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How to Disable Survivor Bot Spawns on Your Left 4 Dead 2 Server

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If you want to play a true hardcore Duo or Solo campaign without the AI constantly getting in your way or stealing your kills, Valve left a few native commands in the game to let you wipe them out completely

1. The Advanced CVAR Method

If you want to permanently tell the AI Director to never spawn survivor bots under any circumstances, you can use the official director_no_survivor_bots command.

Open your Developer Console (~) and type the following string exactly as it appears. This briefly enables cheats, tells the Director to stop spawning bots, deletes the ones currently on the map, and then turns cheats back off:

sv_cheats 1; director_no_survivor_bots 1; nb_delete_all; sv_cheats 0

2. The Permanent Server Config Method

If you want your server to always block bots natively every time it starts up, you can add this to your configuration file. Follow the steps below

3. Log In to Your Panel

4. Select the ‘Files’ Tab

L4D2 Server Dashboard, Files Tab Highlighted

5. Select the ‘left4dead2’ Folder

Navigating to the left4dead2 root folder in the Cybrancee server file manager

6. Select the ‘cfg’ Folder

Clicking the server.cfg file in the Cybrancee file manager to edit configuration settings

7. Select the ‘server.cfg‘ File

Clicking the server.cfg file in the Cybrancee file manager to edit configuration settings

8. Edit the server.cfg File

Click on the server.cfg file to open it in the web editor. Scroll to the very bottom and add:

director_no_survivor_bots 1

Editing the server.cfg file in the web dashboard to include the director_no_survivor_bots 1 command

9. Save the Changes

10. Restart Your Server

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