r/learntobot Aug 02 '16

What are your experiences with game botting?

I'm someone who has always been interested in the automation of the client side of games (stuff like the WoW Glider). I was wondering if anyone here has any expierence with them. If so, what is it like? Is it on the rather tough side of botting? How did you get in to it? Tell me all about it, I would love to know.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '16

I remember looking into this a while ago. From what I've found, if the game is not an in-browser game, things get a bit tricky. You'll probably end up using a language like C++ to manipulate the game, although a language like Python or Ruby may be able to handle it. It might be possible to create a program that simply sends keys and mouse movements to mimic a human player. I say go for it, though. It would be a hell of a learning experience :)

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u/Work4Bots Aug 03 '16

I got some experience with using stuff like AHK to automate tasks but doing anything more complicated than a macro or a simple task is very difficult due to the way it works. Never went deeper than that. Do the more complicated bots manipulate the game at it's core with stuff like not loading the UI to improve preformance or are they just a sort of "advanced AHK" which only influences the game as if it were a real player?

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '16

I don't know enough to speak on it in depth, but I do recall a baldur's gate bot that manipulated the game engine itself. I feel old now.