bots build but won't attack Options

[billcat]

Hello,

I'm running linux rcbot1.1. via metamod using the new steam hlds and natural selection. NS/hlds/whichbots seem to work ok otherwise. I seem to be having the oppsosite problem sandman is having. I have bots that will build all over the place but won't attack at all. The bots will build RTs and hives and move around quite a bit. They do rush the marine base but when they get there they just wander around and do nothing. Also, if I run towards their base I can enter their hive area and fire on the hive with no response.

Sandman had suggested I try the non mm version but I can't get the non mm version to work because of the existing i386 file missing error that other people reported in another thread, but I'm happy using the metamod version otherwise.

Currently I'm limited to having the whichbots as aliens and the rcbots as marines.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thanks,

Eric

[billcat]

Hrm. Not to be pro-steam, because I know it has caused some people issues, but you really should try it. having all the mods my server runs get updated on the fly is pretty nice, I used to have to dl patches all the time and keeping several mods running up to date all the time was a pain in the ass before.

On my linux box I created a seperate steam dir from my existing hlds install and had it install there. This way I can run hlds orig or steam, so you should be able to at least try it without hosing yourself up too bad. Be sure to not choose to remove your existing files if/when you install the client and then you can do the same dual play on the client as well.

99% of the steam/NS issues have been resolved at this point so if you're into NS that's not an issue either.

As for it being "absolutely necessary" I know valve has plans to remove the WON servers at some date, and while that date has been pushed back quite a bit due to the delay of HL2/hacking issues, I've got no reason to not be an early adopter. At the very least I get to experience interesting issues with bots like this one. I know sandman has been running it on his servers as well and doesn't have any issues under windows, so perhaps this is a linux only issue and has nothing to do with steam.