How do they work / What do they do ?
Profile for each bot
The Bots of Quakability Bot Arena
How do they work / What do they do ?
The 16 bots you will face in Quakability : Bot Arena are a re-work of Coffee's very useful Tutor Bot.
The Tutor Bot is a bot-base for people to easily include bots in their mods. Numerous mods include it and if you are currently working on a mod and looking for an easy way to implement bots in it, I encourage you to have a look at the Tutor Bot's code.
Now, the bots in our mod are more than just a simple copy-paste implementation. I've worked a lot on improving them, make them fit into the new rules and give them a personality of their own. Basically, all bot tutorials on Coffee's site and others on some other sites have been carefully read and used if they brought improvement. An important part of the improvement comes also from my own code.
What's typical to the Quakability : Bot Arena bots is that they all tend to react differently. Each bot has a personality, which expresses itself not only in speech habbits but also in fighting habbits. Their skills are more or less limited according to the rank to belong to and so is their endurance and intelligence. Basically, better bots move and think faster, have more confidence when firing, are more agressive and use moves that simpler bots don't use. Implemented in the mod is also a "confidence" factor, which makes the game more realisitc : bots that manage to frag several times on a row tend to get more confident and thus slightly harder to beat.
Profile for each bot

Here is a list of all the bots you will encounter during the Quakability tournament, ranging from the hardest of them all, Ability, to the simplest one, Bill.

Bot Name : Ability
Bot Level : A+++
Description : Ability is the mentor of all the bots you will meet in the game. He is also the creator of the "Ability" rules. As such, he has a lot of confidence and is incredibly hard to beat. Until now, no human player has been able to beat him at his own game.
Skills : He's good at all levels and masters a move no other bot can use : the ability to respawn on demand ...
Favorite game : Quakability

| Bot Name : Norikoko Bot Level : A++ Description : Norikoko is Ability's closest student. He has learn a few tricks from his master, but has not yet reached his perfection. Because of that, he tends to be a frustrated bot always blaming other people for his (rare) defeats. Skills : On the whole, Norikoko is a very good fighter, whose preferred move is ducking and strafing. Favorite game : Unreal Tournament

| Bot Name : Seb the Mad Bot Level : A+ Description : Among the best bots around, Seb the Mad is a very tough fighter. Originally thought of by its conceptor as a C++ bot, he finally became a QuakeC Bot, which made him a bit bitter. As a result of his bitterness, he has developped a hatred of QuakeC bots as well as humans. Skills : A very good bot, Seb the Mad's best-mastered move is strafing. Favorite game : Quake2

| Bot Name : Jeff Bot Level : A+ Description : Jeff also plays with the big boys. A newbie in the tournament system, he has learned a lot in a very short period of time. Of course, he sometimes loses matches, but then he blames it on the fact that he hasn't been taught correctly. Skills : Jeff masters all the classic moves very well. Favorite game : Half-Life

| Bot Name : Toff Bot Level : B++ Description : Toff is a non-conformist bot, which explains why he decided to fight naked. His rumbles are sometimes hard to follow, but don't let them distract you, because he can be very tough at times ... Skills : Like Jeff, Toff masters all the classic moves. He has also a move of his own, which is the high jump. Favorite game : Need for Speed

| Bot Name : BartBot Bot Level : B++ Description : BartBot started as a low-level bot but quickly went up the ladder and is now counting among the very good bots around. As a result of his success, BartBot has become arrogant and often sees himself as "cooler than anyone else". Skills : His mastery of all the classic moves is obvious but, sometimes, he seems to be lacking training. Favorite game : Duke Nukem

| Bot Name : Hulk Bot Level : B+ Description : First designed as a character in a Quake medieval conversion, Hulk decided to become a bot after the TC project was dropped. Fighting is for him a way to survive and he awaits the moment when he'll be included in a real TC. Skills : Hulk has a good knowledge of almost all the classic fighting moves, but he sometimes tends to hesitate a bit, which costs him frags ... Favorite game : Hexen2

| Bot Name : Grogip Bot Level : B+ Description : Grogip is among the oldest bots of them all. However, he never really managed to go beyong his current bot level. He started drinking when he realized he would never beat Ability. Despite of this, he's still a good bot, though. His swearing makes him one of the less friendly bots. Skills : Because of his time spent in the arena, he has a good knowledge of almost all moves. Favorite game : PsychoCircus

| Bot Name : PQ Webmaster Bot Level : B Description : Once working for PQ, he followed the evolution of the Quake trilogy and is thus well-acquainted with everything that is quake-related. However, this made him also blind to anything else. He considers everyhting not-PQ as rubbish, which tends to make him pretty pathetic. Skills : Used to play every form of Quake, PQ Webmaster is pretty good. Favorite game : Quake3

| Bot Name : Ranger Bot Level : C++ Description : New in the tournament system, Ranger will probably become a very good bot in a year or two. His milatary-related comments can make him a bit annoying at times. Skills : Trained to play Team Fortress, Ranger is not the kind of bot to let go. However, because he is used to tactical fighting rather than hardcore fighting, he makes mistakes. Favorite game : TF2

| Bot Name : Elvis Bot Level : C++ Description : Nostalgic of the good old Doom2 shotgun, Elvis has spent some times training in Texas. Still a child in his mind, he sees himself as the first cowboy bot ever. Despite of his lack of training, he's still a good bot. Skills : As a medium-level bot, Elvis knows many fighting moves, but does not always make the best use of them. Favorite game : Outlaws

| Bot Name : Patricia Bot Level : C+ Description : The only woman playing in Ability's tournament, Patricia takes pride in being better than other male bots. Don't let her beauty or sexual-related comments confuse you, she is as tough as the others! Skills : Because this is a macho world, Ability, a male bot, has not always taught her all the tricks he could have, which makes her a medium-level bot. Favorite game : Sin

| Bot Name : Jacques Bot Level : D++ Description : After his country won the World Cup, Jacques became a bit over-confident, and it made him become a bit annoying, at times ;-) ... Becasue he has a lot of self-confidence, he can turn into an interesting opponent, though. Skills : He's not the best bot around, but he's bot the worst either. His fighting moves are ok, but no more. Favorite game : Fifa98

| Bot Name : Troll Bot Level : D+ Description : Troll is the youngest bot of the bunch. Even though he lacks experience, he really hopes to become one day a top-level bot. Conscious that he has still to learn a lot, he keeps making statement about his low level, which tends to irritate the older bots. Skills : Lacking confidence, Troll tends to hesitate before firing, which makes him rather easy target. Favorite game : Wolf3D

| Bot Name : King George Bot Level : D Description : If Troll was the youngest bot, King George is the oldest. This is actually his last year in the tournament. Getting a bit senile and not always knowing what he's doing, King George has become the target of many jokes by younger bots. Skills : Because of his old age, King George tends to be a bit slow at times. His fighting moves are ok ... provided he remember them ... Favorite game : Pong

| Bot Name : Bill Bot Level : E Description : Bill was accepted in the tournament because a bug in Ability's operating system screwed up with the names of candidates. Actually, bugs seem to be part of Bill's life. Not only is his head screwed up, but the computer he plays crashes all the time ... Skills : Bill shouldn't be there in the first place, so his skills are rather basic. In his will to survive, he can still frag, though. Favorite game : Poker for W.