Gameplay Mod Omicron Bots

Mods that only include changes to gameplay, but no maps of their own. Usually to be played with community Vanilla maps.
Omicron is one of the grand old Netquake (not QuakeWorld) bot mods, from Jan Paul van Waveren (MrElusive) -- who also created the Gladiator bots for Quake 2 and the official Quake 3 bots.

While it does come with waypoint info for the original Quake DM maps, and you can optionally create waypoint information for other custom maps, Omicron's real strength as a bot mod is its ability to learn to play any map on the fly. In this learning mode it won't be as "smart" as a bot that is using a great set of waypoints, but the convenience makes Omicron a super handy FFA simulator for an enormous variety of maps.

(It also comes with a fun arena mode that you can use on special Rocket Arena maps.)

This download is the final 1.02 version of Omicron with a few tiny fixes added to deal with some issues that can crop up when running on a variety of OSs and Quake engines.

The Deathmatch With Bots guide has more information about playing with Omicron (and other bot mods).
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Release date
Aug 2, 2020
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This mod was amazing at the time, and I'm still using it over two decades later to check out new DM maps. Other bots surpassed it in pure combat chops -- on maps that have the necessary waypoints for those bots, of course -- but Omicron's ability to play *anything* is still super cool. And the goofy player skins on the bots are just the icing on the cake, for that true feeling of 90s FFA server madness.