The bots were mainly coded by Mr.Elusive who also happens to have coded the excellent Gladiator bots for Quake2. Due to the similarity of the bot data files, with a little bit of editing and pasting I managed to convert three of the Gladiator bots to the new format in Quake3 - Adrenaline Hunk, DemiGoddess and the Reaper. The Quake3 bots are programmed to understand 'english' command structures, the game also has bot commands that are not documented that may be of interest.

Note: To increase the challenge of playing bots in singleplayer try adding the following settings to your config file

seta bot_challenge "1"
seta bot_rocketjump "1"
seta bot_visualizejumppads "1"

Documented Commands
The information below is taken directly from the 'Bot Commands' file in the demo release directory. It was written by ID software and is included here for reference. You can find a more complete guide in the retail game extras/help/botcommands.htm file.


Team Play with Bots
In Quake3 Arena you can control all the bots on your team. You can, for example ask them to defend a location, conduct a patrol, cover your back, as well as many other useful actions.

Communicating with bots is only possibly in Team Deathmatch and Capture the Flag. The only way your bots will listen to you is if you use the command team_say. Team_say is much like the talk command but only your team mates can hear you. The default team_say key is ‘Y’

The first command you need to give your bots is, “I am the leader” this puts you in charge and everyone starts listening to you. If you don’t want to be leader anymore pass leadership on to a bot by saying, “Grunt you are the leader”. Or just give up leadership all together and let the bots figure it out by saying, “I quit being the leader”.

For the examples below I use Grunt and Ranger as the names. These names can be replaced with anyone on your team.

Start up a game with Grunt and Ranger on your team and practice with these commands.

/say_team I am the leader -You are now in control of your bots
/say_team grunt follow me - Grunt now follows you wherever you go
/say_team ranger camp the rl - Ranger will now go to the rocket launcher and defend it
/say_team grunt dismiss -Grunt will now stop following you and roam freely
/say_team grunt patrol from ra to rg - Grunt will now patrol from the red armor to the rocket launcher
/say_team ranger report - Ranger will tell you that he is camping the rocket launcher
/say_team ranger follow grunt -Ranger will now patrol with Grunt.


Actions can be given to multiple bots by including (and | , ) between the bots you want to command. For example:

/say_team grunt and ranger camp here
/say_team grunt, ranger camp here
/say_team grunt and ranger follow me

General Group Commands
/say_team everyone follow me
/say_team everybody follow me
/say_team everyone camp here

** Note: You can not give the message /say_team everyone follow grunt because Grunt will try and follow himself.



The Basic Bot Commands
grunt (report | what are you doing?)
grunt (follow | accompany | cover | go with) ranger
grunt (follow | accompany) ranger for (number) (seconds | minutes)
grunt (go to | go get) (item | weapon)
grunt (patrol) from (item | weapon) to (item | weapon) for (number) (seconds | minutes)
grunt (patrol) from (item | weapon) to (item | weapon)
grunt (camp near) (item | weapon)
grunt (camp | defend | guard) (here | there | weapon | item)
grunt (camp | defend | guard) (here | there | weapon | item) for (number) (seconds | minutes)
grunt (help | meet) ranger
grunt (help | meet) ranger
grunt (help | meet) ranger (at | near) the (item | weapon)
grunt lead the way -> then give grunt an action, he’ll wait for you to follow him.
grunt (kill | hunt down | get | go get) visor
grunt wait for me (near | at) (item | weapon)
grunt wait for me (near | at) the (item | weapon)
grunt (dismissed | dismiss | stop action |
grunt who is (the leader | team leader)
grunt is not (the leader | team leader)
I (quit | stop) being (the leader | team leader)



Squads and Sub teams
You can form squads within your team. Commanding the entire squad by addressing them with the squad name you indicate

An example of squad forming.

/say_team grunt and ranger are in squad beta - Grunt and Ranger are now in the squad called beta
/say_team beta follow me - Grunt and Ranger will follow you.
/say_team grunt leave your squad -Grunt leaves squad beta

grunt (and | ,) Ranger are in (team | squad) alpha
grunt (and | ,) Ranger (join | create) (team | squad) alpha
grunt leave your (team | squad)
ranger join (team | squad) alpha
grunt ungroup



CTF
Giving your bots commands in CFT is very important. One thing to remember is letting a bot become the leader and listening to them is sometimes the best strategy.

All the above commands work in CTF Plus

grunt (get | capture) the (red | blue | enemy) flag
grunt (get | capture) (red | blue |enemy) flag
grunt (defend | guard | camp) the base <-friendly flag


If a bot is the team leader and you forgot what you have been ordered to do then just type one of the following and the leader will tell you.

For these you do not need to address the leader directly.
/say_team what is my command
/say_team what should I do
/say_team what am I supposed to do
/say_team what is my job

Some examples for CTF:
/say_team I am the leader
/say_team grunt defend the base
/say_team ranger capture the enemy flag



Synonyms
Synonyms are available for most items:
Red armor = ra
Yellow armor = ya
Shotgun = sg
Machinegun = mg
Grenade launcher = gl
Rocket launcher = rl
Plasma Gun = plasma
Lighting Gun = lg
Railgun = rail | rg
Bfg10k = bfg
Quad damage = quad
Regeneration = regen
Invisibility = invis
Battle Suit = bs
Haste = haste