POD bot
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POD-Bot is a bot
Computer game bot
A bot, most prominently in the first-person shooter types , is a type of weak AI expert system software which for each instance of the program controls a player in deathmatch, team deathmatch and/or cooperative human player. Computer bots may play against other bots and/or human players in unison,...

 for Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike is a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe...

 and Half-Life. POD stands for "Ping of Death" Bots, a name derived from the fact that bots using the Half-Life engine always have a minimum ping of five. POD-Bot was scripted, coded, and developed by Markus Klinge, also known as Count Floyd, and was developed to entertain the players who can't or don't play Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike
Counter-Strike is a tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Valve Corporation which originated from a Half-Life modification by Minh "Gooseman" Le and Jess "Cliffe" Cliffe...

 online. The bots use a waypoint based navigation system to travel around maps, and are capable of completing map objectives as well as killing the opposing force.
Count Floyd's POD-bot is restricted to Windows-based systems, and Counter-Strike is the only mod
Mod (computer gaming)
Mod or modification is a term generally applied to personal computer games , especially first-person shooters, role-playing games and real-time strategy games. Mods are made by the general public or a developer, and can be entirely new games in themselves, but mods are not standalone software and...

 on which it functions. However, the source code to POD-bot has been released, and several variants have emerged offering various new features, such as metamod
Metamod
Metamod is a plugin interface for Half-Life modifications that is located between the Half-Life game engine and a Half-Life mod, providing the dynamic loading and unloading of DLL plugins to add or remove extra functions to or from the game server....

 plugin capabilities and long awaited Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

support.
Its pathfinding skills are the same as in stock maps.

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