Slides Bot Control

v1.3.3·Updated 2026-09-16

Tell the bots what they can, and can't do! Extensive control and options.

About this mod Author’s original text

Preface:

This started as continuation of Zombified Initiative by hirnukuono however at this point there is very little code from that mod left.

Press X to open and navigate the menu.

Press V to use smart select.

Intro:

Have you ever been frustrated that a bot just used all of your disinfect as soon as you get out of the fog, even though you're going to have to go right back?! That's the catalyst for me making this mod. The goal of this mod is to give you the ability to have more control over the bots in GTFO, but not to give them any direct buffs or new abilities. I want to allow you to tell them exactly what you do, and don't want them to be able to do. When this mod is done, I want you to be able to ask a bot to do just about anything you could ask a human to do.

How to use:

Press X to open the menu, and then press X again on a node like "automatic actions" to choose what the bots are allowed to do. Single tap on an action to toggle if it's allowed. Double tap a node to open it's sub menu. Tap the center node to go back to the previous menu. Press and hold to reset to default settings. Sub menus have things like resource share thresholds, or what bots are and aren't allowed to pick up. Some menus allow you to use the scroll wheel to change additional settings. Things like the priority of the action, or the min/max follow distance. You can also use the scroll wheel on the center menu node to change the category of the current menu, to show/hide some icons.

There is also smart select! In the bottom of your screen you will see 4 potential actions you could tell a bot to do (see table below) By default the closest bot to the action will do it, or you can tap on a bot to select it, and then that bot will be the one doing the action. Look up and hold V to deselect. You can tell them to do things like, stand in a specific spot, hack a lock, pick up a specific item, deploy their turret, and many more! See How To Use Smart Select for the full list of things they can do.

Latest Release notes:

v1.3 - The Stability and Polish update!

This update's headline feature is SO MANY small changes that make the bots act more consistently and work better. I have found and addressed dozens of edge cases. There's still more work to do, but if you had issues before, I encourage you to try the mod again.

This update also comes with the first ever new automatic actions, Open and Explore. Along with more manual actions, the most notable being the Sync attack! And a TON of back-end fixes.

Please give me some feedback on how balanced the new sync/stealth attack is. When bots do any manual action, they follow the exact same detection rules as players now, so they can and will be detected sometimes. When not doing manual actions, bots still can't be detected, so they will only mess you up if you tell them to!

These new action types are only possible because of the groundwork laid in the Custom Actions update. Letting me give bots brand new behavior exactly the same way the devs did.

Current features:

  • Directly tell a bot to pick up a specific item with smart select.
  • Directly tell a bot to use their item on a specific player with smart select
  • Allow bots to do brand new actions like open lockers/doors, insert cells, and more!
  • Control if and how closely bots follow you.
  • Control if and when and where bots are allowed to pick up items
  • You can choose what items they do or don't pick up, or even change the priority of different items.
  • You can change what zones and areas bots are allowed to automatically pick up items in.
  • Control if and when bots are allowed to share items with others.
  • You can choose exactly what threshold bots are allowed to share their resources. Only want ammo when you're below 50%? No problem.
  • Control if bots are allowed to attack.
  • Control what they are allowed to attack with, do you want them to save ammo and go melee only? No problem!
  • Control if bots are allowed to revive players or bots.
  • Control what t

Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions

  1. Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
  2. Most mods rely on the game's mod loader — the usual route is a community mod manager (such as r2modman): pick this game, install, and it handles the loader and dependencies.
  3. For a manual install, put the mod files into the matching Mod / plugins folder inside the game directory.
  4. Launch the game to confirm it loaded; mods with listed dependencies need those installed as well.

Install locations vary a lot between mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

BepInEx-BepInExPack_GTFO

File & checksum

Filename
Slides_Bot_Control-1.3.3.zip
File size
357.2 KiB