BotProfile FAQ:

Name of Game: Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

Platform: PC

By: dnextreme88

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1. Introduction.........................................................[Intro]
2. Version History.......................................................[Hist]
3. Copyright Information.................................................[Copy]
4. Main Content
        A. What is a "Bot Profile"?.......................................[WHT]
        B. Accessing "Bot Profile"........................................[ACC]
        C. Editing the BotProfile.........................................[EDT]
        D. Weapon Preferences Templates...................................[WPN]
        E. Skill Templates................................................[SKL]
5. Contact Information................................................[Contact]
6. Permitted Sites......................................................[Sites]
7. Credits...............................................................[Cred]

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1. Introduction [Intro]
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Hi and welcome to my Bot Profile FAQ. This FAQ will guide you on how to edit or
define your own bots for your Counter-Strike: Condition Zero game. I hope you
find this guide useful on how you can edit your own bots.

Counter-Strike: Condition Zero is owned by Valve. All trademarks are subjected
to Valve.

Copyright (c) Valve.

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2. Version History [Hist]
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Version 1.0 - Feb 17, 2008
= Submitted the FAQ.

Version 1.1 - Sep 11, 2010
= Re-submitted the FAQ.
= Corrected minor errors.

Version 1.2 - Sep 12, 2016
= Revival. Re-structured the document. Corrected some grammar errors.
= Changed all section codes so that search is easier.
= Removed "About" section and placed its contents in "Introduction" section.
= Fixed all indentions not properly showing up.

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3. Copyright Information [Copy]
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IMPORTANT NOTICE: PLEASE READ

No part of this FAQ may be produced or published in any form or by any means,
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Copyright (c) dnextreme88

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4. Main Content
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A. What is a "Bot Profile"? [WHT]
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Bot Profile - it's a collection of bot personalites for your Counter-Strike:
Condition Zero game. To put it simplier, this has a list of bot names set up
by Valve themselves. You can, however, edit these at your will and change those
names to your liking. I will explain more of that later.

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B. Accessing "Bot Profile" [ACC]
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You can edit the bot names by accessing the BotProfile.db file. To do that, 
just go to:

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POSSIBLE LOCATIONS:
[A]- C:\Program Files\Valve\Condition Zero\czero

Or it can also be...

[B]- C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\"yourname"\condition zero\czero
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When you're in that folder, go click "BotProfile.db". It should look like this:

[A]- C:\Program Files\Valve\Condition Zero\czero\BotProfile.db

[B]- C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\"yourname"\condition zero\czero\
BotProfile.db

If this is your first time opening a file like this, something like this will
appear...

 _____________________________________________________________________________
| "You are attempting to open a file of type 'Data Base File' (.db)           |
|                                                                             |
| These files are used by the operating system and by various programs.       |
| Editing or modifying them could damage your system.                         |
|                                                                             |
| If you still want to open the file, click Open With, otherwise, click       |
| Cancel."                                                                    |
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- In order to proceed, go click "Open With...". Then among the options, select
Notepad or Notepad++ (if you have that downloaded).

With that, you now have the freedom to edit the bot names at your own will. The
first line of the file is just the copyright and the author and a line that is
saying that you are given the right to edit that file.

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C. Editing the BotProfile [EDT]
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You may have that free will and freedom to edit the bot names, but some ground
rules should be taken into consideration when editing these bot names:

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- Bot names should be no longer than 31 characters.
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If the bot's name is long, it'll cause the excess characters not to be shown in
the scoreboard. One other tip, if you want bots to not have "one-word names",
their names should be enclosed in quotes ("). The original BotProfile.db file
doesn't enclose bot names with quotes (") and if you want bots to have names
like, say "Bot A", just put something like "Easy Bot A" (including the quotes).
Otherwise, there'll be an error message when you try to connect to your own
listen server.

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- Bots should have the correct weapon template.
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This only applies if you want that bot to use specific guns. Giving out a wrong
template makes the bot have the will to use random guns and not those specific
guns. Let's take this as an example:

VeryHard+Sniper Quinn
        Skin = 3
        VoicePitch = 93
End

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LEGEND: 
        VeryHard - the difficulty of the bot.
        Quinn - name of the bot
        Skin - force the bot to use the specified skin number. This makes the 
bot to always use skin "3" whenever in the game. Remove this line if you want
the bot to use any skin.
        VoicePitch - the voice of the bot when making a radio command.
        End - needed to end the template. Should you not have this after the 
bot, the game won't include that bot while in a game.
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The 'Sniper' refers to the weapon template that bot will be using. In a default
'Sniper' weapon template, the guns that the bot will be using are:

        awp  : Magnum Sniper Rifle
        sg550: Krieg 550 Commando
        g3sg1: D3/AU-1
        scout: Schmidt Scout
        famas: Clarion 5.56
        galil: IDF Defender
        mp5  : K&M Sub-Machine Gun

In this case, bot "Quinn" can use any of the aforementioned guns but usually,
the first gun in line which is "awp" will always be used. When the bot runs out
of funds, alternate guns can be used such as the sg550, g3sg1 and scout.

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- Bots can only be fought when you select the difficulty of that bot.
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For instance, bot "Quinn" can only be fought if you select either the
difficulties "Hard" or "Expert". This is because of the prefix "VeryHard".
However, you can fight "Quinn" if you change the "Hard" or "Expert" lines to
"Easy" and/or "Medium".

However, a certain bot can have a chance to appear in more than one difficulty
if you include a + sign. Example, if you want the bot named "Quinn" to have a
chance to appear at the Hard and Expert difficulty, you must follow these
steps:

1) Press Ctrl+F while BotProfile.db is open and place "skill templates".
2) Find "Template VeryHard" which looks like this:

Template VeryHard
        Skill = 80
        Aggression = 80
        ReactionTime = 0.25
        Cost = 3
        Difficulty = HARD
        VoicePitch = 92
End

3) On the difficulty, add "+EXPERT" (without the quotes) so it will look like
"Difficulty = HARD+EXPERT".
4) Save document and since Quinn is VeryHard (by default), he'll have a chance
to appear in the EXPERT difficulty also.

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- Bots will use the specified skin.
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This is possible. By adding "Skin = X" (where X is 1-4), you will be able to
force the bot to use that skin. Here are the corresponding skins the bot will
be using with the specified skin number:

 ________________________________
|# 1                             |
| Terrorist: PHOENIX CONNEXION   |
| Counter-Terrorist: SEAL-TEAM 6 |
|--------------------------------|
|# 2                             |
| Terrorist: L337 KREW           |
| Counter-Terrorist: GSG-9       |
|--------------------------------|
|# 3                             |
| Terrorist: ARCTIC AVENGERS     |
| Counter-Terrorist: SAS         |
|--------------------------------|
|# 4                             |
| Terrorist: GUERILLA WARFARE    |
| Counter-Terrorist: GIGN        |
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- No special UNICODE characters in bot names.
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Only plain text, numbers, underscores are allowed. These are special characters 
that you do not normally see on your keyboards. They can be formed by using any 
"alt+zzzz" where zzzz is the number. So that means, it's all plain text with 
some other characters like [,],<,> etc.

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D. Weapon Preferences Templates [WPN]
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Just incase you want the default template for the bots' weapons, here is a list
of them:

// weapon preference templates
Template Rifle
        WeaponPreference = m4a1
        WeaponPreference = ak47
        WeaponPreference = famas
        WeaponPreference = galil
        WeaponPreference = mp5
End

Template RifleT
        WeaponPreference = ak47
        WeaponPreference = m4a1
        WeaponPreference = galil
        WeaponPreference = famas
        WeaponPreference = mp5
End

Template Punch
        WeaponPreference = aug
        WeaponPreference = sg552
        WeaponPreference = famas
        WeaponPreference = galil
        WeaponPreference = mp5
End

Template PunchT
        WeaponPreference = aug
        WeaponPreference = sg552
        WeaponPreference = famas
        WeaponPreference = galil
        WeaponPreference = mp5
End

Template Sniper
        WeaponPreference = awp
        WeaponPreference = sg550
        WeaponPreference = g3sg1
        WeaponPreference = scout
        WeaponPreference = famas
        WeaponPreference = galil
        WeaponPreference = mp5
End

Template Power
        WeaponPreference = m249
        WeaponPreference = xm1014
        WeaponPreference = m3
        WeaponPreference = famas
        WeaponPreference = galil
        WeaponPreference = mp5
End

Template Shotgun
        WeaponPreference = xm1014
        WeaponPreference = m3
        WeaponPreference = famas
        WeaponPreference = galil
        WeaponPreference = mp5
End

Template Shield
        WeaponPreference = shield
        WeaponPreference = m4a1                 // in case shield is disallowed
        WeaponPreference = ak47
        WeaponPreference = famas
        WeaponPreference = galil
        WeaponPreference = mp5
End

Template Spray
        WeaponPreference = p90
        WeaponPreference = tmp
        WeaponPreference = mac10
        WeaponPreference = mp5
End

If you have the same template but usually has a different name, you should use
the weapon template with the exact name on your current list.

For example, instead of having a "Shield" template, you placed "Defensives".
The bot cannot use the weapons in the "Defensives" template if it isn't listed
on the weapon template section itself. But "Shield" template is on the list and
it uses the same weapon template as the one on "Defensives". What do you do?

Change "Defensives" to "Shield" and change any outlying bot templates who uses
the weapon template "Defensives" and change it to "Shield" again. The bot will
now be able to use the weapon template "Shield".

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E. Skill Templates [SKL]
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Like the weapon templates, if you ever wanted to revert to the original skill
templates, a list of them is here. Note that, if you are going to do this, you
must also replace your current skill templates with the one listed here.

// skill templates
Template Elite
        Skill = 100
        Aggression = 100
        ReactionTime = 0.2
        Cost = 4
        Difficulty = EXPERT
        VoicePitch = 85
End

Template Expert
        Skill = 90
        Aggression = 90
        ReactionTime = 0.2
        Cost = 4
        Difficulty = EXPERT
        VoicePitch = 88
End

Template VeryHard
        Skill = 80
        Aggression = 80
        ReactionTime = 0.25
        Cost = 3
        Difficulty = HARD
        VoicePitch = 92
End

Template Hard
        Skill = 75
        Aggression = 75
        ReactionTime = 0.25
        Cost = 3
        Difficulty = HARD
        VoicePitch = 94
End

Template Tough
        Skill = 60
        Aggression = 60
        ReactionTime = 0.3
        AttackDelay = 0.35
        Cost = 2
        Difficulty = NORMAL+HARD
        VoicePitch = 96
End

Template Normal
        Skill = 50
        Aggression = 50
        ReactionTime = 0.4
        AttackDelay = 0.7
        Cost = 2
        Difficulty = NORMAL
End

Template Fair
        Skill = 25
        Aggression = 30
        ReactionTime = 0.4
        AttackDelay = 1.0
        Cost = 1
        Difficulty = EASY+NORMAL
        VoicePitch = 105
End

Template Easy
        Skill = 0
        Aggression = 20
        ReactionTime = 0.5
        AttackDelay = 1.5
        Cost = 1
        Difficulty = EASY
        VoicePitch = 110
End

Always match the skill template listed the one like above to those bots whom
you will assign their difficulty with. It is a must that you do - similar to
the weapon templates. You may have noticed that each template comes with a
skill set. Let's take a look at that:

> Skill - in percent. The higher the number, the difficult the bot is.

> Aggression - in percent. The rate at which the bot is aggressive. Lesser
camping. Usually more focused on map objectives such as planting bombs at a
bombsite or rescuing hostages.

> ReactionTime - in seconds. The rate at which the bot reacts when encountering
an enemy. The lower the number, the faster it reacts.

> AttackDelay - in seconds. The rate at which the bot attacks upon making
contact with an enemy. The lower the number, the faster it attacks.

> Cost - I don't really know what this means.

> Difficulty - sets the bot to a particular difficulty. Refer to the previous
section on how to manipulate bot difficulty.

> VoicePitch - in whole numbers. I believe the numbers range from 80 - 120. The
voice of the bot when making a radio command. The higher the number, the deeper
the bot's voice is.

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5. Contact Information [Contact]
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If you have any questions, suggestions or some corrections, feel free to e-mail
me. My e-mail is

storm_iz_here[at]yahoo[dot]com

Replace "[at]" with "@" and "[dot]" with "." (remove quotation marks). Please
put the subject as "CS: CZ FAQ" to remind me that you are not spam. If not, the
subject should be at least close to the previous one and I will try to answer
you back.

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6. Permitted Sites [Sites]
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If you posted this on your website without my supervision, it is a violation of
the copyright. The following sites have MY PERMISSION to post this FAQ to their
site:

www.gamefaqs.com
www.supercheats.com
www.neoseeker.com

If your site isn't listed above, email me first. Never and never post this FAQ
on your site WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. It is something that you shouldn't do and
you really shouldn't do after all.

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7. Credits [Cred]
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I would like to thank the following:

To GameFAQs, SuperCheats and Neoseeker for hosting the FAQ.

To Valve for making the game.

To you, as the reader.

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