I remember being amazed by the Reaper Bot and how smart it seemed, probably a result of how novel it was compared to other bots of the time. I liked UT even more than Quake though, and I thought it was cool that Epic offered Steve Polge a job based off of it.
I've dumped (wasted? invested?) many 100s of hours into the research of old quake bots, contacting the authors, trying out mods, parsing readmes, writing essays about them, etc. It's a type of hyperaddictive nostalgic madness that strikes me from time to time :)
Yep, the reaper blew everyone's socks off. I wrote up a history of him here that might interest you: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeBotArchive/blob/main/...
Side note would anyone know similar archives of say warcraft 2 ai mods or original StarCraft ai maps or mods? I remember finding efforts someone or a team did and they were insanely good.
