Player + Bot

Not to be confused with the Player (Gamemode), Bot or Infection + Bot.

Player + Bot
Main Information
Introduction Date	January 28th, 2020
Bots	1 9 (Piggy but it's 100 Players, formerly)
Player Piggies	1 0 (If the Piggy left)
Special	There is one bot and one Player Piggy Functionally identical to Player
Extra Information
Thumbnail Characters	Little Brother Piggy
Background Color	Green and Dark Green

Player + Bot is a gamemode combining Player and Bot, making it so a player Piggy and a Bot are in the same round.

Description

Player + Bot is a combination of the Player and Bot modes as the name implies. When selected, a player is chosen as Piggy and is sent into the waiting room as their current skin and with their traps equipped. Once the 30 second head start is over, the player Piggy is sent into the map, along with a bot to assist them. This bot behaves as it would in the normal Bot mode, as a primary bot or a patrol bot (the latter from Sewers and onward). The players who weren’t selected as Piggy must escape the map within the time limit. These two Piggies are added alongside any secondary bots present, allowing more hostile characters in a round than usual.

Player + Bot can add a new layer of difficulty. The combination of the predictable yet persistent bot with the unpredictable yet distractable player, Player + Bot can be hard to manage and due to the lack of extra reward for beating it, it is rarely voted. A common strategy, especially used in maps without the patrol mechanic, is for player Piggies to follow the bot and trap the survivor it’s tracked down to kill them. The bot can be used as a ‘meat shield’ of sorts for the player that’ll take shots and NPC blows.

Player + Bot is required for Plant’s True Ending, where City must be played on the mode and the player must escape with the Mrs. P Photo, which only spawns in City when Player + Bot is active.

Trivia

• This mode always appears when selecting the gamemode, along with Bot and Player.
• Before Tag, it swapped with Swarm, similarly to how it was with Infection and Traitor.
  • With the release of Tag, Player + Bot is one of the three main gamemodes. Along with Bot and Player, Player + Bot can never be swapped with any extra gamemode.
• The name of it has a red outline around the font.
• Before Infection, this was the mode that allowed the most Piggies in one map.
  • With the release of Swarm, Player + Bot has the third highest hostile character potential.
• This is the only gamemode that can be used to get the True Ending in Piggy, which is on the City map, as it will spawn the picture of Mrs. P needed to trigger the True Ending cutscene.
• Sketchy calls it "the no go zone", possibly a reference to its difficulty.
• If this gamemode is selected with Private Server Host Commands, it will appear in the chat as "PlayerBot".
• If this mode is selected in Build Mode, it will appear in the chat as "PlayerandBot".
• This is the only special mode to not be involved with any season missions.

The discussions tag for Player + Bot can be found here.