Keepers
This mod lets you issue various types of order to your NPC teammates, including jokers.
Main features
- Add new behaviours to all friendly NPCs.
- Enhance path of all bots so they come to you faster.
- Force bots to keep their positions even when you're far away.
- Fix all pathing issues of jokers so they never get stuck or despawned.
- Support for precise positioning.
Stealth
Bots can be controlled while in stealth: host (and only him) can wake up a NPC teammate by calling him with the secondary interaction Stop AI key. By default, you must hold that key for 0.5 sec to prevent waking up a bot by mistake but you can turn this delay off in the options menu.
Moving efficiently
On top of 's improvements, bots won't be distracted as much as usual when you're in a dire situation, giving medical emergencies more chances to succeed:
Behaviours
They can be identified by the icon on the left of a character's name.
Stationary
Bots won't move at all, even if under heavy fire, and will take back their positions if pushed away. In this mode, they'll crouch down to reload.
Use cover
Bots will keep their position but if they take too much damage, they'll withdraw for a moment and go back once their health has regenerated. So a bot placed near a good cover can hold his position for a long time, place 2 of them and no one will pass.
Patrol
Bots will go from a random cover to another in the navigation segment they're assigned to. Size of navsegs can vary greatly, it's usually between 5 and 30 meters.
Interact with objects
This feature is limited to actions that don't require equipment. It relies heavily on custom waypoints and taking a good look at GCW's options is advised, specifically how to use previous/next waypoint controls.
Interaction times can be increased in options menu.Will a bot stay where he's interacted?
That depends if you keep or remove your waypoint from the object.
To prevent abuse, this feature comes with a counterparty. Damage received and health regeneration are handled differently to make bots vulnerable to large squads while still remaining strong enough to take on small ones. These changes only apply to game modes that can have interactions (so not Holdout):
- the away timer of health regeneration is replaced by the nearby timer (longer), they define the amount of time without being hurt that is required to be healed;
- health is not fully restored all at once, it comes back by small chunks (see table below);
- grace period is decreased from 0.35 sec down to 0.05 sec (except for SWAT van turrets where the original value is kept).
Depending on which options are enabled and the type of objective, the amount of healing will differ. This table shows the percentage that a bot receives each time the regenerate event occurs.
| Vanilla | TeamAIs can do interactions | Faster but weaker while carrying | |
| Follow player | 100% | 10% | 10% |
| Hold position | 100% | 10% | 10% |
| Revive teammate | 100% | 10% | 10% |
| Go interact with an object | - | 5% | 5% |
| Go take a bag | - | 5% | 5% |
| Carry/deliver a light bag | - | 10% | 10% |
| Carry/deliver a heavy bag | - | 10% | 5% |
Medic
Depending on who is going to be saved, icon colour of a bot having a revive objective can be red (you) or white (someone else).
Assist revive operations
If a character is downed less than 20 meters away, all fixed bots in range will put their current task on hold and come to help clear the place. Then they'll go back to whatever they were doing.
Retrieve stolen bags
Bots can be ordered to hunt a cop who has stolen a loot bag and get it back. This makes good use of when multiple bags are involved.
Using GoonMod's Custom Waypoints
To assign precise positions: place a mark, shout at a bot, and he'll go where the mark is.
Options
You can give a name to your jokers, so identifying your jokers from other players' jokers will be easy.
Filter shouts influence only primary interaction, ie the "shout/interact" control. Setting it to "all" can be handy if you spam that control to mark cops: you won't mess with bots' assignments.
Add-ons for jokers
If you want to go further regarding jokers modding, Hoppip the Shiny has made some cool stuff so check out his website.