More Bots Tweak

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.

Before we start ...

• 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.

Here we go ...

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

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

3. Change the number to however many bots you want — for example, aiSettings.setMaxNBots 32 for 32 bots. Keep in mind that []

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

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

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

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

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

8. Once you’re done, just save your changes!

Something to note ...

• 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. Simply load into a map and use the tab list and you will see the effect.

• 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.

Special thanks to ...

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