SPT-AKI 3.8 | The Big 3 - SAIN and How To Improve Tarkov AI Bots
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2024
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Today, I'm going to demonstrate the use and configuration of the SAIN mod for AI behavior overhaul. There's SO MUCH to cover, like with the Realism Mod, and I tried my best to be thorough.
Also, my dog is audible sometimes in this video! BARK!
BE SURE TO READ THROUGH THE SAIN MOD DESCRIPTION ON ITS MOD PAGE, THERE IS A TON OF INFORMATION WORTH TAKING IN!
Hopefully, I was able to help you understand SAIN and how to make use of it for your own gaming needs. Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to see demonstrated.
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00:00 - Video Start
00:13 - Intro To SAIN
00:47 - Getting Set Up
01:23 - SAIN Demo Start
01:46 - Death Wish (Hard) Preset Demo
11:07 - Baby Bots (Easy) Preset Demo
19:48 - SAIN GUI & Preset Configuration
27:16 - Custom Preset Demo
34:54 - Conclusion and Outro
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Dude no lie I love you content, After the BSG F up with unheard I switched to SPT and Its the most fun I had on tarkov in my 2000 Hours of play time and your content makes it all better after I started modding, Please keep it up
Dito, 6k hours EoD owner, never had so much fun with the game before. Iam addicted again, lol. Playing SPT just showed me how much better this game can be...
@@MrJaldal I got into spt just to learn extracts when I first started playing but now I'm back on the spt grind lol, it's so addicting.
Got the multiplayer mod going last night now me and the guys are all on it lmao
@@RustyDuskywhat’s the mp mod called mate
@@Genocidejimwe hope they respond to us, i am interested to in
SPT is the thing that keeps tarkov alive for me I sacrifice online for the ease of mind and I get all the beautiful tarkov content best thing to happen to tarkov since open beta lol
Honestly sain, looting bots And questing bots are a must 🙏
I didn't want to use them because tarkov is so fucking poorly optimized and my 5600x bottlenecks my 3080, but after the ai kept getting stuck trying to run through glass windows on the second floor I'm gonna have to take a hit and dl them for my next playthrough lol
@@RancorousSea You shouldnt take THAT big of a hit to performance. you will see some dips when spawns happen but its just that, a dip and then its back up. I finally upgraded to the 7800x3d and Tarkov runs like a dream with 25+ mods
@@RancorousSea I have SAIN, Looting Bots, Questing Bots, Drakia Big brain and Waypoints, 5600 like you and 3060ti, I'm getting stutters with AI too. Trying to fix AI, Glukhar was always spawning in Reserve in the same building, so I tried SWAG+Donuts, but something is def. lowering my FPS. I feel like there's a shit ton of AI spawning and they are not optimized well. Gonna try BSP now instead of SWAG.
Update: BSP instead of SWAG did it. Game is FLAWLESS right now with my friend connected on the server. Smooth as butter. But now I have issues like no rogues in Lighthouse.
I'm generations behind like well behind on hardware, AMD ryzen 1600, and a 1080. I can run spt without issues modded as all hell.
@@RancorousSea I have a 5600x and RX6800 and my SPT runs beautifully. You gotta fuck around with the settings and make sure not too many bots spawn.
After BSG screwed us I switched to SPT only, never going to play public online. Love this content, more people are switching so keep it up
You got it!
Stay tuned!
For the people who have the SAIN 2.2.1, the GUI still has all of the things mentioned its just more condensed. For example the Global Settings is on the Home Page now and still has the same options. All that's changed is the layout and it is minor.
perfect timing for a video like this, amazing explanation of everything. i learned some things about SAIN i didn't even know about lmao
On behalf of all of the unheard refugees, thank you for your amazing work!
good thing it has individual settings for different bots. Before i had to tweak those by manually editing the server files.
Although it is sad that SAIN makes scavs so quiet. I want them to talk like they always do, but at the same time i also would like more quiet and tactical PMCs. With SAIN it's one or another. But hearing scavs talking is important for immersion - otherwise they don't feel like themselves at all. So i guess i will turn back on all the talking.
Didn't notice this, but you're very right. It's kinda backwards.
Is it just me, or is this like listening to a radio show ? :)
Another nice video SV, just got into SPT last couple of days, your content has been invaluable. Thank you
REALLY good vid!
Imma follow ur channel. Got back into tarkov bs and felt like spt was the way to play. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge.
You're welcome!
Naming dog DD - the cutest thing
thank you sir for your excellent vids!! appreciate really ur work and passion
You're welcome!
D-DOG getting involved. Let's go.
What's D Dog?
"I don't think I have to explain to you what a rat in Tarkov, is, do I?"
Man stared me down through my computer screen with that one
I never thought to try and find a sweet spot, I just changed a few things and that was it. Your approach is so much more logical... I'm off to do this exact thing. Fantastic vid, inspired, and thank you.
will try these modifications with Thats Lit combo!
Let us know if That's Lit negatively affects your performance!
i'd like to see a more indepth wave spawn config,
Love you're videos, always very informative. I, like many people started playing SPT because of the recent drama and damn I wish I'd done is sooner. Being an anxious little bitch in tarkov, changing the game's bots to match my (sloth like) reaction speed has increased my enjoyment by at least 10x. I can finally play the game instead of hiding in a bush for 20 minutes!
Again, thanks.
You're welcome! I'm so glad you can enjoy the game!
Coolest SPT youtuber, also dude could be a voice actor cuz damnnnnn
I super appreciate that!
Thanks for all your work bro, great video, but is another sain preset: pmc terminators
Thank you brotha
You're welcome!
Ok you’ve convinced me 😂❤
Another one in the books!
Your dog has zero fault in this video. Good doggo.
She's great!
great video, would love to see if you can show your setting for Swag and Donut mod for a live-like experience
Second this😊
Can you have the PMCs be more capable( higher difficulty) but the SCAVS lower?
Is there a way i can make enemy AI use more environmental strategies like flanking or suppressive fire while an enemy AI team mate flanks? My main focus is just being smarter and less with gun accuracy.
Great video! Do you make any changes to donuts as well? The last thing i feel like I’m missing is a proper tuning for number of bots per map. Sometimes i see next to no one all raid and other times im swarmed by 10 bots at once.
Thank you!
The only changes that I make to Donuts are greatly-reduced spawns and spawn caps.
You'll see in an upcoming video.
Yeah I have the same issue. Everything else is setup really to my liking now. I’ve tried to edit the donuts txt config files and lower the total bots and also the spawn distance to me and other bots. But somehow I can’t get it to work properly.
Looking forward to that video.
Question... if I modify the settings thru the GUI does this translate to the whole server? Does it have to be the host or is it done in the configuration files somewhere?
Edit: Figured it out, whoever is the one hosting the raid has their bot settings take priority
I think the perfect setup is to have the AI perfectly balanced between being aggressive enough to shoot decently fast at you, but still give them a slight handicap with their aim, scatter and recoil factor adapted so they don't laserbeam headshot you right away or any other part of the body. Among the other tweaks in SAIN.
This necessarily doesn't mean they will always shoot around you/miss. Sometimes they land some really lethal blows - I know for a fact lol. But the landing of shots around you still provides a sense of danger, even when you are not hit. And it gives you a fair chance to react and seek cover or kill the aggressor, before they hit you. If you don't, it is a high risc they will land the next shots on you. Which they have a high chance of doing, depending on if you know where they are or not.
So in conclusion, you are given the chance to take cover or kill your opponent, without being molested to pieces everytime, depending on your own actions in the present situation.
It provides a nice randomness between evading injury and actually getting messed up for real sometimes or killed. Which is the perfect blend imo.
And the perfect balance would be the "default option"?
Did you fine tune anything in particular to achieve that? Or are you saying that SAIN + Donuts by default is the perfect blend for you?
Thanks for the video.
If I have installed and set Sain, do I have to set the difficulty for the scavs in the pre game settings, too?
Or does sain overwrite these?
You're welcome.
SAIN does overwrite those pre-match difficulty settings, yes.
Wassup brother got a question for you, its the first time i got to update my SPT. did i have to throw everything to trash (SPT FOLDER)and restart or just the spt 3.7.6 client folder?
Yes, delete everything of the old version and install the most current one, following all the instructions.
@@thestarvox thks budd you're a legend
Hi there, I have a question. will PMCs with sain have night vision goggles in the night time raids? If not, is there any mod that makes that happen?
I just asked you to do a video about the Ai settings In the comments of your last video I think. Thanks for delivering sir!
You're welcome!
Hey. I know im dumb but where i can open all those settings? Any short cut or sth like this?
Just wondering have you ever thought of running the spt server on another pc, I heard its easy to set up and offers performance benefits aswell, but havent tried it for myself.
I don't think I have ever considered that.
If it's possible, how would it improve performance?
@@thestarvox I believe the AI would be handled or at least mostly handled by the PC running server. Which of course reduces the CPU load of the client. Not sure as I haven't tried it, but maybe no more spikes when bots load in?? Worth a shot I might tinker with it this weekend and report back.
Definitely let me know, I'm interested.
can you talk about SWAG + Donuts settings. With FPS impact and how good the raids feel?
That's up next.
is there a load order that SAIN should be in relation to SWAG and looting and questing bots?
Looting/questing bots fuck up performance and other stuff atm
Can you please make a video about swag+donut and pls do explain what each preset do for pmc raid and for scav raid bc in the mod page they are poorly explained and plebs like me do not understand what live like alt is or what everything else is ....
11:07 For the dive donut preset, I never see the icon pop up in the bottom right like yours does. Do I need to enable something by chance? When I press f12 I see the DD advance setting there and everything just want to make sure it’s running correctly
There's a setting called "Show Random Scenario Selection" in the middle of the Donuts entry, right below the scenario selection menus.
@@thestarvoxomg I see it thanks king
Thanks. I was allways afraid to mess with that. I was playing on defualt but it was to easy. When I increase diff they killed me to easy. Now I can set up my own game just the way I like. I have one question tho, does selecting hard PMCs and SCAVs in DONUTS do something then? Which difficulty matters? SAIN or DONUT?
The Donuts difficulty selector is the same as EFT's, like you choose before a raid.
SAIN presets have behaviors for each of the difficulty levels.
You can customize how each preset behaves per level.
@@thestarvox Cool. So it works ok together.
How are your graphics looking so good? Do you have any mods that change the colors?
Yes, look for my graphics video.
hey thanks for the video, i have decent laptop but my fps drops a lot with sain with swag and donut, how can i limit the ai spawns
Mod - AI Limit
@@rlrihards948 thanks
You're welcome!
I'll demonstrate in the next video how to use SWAG+Donuts for that purpose.
What shows the stars and hud changes on reload
Is there a mod that allows you to zoom in while free looking (like in DAYZ) or are those video edits you performed?
That's Fontaine's FOV Fix & Variable Optics mod.
How did you open the door with an explosive there at the end? is this a mod?
Should be a mod called bandits or breaching bandits, let’s you get through any door with weapons with a few presets dictating the weapons/gear you can breach doors with.
Backdoor Bandit.
One hell of a mod.
can somebody help me? How to decrease spawn of entities in raid, because its too much of them spawning non stop and my pc starts lagging
what difficulty do i have to choose in the raid preparation menu if i play with sain?
That selection is overwritten by SAIN.
hi there, could you make a vid explaining recommended settings if you combine SAIN and That's Lit?
I actually don't use That's Lit at the moment for the sake of performance, but might consider it.
You said you lowered the amount of bots for better performance, in wich mod dobyou apply this?
Because i'm only getting 40-60fps
You'll see in the next video how I do that with SWAG+Donuts.
@@thestarvox aight
What is the mod with the First Aid Kit?
Hey bro ! Iam new to SPT, like most people recently i guess :D (Iam never going back, fck Nikita and BSG, iam having a blast with SPT rn) Iam using SAIN, donut, looting/questing bots. I have several questions if u dont mind: 1: The AI seem to hit my stomach ALOT and its quite annoying at the start, is there a way to adjust that ? 2. Can i set the max number of bots somewhere ? I got several raids now where its just a clusterfck with like 20 pmc, a boss, scavs, raiders xD 3. I noticed its not raining at all for me ? Can i fix that somehow ? I really enjoy night raids with rain :C
Hey i can answer these questions for you.
1. You can increase the aiming scatter in SAIN menu (F6) so shots will spread out more.
2. You need to enable bots hard cap in donuts settings from the F12 menu and edit the config file in the donut folder. You will see a section listing all bot caps for each map, just change the number to whatever you like (both scavs and pmc).
3. This is a known bug and will hopefully be fixed soon (if i recall correctly this is actually a vanilla bug from the specific version SPT is currently using)
I had the same problem with amount of ai. There were just too many. I played version before this and never had this many bots, at most i had like 4 or so lets say near lumberjack, now its like a war out there with 12 bots. Some die but another get replaced i was wondering was live always like this ? Or version before didn't spawn so much bots.
Can you explain how Donuts and SAIN work together for Bot difficulty? SAIN has bot difficulty settings in the F6 menu and Donuts has bot difficulty settings as well in the F12 menu. Do they work together or does one overwrite the other?
SAIN is AI behaviour. Swag&Donuts controls spawns and spawning waves.
Completely different roles, can't override with each other.
@@rlrihards948 Still, they both have difficulty settings for bots, that’s why I’m asking.
Base game difficulty is chosen at the start of a raid.
It can also be set in the Donuts menu, that's the difficulty selection.
SAIN adds behavior modifiers to the difficulty level chosen.
The SAIN presets include settings for each level and can be changed individually.
Hello PMC Tarkov, how do you manage to make your weapon tilted to the left while still having it on your right arm without shoulder swapping ?
It's an option in the "Realism" mod for SPT. Among other things, the mod gives you several different additional stances for holding your gun.
@@the_real_Kurt_Yarish Thank you so much
@@rashash9954 Glad to help!
BSG should've released a server distribution with plugin functionality. They're too slow on everything, so players work around them to have fun.
Do i need to select a preset and save every time i join a raid or is 1 time enough? Im confused heh
Of course it's one time save. Would be silly to do it otherwise.
It's crazy how this all runs on system. I'm not a programmer, but why can this not also work for co op or online play?
Do you notice a gear difference between difficulties? On standard SPT im getting Scavs and PMC's with BS and M855A1 ammo and was wondering if reducing the difficulty changes what they carry
Not with SAIN, since it only influences bot behavior and not their spawns or equipment.
Dude how do you increase your repacking mag speed ive been looking for a setting for so long but I cant find it!
You can use the KMC SVM, Dad Gamer Mode, or even the SPT Realism Mod, I think.
For the latter two, you'll find those settings in their BepInEx entries labeled "Magazine Load Speed" or something.
I’ve been messing with SAIN and SwagxDonuts for a while now and I noticed recently that they both have difficulty controls, does one override the other?
Sain is the controller.
Yes, SAIN takes full control of bot difficulty.
Where is Bot Monitor? I can't find it to download?
Anybody know how to limit waves and spawns?
Can you adjust the loot pmc carry? I kill them then they are missing like a rig or like a backpack. It’s a little weird
Sounds right to me, Tarkov is chaotic in nature that way, especially when bots move and loot on their own.
It could be your mods, but it could also be circumstances when you find them.
@@thestarvox is there a slider or mod that makes them have more or less loot by chance? Thanks for the reply btw
Bro Imagine that Lighting on Interchange
I see it all the time!
How can you get the best fps while also having a resonable amount of bots?
having strong modern CPU is the only remedy in this case afaik, since your computer controls all the AI in your server. other than that it pretty much comes down to trial and error until you find sweet spot for bot count and performance.
Hey just out of scope question, can someone tell me how to open plugins/mod settings page at 4:28 .
F12
Will you ever do a SWAG+DONUTS guide?
where can you modify how quickly you pack mags in raid??
Realism mod, along with many other options
Server value modifier mod, I forgot what tab it was under but you have to open the exe. For it hopefully that helps that’s the best way I could explain it.
Yep, the KMC SVM, Realism Mod, and Dad Gamer Mode can all change loading speeds.
3.8.0 is great, but damn I'm gonna miss Traveler. And that one's probably not getting updated for the foreseeable future
You never know!
It was so popular, it may return somehow.
I heard that an group of modders is making an spt overhaul called Welcome to Tarkov and is full of new things and the mod traveler is present ...so maybe is not lost 😁
My realism mod shakes my aim up not sure if it’s a conflict
what mod is this with the weapon stance? 0:47
Pretty sure its the realism mod.
@@djpeppyhighs2971 ah ok ok
Is there a way to make a video on how to actually get the bots to spawn becuase i have no clue on how to do that
The next SPT Show will cover the SWAG+Donuts mod, should be out on Monday.
@@thestarvox okay thank you
Is there a way to make it so that there's one wave of only pmcs and is there a way I can adjust the amount there is
Starting pmc’s only preset in the donuts menu dropdown
@@Sleazy.e can I adjust the amount?
I need to know this aswell@@resdyne9590
@@resdyne9590 so if you go to spt\benipx\plugins and navigate to dsizedonuts folder, there are presets in there to change the max bot count for each preset, pmc and scav counts
been a while so im fuzzy on the details but its in there somewhere
22:36 Did anyone notice how StarVox by accident "reset" Global difficulty setting from 3 to 1 and didn't even notice?
While i copied everything from here i went with 2 for that value...
The value was reset to 1 when I hit the "reset" button while customizing that preset.
No need to worry, it was intentional.
Do you have a list of the mods you use for spt
Yes, but I still need to update it this week.
It's linked in the video description.
I tried installing it five times, always getting the older version, deleted the Sain.dll as required, not getting your gui :(
Its because he is using an older version on here. Make sure your version is 2.2.1 for the most recent update. The GUI will be different as the homepage tab will have General Settings. You should see it as soon as you enable the [Open Editor] option. Not everything is the same location but all the stuff he changes should still be in the General Global Settings on the Home tab.
@@MythicalWombat It's when I change the preset it says the game is older version and it could cause issues. I wonder if it's okey.
What mod changes the quick throw grenade?
Quick Throw Grenades, lol.
@@thestarvox my stupid ass, thanks
babybots turns it into tarkovs pve mode.
Hello, can you share your postfx settings ?
You can check my recent graphics episode of the SPT Show for my settings, I don't use PostFX.
is the SPT site down orrr is it just me? it only shows only like the popular ones
Yeah, the heavy traffic has been causing errors and long load times lately.
Bro what are your Swag+donuts settings?
That's in the next video.
@@thestarvox Alright thanks man, great videos!
does anyone else have very bad performance with spt? for some reason i get much lower fps than regular tarkov at the same settings, and whats weird is that my gpu doesn’t boost the way it should, sitting at 2610mhz instead of 3045 as it usually does. im using a 4090 and 7800x3d.
Should be perfectly fine with 7800x3d as it's the best CPU for SPTarkov (fastest cores out of every x3d Ryzens).
And the fps reduction is because your PC now is also the server putting high loads on CPU.
@@rlrihards948 yeah, but that doesn’t explain gpu boost clocks. regular tarkov runs perfectly fine. i could see a 20fps difference to server emulation or ai but this is just weird. is there some catch in installation process or something?
Do you have videos on how to install spt. Been on pve and watching this I feel like pve is ps4 and spt is pc😂 comparison wise
Yeah, in our Discord server. I need to make an updated video for 3.8.3 still.
Check mod: raid overhaul
Don't really see the appeal of playing SPT myself, but it is impressive what modders can achieve.
This would make for a really cool STALKER type single player game, like surviving, finding gear, killing mutants, etc. But Tarkov with just AI seems pointless, imo.
Maybe one day we'll have this for private servers on live game.
Try it for a little while and tweak it to your liking. Worst case, you don't like it and delete it. In the best case, you no longer have to deal with cheaters and dsync along with horrid graphics.
I mean that's exactly what tarkov SPT is... surviving, finding gear, killing scavs and pmcs etc... dont think of it as a single player of live tarkov, you can mod it to what you want it to be
Where is head protection in
I'm on mobile right now or I'd double check. But I think you can search for it right in the settings.
23:29
Thanks!
Talk about realism please!
Did ya see the video before this one?
@@thestarvox whoops
I can't play spt because official game will scan my computer if BSG see SPT and will banned my account (EOD) 😢
They can't..
@@rlrihards948 what ? my friend said BSG banned 2 his account because playing SPT
@@k1roextophia28he probably ran the official version and SPT at the same time for whatever reason
Oh gosh, that's not possible - no one is scanning your computer for SPT.
It's totally fine, but you should really read the documentation to educate yourself about it.
@@thestarvox I will think about it or maybe buy buy standard edition and test it I don't wanna rip my EOD account
Is there a way to tweak raiders/bosses this way? I have SAIN on default preset but keep getting one-tapped in the head by raiders milliseconds after they come around the corner
Me too!
Same Problem here. I play with baby bots because i got Bad aiming. Scavs and PMC mostly no Problem... but raiders and roques kill me on sight😅
Can someone shoot over their discord and help me install mods for SPT I can’t figure it out for some reason
I've got guides in my Discord server.
Hey Starvox, I NEEED help. I'm willing to pay for it lol.
Please respond if we can work something out with basically, you consulting for me on the game and my PC... I'd appreciate any time bud, will super thanks your channel or donate any other way
I'm super busy working on new videos, so you should check out our Discord server.
I've got guides and things in there, we keep resources, and folks are super helpful.
You can always support us on Patreon!
Im curious.
Does this mod, or any other mod let me disable BEAR PMC's? I wanna hear PMC AI shittalk me in English only, and that would be dope for me and my friends using COOP.
I’m pretty sure swag+donuts have a setting to force a specific faction to spawn
So baby mode acts like a defensive real player, and the other mode is an aggressive twitch streamer.
Yeah, pretty much!
@@thestarvox I found setting scavs to normal and pmc to easy with donuts is the right for me.
8:05 Im puzzled, can the AI actually shoot while sprinting? Sounds very h@xx0r to me lol
AND jumping!
@@thestarvox omg 👀
I have problem with bots. They only scream. 0 footsteps so i so shit.
Me: Just trying to not have 6 million bots continuously spawn on me and rush me like I'm tagged and cursed, while at the same time tanking my performance like I'm running 3 live raids simultaneously, must be just a hard cap number or two right, easy enough right ?
SPT: "Nah bro, first gotta read thru the old testament's proportions of documentation, watch 3 hours of youtube explanations and quit your job to make time to tweak it to not-worse-than-live levels of jank"
To get this to run, not even like in the video, just SPT+SAIN, is I swear to god more infuriating than BSG dropping that unheard BS.
You make great content but I guess this shit's not for me, and that's coming from someone with fair bit of experience at modding games. Imma just drop this goddamn game as a whole.
SAIN AI bots : ua-cam.com/video/Ni62gSNbAIU/v-deo.htmlsi=d5Ysn0vnb_2W2OCq
9:10 You should go play with your dog, not SPT 😂
She is so spoiled!
@@thestarvox 🤩