Dota Lobbies fall back to default Bot Scripts

[edge-blade]

Seems like there's something going on with the scripts that causes the Dota 2 Lobbies to fall back to the original AI scripts for some users.

Initial Ideas to try getting a resolution on this:

• Reaching out to Valve support directly
• Reaching out to other community forms to see if anyone has suggestions for resolving the issue
• Attempt to do a direct Lua debug process on Dota 2 against my scripts so as they load in I can possibly detect any errors that might cause the online servers to bail on them

[edge-blade]

As part of my investigation I reached out to other AI Script writers for DOTA and they believe that only a handful of the most popular bot scripts are able to run on most servers. The working theory is that it's the top 3ish scripts will run in public lobbies and the rest need to be run by playing a Local Host custom lobby and side-loading the scripts via the Local Dev Script.

My own theory without much justification is that they may want to do a code review internally before allowing AI scripts to run on their servers in case cheating or other malicious stuff is going on inside the scripts somehow. At least that would be something I'd prefer doing to avoid liability. For the time being seems like people may only get to enjoy them via the Local Host route???