Looking forward to this.

I look forward to seeing your implementation. I tried making one at one time. It isn't a simple trick to get down. But I wonder if this could actually decrease your score against some robots that you already get 100% against. Like ones that have near head on targeting that never landed on your surfing, but might bypass your shield.

It can. But not by much more than a few percent, and your average score is still much better with it than without it. And I highly suspect that we'll soon see a generation of bots with bullet defenses intertwined with their movements much more than they currently are.

I actually feel a bit jealous about the current adding-bullet-shielding-to-megabots trend. A while ago I noticed GeomancyBS getting ~99% against Nene and other ridiculously high scores, and I wondered why other high-end bots weren't shielding. It was going to be my secret weapon, but now I guess I'll just have to find something else. :(

Well Nene also uses Raiko's gun, which was written back in 2004, long before bullet shielding or even surfing was a thing. It just has a strong movement. I had considered using BulletShielding for awhile to, at the time that GeomancyBS came out. But at the time I wasn't able to get it to work.

These days I might be able to, but I hadn't really given it much thought again before this latest round.