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>>4352840
>>4352865
Did you know that nightmare Crash actually has the best accuracy, reaction time, tracking, and field of view in the game, but is severely hampered by a weapon preference file that forces her to use the Shotgun above all else?

>>4288043
They all have similar base AI but each bot has different stats for accuracy, field of view, reaction time, how aggressive or defensive they are, etc. They also have a list of weapon preferences, sometimes based around what weapons are available in the map you face them on in the singleplayer campaign. These are all in the baseq3\pak0.pk3 file, which can be explored with any ol' archive tool, I use 7-zip. Individual bot files are stored in that file in the botfiles\bots\ directory, with the format <botname>_*.c, where botname is the name of the character and * is a letter: c for the aim and movement stats, i for their item pickup priority order, t for their text chat lines and responses, and w for their weapon choice. 'i' has duplicate entries for weapon choice, but they apparently don't take precedence over the ones in the 'w' file.

As for the example you gave, depending on map, there's a good chance Crash would win. Xaero has better stats on most difficulties but Crash's stats scale way, way up as you go up in difficulty to the point where on the hardest setting (Nightmare), she has the single best bot stats in the game with zero reaction time, a 360 degree field of view and 100% accuracy, something the other bots usually only have one or two parts of even on Nightmare. The only thing holding her back is that her bot is set up to always give the Shotgun massive priority over other weapons even if it's not the ideal tool for the situation.