[Open Assets] foxBot! ExAI-based Multiplayer Coop Bots 1.7

General Changes:

• Support for 2.2.11 - fix deprecation warnings and other issues
• Improve character swapping - increase allowed range, prevent swapping with active players
• Allow inspecting bots with Alt Fire key, in addition to Weapon Select keys
• Allow players to assume ownership of other players that disconnected as a bot
  • (meaning, if someone is following you and disconnects, you can now command them as if they're your bot)
  • (this ownership is reverted if the other player reconnects)
• Allow bots to return to their owner if removed while following another player
• Improve teleporting behavior to be more reliable
• Improve ai_reserveslot to consider per-player bot count when kicking bots to make room for joining players
  • (first consider which players own the most bots, then consider which of those bots are most recent)
• Improve bot removal messages
• Add shield swap when swapping characters
• Fix rare issue where added SP / MP bots could balloon ring counts on dedicated servers
• Other minor fixes and improvements

General Changes:

• Support for 2.2.10
• Add "addbot" / "removebot" commands to add / remove bots
• Add "alterbot" command to alter a bot's skin and color
• Add "ai_maxbots" setting to limit number of added bots per player
• Add "ai_reserveslot" convar to reserve a player slot for new clients
  • (ensures players are still able to join a game with many bots active)
• Improve status messages shown with "listbots" command
• Add support for swapping characters with bots
  • (press Fire while inspecting bot with Weapon Select / Next / Prev keys)
• Add splitscreen commands (e.g. "addbot2", "setbot2", etc.)
• Fix SP bots losing their ability AI override on death

AI Behavior Changes:

• Fix a few issues on 2.2.10, like always facing north
• Improve "ai_catchup" behavior (which also now works in singleplayer)
• Fix attempting to target things too far down in goop
• Fix forgetting how to use shield abilities while holding a Fire Flower
• Improve use of Armageddon Shield nuke to also consider target health and fret status
• Fix v1.5 regression causing accidental super transformations while bored / idle

General Changes:

• Allow bots to always respawn in special stages, even when player-controlled (e.g. teleported over death pit)
• Rewrite special stage respawning to be considerably more sane, instead of a hack
• Fix occasional Lua error from BotRespawn hook in singleplayer
• Avoid teleporting bots to disconnecting or spectating leaders (unless AI-controlled)
• Holding Toss Flag while stationary now orders bots to use abilities (like pushing against something)
• Clean up "bothelp" command to be context-sensitive (with a parameter to show all commands)
• Add new "overrideaiability" command for overriding jump / spin ability AI
  • (advanced, intended for experimentation w/ custom characters - use "bothelp 1" for more info)
• Fix rare issue where SP bot could reset your rings to 0 when exiting a level
• Fix issue where SP bot could grant a perfect bonus with only half a level's rings collected (oops)
• Fix potential network desync when evaluating a leader's following bots
• Rework multi-bot following to always arrange bots into a line when following a single leader
• Allow leader to cycle their following bots with Weapon Next / Prev keys (default Mouse Wheel)
• Allow leader to inspect their following bots with Weapon Select keys (default 1-7)
• Truncate player names to 10 characters on bot HUD
• Fix rare issue where bots occasionally can't pick up rings while their leader is dead
• Many minor fixes and code cleanups, eradicating most magic numbers

AI Behavior Changes:

• Fix not targeting minecarts, and sometimes getting confused when jumping on rollout rocks
• Fix occasionally trying to jump for things we can't actually reach
• Avoid picking up leader any time we're fly-attacking a target
• Fix trying to grab gravity box when leader isn't under reverse gravity
• Allow grabbing Tokens and Emeralds in multiplayer
• Fix not always not jumping for targets correctly when being carried
• Allow communicating targets with other AI, increasing efficiency in large groups
• Add support for all vanilla custom abilities (such as Homing Attack, Telekinesis, and Air Drill)
• Rewrite existing abilities to be much more responsive when following or in combat
• Improve understanding of being flown around by other players or bots
• Add a small reaction time interval to spinning with leader or thokking
• Improve out-of-sight waypoint navigation, particularly through teleporters
• Improve Knuckles' glide and climb AI when following
• Improve Tails' chain-carry behavior at high speeds
• Add new idle behaviors
• Fix performance issue where AI could run target selection every frame at certain ranges
• Fix AI sometimes not busting a bustable wall their leader is pushing against
• Improve understanding of chain-bopping enemies, particularly when making epic jumps from far above
• Fix derpy targeting behavior in special stages with enemies present
• Fix a few remaining movement oddities when scaled (e.g. shrunk)
• Fix a few v1.3 regressions with Fang's combat AI (and generally improve it a bit)
• Other miscellaneous tweaks and fixes

General Changes:

• Fix disconnecting bots being unable to teleport
• Fix position resetting when using "setbot" command as a spectator

AI Behavior Changes:

• Fix Tails again attempting to fly-attack underwater or grounded targets
• Fix Tails constantly trying to grab rings with flight (unless already flying)
• Fix Tails being unable to fly-attack targets with an attraction shield
• Fix disconnecting bots getting stuck trying to grab rings etc.
• Clean up movement, particularly when close or in combat (allows more short hops)
• Allow using elemental shield to quickly stop, if close enough to ground
• Fix a few cases of accidentally jump-cancelling a spindash
• Account for momentum when determining attack range for custom SF_NOJUMPDAMAGE characters
• Fix nonsense attraction shield target range check
• Don't extend target distance for rings etc. in special stages
• Fix targeting invisible things
• Allow Tails to fly-attack targets a bit further away, and fly around in goop smarter
• Fix various longstanding issues with relative height checks in reverse gravity or at scale
• Try switching targets if we've failed to hit our current target after 3 jumps
• Attempt to join matches when spectating by pressing fire
• Support for CBW's Chaos Mode mod - prioritize objectives, ready up by jumping into emblems
• Other miscellaneous tweaks and fixes

General Changes:

• Fix potential softlock from bots respawning in special stages

AI Behavior Changes:

• Improve Tails' fly and fly-attack AI behaviors
• Fix sometimes repeatedly jumping for rings etc. when we shouldn't
• Fix sometimes aborting jump logic against certain targets too early
• Fix jittery movement when tracking slow-moving targets

General Changes:

• Fix shields sometimes getting popped when they shouldn't (should only happen when leader gets hit)
• Allow nukes etc. to be set off when shield gets popped
• Spread out bots more when assigned to a random leader (ai_defaultleader 32)
• Fix SP bot sometimes resetting rings on respawn

AI Behavior Changes:

• Fix v1.2 regression causing AI to no longer understand custom SF_NOJUMPDAMAGE characters
• Fix a few cases where AI might not charge a spindash properly
• Rewrite Fang's combat AI with cleaner logic that should derp out less
• Reduce time Amy waits to shield-buff friendlies again after previously failing
• Limit range AI will attempt to engage targets while being carried
• Fix Tails forgetting how to chain-carry a tired flying leader w/ super form available
• Tails AI now toggles between super / normal thinkfly (up arrow) every second if available

General Changes:

• Allow bots to respawn in special stages when AI-controlled
• Allow SP bot to inherit player's powerups (thus allowing shield behaviors to be seen in SP)
• Invulnerable bots' shields are now popped when their leader takes a hit without a shield
• Fix issue where SP bot could sometimes carry player without actually flying
• Allow players to remember their "real" ring / life counts as a bot
• Allow teleporting to leader even if they're spectating
• Wait a second before teleporting to leader on respawn
• Fix various life-sync issues with 0 lives
• Raise minimum ai_seekdist to a more reasonable 64 fracunits
• Fix a few issues with vertical aiming reset when taking back control of a bot
• Fix issue where "AI Control In..." would still display when ai_sys was off
• Fix issue where thinkfly overlay (up arrow) was spawned and destroyed every frame
• Assorted code cleanup and other minor fixes

AI Behavior Changes:

• Add support for CoopOrDie enemy tagging / target priority mechanics
• Hop out of spin if going too slow, also try to steer an active spin into targets more
• Improve Tails' flight logic to descend a bit more aggressively and land near leader quicker
• Mirror leader's OLDC votes
• Improve movement prediction, particularly underwater and against fast-moving targets
• Prefer spindashing targets on slopes (and rev it longer if needed)
• Allow Sonic to thok-attack targets
• Allow Knuckles to glide/slide-attack targets
• Always use ability when jumping out of special stage water
• Wiggle free from Pterabytes!
• Fix Tails attempting to fly-attack underwater or grounded targets
• Improve Sonic thok usage, avoiding it when it would actually slow us down
• Improve Metal Sonic / Super Sonic float usage, with better height checks
• Allow whirlwind shield ability to be used against passive targets (e.g. collecting rings)
• Fix longstanding issue where AI only searched for targets half as often as intended
• Allow Fire Flower to be used against monitors (and targets above or below)
• Fix AI sometimes getting stuck spindashing against an obstacle
• Fix not attacking DSZ3 boss (due to being unable to "see" it)
• Make sure we're actually on target before attempting to spin-attack a target
• Tweak Amy's hammer attack logic to account for LHRT range a bit more
• Fix vertical spectator movement in reverse gravity
• Fix Fang sometimes getting stuck below targets we're trying to shoot
• Fix AI sometimes flipping out when recalled to leader during combat
• Fix up out-of-sight waypoint placement (can better follow leader through teleporters etc.)
• Check vertical distance to waypoint when determining if we've reached it or not
• Fix v1.1 regression causing flame shield ability to not be considered at long ranges
• Allow bubble shield to be used as a double-jump when close enough to ground
• Fix sometimes getting stuck in zoom tubes (e.g. ERZ1 2D tube section)
• Other miscellaneous behavior fixes and improvements