Insurgency: Sandstorm Bot Difficulty & AI Settings

Configure coop bot AI — difficulty, enemy counts, player-count scaling, and perception. Includes the 360° peripheral vision explanation and a live player-count scaling table.

Warning: Bots have 360° peripheral vision by default — they literally have no blind spots. This is intentional. Reduce PeripheralVisionAngleDegrees to 120–180 for more realistic behavior, but note this significantly reduces bot difficulty.

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Bot Settings

AIDifficulty 1.0 — Normal

0.0 Easy1.0 Normal2.0 Nightmare

MinimumEnemies 10

MaximumEnemies 20

MaxPlayersToScaleEnemyCount 8

Enemies scale with player count up to this number.

FriendlyBotQuota 5

Enable solo checkpoint mode (bSoloGame)

bBotsUseHumanLoadouts

Enemy Count by Player Count

Formula: enemies = Min + ((Max - Min) * playerCount / MaxPlayersToScale)

Players	Enemy Count
1	11
2	12
4	15
6	18
8	20

Game.ini — paste into your config

[/Script/Insurgency.INSCoopMode]
AIDifficulty=1.0
MinimumEnemies=10
MaximumEnemies=20
MaxPlayersToScaleEnemyCount=8
FriendlyBotQuota=5
bSoloGame=False
bBotsUseHumanLoadouts=False

File location: Insurgency/Saved/Config/LinuxServer/Game.ini

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