How to Add a New Bot in Counter Strike

Written by Jack Lloyd

This wikiHow teaches you how to add a bot to your team or the opposing team in the Counter-Strike series.

Method 1

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Global Offensive. CS: GO has a built-in offline mode you can use to play bot matches.
It's in the top-left corner of the screen. A drop-down menu will appear.

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You'll find this in the PLAY drop-down menu.
Click the map you want to use, then click GO in the bottom-right corner.
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Choose bot difficulty. Click a circle in the pop-up window, then click GO.
- The left-most circle pertains to easy bots, while the right-most circle pertains to the hardest bots.
Click either COUNTER-TERRORISTS or TERRORISTS to join the selected team.
Pressing the Tab ↹ key will show the existing team members (all of whom are bots).
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Use the developer console to add or remove bots. If you have the developer console enabled for CS: GO, you can add or remove bots by pressing ~ and entering the following:
- Add a bot — Type in bot_add_ct (Counter-Terrorists) or bot_add_t (Terrorists), then press ↵ Enter.
- Remove a bot — Type in bot_kick_ct (Counter-Terrorists) or bot_kick_t (Terrorists), then press ↵ Enter.

Method 2

Method 2 of 2:

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Open a Counter-Strike game. The following games all support bot additions via console commands:
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Counter-Strike: Source
- Counter-Strike 1.6
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Enable the developer console. This process will vary slightly depending on your selected game:^{[1]
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- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive — Click OPTIONS at the top of the home page, click GAME SETTINGS in the drop-down menu, and switch the "Enable Developer Console" option to "Yes".
- Counter-Strike: Source and Counter-Strike 1.6 — Click Options, click the Keyboard tab, click Advanced..., and check the "Enable developer console" box.
Either create a new online game, or open your server and connect to it before proceeding.
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Press the ~ key. Doing so will bring up the developer window on the right side of the Counter-Strike screen.
- The ~ (tilde) key is typically found below the Esc key in the top-left corner of the keyboard.
Type in bot_add_ct and press ↵ Enter to add a bot to the "Counter-Terrorists" team, or type in bot_add_t and press ↵ Enter to add a bot to the "Terrorists" team.
Open the console by pressing ~, then enter in bot_difficulty 1 for easy bots, bot_difficulty 2 for medium bots, or bot_difficulty 3 for expert bots.

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Expert bots can be good practice for competing with online players.

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When playing in an all-bot Demolition round, remember to rush B.

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While most versions of Counter-Strike support adding bots via the console, you may not be able to use the console to add bots on pre-1.6 versions of Counter-Strike.

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