Steamhammer doing well

Apparently I fixed enough bugs and added the right features to Steamhammer, because the bot is doing well on SSCAIT. It’s ranked #5 right now, high up in the mass of bots in the 2200 range. This Steamhammer version has negative scores against Krasi0 and Iron, and against several protoss bots—and that’s all. It is equal or winning in head-to-head score against every other opponent it has faced on SSCAIT, including all other zergs.

I don’t expect to do as well in AIIDE, because there are unfamiliar opponents that I can’t prepare for. But I hope to finish fairly high.

The upcoming 1.4 version has changes to improve results against protoss. The following version 1.5 plans mutalisk skills beyond other bots, which will be especially dangerous to terran. It should be able to notch some wins against Krasi0 and Iron. But it will take time, and everybody else is improving too....

Next: Games versus Tscmoo.

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PurpleWaveJadien on Wednesday, September 27. 2017:

I think that bodes well for your AIIDE results! ZvZ is your best matchup and that's half the AIIDE field.

krasi0 on Wednesday, September 27. 2017:

Why don't you focus on the mutalisk play and improvements against the top Terrans first (for the upcoming v1.4)? That should bring you the most ELO win in the short term.

Jay Scott on Wednesday, September 27. 2017:

Well, because mutalisk play is a major feature and I chose opponent modeling as the major feature for this version. Strong mutalisks will need big changes to micro and tactics, including stuff like coordinated targeting and threat-aware pathing that will take time to get right. Also once I have the new tools I’ll be tempted to rebuild the other unit controllers too. Improved play versus protoss is a matter of a few strategy tweaks and some new openings for the opponent model to choose from, not such a big deal.

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