May 10th 1999 by MrElusive

OSP Tourney v1.68 released...

Rhea has released OSP Tourney v1.68. This is an official release with Gladiator bot support. Head over to the Orange Smoothy Productions site at http://www.planetquake.com/osp and check it out.

May 9th 1999 by MrElusive

Gladiator bot v0.93 released...

New features, tweaks and fixes. Here are a few:

- added patrol AI and chat interpretation
- bot understands check points which players can drop
- fixed the CTF userinfo bug which caused the bots to shoot at human team mates
- added RA2 "ra_botcycle" and "ra_playercycle" option
... and more you can read about in the readme included with the bot.

A version for Win32-x86, Linux-x86-libc5 and Linux-x86-glibc can be found at the download page.

several new bot characters...

There are several new bot characters at the download page. The bot characters from v0.92 still work with the new version

demo challenge...

Therapy? has put up a "Demo Challenge" on his Gladiator Generator site.

May 4th 1999 by MrElusive

new Gladiator! released...

MattCake released a new version of the Gladiator! launcher. This new version adds support for AAS files stored in aasX.zip files.

May 3rd 1999 by MrElusive

Gladiator bot chat editing...

Gladiator bot chat editing information has been added to the editing page.

April 30th 1999 by MrElusive

new GladGen version...

Jase has released version 0.35 beta of the Gladiator Generator. GladGen is now compatible with .aas files that are not stored as stand-alone files within the gladiator folder, a map browse option has been added, GladGen now closes once Q2 launches and more... GladGen can be downloaded from http://gladiator.webjump.com/.

April 29th 1999 by MrElusive

new GladGen version...

Jase has released version 0.3 of the Gladiator Generator. The new version of this Gladiator bot launcher has enhanced team DM support, supports custom skins and sets up team-message binds. The GladGen can be downloaded from http://gladiator.webjump.com/.

April 28th 1999 by MrElusive

OSP Tourney DM beta with Gladiator bot...

The official OSP Tourney v1.32 release still has Gladiator bots disabled. However, Rhea has made a beta of v1.59 available at his beta site. The beta version has the Gladiator bots enabled in ALL modes of play (FFA, teamplay, 1v1).

Grab the pre-tourney146.zip, then the appropriate new gladiator zips and servers for your architecture (current win32 and Linux-x86-glibc at the moment are the only ones supported). Make sure you extract them in this order.

April 24th 1999 by MrElusive

more Gladiator bot front-ends...

Almost forgot to mention the Don't Panic bot launcher (thanks Cube). The new version that has been released today has Gladiator bot support.
There are now four bot launchers with Gladiator bot support. I guess you will be able to select the bot launcher that satisfies your needs.

Gladiator bot front-ends...

You think launching the Gladiator bot is way too complex and/or difficult?
There are now several front-ends with Gladiator bot support available to make your life easy. Gladiator! is a launcher specially for the Gladiator bot. Bot Johnny is an alround bot launcher with Gladiator bot support. And The Gladiator Generator is available, a launcher specially for the Gladiator bot.

Mod with Gladiator bot support...

There is a new mod available called Quake 2 2 player with Gladiator bot support. This mod enables you to play Quake2 with multiple players on one computer.

April 21th 1999 by MrElusive

Gladiator bot v0.92 character editing info...

Some new information related to bot character editing is now available on the features page. You will also find an overview of the files that make up a bot character.

April 20th 1999 by MrElusive

Gladiator bot v0.92 game source code released...

The new v0.92 game source code is now available. Click here for a quick download.

A list with all the game source changes from v0.91 to v0.92 can be found in the readme.txt included with the game source. Note that the new v0.92 Gladiator library (gladiator.dll or gamei386.so) is compatible with the old v0.91 game source.

April 18th 1999 by MrElusive

Gladiator bot v0.92 released...

Lots of new features, tweaks and fixes. Here are a few of the new features:

- new CTF AI
- new team AI
- create subteams with your bot team mates, chat with them and tell them
  what to do (help you, follow or cover you, guard key areas, camp somewhere etc.)
- automatic loading of custom bot charactes
- RA2 health protect, armor protect, self-damage
- lag feature
- pause option
... and more you can read about in the readme included with the bot.

For the best bot performance you will have to re-aas your maps

Click here for a quick download.

The new game source code for v0.92 will probably be available in a few days.

April 6th 1999 by MrElusive

Gladiator Bot custom characters...

Creating new bot characters might take some time since the bots can be adjusted in great detail. Felix suggested to put custom bot characters on the site for the people that don't have that much time on their hands. Currently you'll find two new bot characters on the download page. If you've got new bot characters as well just e-mail them to MrElusive and they'll be posted here. (Please fill in and include this text file and a .cfg file to load the bot.)