Enemy Territory and Fritzbot

Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half Life 1, 2 and 3

About

I recently received an email from Michael Robinson (Thanks!) telling me about a bot for Enemy Territory called Fritzbot. Now, until I received his email I knew nothing about either, except that ET was a free Multiplayer game based on Return to Castle Wolfenstein.

So?

Well, by downloading ET and then Fritzbot it seems that it is possible to play all the maps and some other custom ones offline, meaning it’s almost like a single player game. Now that’s something that could interest me and my readers.

But here’s the thing, with the E3 show and all the other stuff related to the website I haven’t had time to test them. SO he’s what I need you to do. Download both the files, visit the website for the bot and install it. Play around and see what you think. If enough people feel that it’s good then I will add them to the site.

I will also add all the other custom maps that can be played with the bot.

And there’s more…..

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

You may have heard of this game, but hadn’t paid it too much attention. It seems that Enemy Territory: Quake Wars will also feature offline bot support, in fact I believe that the bot is being written by the same person who wrote Fritzbot. This could be great news because there could be some SP fun to be had with this game too!

Resources:

Enemy Territory on Wikipedia
Splash Damage(Creators of Enemy Territory)
Enemy Territory on Filecloud (258Mb)
Fritzbot Homepage

To Summarize

If you get a chance, please download the files and play around. If enough readers like it I will add the maps as a new category.

Thanks in advance for you help and good luck soldier!

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Published:: 14th July 2007 at 4:30 pm

Category:: Phillip's Blog

Responses:: 3 Comments (add)

Luke L 14th July 2007 at 17:20 1

In the words of the Halo team “we didn’t bother integrating bots because it takes too long and never works well.”

I avoid any servers using bots like the plague, at best they’re stupid and cannon fodder, at worst they’re overpowered, unstoppable machines that somehow always manage to get stuck in the same doorway without the foresight to reverse.

As for ET, you should check out the True Combat: Elite mod (I think you commented on it on my blog as well). A very well put together game.
planetphillip 14th July 2007 at 17:35 2

I know it’s not perfect but sometimes it’s no different from some of the A.I. in some games.

It’s not suppose to replace human players, as most bots are, this is too allow you to play maps offline that you wouldn’t be able to.

It’s very similar in concept to CSS Sci- Fi Mod.
Booman 17th July 2007 at 18:41 3

I’ve been playing one called OmniBot for Enemy Territory. It works but only on a dedicated server. When you join from a workstation you can play along with bots and fight while they achieve the map goals, give health, and supply ammo. Its kinda like Battlefield 1942 in coop mode. A little faster pace and only on foot. I havn’t tried fritzbot yet.
I definitely reccomend OmniBot if you have a dedicated server.