Back to 12.11! 2.0.0

Are the 12.12 bots too strong, even on easy? Download this and enjoy the 12.11 AI strength against which one actually has a chance!

In the update from 12.11 to 12.12, the AI received a massive buff, making the bots really hard (at least in my opinion), killing all the fun.

This mod changes the AI control values to what they were in 12.11. so they're not as crazy.


The PMC difficulties can only be controlled through the config/config.json file. The pre-raid selection does somehow not work for the PMC difficulty.

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  • Version 2.0.0

    • Basuro
    • 3.9k Downloads

    Updated for AKI 3.2.1!

  • Version 1.1.6

    • Basuro
    • 4.2k Downloads

    Updated to work with the new bot file layout from AKI and also updated the compatiblity version number (AKI 2.3.x).

    Big thanks to Leppelin!

  • Version 1.1.5

    • Basuro
    • 3.8k Downloads

    Fixed bot difficulty selection:

    In the config, it stated the difficulty settings are "Easy", "Medium", "Hard", "Impossible" and "AsOnline". This was wrong.

    The correct values are: "easy", "normal", "hard", "impossible" and "AsOnline".


    This update fixes the comment in the config and the handling of the setting in the server.

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  • Version 1.1.4

    • Basuro
    • 805 Downloads

    Added configurability through config/config.js:

    * Difficulty

    * Scav/Raider to PMC conversion rate

    * USEC/BEAR ratio

    * Ratio of same faction being hostile

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  • Version 1.1.3

    • Basuro
    • 472 Downloads

    Updated SPT target version to match 2.2.1

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  • Version 1.1.2

    • Basuro
    • 539 Downloads

    Gave PMCs scav brains.

    Should you find this too easy, try one of the previous versions in combination with Chomps easy PMC mod.

  • Version 1.1.1

    • Basuro
    • 902 Downloads

    Replaced bosstest.json (BEAR class) and test.json (USEC class) difficulty files with the files named bear.json and usec.json.

    In my tests, it seemed to work. No more total laserbeaming, not completely full auto to head/eyes, but bursting shots to the whole body.


    Please report your findings, I really hope this works :)

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  • Version 1.1.0

    • Basuro
    • 714 Downloads

    Updated to include core difficulty settings and the bot presets from global config.

    When updating, it's best to remove the old mod folder and install this version fresh (I changed the folder structure a little).

    Playtested on Factory and feels much better.

  • Version 1.0.0

    • Basuro
    • 634 Downloads

  • update pls

  • The difference is definitely noticeable, I eventually removed it and once again felt the difference, the bots were much better... but so was I.
    I got better at spotting and tracking, anticipating... and no longer need rebalanced bots. This mod was a really good way to train and get used to the game without dying all the time. Thanks!! <3

    Some of the funniest things the scavs AND pmc bots do:
    -Initiate a rant and middle finger animation when they see you... THEN start shooting.
    -Start healing while rushing you.
    -Throw a grenade and run directly into it.
    -Rush you while looking the opposite direction even though they saw you 1sec ago.
    -Run at you with their knife out even when like 10-15m away.
    -Re-peak the same doorway 15 times.
    -Get stuck in staircases and keep walking.
    -Shoot at each other through static hit boxes until they run out of ammo.

  • Does this mode also remove inertia?

  • Будет обновление до 3.3.0 ?

  • Hello. Anyway we can simply get the Author to state if it still works for 3.3.0, and/or if an update is needed or planned?

  • can anyone using the mod tell me if it works currently?

  • Thanks for keeping this up to date. Does it currently work with 0.12.12.31.19428 (23 Aug 2022) *** add SPT-AKI 3.2.2/3.2.3, or does it needs an update, and will you be updating it? Thanks in advance

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  • Thank you for this!!

    I saw it at first and smugly thought.. 'Hah.. I would never need such a thing. What weak willed scapers we have here.'


    I made it to level 9 and I feel like I'm being griefed by an organized clan that I apparently angered. I did not think one could get PTSD from AI.. how wrong I was xDD


    No more laser death bots <3

  • Thanks for the update!

  • Update please! :(

  • Myself and the 11k downloaders hopes this mod gets updated to 3.0.0. It’s the only one I’m missing. Pleeeeease and thank you.

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  • will you update it to be compatible with the new aki version soon?

  • do you know how to make easier bosses? I always die to Reshala's guard.

  • Anyone know for sure if this works on 2.3.1?

  • unless I am missing it somewhere is there a reason why USEC are immediately hostile to me as USEC? I cant find a setting anywhere in the mod to change it

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    • In config/config.js

      Code
      // Percentage of bots from your faction that are hostile towards you
// Value range: 0 - 100
"sameFactionHostileRate": 25

      If that value does not appear in your config, update to a more recent version ;)

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  • not sure how this mod supposed to work, all bot values are pretty much same or exactly same as vanilla SPT-AKI, does it just force "easy" setting? if so - thats again pretty much nothing, considering there are no real difference between difficulty settings


    is there a way to actually make all bots (scavs/pmc/bosses) easier? i'm trying to tweak vanilla variables, changing them by x10 at once to make difference more apparent, but it literally does nothing so far

    • In older versions (of AKI for 12.12), the bot files were different. If they weren't I wouldn't have made this mod.


      I know nothing about the vars themselves, I just copied the 12.11 files, adapted the file names and implemented the data matching algorithm. Sorry.

  • Hi there will be update 2.3.0 ?

    • I just got a hint that might help fix the current defunct state. If it succeeds, I'll update for 2.3.0!

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    • Updated :D

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    • thanks bro

  • I just tried the mod on the new 2.3.0 version of AKI.

    I'm not sure where the problem is, but the PMCs are again insanely OP.

    Maybe it has to do with the new bot file layout, I don't know.

    So, pending further updates, consider this defunct.


    Sorry. I currently really don't feel like playing Tarkov, let alone fixing this mod.


    I case you want to fiddle with the files yourself, be my guest: Just update the compatible-version setting in the package.json to say "2.3.0" or "2.3.*" and go nuts on the data files. If you don't know what I'm talking about here, don't try it.


    Again, sorry for not fixing it now.

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  • Hi is there a way to change the in spawn rate of the bots, when I use "as online" i get flooded with bots and my framerate drops to 24 to 34 and its unplayable

    • sorry or how many bots in total can spawn in a match so that it can be balanced in a way not sure how to say

    • To my knowledge there's a limit if 30 AI entities.

      Try setting the bot amount to a lower value when starting the raid.

      Haven't had the problem you describe ever, maybe another mod?

    • Thank you, gona remove all mods and check maybe it can be one. Where can I change the value from 30 limit alive bots to example 15

    • There is a setting in one of the data files. Cannot say if it can be changed and is accepted, tho.

      Also, you shouldn't directly edit your database but rather use a mod to change the value so your database remains "vanilla" e.g. unmodified and most importantly, undamaged or destroyed ;)


      Maybe even give Ereshkigal's AllInOne mod a shot, I hear good things about it, maybe it can change that value for you. But be warned, it's big and powerful ;)

  • will update 2.2.3 ?

    • Might check and if needed update tonight :thumbup:

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    • Check successful. I didn't need to change anything, the current version works.

    • Thanks bro

  • So the hardest setting is AS ONLINE?

    • Not exactly, bots are more unpredictable.

      Read my answer to comment below and follow my advice, the game became playable.

    • Your link is dead. Can you reupload?
      Do in config.js file ( in "YOUR Escape from tarkov SP\user\mods\basuro-backto1211\config" folder ) change : "difficulty": "AsOnline" -

      Needs to be AsOnline or if i choose Hard it will work properly?

    • Sry try now : https://drive.google.com/file/…QNnxUHrm/view?usp=sharing


      Yes you can change config.js, but it will change only PMC behaviour not scav, so i prefer use http://globals-bot-presets.json/ to level up all bots and not only PMC.

    • I don't know if you should listen to this guy.
      I did as he said, and now even scavs on easy are lasering my thorax in a second.
      I think it became even worst

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    • +1 Manson...

      If someone can help to get more " easy " bots cfg... thx

  • Yeah, I simply cannot get through that military area on lighthouse. I've been intakilled for the 5th time now by raiders.
    Anyone has a suggestion? Like, the first engineer mission on lighthouse is in that area, and I simply can't get in.
    I get laser'd by the millisecond the machine gun "spots" me. The precision is absurd.

    • How i wrote few days ago, overwrite your original globals-bot-presets.json file with this one globals-bot-presets.json and in config.js file ( in "YOUR Escape from tarkov SP\user\mods\basuro-backto1211\config" folder ) change : "difficulty": "AsOnline"

      Last very important thing to do, at the beginning of every Raid change AI difficulty to "easy".

      In this way bots are well balanced.

  • Yeah, was playing on Lighthouse and got laser'd so many times, especially by the raiders on the machineguns on the army area. It's plain stupid, you show your toe they destroy it in a second. Simply impossible.
    It's weird because I'm only having that problem in Lighthouse, it's almost like your mod doesn't work there.
    I don't understand.

  • Hows the progress of the mod. what are the bots like atm with this on easy.

    • i only ask cause i have a perfect 2.1.2 build im rocking still and dont wanna restart (wipe) unless its worth it.

    • Yeah bro, let me give you the real info here. If you don't miss the changes that come with 2.2.0
      do yourself a favor and stay on your version. The AI is just completely broken, no cap.
      Back in 2.1.0 it used to be SO MUCH better and ballanced. Now it's just a bunch of instakill laser aim bots planted on a single position. It's not broken, it's unplayable. At least on Lighthouse from what I'm experiencing that area full of MG's is straight up >>inaccessible<<.

    • Yup, tried even on easy and got headeyed instantly for the 7th time, trust me pal, stay on your version. If I would've known it would become this absolute trash, I would never have updated, consider yourself lucky.
      Don't trust what anyone says on configs, they just don't work.

  • So I guess I'm just dumb, or the fact that I'm relatively new to modding, but how do I actually implement this into my game files? I didn't see an instruction template anywhere

    • Didn't find a how-to or tutorial to link, so here goes:


      Unzip the mod file to the mods folder that is located at <your spt folder>\user\mods.

      If you did it right, you'll see a folder appear in the mods folder. If you see files (especially package.js and package.json), you probably extracted the zip without keeping the internal folder structure.

  • Hello again,have a question. Does this mod affect pmcs only? I have noticed that pmcs are really easier to fight now. Looks like it's the scavs giving me a hard time. I was not aware about this yesterday.

    • This mod sets the botdifficulty setting in the AKI server bot config class. It affects - as far as I know - the PMCs.

      For the rest of characters (scavs, raiders, bosses, bodyguards, exusec (did i forget any?)) the in-game difficulty selection should apply.


      What's actually funny is that the new Tarkov version only requests normal difficulty and adjusts the AI according to the selected difficulty internally.

      For the PMCs however, the game requests all difficulties and selects one from those, according to the selection in the bot config. I guess. Not 100% sure tho.

  • Hello,i am still getting one tapped to the head out of nowhere on "easy". I am using the latest version of this mod and it is correctly installed.

    • I'm sorry to hear that. Bad rng?

      I wouldn't know what else it could be..

  • Does this work now? I tried the last version and I would get to "Spawning in 00:00:00" and get stuck.

    • The latest version should fix that

  • Hello everyone, thanks for pointing out my mistake with the difficulty settings!

    The newest update has the correct settings in the config and in the main mod code.

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    • Thank you very much, one question, after i changed difficulty inside config.js file ( ex. easy ), before to start a raid, i have to choose in the tab AI difficulty the same difficulty inside the config.js or config.js settings overrides it ? And "AI as online" is it the hardest level ?

    • I *think* so, yes. The difficulty you set in the config applies to the PMCs, the rest is set through the UI. Seems to be a quirk in the Tarkov engine since..

  • for anyone having errors when changing the difficuty, don't use a large letter at the start, but small one like "easy" and not "Easy"



    hope this help you guys