Bez's Bots in 2022 

Hey it me, the CSGO bots furry

Hearing that bots lose their memory at the end of every round made me feel bad for making fun of them- until I heard what it does to them, and realized every human team mate I've played with does roughly the same thing.

The bots even look at each other before they throw the flash, as if to ask "ready?" How cool! So much attention to detail!

Valve should just employ him and let him improve the bots in-game.

Whenever Philip says "Dank", a chill runs down my spine

When i saw Polish flag next to Bez's name, Immediately knew his full nickname's a reference to the "Nameless” from original Gothic game

i imagine phillip eating beans w spaghetti hoops just right now.

I don't know if Bez knows about this but inspecting weapons and stuff was added to the game by our request. We were working on a similar competitive AI project with my friend and paused the mod because the Valve employee couldn't add more features because he was busy with other things. Seeing this makes me happy & sad at the same time because we did so many things with the mod and it is just standing here on my computer unfinished and nobody knows about it. Edit : I made some of my old mod videos public on my channel. Edit 2 : 3kliksphilip hearted my comment and editing the comment removed it, noooooo

Imagine in one day, you will be playing with teammates without even realizing they're just bots.

Remember when Valve cared enough to employ people like this to improve their games while on a paycheck? Good ol' days

Wiping the AI's memory gives me strong WestWorld vibes, should we be worried?

I feel like if Valve were to implement bots like Bez has, you can make a genuinely well done single player experience like Condition Zero but implemented so much better, on top of that maybe ease newer players into the game in the process.

VALVE if you watch this, add this and hire Bez ffs

I made spaghetti and snuggled up in bed just to see this video. It's always such a pleasure to see you uploading a new video. It's like home! I feel like I know you quite well but you don't know me or any other of all these people over/under me... The world we live in is fast pace and i enjoy the calmness in your work. Stay safe and kliky

I travel for work and often play offline with bots if I can’t get a connection. Some things I’ve wished to see: give bots random gun skins/knives/gloves. Assign weapon slot choices randomly (mp5/mp7, m4’s, usp/p2000, etc). Make bots smarter. Hold sites, don’t push, don’t all go the same way, but kits, respond to audio cues, respond to pinging. Don’t stand in fire.

I wonder, does the bomb entity being positioned at the player's feet affect the minimap bomb indicator? If so, that would explain why sometimes you'll never see bomb even though they have it.

this mod actually blew me away, the bots become an actual challenge even with their odd shortcomings. super impressive stuff

Thanks for covering this project !

Love the peep show reference, 'lost knowledge like the pyramids'. Downloading this now

Wow, these bots are great! That synchronized utility throw looks amazing. This brings back some memories. I remember that, when I was a kid, I didn't have internet at home, and I played CS 1.6 with bots. They were called PoD Bots (PoD = Ping of Death). I remember that each map had its own extra file with the bots' waypoints and navigation data. You could download these files from the internet. However, not all maps had waypoint files, especially the custom maps. So, I learned how to create these type of files, mostly by running around the map and manually adding the waypoints. I remember there were different types of waypoints: for normal running, for jumping, crouching, camping etc. You could really make the bots navigate difficult spots if you had the patience. Though it was for nothing, because when they engaged in combat the bots ignored waypoints completely, so they always ended up falling off roofs, cliffs etc.

It's amazing to see Bez still being active. Oh and seems like you forgot to add a card linking to a download page at 11:20

its incredible how much these bots can do but they still cant run in straight lines

Been a while since your last true CSGO-y video vibe like this, and i really glad they are back, this is the type of content that i usually rewatch from your channel were i bored on RU-vid

This brings me back to the 1.6 POD (ping of death) bots and trying to improve them incrementally. Helped me understand the goldsource coding which came in quite handy once CS:S released years later

7:20 I now see life in a new way, thank you Philip and Bez for steering me towards the path of enlightenment.

It'd be awesome to see like 1000 matches being analyzed into a machine learning model to make AI behave like real humans

The bot evolution is here

This is great. I really appreiatehow much effort has gone into this video, this feels like a worthy successor to Bots.

the music in the bachground provides a really good mood. plz keep!

Bez is nutz.

Gabe bless the modders of Valve games in particular. What they do to give life and love to old games that Valve has seemingly left behind is incredible. Good luck, Bez!

Nice. I hope to see something like this available for both CS 1.6 and CSS in the near future.

great improvement and lots of fun since in vanilla bots just stack up in a line and walk into their doom, also in vanilla it seems that bots always go to where the opposing bots go, so to get easy kills youl just have to follow your own bots

As a mapper and perpetual aim-trainer with zero social confidence, I play with bots more than most. This is freaking awesome and Bez is a legend.

I have been waiting for this for years

It did soured my view on the game after the custom radio commands were disabled, since it is useful in communicating and callout making in a typical disastrous lobby. (As well as a primarily foreign language speaking one) My muscle memory on using the Z, X, and C keys to bring up the radio menu since CS 1.6 no longer serves it’s full potential and the radial marker menu is just to clunky for me to effectively utilise when the pace had increased and having your viewpoint occluded and staring at a specific angle just to properly give a callout could easily had been improved and supplemented by updating the standard in-game radio commands, but alas, they are to remain as dreams forevermore.

Well,at least TF2 also has Tf2 Bot Overhaul. I hope he can do something similiar to that mod.

that bomb carrier bit was super dank

Finally we have AI that can beat the average gold nova lobby

I need the whole agent personality video, and also the BOT that bez makes.

I enjoy playing with AI can't wait to try those bad boys out

Amazing!! Bez u legend!

Fascinating stuff!

This looks awesome

7:22 made me laugh really hard for a while, thank you 😂💀

We NEED Bez's bits 2023

I like how Philip is slowly becoming some about-cs-media guy. Keep it up mad lad, I guess only you can keep finding this golden nuggets in (inho) oversaturated with clips comunity.

Nice vid. Was just wondering if you made a new bots one a couple days ago.

This is AMAZING !!!!!

Bezimienny POGU

I'm always amaze about how people can be so dedicated. It's fuking amazing.

So, what if e-sports, but its actually coders who code their bot team and they fight between each other

Cool video, Might be worth it for Bez to go back to Condition Zero to look at the bot AI there as that's where it was originally developed. I know from experience that the regular campaign mode (Not deleted scenes) does have bots saying things like "I hear something" when enemies are nearby (No shots fired yet). So there may be differences between that game and source/go that he can look to exploit.

hey, nice video! weird question what music did you use for the video?

This is pretty fascinating.

Gave you a like after the bomb floating up montage.

Nice!

Mindblowing solution. Modern Problems need modern solutions.

I hope for the day where "bots" can 'learn' from player demos in a supervised manner or self supervised reinforcement environment. Perhaps even have a level of inter agent communication. Which i believe is the most interesting part of such a problem.

Interesting how there is a hotspot on the timeline every time Bez's profile picture is shown.

Those bots are better than my teammates in solo queue :P

The return of the king

7:22 this is the exact reason why I watch philip lol 10% more effort for 100% more entertaining videos

Valve, support this guy. 3Klik.... amazing content!

Enjoy good bots. Sturmbot was the first time I was not annoyed playing with bots. Look forward to trying Bez bots.

As someone who at this point has played hundreds and hundreds of bot matches, it's amazing to see progress towards making the bots behaviors better. While you can change settings in the botprofile to make their aim faster and get more difficult bots who can gun you down instantly or do a 180 and kill you across the map with an awp, it is rather unfortunate they have so many shortcomings. One thing I always make sure is that bot_allow_grenades is at 0, otherwise they like to just hold them until they see an enemy which will get them killed with the reaction time changes made to them. Another problem is simply that they are set to aim for center of mass, in this case they very frequently lock onto the pelvic region of enemies, which doesn't allow them to have consistent good fights on ramps or headshot angles. The last thing they are also bad at is clearing sites, no matter what if they run to the wrong bombsite, they still have to clear it, but will always walk into the correct bombsite even if it was the first choice, and that need to physically touch the site to figure out its the wrong one can waste a load of time, especially on large maps such as old cache (haven't used bots on the new one) which in turn has lead me to also always use mp_c4timer 60 instead of 40. So seeing that it could well be possible that bots could do their best at using utility and aiming for headshots, and properly holding and taking sites has me excited. It would be truly wonderful to one day see a match when both sides could craft plans and smoke sites, flash out and hit nice shots, with no hiccups and running perfectly. Great video 3kliks P.S The bots get stuck on the stairs in sparity spawn occasionally.

villain history: "i was improving the bad bots. but then they removed the voice commands"

Humbley requesting that video on the agents you mentioned near the end.

8:12 this is probably because CSGO began life as a CSS Xbox port and then shortly after they just decided to say “fuck it let’s make a new counter strike game” and then GO was born (funny how CSGO was made for consoles but the console port hasn’t been updated in nearly a decade)

Nice. Now I can't even win against bots

Question, so when bomb is show in feet. Does that work for comp too ? Or is any limb on a “ player “ that holds bomb gets displayed on the map when anything of there characters is seen?

is it a "mind-blowing" solution because the bomb entity is on his head?

Perhaps the AI should be given the privilege to remember which site the enemy went to before and make an assumption of where they will strike next based on that fact? If that is even possible.

This stuff is what I have wet dreams about. I'm wishing for an offline campaign where you build your own team and play small tournaments, where you can win access to better bots for your team. I loved the CZ campaign as a child and messing around with making your own campaign and bots.

7:20, mind blowing, haha get it?

Great work. The only thing I wonder, why if you have such a specific knowledge such as Bez and obviously on a superior level to the average valve bot programmer. Why did Bez not start officially work for Valve?

Actually in rare cases, sometimes bots do swap weapons with players. If i throw AWP for example to bot who has AK/M4, he will trade it to that AWP. Funny little thing noticed when i was just goofing around in my own server.

I'd love to see a video about the history of PODBot... The original bots in 1.5/1.6(i don't even remember anymore)

You mean I can finally play a decently challenging game of CSGO with being called a slur? WOOOOAH

I can confirm as a custom HUD developer for TF2 that basically anything you edit is this spaghetti coded. Several bits of valuable information is stored in “matrices” proprietary to that data and is unusable by anything else. And don’t get me started on the various hard-coded typos…

It's nice to see bots getting attention even though they were removed from matchmaking I still play offline on workshop maps and it's always quite boring to see all five bots always going on the same site and feel not consistent, sometimes they know too much sometimes not. Sometimes their aim is just out of this world and sometimes they can't hit even though I'm five centimeters away. Hope this kind of work is noticed by valve and they improve bots. Well I would rather see them fix other issues but if they have time then why not.

i already love this guys, i'm enjoying csgo but just playing vs bots, but Valve decided that bot can be playing only in regular maps...but they are BAD, now i'm able to play in Danger Zone, in Regular maps with cool stuff, like lineup, egal more challenge to the player !!!

These bots should be part of a game. @Valve please hire this dude

VALVE, hire this man

I miss the bots in MM having a bot like this would be amazing lol

Did you put music from Trover saves the universe ? Great VR game around 7:00

Jeezus, similar to the Hammer++ video I am already in dire need of experiencing the way better modded thing over the default vanilla only a few features in

Rodak

When the bots in Retake modes realize its time to retake A, not B, AS you informed by HUD... btw, these kinda mods must help communitiy retake/execute server/map. I cant wait

Oh my, reviving Insertion 2 with good bots would make my dreams come true!

*BOT Jeff sending regards* This video reminds me of the bots in cs 1.6 and how smart they were. They had different skills and strategies, and some were noobs while the others were great. They played like real humans. They reacted differently to recoil and attacks while keeping the objective as a priority. They also could contact each other and follow orders (and break them too) like real humans. That's why I still think that the bots in 1.6 were the best bots I've ever seen

Finally Someone I Can Play With.

bez is a prefix in Slavic languages, it means without, his name means nameless or unnamed

I remember playing with podbot in the early 2000s because we couldn't afford internet in uni. It seemed like bots hadn't really evolved much in 20 years, not the case here!

Can bots use revolver? Or will they just start and cancel left mouse click fire?

amazing

3:20 I forgot how funny was to fly with the changed air acceleration value.

A 'professional' difficulty/training mode for 5v5 comp with this AI would be an awesome addition to the game for team practice. Also riot shields in comp!

Oh no now the skill floor is raised, I might actually be worse than bots!

I'm a casual player and mostly play with bots, but what I hate the most about bots being the random grenade throws. Worse of all, when a bomb goes off, they unable to use their instincts to know it's not there, like Dust2 Bombsite A, if they're nearby at the bottom but the Ts planted at B, the stupid bots must "investigate" at A's ground zero to check on the bomb instead of listening to the beeping sound or use their instinct knowing it's at B when A is already clear. Another problem is their aiming problem, when I die and spectate them, they suck and couldn't aim right even on Hard. CSS is the most OP of all by headshot all the time like pros.