disk, only then you can copy or create a valid shortcut link.

Additional notes on why we should try Fretbots.
> Or what does Fretbots do exactly in details.

1. Fretbots gives bots bonus upon their death as well as every one minute.
   
2. In the beginning when you enable Fretbots, it asks all players to vote for a difficulty, which will impact the bonus amount the bots can receive.
   
3. Possible bonus includes: gold, exp, armor, hp/mp regen, stats. The higher difficulty you vote, the higher bonus the bots will get. If you select a difficulty over 5, the bots will always have higher GPM than players after about 5mins into the game.
   
4. Please note that the more high skilled players you have in the human player team, the more bonus the enemy bots will get because the bots get bonus that’s dynamically adjusted based on the player with the same role on the other team.
   
5. The reason for this being fun is that bots usually don't have a good laning skills since it's really hard for developers to achieve that with current Valve bot apis. And enabling Fretbots gives more opportunity for bots to shine in mid and late games since bots will get well farmed. It provides extra gaming experience in each game for players as it's easy in the very early game, face challenge in mid games, requires players to have more team work and strategy to carry on the game til the end of it.
   
6. Additionally, with Fretbots mode, we can fix the issue where bots don’t know how to choose or use Neutral items.

1. You can vote for difficulty scale from 0 to 10, which affects the amount of bonus the bots will receive.
   
2. If difficulty >= 0, bots get bonus neutral items, and get fair bonus in gold, exp, stats, etc every minute.
   
3. If difficulty >= 1, bots get above bonus upon their death; and also get new bonus in mana/hp regens.
   
4. As difficulty increments, bots get neutral items sooner and higher bonus amount.
   
5. If difficulty >= 5, when a player kills a bot, the player who made the kill receives a reduction in gold. This is because with high difficulty the bots get too much gold bonus and the kill bounty is high - giving high kill bounty to players actually would reduce the difficulty. Bots also provide less exp on death.
   
6. Bots will get some initial bonus when the game starts like very little amount of armor, gold, magic resist, etc that will increase with the difficulty.
   
7. The higher the difficulty you vote, the more bonus the bots will get which can make the game more challenging.
   
8. After the voting for difficulty is done, you can vote for the bonus scale for your ally bots comparing to the enemy bots. For example, if you vote 0.5, it means your ally bots get half of the bonuses the enemy bot receive in the game - this way you can make the game even more challenging for yourself.

1. High difficulty can be overwhelming or even frustrating, please choose the right difficulty for you and your team to have more fun in the game!
   
2. Difficulty 0 is good for new players or play any heroes with joy, 2 is good for causal gaming with a bunch of friends, 5 is getting intensive and require your team with good team work or some strong heroes, 10 is extreme and you will need some specific and strong carries with relatively good team work or strategy to victory.
   
3. Please do note that one of the main purposes for Fretbots mode is to encourage team play!
   
4. Fretbots difficulty is dynamic. What that means is the bots gets additional amount of bonus depends on how the players with the corresponding roles are performing. The better the players are in the team, the more bonus the bots can receive. For example a diff 5 will almost always give bots high GPM, so if players have average 600GPM, bots may get 700GPM, if players are 800GPM, bots may get 1K GPM.