[TotalChaos SourcePawner]

Hi.
We all know this error that you get when you hit your maxplayers limit when you're spawning bots:
"CreatePlayerBot: Unable to create bot <BOT NAME> - CreateFakeClient() returned NULL.".

All Source games have a hard-coded limit for maxplayers, that limit being whatever MAX_PLAYERS is set to.
I was wondering if it would be possible to change MAX_PLAYERS through a SourceMod plugin, and be able to spawn as many bots as you can before you hit the entity limit of the engine itself.

If this is the wrong place for this, please let me know and I'll move it to the proper place.
This will be the last thing I ask for a while because I feel like I'm wasting people's time.

Thanks,
TotalChaos.

[Marttt]

No you can't, MAXPLAYERS is upper bounded to 32/64 depending on the game.
Some entities have "hard-coded" inner array tables that go to that maximum too, if you "bypass" that limit the game will crash.

[TotalChaos SourcePawner]

Originally Posted by Marttt No you can't, MAXPLAYERS is upper bounded to 32/64 depending on the game. Some entities have "hard-coded" inner array tables that go to that maximum too, if you "bypass" that limit the game will crash.

Are you sure there's no way around it? Outside of compiling your own binaries with a modified value, or doing something with a third party program such as Cheat Engine?

Also, can Cheat Engine trigger a VAC ban on -insecure listen servers, where you're the host?
I really want to spam bots on some games. I've always wanted to push Source to its limits with them.


And yes, I know. Cheat Engine. I'm not touching that thing while I'm playing online with other people. I know that's a one-way ticket to a VAC ban.

[Marttt]

Probably not

[TotalChaos SourcePawner]

Originally Posted by Marttt Probably not

Alright, thanks.