How bots work
1 - They're set to randomly kick people
2 - They can detect other bots so they don't shoot them and vote F2
3 - They only join servers with a number of real players, they leave if the server only has around 2 real players.
4 - They melee Fist of Steel Heavies and Vaccinator Medics
5 - They leave the server when they're about to get kicked, trying to kick them by cheating however actually kicks them instead of allowing them to leave
6 - After a amount of time they leave.
7 - They can steal player names.
How to kick bots
Step 1:If there is a vote, check who called it and who is kicking, if it is kicking a innocent player and being called by a bot press F2, if it is kicking the Bot then press F1
Step 2:Call a vote and always mark it as "Cheating", if you don't mark the reason as cheating the bot will be able to leave and rejoin, most of the times you mark the reason as cheating they will be kicked.
Step 3:If the bot steals a name, there are two ways to detect and kick the bot.
A)Open the console and type "Status", check for the username and check the time they've been on the server, the bot usually has the least time since they've recently joined, after that do "callvote kick -id shown-"
B)When kicking, check for the lower player with the double name in the menu. The Vote Kick menu is sorted from First to last. The real player is higher up and the bot is lower down
Step 4:Try to kill the bots it isn't guaranteed to work but can work.
Ways to kill include:
Fists of Steel Heavy
Outsniping the bots
Approaching the bots while they are targeting another player and quickly attacking them.
Critical Hits
Pocket Vac Medic for security.
(Thanks to @UnlicensedParamedic on gamejolt):
"Here's something you might want to add
Engineer
The new Assit bots stay out of sentry sightlines, making them great for area denial against the little fuckers
Assits are also pretty bad in close quarters combat, if you can get up close and personal with one, they're already dead
In fact you can try to get a taunt kill on them, I did, and it worked
Waffens are still really hard to tackle, but I believe they still walk into sentries
The Ghost Politics bots are countered by mid range combat. They only use melee."
Extra things
1 - Report the bot accounts
2 - Play Casual in times like 3 pm - 10 pm as those times there are more players active and that means a bigger chance of kicking bots.
3 - DO NOT SPAM "kick your bot" or "you're keeping the bot to win", THEY ARE TRYING TO DEAL WITH THEM (And that can be rude))
4 - Teach people how to kick and warn the community
5 - Tell people to call new votes when your in a cooldown
6 - If you can't vote F1 or F2 go to the console and type
"vote option1" for F1 and "voteoption2" for F2
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