Firestarter/Version History

Version history of Firestarter

• planned
  • Add bot shadows.
  • Better avoid rambots in melee and teams.
• 2.0f - 26.10.2017
  • RoboRumble - APS: 88.33 (#4)
  • MeleeRumble - APS: ?
  • TeamRumble - APS: ?
  • Do targeting from next location instead of from current location.
  • Multiply melee gun velocity attribute weight by 3.
  • Don't fire if a team mate is right in front.
• 2.0e - 28.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.83 (#2)
  • Try the same as in 1vs1: divide melee gun tree attributes by their standard deviations.
• 2.0d - 28.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.96 (#2)
  • Restore melee gun tree attributes from 1.14, except for number of bullets fired.
• 2.0c - 28.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.3 (#2)
  • Try to fix a gun bug, actually made it worse.
• 2.0b - 27.10.2017
  • RoboRumble - APS: 88.66 (#4)
  • Remove "bullet power" gun feature. This will speed up the gun, and hopefully not decrease APS.
• 2.0a - 27.10.2017
  • RoboRumble - APS: 88.61 (#4)
  • Tweak gun against non-surfers.
    • Lower weight for time-since-bullet-shot and number-of-bullet-shots, from 5 standard deviations to 1 standard deviation.
    • Raise number of k nearest neighbors from 10 to 30.
• 2.0 - 26.10.2017
  • RoboRumble - APS: 88.33 (#5)
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.29 (#2)
  • TeamRumble - APS: 83.33 (#2)
  • Change the whole bot structure to be more suitable for team play.
    • Exhaustive team communication (share status events, scans and all kinds of bullet events).
    • Improve team radar.
    • Dodge team mates' bullets.
  • Rewrite 1vs1 gun. Use KNN+GF only instead of crowd targeting.
  • Simplify melee gun. Use only five features. Maybe this should be undone.
  • Scale gun and movement features to have a standard deviation of 1.
  • Tweak gun to be stronger against surfers, but weaker against non-surfers. Probably should be mitigated.
• 1.14 - 17.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 72.18 (1st)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 88.58 (4th)
  • TeamRumble - APS: 80.12 (2nd)
  • Undo targeting point reduction.
  • Fix a small bug in max escape angle calculation.
  • Some refactoring.
  • Implement basic team play.
• 1.13h - 17.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 72.12% (1st)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 88.27 (5th)
  • Keep 120 wall stick.
  • In 1vs1, reduce number of targeting points from 30 to 20 to speed up gun.
• 1.13g - 16.10.2017
  • RoboRumble - APS: 88.48 (4th)
  • Wall stick: 100.
• 1.13e - 16.10.2017
  • RoboRumble - APS: 88.48 (4th)
  • Wall stick: 120.
• 1.13f - 16.10.2017
  • RoboRumble - APS: 88.45 (4th)
  • Wall stick: 135.
• 1.13d - 16.10.2017
  • RoboRumble - APS: 88.4% (4th)
  • Reduce wall stick from 200 to 150.
• 1.13c - 16.10.2017
  • RoboRumble - APS: 87.92% (7th)
  • Rewrite 1vs1 energy management.
  • Fire high power bullets if hit rate is high.
• 1.13b - 16.10.2017
  • RoboRumble - APS: 87.93% (7th)
  • If the opponent uses a low bullet power, also fire low power bullets.
• 1.13a - 14.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 72.07% (1st)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 87.89% (7th)
  • Fix small bullet shadow bug.
  • Increase GF difference tolerance for surfing, to be stronger against weak bots again.
• 1.13 - 14.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: ~72% (1st)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 87.46% (8th)
  • Implement bullet shadows.
  • Use bins for surfing.
  • If there is no enemy targeting data, dodge HOT bullets.
  • Stronger against strong bots, weaker against weak bots.
• 1.12a - 08.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.80% (1st)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 87.15% (9th)
  • Remove wall attributes for melee again.
  • Adjust gun aim tolerance angle and anti-shielder random offset in 1vs1.
  • Improve HitByBullet and BulletHitBullet detection.
• 1.12 - 07.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.35% (1st)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 86.89% (9th)
  • Optimize melee movement during the first ticks of each round.
  • Tweak gun by adding wall attributes and time since last bullet fired (probably not so good in melee).
  • Go back to increased melee bullet power.
• 1.11a - 05.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.76% (1st)
  • Decrease melee bullet power again.
• 1.11 - 05.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.89% (1st)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 86.42% (11th)
  • Increase melee bullet power.
  • Surf two waves and also evaluate the third one.
  • In 1vs1, combine PIF and guess factor gun to a single gun.
• 1.10 - 01.10.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.88% (1st)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 86.07% (14th)
  • Emit bullet waves each tick, instead of only when a bullet is fired.
• 1.9 - 30.09.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.59% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 85.42% (17th)
  • Surf two waves in 1vs1.
  • Fix surf learning bug.
• 1.8d - 23.09.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.47% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 84.01% (27th)
  • Melee movement is now something between surfing and minimum risk movement.
  • Add surfing attributes: forward/backward wall, advancing velocity.
• 1.7 - 22.09.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.32% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 83.82% (28th)
  • Add gun attributes: time since direction change and distance last 10.
  • Fix a few bugs.
• 1.6.1 - 08.09.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.36% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 83.06% (38th)
  • Fix bug in guess factor gun.
  • Make melee movement a bit less predictable.
• 1.6 - 07.09.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.34% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 81.77% (50th)
  • Add a guess factor gun.
  • Make melee movement less predictable.
• 1.5.5 - 05.09.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.04% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 83.84% (27th)
  • Remove flattener again.
  • Reduce melee bullet power again.
• 1.5.4 - 24.08.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 70.65% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 82.6% (42nd)
  • Try different bullet power calculation in melee.
• 1.5.3 - 24.08.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.08% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 82.6% (42nd)
  • In OneOnOne, set a fairly constant bullet power (1.99) and always try to maximize distance.
• 1.5.2 - 22.08.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.15% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - 80.89% (53th)
  • Undo melee movement change.
• 1.5.1 - 22.08.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 70.60% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 81.03% (52th)
  • Use the flattener less often.
  • Increase data decay.
  • Make melee movement less predictable for strong guns.
• 1.5 - 17.08.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.14% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 81.39% (50th)
  • Added a flattener.
• 1.4.3 - 16.08.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 70.91% (2nd)
  • Changed movement parameters.
• 1.4.2 - 08.08.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 70.83% (2nd)
  • Slightly decreased bullet power. This version is worse, going back to 1.4.
• 1.4.1 - 08.08.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.19% (2nd)
  • Increased bullet power. APS is marginally better, but Survival dropped by two points.
• 1.4 - 06.08.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 71.13% (2nd)
  • Improving melee movement. Move away 10 ticks before the first HOT bullet would hit.
  • Survival score is pretty high compared to other strong bots. Slightly raising bullet power might reduce Survival but further improve APS, both in Melee and 1vs1.
• 1.3 - 26.07.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 70.77% (2nd)
  • RoboRumble - APS: 82.74% (41st)
  • Completely rewriting the gun to speed it up. A big score improvement was not expected.
• 1.2 - 11.07.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 69.58% (4th)
  • Small changes to movement and gun.
• 1.1 - 08.07.2017
  • MeleeRumble - APS: 69.62% (4th)
• 1.0 - 07.07.2017
  • Initial release.