Firestarter
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| Firestarter | |
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| Author(s) | User:Cb |
| Targeting | DC-PIF |
| Movement | Wave Surfing, Minimum Risk Movement |
| Released | July 2017 |
| Best Rating | #1 Melee (2017) |
| Current Version | 1.14 |
| Code License | Proprietary |
| Download | |
- Sub-pages:
- Version History
Background Information
- What's special about it?
- Its melee movement dodges many bullets.
- How competitive is it?
- Currently #1 in the melee rumble, #2 in TeamRumble and #4 in RoboRumble.
Strategy
- How does it move?
- It uses Minimum Risk Movement/Melee Surfing in melee and Wave Surfing in one-on-one.
- How does it fire?
- It uses a DC-PIF gun inspired by Shadow. In one-on-one, it also uses a Guess Factor gun.
- What does it save between rounds and matches?
- Between rounds gun and movement data, between matches nothing.
Additional Information
- Where did you get the name?
- It's the name of a song by The Prodigy.
- Can I use your code?
- I am keeping it closed source for now.
- What's next for your robot?
- Making it stronger in one-on-one.
- Does it have any White Whales?
- Neuromancer and Diamond.
- What other robot(s) is it based on?
- The code is mostly new, but here is a list of credits:
- Shadow - For popularizing the idea of targeting everyone at once in melee.
- HawkOnFire - For inspiring the Minimum Risk Movement evaluation function.
- Rednaxela's kD-Tree and FastTrig.
- Reading about DrussGT/Understanding_DrussGT taught me a lot of little tricks. Additionally, the gun data attribute set is inspired by it.
- The tools RoboJogger/RoboRunner by Skotty/Voidious became totally necessary once Firestarter got better.
- Generally, all the information on RoboWiki.
