CS Mine — CS Bot release notes

New features

• Added server-controlled bots for Casual matches.
• Bots use real TaCZ weapons, projectiles, ammunition, reload mechanics, damage, and headshot detection.
• Bots can move through arenas, navigate around obstacles, detect enemies, aim, shoot, reload, die, respawn, and continue playing.
• Added dedicated A* navigation for bots inside registered map regions.
• Added Easy, Medium, and Hard bot difficulty levels.
• Bot difficulty changes reaction time, aiming accuracy, target handling, and combat behavior without giving bots extra health or damage.
• Bots can participate in match scoring, kill feeds, statistics, and final results.
• Bots are excluded from persistent RP, ranks, achievements, profiles, and match history.
• Added administrative controls for spawning, removing, and configuring bots.
• Improved bot integration with simultaneous MatchInstances and map isolation.
• Added per-map player modes for free-for-all and team matches.
• Free-for-all maps allow bots without requiring team mode.
• Team matches support automatic bot balancing and preserving the player's own team.
• Team composition is reflected in the HUD, scoreboard, spawn handling, results, and friendly-fire rules.
• Added a configurable maximum player capacity for each map, with bot filling respecting that limit.
• Added per-map bot skin selection with a server-side gallery, reload support, 2D thumbnails, and a 3D preview.
• Added the unified administrative panel with map, bot, skin, location, settings, profile, diagnostics, and Discord controls.
• Added direct profile access from the admin panel and made /cs profile open the profile tab for authorized operators.
• Added optional pause-menu shortcut icons for frequently used CS Mine screens.
• Added configurable Discord notifications for rank changes, achievement unlocks, and match results. Each notification category can be enabled or disabled independently.
• Added visual map selection with previews, named map locations, responsive match cards, and detailed post-match results.

Improvements

• Improved bot target validation so they only interact with valid opponents from the same match.
• Improved TaCZ handling for artificial players, including weapon draw state, cooldowns, reloads, ammunition, and server-side weapon ticking.
• Improved bot movement and obstacle navigation.
• Added bot stuck detection and automatic route recalculation.
• Improved bot lifecycle handling during WAITING, STARTING, RUNNING, death, respawn, and match cleanup.
• Improved performance by separating bot perception, pathfinding, movement, and combat update frequencies.
• Added reliable bot-skin distribution and client-side caching for in-match players and previews.
• Improved team-aware HUD and results layout: free-for-all keeps individual ranking, while team matches show team grouping, team kills, and the centered timer.
• Improved map joining so the displayed player count uses the configured limit instead of an infinity symbol.
• Improved the kill feed with the project's bitmap font, compact cards, consistent padding, and the name — weapon — name order.
• Improved the location tag, map cards, tabs, sliders, buttons, and controls using the shared UI spacing and typography tokens.
• Added responsive, content-driven panels and rows so long names, ranks, descriptions, and map metadata stay inside their cards.
• Centralized the UI font, color, spacing, padding, and component rules in docs/csmine-ui-standard.json.txt.

Fixes

• Fixed bots stopping after their first magazine by adding real TaCZ reload handling.
• Fixed artificial players not advancing TaCZ weapon states correctly without a real client connection.
• Fixed bots remaining dead when killed before the match started.
• Fixed several MatchInstance systems that previously assumed every participant was a connected human player.
• Prevented bot data from being written to player ranks, achievements, profiles, statistics, advancements, and persistent player files.
• Improved bot-skin application and cleanup so selected skins are distributed consistently and stale textures are removed after a match.
• Improved cleanup to ensure bots, their skin state, and match-specific data are completely removed after matches.
• Fixed team-mode state being lost between map configuration, match creation, HUD updates, and final results.
• Fixed overflowing text and misaligned controls in the admin, join, map-selection, location, profile, and result screens.
• Fixed result rows so placement markers, player names, ranks, and K/D, K/D, HS, and HS% columns remain aligned as content grows.

Compatibility

• Bots are fully server-controlled and do not require CS Mine to be installed on player clients.
• Players can continue joining with only Forge + TaCZ.
• Bots currently participate only in Casual matches.
• Ranked progression remains exclusive to real players.
• Free-for-all is the default player mode for existing maps; team features are opt-in per map.
• The advanced CS Mine client remains optional. Clients without it continue using the server's vanilla HUD and menus where applicable.