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At the GDC 2004, Michael Booth of Turtle Rock Studios gave a presentation on the Counter Strike bot that was released along with the full commercial version of the game. His talk goes into details about the navigation mesh, the path-planning using A*, the aiming behavior, as well as the path-following using string pulling.
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