new bot Bobot
We got another new bot! Newcomers have been thin on the ground of late, we must treasure them. Terran Bobot’s description says “little bot I made to have fun and also to go into machine learning in the future. By william sokol”.
“Bobot” seems to be a popular name that has been used by unrelated projects. I found a repo of a BWAPI bot named BOBot by Antohi Mihai Razvan, which appears to be a different bot, and much older (it uses the old problematic BWTA map analysis library, while our Bobot uses BWEM).
Bobot has lost nearly all games so far, which is not uncommon for a brand-new bot made from scratch by an inexperienced author. It did defeat Marine Hell a couple times on BASIL, winning on points when the games timed out. Every bot author who sticks with it soon starts to win games. Bobot seems to have a basic idea of how to build a base and produce units: It makes barracks, academy, natural base, and 2 factories, then produces marines and tanks. I haven’t seen it get any medics or academy upgrades; the academy is apparently for scan and nothing else. It does not research siege mode for the tanks. Bobot doesn’t scout for the enemy, and apparently doesn’t actively attempt to attack enemy bases. Its combat skills appear to be limited to rallying units in front of its base and then, when enemies appear, attack-moving in their direction. In the best case, its units may be lured to an enemy base and destroy it.
Overall, Bobot looks like it is very early in development. This may be a test upload to make sure it runs, before the author gets down to serious work.
One of Bobot’s better games is Bobot vs GarmBot by Aurelien Lermant on Destination. Bobot lost by crashing, but its units were lured into destroying a number of zerg bases first.
Be sure to have fun, William Sokol! I look forward to seeing what machine learning ideas you try.
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