is manual_attack_always 1?

Nope, its 0. Enabling always attack seems to make them even *more* hyper-capable of killing everything, and I'm trying to make them less so

manual_attack_saccade_speed only affects manual attack related things, check ur convars.txt

Of course -- I've tested with always manual on & off. But speed 20 vs 20,000 and the results don't seem different even w/ always manual turned on.

I guess a better question would be 'are there settings to make the bots similar to vanilla l4d in terms of common infected shooting?'

What would I be checking for in convars.txt?

commands that have "saccade" in them

I need the answer to this too, they murder literally everything. I don't need to do anything at all, hell i've tried the bots in hard 16, guess what. They shred every special within seconds. (That was with manual_attack_always set to 1, with the manual_attack_skill also being 1 which is the lowest) The bots are still bad, their aim is what makes up for how bad the bots are. Cloest thing to normal bot aim that i know of is manual_attack_always set to 0. The normal bots sometimes have aimbot too, it's a 50/50 whether they just stare and watch you die, or literally instakill a smoker that's up in the mountains hiding in a bush.

Yes... the pitch-perfect aimbotting is annoying imo.

manual_attack_saccade_speed 500 is good. It's the default value anyway. For anything else you can set to 2000. There is no way to make their aiming look natural, but at least they don't really top you out in the saferoom stats everytime.