Clarification needed on EventBotTakeover — @event.Bot seems to point to the human controller instead of the bot

[StormySeaSailor]

Hello,

I'm fairly new to CS2 development/CounterStrikeSharp and would be grateful if someone could help me.

Context

I’m testing how EventBotTakeover works in CounterStrikeSharp to detect when a player takes control of a bot.
However, both @event.Userid and @event.Botid appear to reference the same CCSPlayerController (the human player).
This makes it impossible to identify the actual bot being taken over.

Minimal Example

using CounterStrikeSharp.API;
using CounterStrikeSharp.API.Core;
using CounterStrikeSharp.API.Core.Attributes;

namespace BotTakeoverTest;

[MinimumApiVersion(179)]
public class BotTakeoverTest : BasePlugin
{
    public override string ModuleName => "BotTakeoverTest";
    public override string ModuleVersion => "1.0.0";

    public override void Load(bool hotReload)
    {
        RegisterEventHandler<EventBotTakeover>((@event, info) =>
        {
            var human = @event.Userid; // human player
            var bot = @event.Botid;      // expected to be the bot being controlled

            Console.WriteLine("===== BOT TAKEOVER EVENT =====");
            Console.WriteLine($"Userid: {human?.PlayerName} (UserID={human?.UserId}, Index={human?.Index})");
            Console.WriteLine($"Botid:    {bot?.PlayerName} (UserID={bot?.UserId}, Index={bot?.Index})");

            if (human == bot)
                Console.WriteLine("⚠️ Both objects are identical (same instance)");

            var pawnHandle = @event.UseridPawn;
            var pawn = pawnHandle.Value?.As<CCSPlayerPawn>();
            Console.WriteLine($"Pawn handle: {pawnHandle} -> Pawn: {pawn?.Handle}");

            Console.WriteLine("==============================");
            return HookResult.Continue;
        });
    }
}

Here's what I'm getting:

 ===== BOT TAKEOVER EVENT =====
Userid: StormySeaSailor (UserID=65280, Index=1)
Botid:    StormySeaSailor (UserID=65280, Index=1)
⚠️ Both objects are identical (same instance)
==============================

Questions

• Is this a known limitation or mapping issue?
• Should @event.Botid correctly return the bot’s CCSPlayerController?
• If not, is there a recommended way to retrieve the bot being controlled (e.g., via handle or another event)?
• Is there a way to retrieve the raw event "bot_takeover" fields (userid, botid, userid_pawn) instead?

Thank you in advance

[roflmuffin]

I think this is just an issue with the valve event, they put the same userid in both spots as far as I can tell 🤷. The workaround is to loop through every player and check their schema property for bot control

[StormySeaSailor]

Thank you!
You are right. On discord, Gold KingZ pointed me toward the workaround, something like this:
var BotTakeover = Utilities.GetPlayers() .FirstOrDefault(p => p.IsValid(true) && p.OriginalControllerOfCurrentPawn.Value == player);