About bot favorite weapons

[BloodyBastard]

Hello everyone! Hope you are all right, if you're not, well, suck it up, champ, you will get better. Be strong. Those who have been afflicted with coronavirus while suffering from another illness and yet made a full recovery, congratulations, you're badass and i want your kids... Well I came here with a question...

I've made a weapons mod (well not made, but edited the Covert Forces one and added more weapons (maybe 15 i think)) and I would like a bot to prefer a MP5 for example, instead of a M60. Is it possible? I mean setting up a bot's favorite weapon using the weapons from mods? Sorry if I didn't get the question right, english is not my native language.


TL;DR It's possible to setup a bot's favorite weapon using the ones in mods? (ex: A Covert Forces' MP5 or a CS's AK47?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Stay safe, Stay alive

[EvilGrins]

If you can establish the part of the .ini file that lists the specific bot you want, you can manually edit what their fave weapon is.

Just a little cut & paste.

I use, as you can see in my signature, a lot of skinned Sktroopers. For their weapon of choice, I set them all up with the Dispersion Pistol... which cannot be selected in standard bot setups.

[BloodyBastard]

thank you for your reply EvilGrins, I thought this was not possible by editing the ini, but well I only tried once... I tried again, and sometimes does work and sometimes doesn't. Bot 1 prefers to use a F2000, but I've seen it a lot with the M60.

Does the 'AI Rating' parameter in the weapon files affects a bot's favorite weapon setup somehow? I think so, but I'm not completely sure.

[sektor2111]

Weapon has a word in Bot's behavior. Favorite weapon increases rating until a point. If another weapon from Inventory chain does look stronger because of certain tactical situation, definitely Bot will use the most suitable one according to AIRating code. RocketLauncher is not suitable as alternate fire in a lift, Kira will take that in account even if she is loving that weapon - she is not interested in a suicidal attitude if situation is not requesting this habit.

[BloodyBastard]

Thanks for the detailed reply sektor2111! This is an interesting thing to me, maybe I should see more about the AIRating in the game's .uc files. I'm sure I saw something about it that involves equations that determinates a bot's weapon choice. Maybe coding a weapon for UT goes farther than just adjusting the AI Rating for a weapon.

Rating values for the vanilla weapons are as follows:

Redeemer= 1.0
Rocket Launcher= 0.75
Flak Cannon= 0.75
Minigun= 0.73
Pulse Gun= 0.7
Shock Rifle= 0.63
BioRifle= 0.6
Sniper Rifle= 0.54
Ripper= 0.5

Meanwhile the ratings from some of my weapons are:

Light Machine Guns (ex M60)= 0.7
Assault Rifles (ex AK47)= 0.6
Marksman Rifles (ex Dragunov)= 0.60
Sniper Rifle Barrett= 0.65
SubMachine Guns (ex MP5)= 0.5
Shotgun= 0.6
Pistols= 0.25

Maybe I should adjust their values closer to each other? Maybe that's why a bot that is setup to prefer a MP5, prefers to hold an AK47 instead? I think I let myself go, but I hope the information serves you if you're trying to make some weapons... I guess.

[sektor2111]

Weapon's rating might be different in combat because of functions involved - see UT_Eightball

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function float RateSelf( out int bUseAltMode )
{
	local float EnemyDist, Rating;
	local bool bRetreating;
	local vector EnemyDir;
	local Pawn P;

	// don't recommend self if out of ammo
	if ( AmmoType.AmmoAmount <=0 )
		return -2;

	// by default use regular mode (rockets)
	bUseAltMode = 0;
	P = Pawn(Owner);
	if ( P.Enemy == None )
		return AIRating;

	// if standing on a lift, make sure not about to go around a corner and lose sight of target
	// (don't want to blow up a rocket in bot's face)
	if ( (P.Base != None) && (P.Base.Velocity != vect(0,0,0))
		&& !P.CheckFutureSight(0.1) )
		return 0.1;

	EnemyDir = P.Enemy.Location - Owner.Location; 
	EnemyDist = VSize(EnemyDir);
	Rating = AIRating;

	// don't pick rocket launcher is enemy is too close
	if ( EnemyDist < 360 )
	{
		if ( P.Weapon == self )
		{
			// don't switch away from rocket launcher unless really bad tactical situation
			if ( (EnemyDist > 230) || ((P.Health < 50) && (P.Health < P.Enemy.Health - 30)) )
				return Rating;
		}
		return 0.05 + EnemyDist * 0.001;
	}

	// increase rating for situations for which rocket launcher is well suited
	if ( P.Enemy.IsA('StationaryPawn') )
		Rating += 0.4;

	// rockets are good if higher than target, bad if lower than target
	if ( Owner.Location.Z > P.Enemy.Location.Z + 120 )
		Rating += 0.25;
	else if ( P.Enemy.Location.Z > Owner.Location.Z + 160 )
		Rating -= 0.35;
	else if ( P.Enemy.Location.Z > Owner.Location.Z + 80 )
		Rating -= 0.05;

	// decide if should use alternate fire (grenades) instead
	if ( (Owner.Physics == PHYS_Falling) || Owner.Region.Zone.bWaterZone )
		bUseAltMode = 0;
	else if ( EnemyDist < -1.5 * EnemyDir.Z )
		bUseAltMode = int( FRand() < 0.5 );
	else
	{
		// grenades are good covering fire when retreating
		bRetreating = ( ((EnemyDir/EnemyDist) Dot Owner.Velocity) < -0.7 );
		bUseAltMode = 0;
		if ( bRetreating && (EnemyDist < 800) && (FRand() < 0.4) )
			bUseAltMode = 1;
	}
	return Rating;
}

Rating is calculated at certain combat moment. Here some weapons are poorly coded - even in this one for me code it's not ready...
Must check for ammo before counting ammo and definitely bUseAltMode should not be accepted in any way out of ammo, etc.