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Project Never Alone - AI COOP Bots Improvements {BFE REPLACEMENT}

A Replacement Modification for BFE Campaign. Replaces Default AI Bot Nav Markers allowing Spawned NPC Bots to lead the way and at times beat the levels on their own as well as behaving like Human Players as much as possible.

{FEATURES}
-Bots now lead the way
-Bots pick most items within the levels
-Bots solve easy puzzles on their own at times
-In some easy levels bots tend to speedrun if there is hardly any resistance
-Bots do not lag behind in most levels
-Bots now stand by player's side more often
-Bots follow the player as much as they can
-Bots can beat certain levels on their own
-Bots use C4, Rocket Crates
-Bots destroy walls with Sledgehammers or C4 or even Rocket Launchers
-Bots trigger doors, detectors and at times find certain easy secrets
-Leader bots lead the way and if player is too far from them they will navigate back to player and wait till player starts moving thus continuing to lead the way.
-Bots follow each other, preferably other leader bots when player is not leading the way.

{HOW TO SPAWN BOTS}
1. Load any BFE level or Level that supports Bots as well as making sure there are no Cutscenes playing
2. When you spawn in the Level press ~ Key (You only need to do this once unless you switch off the Cheats)
3. Console will open up, type in cht_bEnableCheats=2
4. Hit enter and it should notify you that Achievements are Disabled because of Cheats.
5. Press ~ To Close the Console and next press ESC or F10.
6. Look at the bottom of the Main Menu, it should say F3 Cheats
7. Click on it or press F3, it should open Cheat Menu
8. Look for Spawn Coop NPC, by clicking on it you'll see bunch of Character Names
9. Double Click on any Character you wish to spawn and it should appear right in front of you. That's all.

{FAIR WARNING}
It will crash if you play in Singleplayer or if you play with your friend in Coop {This only works for 1 Player}
It wont work if you have other mods enabled that replaces BFE Campaign Adjustments
Bots wont spawn if you have too many mods Enabled. To fix this simply Disable all mods and only enable Project Never Alone and other Player Model Mods if you so desire.
This mod replaces BFE Levels which means you'll see altered changes in the Editor of BFE Levels or even Scripts that have been modified or straight up not being used for Bot stability purposes.



{ABOUT PROJECT NEVER ALONE}
This is rather personal project i made on my own. Since Vanilla Multiplayer of Serious Sam Fusion is dead there is just no way to experience 2007, 2011 Old school 16 player coop chaos. This mod will give you a taste of 16 player chaos at it's best. Sure in no way it replaces players, obviously. Best experience is always with your buddies or randoms in 16 player sessions. Anyways Project Never Alone will aim on bringing that nostalgia. Fusion 2017 added a new era of AI Bots for Serious Sam Series which were meant for testing the maps without playing it yourself but problem is that it's only for one bot and one and only player who has to spectate that bot. This mod completely diminishes that. This mod allows you to spawn any AI Bot character you want into your modded session, not just one bot but up to 15 bots 1 Player is included. My aim with this project is to bring back 16 player chaos or at least give the feel of it. TFE and TSE are in the works and it will take some time to finish it. I've learned all i can by studying AI Bots for Serious Sam Fusion 2017 using various game titles for testing and adapting bots as much as possible as well as applying little tricks to prevent them from backtracking or acting weird. Sure it still happens but it happens way less.

{KNOWN ISSUES}
-Bots do not know how to finish level that has parkour sections
-Bots do not fill petrol (I made them ignore gas cans because their finish line is next to the car and will stand still. This is a way to prevent them from breaking the player's task.)
-Bots at times fail puzzle sections or trigger doors multiple times (Does not happen all the time but you better be on a look out to see if they did not trigger doors that lead to level's progression multiple times, sometimes you have to involve yourself as well when puzzling)
-Bots do not know how to go further if the map design is not linear such as "Containing unreachable floors like in level 6 and 11".)
-Bots teleport at times when some of them lagged behind the leaders or caused by distant navigation task
-Leader bots ignore items at times
-Bots have no idea what to do when it comes to waiting for elevator in Sirian Chambers, thus they teleport to fix themselves or break at the end of the level. (No idea how to fix this at the moment, issue most commonly known in Level 7.)
-Bots are Immortal ("Playing with God Mode") They have no idea on how to respawn thus to prevent them dying or causing faulty issues they will play with God Mode and they have no care for their health which means they will speed run the level at times. ('Most commonly known in Level 4 Turret sections")
-Bots break if player lags behind or stands still or even dies and is respawned not in place but slightly behind them. ("Does not happen all the time but chances are quite possible. (For best stability play with God Mode)
-Bots crash the game when played in Singleplayer during Auto Save Sections. (Game tries to sync your save file with bots as well which is not meant to be used like that thus causing a crash in your Singleplayer Session (Host a Cooperative Session and spawn the bots there. Does not work when there is more than 1 player in your Session)
-Bots do not know how to use Jetpacks (No idea how to resolve this yet for final level)

{TROUBLESHOOTING}
If bots do not spawn in even with Cheats enabled, with this mod subscribed make sure you do not have any modifications related to BFE Campaign adjustments. Any BFE Campaign level Replacements won't work with this mod. It's best if you only have only this mod Enabled with any Player Model Mods as well.

~~~~TO SUM THINGS UP~~~~~
They are in no way perfect bots and are still in experimental stage for Serious Sam Fusion 2017 Engine. These issues weren't made by me but by Croteam. All they wanted is to make AI Test bot that can beat the level on it's own in Singleplayer. They've also added experimental Coop Bots which were discontinued for Fusion in order to perfect it in SS4's Engine. I modified those Coop NPCs Logic Marker placements in a way to allow them to play as human as possible as well as stick to player's side more often than in Vanilla.
Croteam did a fantastic job still because i know what's it like to code AI Bots for any game. My task was to readjust the logic, that's all.
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You can support me by Rating Up this project. I make no profit out of this and all credits go to Croteam for designing such amazing Engine.

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{FUTURE OF THIS PROJECT}
Project Never Alone will contain updates such as Bot fixes as well as implementation for TFE and TSE straight in this one Workshop Item so stay tuned.