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• Planned — 0.011
  • Migrate ScalarBot’s 1v1 movement & gun
  • Migrate ScalarBot’s 1v1 gun.
  • Rewrite a 1v1 movement that’s first optimized for simple guns, then slow learning guns. And find out a way to dodge pattern matchers well.
  • After that, add a tick flattener to help dodging the top guns, and a firing wave flattener agaisnt AS guns. (Only after I can dodge anything else very well can I start working on this and set a better threshold).

• Planned — 0.01f
  • kNN melee gun

• Planned — 0.01e2
  • Keep track of everyone’s firing for literal melee wave surfing

• Working — 0.01e1
  • Try some redesigned 1v1 movement inspired by its (Neuromancer style “brute force”) melee surfing. It should give PMs a hard time since more movement options are examined (which creates complex paths) and more prediction power is involved (which allows some DrussGT style random decelerating).
  • End up some goto movement similar to Carbon, but without second wave surfing or object creation in loops.

• 0.01e – 2017-11-06
  • MeleeRumble ‒ APS: 67.62% (11th), PL: 389-12 (13th), Survival: 36.51%
  • Rewrite melee movement, implement Neuromancer style “brute force” true melee surfing (only surfing preloaded HOT now).
  • Merge ScaledBot movement graphics & adapt it to show predicted paths like Neuromancer does, pretty cool now!
  • Well it takes me an hour to write, two nights to tune & fix bugs...

• 0.01d1 – 2017-11-05
  • Thanks Skilgannon for mentioning paper "Fast Polynomial Approximations to Sine and Cosine" in his code ;) I'll try some approximated function as the replacement of StrictMath.
    • Use approximations from "Fast Polynomial Approximations to Sine and Cosine" for sin & cos, 3~5x faster!
    • Use floor for faster normalAbsoluteAngle & normalRelativeAngle, 5.4x faster!
    • Use Chebyshev Approximations (http://metamerist.com/cheby/example38.htm) for atan & atan2, 13.86x faster! (my version uses degree 5 while Skilgannon uses degree 4, not sure the speed difference though)

• 0.01d – 2017-11-02
  • MeleeRumble ‒ APS: 63.94% (25th), PL: 362-39 (39th), Survival: 26.62%
  • Fixed a lot of bugs in PIF gun ;)
  • Implemented melee wave tracking (no gun heat waves yet), and no reaction to that information yet.

• 0.01c – 2017-10-31
  • Simple melee movement that dodges a lot of HOT bullets without surfing ;)
  • Simple PIF gun that selects scans randomly

• 0.01b – 2017-10-29
  • Rewrite ScalarBot’s framework from scratch, so that every single object is either static or pooled. No object creation/deletion between ticks or even rounds!
  • Write a melee radar
  • Migrate ScalarBot’s 1v1 radar into melee radar