Steamhammer is #1
Oops, Steamhammer became the #1 bot on the SSCAIT ranking.
It pulled ahead of Krasi0 by a hair. I don’t expect it to stay #1 for long. It still can’t beat Iron or Krasi0 more than occasionally. Iron has lost rating points lately because Igor Dimitrijevic is putting it through a strategy change, and it will take time to tune up Iron’s new play. As that proceeds, Iron will work to claw back its first place. In the meantime, apparently Steamhammer has been defeating lower-ranked bots about as reliably as Krasi0 does.
I have to give in and admit that Steamhammer is no longer merely a threat to the top bots, it is a top bot itself, even if it struggles head-to-head against the very best. Well, I predicted all along that bug fix release 1.2.2 would restore the strength of 1.2 and then some, after the dip caused by bugs in version 1.2.1.
Meanwhile, Randomhammer has been getting fewer games and its rating has not stabilized yet. I’m expecting it to reach about 2100, maybe a little more. The bug fixes should make all races stronger.
Moral: Experience shows that feature releases are sometimes stronger and sometimes weaker, but bug fix releases are always stronger. Fix more bugs!
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LetaBot on :
Because in that one the mutalisk behavior caused it to lose games vs LetaBot:
http://www.sscaitournament.com/Replays/MARTIN%20ROOIJACKERS/191663-MART_STEA-TVZ.REP
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gnuborg on :
But now back to solemn business: I can't seem to get the debugger to not crash for SH 1.2.2. It poops out on a regex match for "pylon @ natural" in the config. My C++ is a bit rusty but this looks like it's a Visual Studio error. I was just wondering if you ran into this one as well? Or is there something I can do to avoid it?
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