Starcraft AI blog

Why do so few bots go overlord hunting against zerg?

I've only seen Skynet do it, later in the game and not efficiently. Quite a few bots make corsairs, or scouts, or wraiths, or even valkyries, and then keep the air units together with the main army where they get bored and turn to drink. Then when a battle comes up, I often see scouts or wraiths tickling ground units with their feathers and not blasting air units with their deadly missiles. Alcoholism really messes up your personality.

Modern protoss versus zerg play often has protoss fast expanding and then building up a corsair fleet that sweeps the skies of stray overlords and shuts down mutalisks. And forces zerg’s strategic hand. And can set things up for drops and dark templar raids. And incidentally scouts everything the zerg does. Bots should be able to learn at least one or two of those tricks!

If you’re terran and make wraiths, for Boxer’s sake please don’t use them to plink zerglings when there’s an overlord to be found. At least go bother some drones.

Zerg versus zerg is a whole different barrel of monkeys holding kettles of fish, of course.