Steamhammer on SCHNAIL
I have felt fully busy with Steamhammer, with No Time For Anything Else, so I have been ignoring SCHNAIL. Besides, until I updated to BWAPI 4.4.0 I could not upload a new version anyway. Today I apparently felt less busy, because I logged in there for the first time since early days.
I updated Steamhammer on SCHAIL from version 2.4.1 (dating from late 2019) to the current version 3.4.1. The current version is far stronger against other bots, and it should be much stronger against humans too—though I imagine that some of the new danger-avoiding behaviors that are effective against other bots can be exploited by devious humans. The older version already had a HumanOpponent flag which is supposed to be set automatically when running under SCHNAIL. I have never verified that it works as planned. Maybe I should do that soon....
Unsurprisingly, the old Steamhammer ranks much lower versus humans than the current Steamhammer ranks versus bots. What did surprise me is that Randomhammer ranked higher than Steamhammer proper. Ever since Randomhammer was first uploaded to SSCAIT in 2017, I have never seen Randomhammer above Steamhammer. Steamhammer’s zerg is much stronger than its alternate races. It’s hard to believe that humans are worse than bots against random opponents, so maybe this is a newer version of Randomhammer? I’ll check that out too.
I watched a few replays. It was delightful to see some of the bot exploits that people attempted. Especially when they didn’t work.
Still next: Steamhammer’s experience versus cannon rushes.
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