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• 2.0, rated ?
  • Rewrote parts and modified code structure.
  • New main gun with crowd targeting and anti aliasing.
  • Added anti surfer gun and virtual guns array.
  • Movement now uses anti aliasing, dynamic weighting, and precise wave intersection.
  • Added curve flattener.
  • Many other small changes.
• 1.402, rated 2079, ranked 4th
  • Further gun tweaks.
• 1.401, rated ?
  • Two small gun tweaks.
  • Slightly changed distance segments in surfing code.
• 1.4, rated 2097, ranked 3rd (7 PL)
  • New dynamic clustering gun.
• 1.3a, rated 2038, ranked 17th (7 PL, but with a couple losses to non-surfers)
  • Testing new anti-surfer gun.
  • A tweaked version of SeaSerpent's gun that only matches on firing ticks.
  • Slightly weaker that SeaSerpent's gun, but a many times faster, so it will be usable in a VG array.
• 1.3b3, rated 2075, ranked 5th (7 PL)
  • Got rid of fancy weighting system.
  • Added bin smoothing.
  • Some small tweaks to weights.
• 1.3b2, rated ?
  • Tweaked the weighting of gun buffers.
• 1.3b, rated 2075, ranked 4th (12 PL)
  • Testing new main gun.
  • Tweaked version of the gun from version 1.24.
    • Rolls data more slowly.
    • Wall segment takes into account max escape angle.
    • New weighting system exaggerates or flattens the valleys and peaks in a buffer depending on how much data the buffer has.
• 1.24, pulled
  • Tweaks to gun segmentation.
  • Changed the structure of the gun.
  • A lot more gun buffers (8 instead of 4) and different weighting for them.
• 1.231, rated 2079, ranked 4 (7 PL)
  • Added super-slow learning buffer to the movement.
• 1.23, rated 2076, ranked 4 (about 7 PL)
  • Learns from onBulletHitBullet (I can't believe I haven't already added this).
  • Removed acceleration timer buffer.
  • Some changes to gun segmentation.
• 1.221, rated 2066, ranked 4 (13 PL)
  • Fixed minor bug making the first hit weighted more than it should.
  • Added acceleration timer buffer.
• 1.22, rated 2067, ranked 4 (7 PL)
  • Added stop evaluation again.
  • Predicts its position over the first two waves in each direction instead of just the first one.
• 1.213, rated 2060, ranked 7 (7 PL)
  • Removed stop position evaluation.
• 1.212, rated 2059, ranked 7 (7 PL)
  • Added stop position evaluation.
  • Fixed minor bug in precise prediction.
• 1.211, rated 2062, ranked 7 (7 PL).
  • Back to old buffer weighting.
• 1.21, rated 2056, ranked 7 (16 PL).
  • Rewrote parts of the gun, although it should act almost the same as the old one.
  • Added super fast unsegmented buffer to gun.
  • Fast learning buffer weighted higher.
  • Added melee capabilities again (won't be released in melee rumble yet).
  • A few minor bug fixes:
    • Enemy location no longer changes when the enemy is dead and WaveSerpent is surfing the last couple waves.
    • Clears all gun waves when it stops shooting.
    • Fixed one off bug in gun waves.
• 1.2, rated 2064, ranked 5 (10 PL).
  • Rewrote movement:
    • Doesn't evaluate stop position.
    • Fixed one off bug in enemy waves.
    • Bugfix in wall ahead segment.
    • Less segmentation schemes and no dynamic weighting.
    • Changed the way dive protection is done.
    • Changed rolling averages.
    • More precision in choosing which wave to surf and when to stop surf prediction.
• 1.103, rated 1703, ranked 5 melee.
  • Back to 1.101.
  • General melee tweaks.
  • Improved wave weighting in melee.
  • Added unsegmented buffer to gun.
• 1.102, rated 2019, ranked 18 (15 PL).
  • Same risk function for simple and non-simple targeters (although the distancing still changes).
  • Default mode is normal instead of anti-simple.
  • More aggressive distancing.
• 1.101, rated 2024, ranked 18 (17 PL)
  • Weights start empty instead of having some pre-filled values.
  • Tweaked distancing and wall smoothing.
  • Higher threshold for assuming the enemy is a non-simple targeter.
  • Finaly ended an 8(!) release streak of being stuck around 2015 :).
• 1.1, rated 2014, ranked 19 (19 PL)
  • Improved execution speed.
  • A few minor tweaks/bugfixes.
  • Highly experimental dynamically weighted surf stats.
• 1.07, rated 2013, ranked 19 (18 PL)
  • Completely changed surfing segmentation and weighting.
  • A few minor bug fixes.
  • Wouldn't be surprised if this did worse...
• 1.063, rated 2014, ranked 19 (20 PL)
  • More movement tweaking.
• 1.061, rated 2012, ranked 19 (17 PL)
  • Tweaked surfing weights
• 1.06, rated 2014, ranked 18 (17 PL)
  • Added acceleration segmentation in surfing data.
• 1.051, rated 2015, ranked 18 (17 PL)
  • Slow buffer is weighted less.
• 1.05, rated 2013, ranked 18 (18 Pl)
  • Buffers are layered on top of each other instead of switched between.
• 1.04, rated 1709, ranked 5 melee (dropped to about 1703 by the time 1.103 was released).
  • Surfing movements learns faster at the end of melees.
  • Added wave weighting in melee gun.
• 1.031, rated 2014, ranked 17 (18 PL)
  • Testing more standard energy management.
• 1.03, rated 2010, ranked 17 (18 PL).
  • Experimental dynamic bullet power calculations.
  • A few minor tweaks.
• 1.02, rated 2007, ranked 17 (16 PL) one-on-one, rated 1707, ranked 5 melee.
  • Fixed another bug in energy management.
  • Changed in the super-fast gun buffer.
• 1.01, rated 2003, ranked 18 (21 PL) one-on-one, rated 1708, ranked 5 melee.
  • Fixed bug in energy management.
  • Fixed bug causing WaveSerpent to never stop shooting.
  • Added flattener for one-on-ones at the end of melees.
• 1.0, rated 2007, ranked 17 (17 PL) one-on-one, rated 1704, ranked 5 melee.
  • Rewrote the code, adding numerous minor improvements.
  • Uses Logic's melee behavior.
• 0.52, rated 1999, ranked 17 (16 PL).
  • Changed distancing, now one fluid function.
  • Target data is less.
  • Some ideas from Dookious:
    • Energy management changes.
    • Gun segmented on bullet travel time instead of distance.
• 0.51b, rated 1998, raked 17 (18 PL).
  • Change in timeAcceleration segment.
  • Tweaked gun segmentation.
  • Back to 0.5's movement.
• 0.51 rated 1994, ranked 18 (17 PL).
  • Surfs the small "danger zones" on nearest two waves only.
  • Small movement segmentation changes.
• 0.5 rated 1997, ranked 17 (17 PL).
  • Added rolling to the gun.
  • Target data for the gun is lower.
• 0.43 rated 1988, ranked 18 (21 PL).
  • Tweaked gun.
  • Lots of minor changes (mainly in energy management).
• 0.42 rated 1989, ranked 18 (19 PL).
  • More standard energy management.
  • Fastest learning gun rated worse when setting the segmentation.
  • A few small tweaks.
• 0.41 rated 1976, ranked 19 (22 PL).
  • Uses distance and bulletpower segments instead of bullet travel time.
  • Timer segmentation turned on (accidentally turned off in 0.33).
  • Small energy management change.
  • No rolling averages against simple targeters.
  • A few more tweaks and changes.
• 0.33 rated 1973, ranked 21 (21 PL).
  • A secondary layer of punishing for getting near hit locations.
  • Tweaked segmentation
• 0.32 rated 1978, ranked 17 (23 PL).
  • Sharper distance control against non-simple targeters.
• 0.31 rated 1976, ranked 18 (23 PL).
  • Much stronger against simple targeters
• 0.3 rated 1953, ranked 26 (25 PL).
  • More aggressive energy management.
  • Fixed bug on time until bullet hits index.
  • Fixed bug in registering hits.
  • Giant increase in risk if within 0.1 GF of a hit location.
  • Some tweaking.
• 0.2 rated 1963, ranked 25 (30 PL),
  • New distance control and wall smoothing.
  • Orbits the other robot's current position instead of the wave's.
  • Fixed bug in enemy wall collision detection.
  • Stores and dodges dangerous points instead of bins.
  • Segmented on bullet travel time instead of distance.
• 0.1 rated 1944, ranked 28 (27 PL),
  • Initial release.