TyrProtoss
Apparently there is a trend for established bots to come out with versions playing a different race. McRave brought Sparks, now Simon Prins’s Tyr has brought TyrProtoss. Both off-race bots are the same code as the original, with updates as needed.
TyrProtoss, like Tyr, knows more than one build and tries to learn an appropriate one against each opponent. In its first game against an opponent, no matter the race, it opens with forge, gateway, and cannon to secure its natural, then starts the nexus. When it has built up a strong gateway army, it moves out to attack. If that build loses, in the next game against the same opponent it tries a dark templar rush. Both openings are weak against early aggression, so there should be at least one more build that I haven’t seen yet.
Looking into the jar file, I see classes called CarrierRush, CorsairHarass, DragoonPush, MassReaver, and MassRecall, among others. Nothing says that these are all complete and enabled, but TyrProtoss may have a lot to show us.
TyrProtoss still comes across to me as unsophisticated next to its terran version. I don’t see as wide a unit choice, or as many reactions. But I guess we can expect it to get smarter with time.
One good game was versus Zia, which came down to a base race in which neither side paid much attention to defense.
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I can give some background info.
I have been working on the Protoss version of Tyr for the upcoming CIG tournament. I uploaded this version to sscait to show what I have been up to.
I do not want to give away all my builds yet, so I only used some builds that will feature very little in the CIG version.
I currently have three builds active, two of which you have identified correctly. My bot has only tried the third option a couple of times and those games did not do it justice.
All in all, I hope to show a much more impressive version during the CIG tournament!
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