I remember the first time I ever remember encountering bots that were actually fun to play with was in Perfect Dark for the N64. Technology has progressed a lot since then and lets hope Valve has successfully implemented with their AI-controlled bots they are planning to incorporate into Team Fortress 2.

Thankfully, they have given those brave enough to try them out the ability to test them on their own servers. All you need to do is follow the below instructions:

- To add bots to your game, use the console command tf_bot_add. This will drop a random bot onto a random team (assuming there is a free player slot). The tf_bot_add command can also take up to three optional arguments: , , and , in any order. For example, tf_bot_add 10 will add 10 random bots to the game with auto-assigned teams. Typing tf_bot_add pyro blue will add a Pyro to the blue team. Entering tf_bot_add red 5 will add 5 random bots to the red team. The command tf_bot_add red 3 heavyweapons will add three heavies to the red team.

- In order to put specific bots on specific teams (for a bots-vs-humans game, for example), you may want to disable automatic team balancing. To do this, enter mp_autoteambalance 0 followed by mp_teams_unbalance_limit 0.

- To remove a bot, use the console command kick . To remove all of the bots in the game, use the command tf_bot_kick all.

And that’s it. Let us know what you think of these bots in the comments.

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