new bots Terminus and Brainiac
Terminus is BananaBrain playing terran, and Brainiac is BananaBrain playing random. (Crona is BananaBrain playing zerg and has been around for a while. BananaBrain is of course BananaBrain playing protoss.)
Terran is the new race. In the games I watched, I saw it open with in-base BBS and proxy BBS (which it plays rigidly with no tech), Gundam rush, a different two-factory attack, bunker expand, factory expand, and wall its natural and defend with tanks. It’s a wide variety, and I doubt I saw everything. It knows something about tank lines, though its TvT skills did not seem polished. It knows how to scout with a floating building. It can play with barracks units or factory units, or both at once. It can make wraiths and vessels. It knows how to lay a dense carpet of mines in front of its base—sometimes too close in front. It’s not effective mine placement against a skilled opponent. It does not seem to go for the hyperactive vulture style popularized by Iron. Not as impressive a terran as Hao Pan or Krasi0, but strong skills overall.
This game versus Pathos was entertaining. Terminus tried to expand and failed.
It looks like another tough opponent. Way to go! As I write, Brainiac is ranked lower than its component races, but that is because it is too new. Its rating has not stabilized.
Steamhammer will be back. Give me time.
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(Thanks for the keep-alive ping btw.)
Oh also, I don't know your dev enviroment, but I created a new tool: https://github.com/Bytekeeper/BWAIShotgun
It allows a far easier setup for testing bots in 1v1 or FFA games. It does not require sc-docker or docker at all.
Main purpose was to fix bwheadless for > 1v1 games, to allow more FFA casts. I intend to also improve the bot author experience with it.
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