1. Download Armbands for All
2. Open the downloaded zip file in 7-zip
3. Select the BepInEx folders in the zip file in 7-zip
4. Drag the BepInEx folders from 7-zip into your SPT folder

Demonstration Video (yoink):

1. Delete /ROOTSPT/Bepinex/plugins/acidphantasm-armbandsforall
2. Done

That’s for you to find out.

These bots function with SAIN and through the MoreBotsAPI there is support for customizing the bots characteristics like you would other bot types.

Should work with most spawn mods as long as they don’t override boss spawns that aren’t vanilla. My previous UNTAR mod was tested with ABPS and MOAR and it worked with those. I haven’t tested with any of the new 4.0.0 spawn mods so let me know if there are incompatabilities I might be able to address.

Also, if you disable bosses in any way these bots won’t spawn. They use the vanilla boss spawn system.

If WTT Armory is installed, the BD bots will use some of the weapons and attachments from the mod. As more updates come additional loadout options, both vanilla and incorporating Armory, will be implemented.

Thanks to the WTT team for abducting having me on the team! I’m excited to be able to contribute to the project. They all worked incredibly hard to backport the 1.0 content for Christmas so be sure to thank them.

What is Welcome To Tarkov?

Welcome To Tarkov (WTT) is a mod for SPT AKI that has been in development for over a year. What started as a small passion project has grown in size to incorporate 15+ core members as well as contributions from other well-known mod authors and friends of WTT alike.

How does Welcome To Tarkov change the game?

As a mod, WTT overhauls SPT AKI, touching on almost every vanilla game system, as well as adding completely new systems to the game and its core mechanics. Inspired by open-world hardcore survival projects like STALKER: Anomaly and STALKER: GAMMA, WTT takes SPT’s artificial multiplayer MMO difficulty adders and replaces them with a challenging world economy, loot scarcity rebalancing, a lore friendly quest overhaul, and a map-traveling system built from rewritten portions of the Traveler mod allowing seamless travel between maps. Aside from its changes to the game’s core properties, WTT also adds to the world’s variety of traders, NPC’s, characters, items, and quests:

• Over 1,000 custom bundles adding new weapons, attachments, wearables, containers, food, medical, and barter items.
• New bosses with their own custom gear that will be properly incorporated into WTT’s quest lines.
• New, meaningful traders with their own lore-friendly quests and narrative elements to help the player progress through the story-line of WTT.
• New playable characters and outfits that will add to the player’s customization abilities.
• New quest types incorporating brand new map extraction points, putting the player’s knowledge and familiarization of SPT’s maps to the test. Welcome To Tarkov stands as one of the largest mods created for SPT AKI thus far.

When does Welcome To Tarkov release?

Thursday.

Which Thursday?

TBD

Want to follow our progress?

You can follow the project through it’s development in our discord here:

https://discord.gg/WelcomeToTarkov

RUAF Come Home adds completely custom bot types that don’t replace existing bots, each with their own loadouts and roles. They are neutral to BEAR, giving warnings to anyone who strays too close and only firing when ignored or fired upon. Meanwhile, if you’re USEC, expect to be fired upon. They don’t take kindly to tourists. Also scavs, they hate scavs.

RUAF Rifleman

Your typical rifleman, equipped with an AK-74M. They make up the bulk of RUAF units.

RUAF Senior Rifleman

An NCO or Junior NCO in charge of a squad of RUAF soldiers. They’re equipped with the most recent equipment being fielded by RGF, using AK-12s, modernized kits for the AK-74M, and UBGLs.

RUAF Autorifleman

Soldier equipped with an RPK-16 to give mobile fire support. Capable of laying down suppressive fire so the rest of the unit can move. Uses 45-round RPK mags and 95-round drum mags.

RUAF Machinegunner

The autorifleman’s bigger brother, packing a PKM or PKP. Be very careful when you take on a RUAF squad that has one of these, or you’ll be swiss cheese.

RUAF Marksman

Capable of suppressing and eliminating threats to the RUAF squad before they become a problem. They’re equipped with the SVD-S with scopes, making them a priority target if you want to be able to flee without getting shot in the back.

Patrols can spawn across several maps in randomly generated patrols at random times during the raid. Their size and composition varies, with a specialized role mixed in with every few rifleman, and always lead by a senior rifleman who can use UBGLs.

Maps

Settings related to patrols can be adjusted in the config/main.json server file. This includes adding new maps and zones! Patrols will pick a random available spawn zone found in the config file and a time in a defined range. Maps can be configured to have multiple patrols rolled (which also means you can encounter multiple patrols in one raid).

These checkpoints spawn at the start of the raid in areas affiliated with RUAF, typically near or at extracts. You might have to change your exfil route if you were planning on an easy escape! Config settings allow you to add your own checkpoints or edit existing ones.

• Quests from multiple traders and services through Prapor. Quests will change RUAF aggression and hostility with both the player and other factions (vanilla and my mods).
• GRU Spetznaz squads that hunt down USECs and other factions, depending on what questlines you complete.
• 

Not specific to this mod, but related things I want to work on that you might like if you enjoy my faction mods:

• Dialogue mod. I don’t want to spoil too much since I still need to do some prototyping to make sure it’s feasible, but there will be integration with my other mods if it is.

These bots function with SAIN and through the MoreBotsAPI there is support for customizing the bots characteristics like you would other bot types.

Should work with most spawn mods as long as they don’t override boss spawns that aren’t vanilla. My previous UNTAR mod was tested with ABPS and MOAR and it worked with those. I haven’t tested with any of the new 4.0.0 spawn mods so let me know if there are incompatabilities I might be able to address.

Also, if you disable bosses in any way these bots won’t spawn. They use the vanilla boss spawn system.

UNTARGH adds completely custom bot types that don’t replace existing bots, each with their own loadouts and roles. They are neutral, giving warnings to anyone who strays too close and only firing when ignored or fired upon.

UNTAR Grunt

The bulk of the UNTAR mission’s combat-ready forces. They’re meant to “keep the peace” and protect civilian members of the mission while they perform their duties. Expect them to be armed with a variety of western weapons while wearing standard UNTAR armor.

UNTAR Squad Lead

An NCO in charge of a squad of UNTAR grunts. They keep the group in check while donning equipment from their origin nation. They have fancier weapons and gear on average.

UNTAR Officer

Officers are in charge of ensuring that the mission’s objectives (extract capable civilians, distribute aid to those stranded, and make a f#$% ton of money) are adhered to and completed. Currently, they’re functionally similar to squad leaders besides the fact they always wear a blue beret, but I do intend on expanding their purpose.

Patrols can spawn across several maps in randomly generated patrols at random times during the raid. Their size and composition varies, with some larger patrols being lead by officers and potentially having multiple squad leaders. As more UNTAR types are added patrols will become more varied.

Maps

Settings related to patrols can be adjusted in the config/main.json server file. This includes adding new maps and zones! Patrols will pick a random available spawn zone found in the config file and a time in a defined range. Maps can be configured to have multiple patrols rolled (which also means you can encounter multiple patrols in one raid).

Currently, patrols will spawn on:

• Woods, 2 possible patrols at a time, decent spawn chance, small-mid sized
• Customs, 1 possible patrol, good spawn chance, mid-big sized
• Interchange, 2 possible patrols at a time, meh spawn chance, small-mid sized
• Shoreline, 1 possible patrol, decent spawn chance, small-mid sized
• Streets, 1 possible patrol, decent spawn chance, mid-big sized.

The UNTAR mission has setup a number of checkpoints across the region to regulate the movement of people and illegal goods while keeping an eye on what’s going on. These checkpoints spawn at the start of the raid in areas affiliated with UNTAR, typically near or at extracts. You might have to change your exfil route if you were planning on an easy escape! Config settings allow you to add your own checkpoints or edit existing ones.

Currently broken. Will be reintegrating through the server part of the mod instead. This will also make it tie directly into the quests that will be coming, with some more fun stuff than just becoming allies to UNTAR bots.

• Services with Peacekeeper related to UNTAR that you can activate in raid. Make UNTAR allies, call in a patrol to come “keep your peace,” or waive checkpoint extract fees once you’re trusted enough by Peacekeeper.
• More UNTAR types. Marksmen, medics, and observers. In addition, I’d like to give current roles some more interactions and purpose.

Not specific to this mod, but related things I want to work on that you might like if you enjoy the new UNTAR faction:

• Dialogue mod. I don’t want to spoil too much since I still need to do some prototyping to make sure it’s feasible, but there will be integration with my other mods if it is.

UNTARGH has full (I might’ve missed something. If you notice any problems with SAIN or errors do let me know!) compatability with SAIN, with UNTAR bots using SAIN behaviors and having dedicated config options in SAIN’s settings.

UNTARGH has no specific compatability code at the moment with any spawn mods. I still have to do some testing and collaborate with some authors to make sure UNTAR spawning works 100% with spawn mods. If you encounter any issues with spawning while using these sorts of mods I won’t offer support, but I will accept logs so I can work on ironing out compatability.

MOAR

MOAR seems to work with UNTARGH, but there’s no additional compatability. Basically, UNTAR works off my spawn system, everything else works on MOAR’s system.

ABPS

ABPS DOES WORK with UNTAR Go Home! Again, UNTAR patrols use my system and aren’t handled by ABPS but they will spawn while ABPS handles everything else.

UNTARGH is relatively untested with these mods. Questing Bots and Looting Bots don’t conflict at the very least, so you can play with those just fine from what I can tell. I’ll be conducting some testing and patching in necessary compatability fixes. Eventually, I want to include functionality related to Questing Bots in particular but that’s for a later update.

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

Demonstration Video (yoink):

1. Delete /ROOTSPT/Bepinex/plugins/acidphantasm-botplacementsystem
2. Delete /ROOTSPT/SPT/user/mods/acidphantasm-botplacementsystem
3. Done

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

• https://127.0.0.1:6969/botplacementsystem/

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.

Additionally, there are some settings in-game via the F12 menu.

Recommended Mods

APBS

No Boss PMCs

Waypoints

Looting Bots

Known Issues

• None at this moment

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):

1. Delete /ROOTSPT/SPT/user/mods/acidphantasm-progressivebotsystem
2. Done

Features

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

• Webconfig that has 125+ settings.
  • Review the config tab, all changes are made when you click save. No server restart necessary.
  • 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

Acid’s Bot Placement System

• Built specifically to spawn bots in a live like manner around maps.

Armbands For All

• Allows non-PMC bots to have armband slots

Pack N Strap

• Pairs nicely with Armband For All, so PMCs, scavs, and guards can have belts
• If you don’t have Armbands For All, only PMCs will have them

Bosses Have Lega Medals

• Allows bosses to have a Lega Medal in their pocket, configurable by chance

Honestly, any WTT mod

• Most of these have additional compatibility handling and I only test Mod Importing with WTT Mods.

REQUIRED DEPENDENCY: BigBrain This mod will not work unless the BigBrain mod is also installed!

View readme for more details. Please report any issues in the comments section here or feel free to open an issue on the github. Having debug enabled in the mod menu is recommended when reporting issues.

- Check here for an existing issue before reporting a bug

Base game behavior:

• Scavs start a raid on patrol, when they finish a combat engagement they will return to patrol mode after the amount of seconds specified in the Mind.TIME_TO_FORGOR_ABOUT_ENEMY_SEC bot config property
• When scavs are on patrol, they have a chance to inspect a nearby corpse and loot simple things such as weapons and
• When scavs are on patrol, sometimes they stop in front of a lootable container and pretend to loot it
• PMCs and Scavs in SPT spawn with some potentially valuable loot already in their inventory

Modded behavior:

• New bot brain layer (LootingLayer) added for looting that replaces the base game logic responsible for “looting”
• LootingLayer will activate every 10 seconds (by default) during a patrol causing the bots to scan for the closest lootable item, container, or corpse. Scan distance configured by the “Detect Loot Distance” setting (75m by default)
• Once a lootable object has been found, bots will attempt to navigate to the object and commence looting
• Bots will attempt to loot everything from within corpse and a container
• Bots will examine each item for about 1 second before looting it (simulates discovering items when searcing containers/corpses)
• If a bot cannot equip a piece of gear, they will attempt to place it in their inventory
• Not all loot is navigable, relies heavily on the availability of a nearby NavMesh that bots can use to navigate
  • If a container is behind a door, bots will open the door if unlocked.
  • If a bot is stuck in place or if the bot spends too much time moving, the loot will be ignored
• Once looting has finished, bots will wait the amount of time specified
  in the “Delay between looting” setting before the next loot scan occurs (15s by default)

Gear Swap Criteria

• Bot will always swap to gear that has higher armor rating (helmets, armor vests, armored rigs)
• Backpack will be swapped if backpack being looted has more slots
• When looting larger rigs, bots will swap if currently equipped rig is of equal or lower armor class
• When throwing old backpacks/tactical rigs, bots try to take all the loot from the container thrown
• When looting weapons, bots will compare the item’s Handbook(default) or Flea market price in rubles to the value of the weapons currently equipped.
  • Looted weapons with higher value will replace an equipped weapon with the lowest value
  • Bots prefer to use the highest value weapon as their primary (if they have ammo)

Package Contents

• BepInEx/plugins/skwizzy.LootingBots.dll - Client plugin responsible for all the new corpse looting logic
• user/mods/Skwizzy-LootingBots-ServerMod - Server mod responsible for:
  1. Marks all items with DiscardLimits as InsuranceDisabled. It then disables the DiscardLimit settings for the server via the EnableDiscardLimits option in Server/database/globals.json. SPT PMC bots by default spawn with loot already in their backpacks, this loot is not marked Found In Raid and thus is subject to BSG’s RMT protection logic. With discard limits enabled, when a bot drops their backback to swap to a new one any loot with discard limits in their bag will be deleted immediately when the bag is dropped. To avoid this we set the EnableDiscardLimits to false, and also make sure to flag all items with a DiscardLimit >= 0 as InsuranceDisabled to prevent items suchs as keys and cases to be insured.
  2. Provides the option to clear out the loot that PMC/Scav bots start with
     in their backpacks. This does not include meds, ammo, grenades ect. These options can be found in the Skwizzy-LootingBots-ServerMod/config/config.json.

Install

• Extract the contents of the .zip file into your SPT directory
• Recommended to have LootingBots-ServerMod loaded last in the mod order to make sure discard limits arent enabled by another server mod

• Enable corpse looting - Enables corpse looting for the selected bot types
• Enable corpse line of sight check - When scanning for loot, corpses will be ignored if they are not visible by the bot
• Detect corpse distance - Distance (in meters) a bot is able to detect a corpse
• Enable container looting - Enables container looting for the selected bot types
• Enable container line of sight check - When scanning for loot, containers will be ignored if they are not visible by the bot
• Detect container distance - Distance (in meters) a bot is able to detect a container
• Enable loose item looting - Enables loose item looting for the selected bot types
• Enable item line of sight check - When scanning for loot, loose items will be ignored if they are not visible by the bot
• Detect item distance - Distance (in meters) a bot is able to detect an item
• Debug: Log Levels - Enable different levels of log messages to show in the logs
• Debug: Show navigation points - Renders spheres where bots are trying to navigate when container looting. (Red): Container position. (Green): Calculated bot destination. (Blue): NavMesh corrected destination (where the bot will move).

• Delay after spawn - Amount of seconds a bot will wait to start their first loot scan after spawning into raid.
• Delay after taking an item (ms) - Amount of milliseconds a bot will wait after taking an item into their inventory before attempting to loot another item. Simulates the amount of time it takes for a player to look through loot decide to take something.
• Enable examine time - Adds a delay before looting an item to simulate the time it takes for a bot to “uncover (examine)” an item when searching containers, items and corpses. The delay is calculated using the ExamineTime of an object and the AttentionExamineTime of the bot.
• Loot scan interval - The amount of seconds the bot will wait until triggering another loot scan

• Use flea market prices- Bots will query more accurate ragfair prices to do item value checks. Will make a query to get ragfair prices when the client is first started. May affect initial client start times.
• Calculate value from attachments- Calculate weapon value by looking up each attachment. More accurate than just looking at the base weapon template but a slightly more expensive check
• Allow weapon attachment stripping - Allows bots to take the attachments off of a weapon if they are not able to pick the weapon up into their inventory
• PMC: Min loot value threshold - PMC bots will only loot items that exceed the specified value in roubles. When set to 0, bots will ignore the minimum value threshold
• PMC: Max loot value threshold - PMC bots will NOT loot items that exceed the specified value in roubles. When set to 0, bots will ignore the maximum value threshold
• PMC: Allowed gear to equip - The equipment a PMC bot is able to equip during raid
• PMC: Allowed gear in bags - The equipment a PMC bot is able to place in their backpack/rig
• Scav: Min loot value threshold - All non-PMC bots will only loot items that exceed the specified value in roubles. When set to 0, bots will ignore the minimum value threshold
• Scav: Max value threshold - All non-PMC bots will NOT loot items that exceed the specified value in roubles. When set to 0, bots will ignore the maximum value threshold
• Scav: Allowed gear to equip - The equipment a non-PMC bot is able to equip during raid
• Scav: Allowed gear in bags - The equipment a non-PMC bot is able to place in their backpack/rig
• Log Levels - Enable different levels of log messages to show in the logs

• pmcSpawnWithLoot - When set to true, PMCs will spawn with loot in their bags/pockets (default SPT behavior)
• scavSpawnWithLoot - When set to true, Scavs will spawn with loot in the bags/pockets (default SPT behavior)

Default config:

• Waypoints - Expanded Bot Patrols - Adds expanded NavMeshes to all maps allowing bots to be able to navigate to almost every part of the map. When playing with larger Loot Detection Distances, this will allow bots to travel freely to extremely far away loot
• SAIN 2.0 - Solarint’s AI Modifications - Full AI Combat System Replacement - Amazing overhaul of bot AI, gives the game a whole new feel. Overhaul of the bot reactions allows bots to loot and not be interrupted if they hear shots from halfway across the map as well as many other things!
• Search Open Containers - Allows you to search an opened container without having to close them. Nice QOL when encountering containers that have been looted by a bot and left open

This mod will conflict with any mod that sets theglobals.config.DiscardLimitsEnabled to true. PMC bots will throw exceptions when attempting to discard gear with DiscardLimits set. This needs to be false for the mod to function properly with pmc looting.

Beta Build

SAIN 3.0: New Features:

• New Combat AI

  • Fully replaced combat logic.
  • AI Will Run for cover while reloading and using first aid.
  • Entirely new decision system and framework.
  • Bots will move outside their bot-zones to investigate gunfire or chase enemies.

• Full Bot Customization and Difficulty Modifications while in-game.

  • Press f6 (Default Key) to open new in-game GUI.

  • Includes difficulty presets that modify SAIN config settings.

    • These presets have no influence on other difficulty options in other mods or the selected difficulty when starting a raid. They are ONLY for quickly changing SAIN gui settings.

• New Tracking of Last Known Position for bots.

  • Bots will only use real sensory information to track where they last saw or heard you, and will remember that location for longer. Bots will share this info if they are in a group, and either using headsets, or close by to friendlies.
  • When making lots of noise from 1 place, bots will get increasingly accurate information on where a sound came from, and be able to see their target from further away, and see them faster if they heard them from the same place that they currently are. Repositioning is key!

• Bot Extracts

  • PMCs and Scavs will move to extract at the end of raid, or if they are heavily injured and can’t heal.

  • If using Looting Bots, SAIN will track how much loot they’ve gained during a raid (Net-Loot-Value) and can decide to leave if they are satisfied.

    • Can be configured in “Looting Bots” tab in Global Settings.

• Bots React to you reloading, healing, pulling out grenades, pulling pins on grenades, using surgery, or looting.

  • Yes you can bait the AI now.

• New Cover System for AI

  • Bots use objects around them in the real gameworld rather than preset static points.
  • Anywhere there is NavMesh and objects, bots will take cover and fight properly.

• New AI Personality System

  • Bots are assigned a personality preset that influences their decisions and talk behavior.
  • Bots with excellent gear will be more aggressive, taunt their enemy, and wait for enemies to show up far less frequently.
  • Currently Implemented: GigaChad, Snapping Turtle, Wreckless, Chad, Rat, Coward, Timmy, Normal.

• New Squad Personality System

  • Groups of bots will have specific personalities that affects how vocal they are, their coordination, and their aggression level.
  • Currently Implemented: GigaChads, Elite, TimmyTeam6, Rats, Normal

• **New Talk System

  • Solo bots are less talkative.

  • Bot Groups now use a complex system to call out enemy locations, friendly status, their current actions, and requests to other group members in close proximity.

  • Squad leaders will call out orders for bots based on the situation.

  • Personality Specific Voice Behaviors

    • Rats and Timmys may beg for their life and try to stop you from shooting them.
    • Chads/GigaChads will taunt enemies.
    • and a few secret rare events that I wont spoil.

  • New AI Voice Response System

    • AI of certain personalities will respond to voicelines from both the player, and other bots, so if you start talking shit, they might start talking back!
    • Friendly bots will voice line back to you, so you can more easily tell when a friendly is nearby so you don’t lose that scav karma.

• New Squad Tactics

  • Squads will work together.

    • Groups of scavs and especially PMCs are far more dangerous than before. Think carefully before engaging a group of well armed PMCs!
    • Squads will try to help friendly members if they are in trouble
    • Squads regroup around their squad leader if they drift too far.
    • Squads will suppress enemies around a corner while a friendly is retreating to heal or reload.

  • New Squad Leader System

    • Each group of bots is assigned a squad leader who gives commands and behaves differently.
    • Killing this squad leader will leave groups less combat effective by disabling Squad Specific bot actions.
    • Try to ID a squad leader and kill them first to make a group easier to deal with!

• Bot Blind Fire

  • Bots will blindfire over objects in the direction of their enemy.

• Advanced Search Behavior and Movement

  • Bots will try to peek corners and clear dangerous areas while searching for enemies.

• Bots now make full use of stimulators and injectors in their inventory.

• Bots will use hand gestures to friendlies instead of voicelining if those friendlies are within line of sight.

• Certain equipment items provide buffs or debuffs to stealth against AI if further than 50 meters away. Will work on adding these to the description for items, and expanding on the system for easily adding new items or configuring these values in the future.

  • Currently Implemented:
  • Tan Ulach - 7.5% faster vision speed
  • Blue Untar Helmet - 10% faster vision speed
  • Boonie Hats - 20% slower vision speed
  • Pilgrim Backpack - 10% faster vision speed
  • RAID (couch) backpack - 7.5% faster vision speed.
  • Any face cover - 5% slower vision speed.

• Revamped scatter system for bots based on their weapons recoil stats.

  • You can adjust this in the f12 menu. If a mod you are using lowers recoil for weapons, bots will also have reduced recoil!
  • There are additional settings available if advanced settings are enabled in the f12 menu (Checkbox at the top) but I do not recommend messing with this without some fine tuning, or bots won’t be able to hit anything.

• Flashlight detection and blinding for bots.

  • Bots can detect your flashlight beam being shined around and will investigate, they estimate the position and the accuracy is based on distance to to the object being illuminated.
  • Bots are blinded by flashlights at close range, they will have increased recoil and slower aim speed.

• Dynamic Lean.

  • Bots will lean based on objects around them and their enemies position, and can do so while peeking corners.

• Weather affects bot visibility.

  • Poor weather conditions will actually have an affect on how well bots can see and how fast they see you.

• More accurate time-of-day vision.

  • Bot vision will gradually reduce as darkness falls or increase as the sun rises. in vanilla, it changes very rapidly, but only after the sun is completely set.

• Sound occlusion for bot hearing.

  • The distance bots can hear sounds is affected by objects between them and the source. The more objects - the higher the occlusion.

• Gunshot audible range based on weapon caliber.

  • In Vanilla, bots hear all unsuppressed weapons at the same range. Now this scales depending on the caliber properly.

• Subsonic ammo is quieter for bots.

  • Using a suppressor + subsonic ammo will have a dramatic effect on the range bots can hear your gunshots.

• Rain affects bot hearing.

  • Heavy rain will reduce the range bots can hear sounds.

• Semi-auto firemode swap for bots firing at 40+ meters.

  • Bots will automatically swap to semi auto when engaging targets at range.

• Recoil, Ergo, Ammo-Type based fire-rate and full auto burst length.

  • How fast bots shoot is affected by their weapon stats. So low recoil guns will be fired in semi auto at a faster rate at long range, and bots will fire longer burts at close range.

Installation

1) Open the downloaded .7z file in 7-zip

2) Select the folders in the .7z file in 7-zip

3) Drag the selected folders from 7-zip into your SPT folder

4) If you couldn’t tell, you need 7-zip to extract this mod

Demonstration Video:

• How do I install?
  • Just drag and drop the two folders in the downloaded zip into the folder you installed SPT to. Thats it.
    • If Installed correctly with BigBrain, you should see SAIN in the f12 menu while ingame, and SAIN being activated in the server when starting it.
• How do I configure the mod?
  • Press f6 while in-game.
• Bots have wallhack!
  • They do not. Bots are hearing you.
  • The intention is that if you can hear a bot, they can hear you.
  • Stop sprinting everywhere, be aware that turning in place creates a skid noise and it can be heard by bots, just like a real player can hear it.
  • If your character makes a noise, it can be heard with only a few exceptions.
  • Bot hearing tries to simulate what a real player can hear to as close as possible, but I’m always tweaking and adjusting things.
• My Spawns are messed up!
  • SAIN does not touch bot spawns, loadouts, or anything else that isn’t explicitly listed. SAIN is purely bot behavior and actions.
• How do the difficulty presets work in the GUI?
  • The presets ONLY modify settings within the SAIN GUI. They have no impact on any other mod or what difficulty you select when starting a raid.
• How do I make the bots smarter?
  • You can’t. There is no magical button to make ai do smarter or new things, it has to be manually programmed and designed, this is a replacement AI, so anything the bots do has to be designed and built.
• How do I configure the mod?
  • Press f6 while in-game.
• I can’t extract the mod files
  • 7-zip is required to extract this mod

THIS MOD REQUIRES BigBrain. IT WONT WORK WITHOUT IT.

**STRONGLY Recommended!: Looting Bots by Skwizzy andQuesting Bots by DanW

Another two mods there is no reason not to use, these gets bots moving into new areas and makes them far more life like. Other fantastic mods:
Realism Mod by Fontaine
Nooky’s SWAG+Donuts (Bot Spawn Mod)
and a bunch more I need to add here

Report issues or bugs to here: SAIN Github Issue Tracker

Any issues must include a full list of your server and client mods, the version of SPT you are playing on, and either your Bepinex/LogOutput file or an exact description of the issue you are experiencing and the context of when it occurred. Just telling me “its broken” is not helpful what so ever.

Incompatibilities:

• ANY mod that modifies AI brain types will cause issues.
• Better Spawns Plus - Incompatible - Modifies bot brain types for some reason.
• No Bush ESP - Incompatible - Already implemented into SAIN.
• No Grenade ESP - Incompatible - SAIN requires bots to see grenades or hear the pop from them to react.
• No AI ESP - Implemented into SAIN. Do not use.
• No Boss PMCs - Incompatible - SAIN requires different brain types than No Boss PMCs uses
• Separate Hostility - Incompatible - Causes exception spam. Do not use.

Known Issues:

1. Bots will sometimes get stuck in healing animations
2. Bots will sometimes vault into places they can’t get down from. (Mostly resolved in recent versions, but can still happen sometimes)
3. Sometimes random stuff in EFT code becomes null, and causes sain code to throw errors.
4. Bots can do some stupid stuff sometimes, always working on it but creating code for every possible situation is difficult.
5. Bots sometimes spin in place when trying to look to where they are trying to run, probably just need to adjust some distance thresholds to fix this.
6. Bots like to crouch every time they start shooting a target that appears
7. Bots hear gunshots/footsteps from way too far while in areas like the Reserve bunker
8. Bots don’t take into consideration bodies in the place they are trying to search (will take a lot of rework and a new system to fix this)
9. Tarkov is cursed and made of spaghetti code.

If you experience stuttering on interchange/reserve. This is not caused by SAIN.

It’s an EFT issue from their new audio changes. There is nothing I can do it about it.

It happens even on live.

This mod is built from the ground up to maximize performance in any way I can.

Performance tests show little to no difference from vanilla.

I have a Patreon if you want to support my work. I am unemployed and a student, but I am working on this project full time 12+ hours a day, every day, and have been for over 4 months now. Every dollar helps!

Link to Solarint’s Patreon