"SINGLEPLAYER" Tab should include "Start Bot Match" and "Start Chicken Match".

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yanom 13 years ago Ok Missions are great for interesting campaings, but there's also CAI and Chickens that provide a single player experience. So I think under the "Singleplayer" tab there should be a button for "Start bot match": - it starts a new room (locked to be private to just that one person) with the player vs. CAI. On whatever map, they can change the map. Also buttons for "Start chickens match" Easy through Hard that puts the player vs. Chickens AI. +0 / -0
GoogleFrog 13 years ago As in a simple button with some options? Map, AIs on team, AIs against? +0 / -0
yanom 13 years ago just a button that starts the match, user vs. one bot. Once there, the user can change the map, add more bots, etc. Also maybe the "Add bot" button should be moved from the "extras" button to it's own button. +0 / -0
yanom 13 years ago could this feasibly be added? +0 / -0
MrPingu 13 years ago Seconded, I play a lot of singleplayer matches lately, and CAI is a pretty decent opponent. I think this would be great for our new players, instead of immeditaly joining the harsh world of multiplayer, they can first fiddle versus the CAI. It should also be easier to add bots, so that new players can easily create a singleplayer game, add bots to oposing team and add bots to own team. So that they can play a simple 3 vs 2 game or something, to learn the mechanics, while CAI also gives an example of how to counter certain units (Because CAI is pretty good at that). I think that would be a great addition, especially for new players, because I bet most new players don't even know, that Single Player games are possible. +0 / -0
[DE]Rick 13 years ago Totaly agree i mean we all tell nubs to play vs CAI first :) +0 / -0
Licho 13 years ago Maybe add coop autohost which always puts people to one team and expects people to add bots? +0 / -0
GoogleFrog 13 years ago Addings bots is too hard. We need a Custom Skirmish Game screen and it should be the most idiot proof screen. It could be a special featured mission in the singleplayer tab. It would show users a page in which they can setup their game with an easy to use UI, upon pressing the play button a locked autohost would be spawned for them with their settings and automatically start for them. Settings would include: CAI count on my team CAI count on opposition team Chicken/CAI toggle. This toggles between spawn the specified CAI number on the opposing team or spawn 1 chicken. Chicken difficulty menu. Map (big thumbnails like the maps menu) Map choice is limited to several maps that we choose. Startboxes are preset per map and this setting should be independent of Springie box memory as it may be screwed up. +0 / -0
MrPingu 13 years ago That would be the best, especially the easy to use UI would be great for new players, because the current thing is quite a turn-off if you're new to the game. +0 / -0
Licho 13 years ago Make it so! +0 / -0
Pxtl 13 years ago My big want for this would be that it creates a real online game for XP purposes and for unlocking. Falling back to the old "select your comm" and full selections is kind of brutal. +0 / -0
yanom 13 years ago Seconded Pxtl. I want this feature. It'l be so nub-friendly. Doesn't seem hard compared to what's already been done with Zero-K Lobby (which is impressive, it's nice to not use terrible springlobby) +0 / -0
Licho 13 years ago There is now COOP autohost so the issue is solved. +0 / -0
GoogleFrog 13 years ago Then improve the UI regarding bot addition and control. +0 / -0
Licho 13 years ago Ok but the coop autohosts also adds its own bot if there is none and balances all people vs bots automagically on start or !balance +0 / -0

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