Starcraft AI blog

Yesterday was American Thanksgiving. I want to give thanks that Marian Devecka updated Killerbot on that day!

The new binary is about 5% larger, so I expect some improvement in its play but nothing dramatic. I’ve only seen a few games so far. In a game against Bereaver I thought Killerbot put up a tougher fight before losing, with better use of hydralisks, but the 2015 version already put up a pretty tough fight so I’m not sure. In a game against Iron there was a definite change, though: Killerbot went mutalisks and batted away Iron’s early pressure to gain an advantage. I’ve never seen Killerbot go air against terran before. Before this update, Iron had been rolling up Killerbot like a rug, but this game was another tough fight. Iron came out on top after a while, with good use of repair and steady aggression.

The new Killerbot version has not quite caught up with the current leaders, but it shows progress and there’s still time before the 18 December SSCAIT deadline.