Installation

1. Download APBS - Acid’s Progressive Bot System
2. Open the downloaded .zip file in 7-zip
3. Select the SPT folder in the .zip file in 7-zip
4. Drag the SPT folder from 7-zip into your SPT folder

Demonstration Video (yoink):

Features

This list is not even close to encompassing everything that APBS can do, or what you can change!

• Configuration Web App that has 125+ settings.
  • Chances are, if you want to change something - it’s available. If not, ask for it and maybe it’ll be added.
  • Please, actually look at the config - it covers so much more than the features listed here.
• All AI will level with you.
• All AI have a tiering system.
• All AI weapons have individual attachment chances in each tier.
  • Snipers, Marksman Rifles, and Carbines have scopes more often.
  • Assault Rifles have foregrips, stocks, muzzles more often. (etc etc etc)
• All AI will use MODDED weapons, equipment, and clothing that you have installed.
  • Must be enabled in the config - Not all mods are compatible, no support granted
  • If you have Pack’N’Strap - AI will have the belts in their Armband slot!
  • If you have Realism - You can enable adding gas masks to Bots if you play with Hazard Zones
• All PMCs will use weapons/equipment for kill quests that require specific things (v1.7.0+)
  • 20 quests are currently available for them to choose from, they must be on an available map and within level range to being “assigned” a quest .
  • Questing Bots is not required for this feature, it’s completely independent.
• All AI pocket/rig/backpack loot has been adjusted.
  • Balancing - no more ammo box spam on PMCs.
  • Whitelists - nobody can use impact grenades except PMCs, and they must be of a higher level to use them.
• All AI Weapon Durability has been adjusted and balanced.
• All AI medical/food/drink items may appear to be used.
• All AI will randomly choose to use different ammunition in their additional mags.
  • Maybe that SR-25 spawned with M80, but perhaps one of their mags has M62 in it…or BCP. Who knows!
• All AI can use different size magazines based on your configuration.
  • If they spawn with 60 rounders, they won’t have like 5 of them - they are limited to 2.
• Your Player Scav will have gear generated based on your PMC level. Maybe you’ll get a decent gun.
• USEC spawn with weapons that you would expect from non-Russian forces.
• BEAR spawn with weapons that you would expect from Russian forces.
• Per map weapon choices for AI? You got it! Factory is mostly short range, but Woods is mostly long range!
• AI will used NVGs if it’s night, and they have a helmet supporting NVGs. They will not wear them during the day.
• Scavs have a low chance to use weapons and equipment from the same tier PMC (or lower) as them.
• Scavs weapon attachments and ammo will always be more basic, never meta.
• Guards/Raiders/Rogues are beefed up a bit, they should be dangerous instead of a cake-walk.
• All tiering and item weights are handmade and subject to change.
  • What is tiered?
    • Weapons!
    • Equipment!
    • PMC Clothing!
    • Attachments!
    • Ammo!
  • This is not based on “loadouts” or “kits”, nor traders, nor anything else other progression mods do.
  • It’s just based on tiers (by level), and completely random within those tiers.
• Custom Presets (v1.1.0+) can be created, and shared between users. Make your own progression!
  • Please see “Presets” tab for information.
  • EVERYTHING that APBS does with AI loadouts and equipment, you can also do.
    • Change their equipment pools? Check!
    • Change their ammo pools? Check!
    • Change the CHANCE of a specific attachment on a specific class of weapons? Check!
    • APBS is yours to create and customize. Share your preset with users. Laugh at them getting wiped by your gigachad scavs. Do what you want.

Tiering System

• All tiers are based on YOUR PMC level.
• All of these deltas can be changed in the configuration. If you want more variance, then configure it! If you want less, configure it!
  • You can also configure custom level deltas for Scavs separately, if you so wanted.
  • The configuration values for custom deltas are done per tier, so you need to set each of them - the “Tier” is based on YOUR PMC level.
  • If you want AI to be any level possible, set each custom level delta in the config to 79 levels below you and 79 levels above you.
• Min Level Delta: The number of levels BELOW your player level the AI can spawn
• Max Level Delta: The number of levels ABOVE your player level the AI can spawn
  • Example #2: Player Level 27. Tier 3. AI will spawn between level 12 & level 34.
  • Example #1: Player Level 32. Tier 4. AI will spawn between level 12 & level 42.
  • Example #3: Player Level 48. Tier 5. AI will spawn between level 18 & level 63.

Configuration

Config App is gone, to edit the configuration run your server after installing and go to:

• https://127.0.0.1:6969/progressivebotsystem/

All configs can be updated and edited while the server is running - provided nobody is in raid.

If you are using Fika then put the appropriate IP and port instead.

Alternative Mods

I know this mod won’t be for everyone, and the intention is to provide an alternative progression mod. It’s a type of mod that I wanted to take on because progression mods are a different type of hell to develop and implement.

The scope and end-goal of this mod is my vision of progression for SPT. It may not match what you want or enjoy.

If you don’t like it - I won’t be offended and you don’t have to use it.

I would suggest trying any of the following alternative progression mods if you do not like APBS:

ALP - ALGORITHMIC LEVEL PROGRESSION
VALENS-PROGRESSION

SPT REALISM MOD

ANDERN