ScalarR/Random thoughts

What really makes a bot strong overall?

Excessive tuning of every single detail. See the logs in /Version History.

What affects performance the most?

Targeting and movement are equally important. Strong targeting helps more against strong opponents, while strong movement earns more from the weak.

How to make a top movement from scratch?

First make it right. Then spend some time tuning bandwidth and distancing. Good aiming models can be used as good danger models, further tuning may not help much. Flatteners aren't necessary.

How to make a top gun from scratch?

Basic attributes + wall attributes + machine learning on whole rumble data = good to go. Fancy features may help against some bots, but may not help too much overall.

What may be the next big innovation?

Active bullet shielding may help against the top bots, but about general rumble, there's still much room in accurately predicting & controlling the opponents' targeting. Reducing b in a / (a + b) is more efficient once a is larger.