Still cant increase the bot count in cooperative

[tayloralaska]

I edited serversettings.con and aidefault.ai, yet the bot count remains the same.
Yes, I removed "rem" in order to make the text read by the engine in aidefault.ai.

[SemlerPDX]

There is a maximum upper limit, you know. This is an engine limitation iirc. Even if you managed to get more than the maximum number of bots on the map, any over the max would be standing around staring at the scenery afaik.

How many bots are you trying to set?

[tayloralaska]

There is a maximum upper limit, you know. This is an engine limitation iirc. Even if you managed to get more than the maximum number of bots on the map, any over the max would be standing around staring at the scenery afaik.

How many bots are you trying to set?

Anything more than it currently has which is 16 vs 16
I wanted at least a full 64 player match.

[SemlerPDX]

Try 24v24

[tayloralaska]

Try 24v24

nope, it's still stuck 17 v 16

[SemlerPDX]

nope, it's still stuck 17 v 16

I'm afraid I don't know what to tell you, then. VG PR COOP runs with 40-48 bots, and we've never had any issues setting this count above 32 as you are reporting. Hopefully someone will have a solution for you - I'm drawing blanks here and taking shots in the dark won't help.

Best wishes and good luck!

[LangMaster]

Question, are you trying to have more bots in ingame local or dedicated server? because i have a feeling you cannot go over the 48 bots in local, for more bots you will need a dedicated server. It's actually very simple.

First of all, aidefault.ai will contain this.

aiSettings.setNSides 2
aiSettings.setAutoSpawnBots 1
aiSettings.overrideMenuSettings 1
aiSettings.setMaxNBots 64
aiSettings.maxBotsIncludeHumans 0
aiSettings.setBotSkill 0.9

serversettings.con

sv.maxPlayers 40
sv.autoBalanceTeam 1
sv.teamRatioPercent 0
sv.coopBotRatio 100
sv.coopBotCount 32
sv.coopBotDifficulty 90

There are many other variables but you can keep them default or you can play with them too that is up to you. i have written only those that needs to be changed, now if you need more bots or less the aisettings.ai will always have the whole botcount of the server and serversettings.con will always contain the exact half of it if you want balanced teams. I don't recommend to touch anything else because i don't know if i have failed math or DICE did.

Then finally a maplist.con , it's in the same folder as serversettings.con , you can delete every single map from it and only leave coop maps, coop maps seems to be at the bottom, also delete the lines beginrem and endrem at start of coop maps and end of coop maps. If you have done so, you may now start your dedicated server by simply running start_prbf2_w32ded.bat that is located in Project Reality BF2 main folder, it will launch the server and the map that is first in maplist.

You will find your server under deployment and join local click update and you will find your server up there.
If you wish to change the map type in server chat
!setnext mapname coop layer
examples:
!setnext beirut coop inf
!setnext khamisiyah coop std

If you want to skip to the next set map just type !runnext
there are many more commands to use, also !switch playername now switches teams in case autobalance didn't let you.


EDIT: Actually! the editing seems to work even in the ingame local, just the slider shows max 48 even though the bots will start with how many you set in aisettings.ai , i still recommend making a dedicated server because ingame local crashed right away with the bot count changes.

[tayloralaska]

I'm afraid I don't know what to tell you, then. VG PR COOP runs with 40-48 bots, and we've never had any issues setting this count above 32 as you are reporting. Hopefully someone will have a solution for you - I'm drawing blanks here and taking shots in the dark won't help.

Best wishes and good luck!

I know why it's limited to 16 vs 16 bots

the max players when running a local coop is 32. That's the max in the menu.

Is there a work-around?

[ismaelassassin]

I know why it's limited to 16 vs 16 bots

the max players when running a local coop is 32. That's the max in the menu.

Is there a work-around?

did you lower max amount of players that could join?

[SemlerPDX]

I know why it's limited to 16 vs 16 bots

the max players when running a local coop is 32. That's the max in the menu.

Is there a work-around?

Did you even read Langmaster's post above your reply here?! I don't know how much more of a work-around you can get... Provides exactly what you want, including instructions on how to use commands to set whatever map you want once it is running.

Make a local server, set the settings how you want, have fun! Best wishes and good luck to you!

[tayloralaska]

Did you even read Langmaster's post above your reply here?!

not really because running my own server sounded like too much work. but thanks guess I'll do that or smthn

[LangMaster]

not really because running my own server sounded like too much work. but thanks guess I'll do that or smthn

It's very simple mate it just looks tidious but once you set it up its just one button you have dedicated server already in the files of pr, if you need any help feel free to ask.