Add More Bots

Many BF2142 players want to play with more bots — 16 just isn’t enough for most! With today’s PCs, you can easily run over 64 bots without lag, making for a much more immersive battlefield experience. If you enjoy grinding bots for fun, you’re not alone! Here’s a guide on how to increase the number of bots in your game.

Preparations

• Do you know where your game directory is? It’s the folder where BF2142.exe and mods are located. By default, this is usually: C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\Battlefield 2142.

• You’ll be editing files in \mods\<MOD>\AI\AIDefault.ai, so it’s a good idea to make a backup of the file first — just add a suffix like _bak or _o to the filename of the clone. []

• If you want this change to affect vanilla BF2142, make your edits in the \mods\bf2142 folder. Otherwise, edit the files in the \mods\<MOD> folder for your chosen mod.

Procedures

If you have Remaster mod installed ...

In the launcher, head to the Settings tab, adjust the Bot-Settings as needed, and then click Apply. (You don't have to follow any steps below.)

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Inside the AI folder, open AIDefault.ai with a text editor.

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Look for the line aiSettings.setMaxNBots 16 near the top of the file.

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Change the number to however many bots you want — for example, aiSettings.setMaxNBots 32 for 32 bots.

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Make sure to set aiSettings.maxBotsIncludeHumans to 0. []

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Put aiSettings.overrideMenuSettings 1 before the line with aiSettings.maxBotsIncludeHumans 0. []

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Your file should look something like this around lines 9–12:

aiSettings.overrideMenuSettings 1
aiSettings.maxBotsIncludeHumans 0
aiSettings.setMaxNBots 32
aiSettings.setBotSkill 1.0

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You can also adjust the bot skill — set aiSettings.setBotSkill to any value between 0 and 1 (higher means tougher bots).

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Once you’re done, just save your changes!

If you’re unable to save your changes, try dragging the .ai file to your Desktop, make your edits there, and then drag it back when you’re done.

Remarks

• When you launch the game and select a map, it might still display 16 bots, but if you’ve edited the file correctly, you’ll actually have the number of bots you set.

• Remember, everything is case sensitive — spelling mistakes or incorrect capitalization can cause the game to crash!

• If you host a server with this tweak, your server will have more bots, and players who join won’t need to make any changes on their end.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to:

• asdasdadsdasdasdasda for sharing details on how to change bot counts @ How To Change The Singleplayer Bot Count