BrokenSword/Version History

• 1.10 - 10/16/2007
  • MiniBot Melee - 1635
  • General Melee - 1630
  • Rollback to 1.04.
  • Much more weight to the piece that randomizes the movement.
  • Added damage-done-by-enemy to target selection - favor targeting enemies that haven't done much damage. (This was a mistake - I intended the opposite.)
  • Code size: 1399 (3 colors)
• 1.091 - ??/2007
  • MiniBot Melee - 1628
  • General Melee - 1624
  • Rollback to 1.04.
  • Uses destination points instead of angles in MinimumRiskMovement; select a new point only if it is 10% safer than the current destination point.
  • Code size: 1441 (3 colors)
• 1.083 - 3/16/2007
  • MiniBot Melee - 1635
  • General Melee - 1631
  • Rollback to 1.04.
  • Tweaks to movement randomizing and MinimumRisk factors.
  • Code size: 1399 (3 colors)
• 1.082 - 3/6/2007
  • MiniBot Melee - 1637 (12th)
  • General Melee - 1630 (39th)
  • Several tweaks to MinimumRiskMovement factors.
  • Code size: 1413 (3 colors)
• 1.081 - 3/5/2007
  • MiniBot Melee - 1640 (10th)
  • General Melee - 1633 (37th)
  • Rollback to 1.04.
  • Tweaks to bullet power management and target selection.
  • Code size: 1415 (3 colors)
• 1.08 - 3/2/2007
  • MiniBot Melee - 1641 (10th)
  • General Melee - 1634 (36th)
  • Rollback to 1.04.
  • Parameter tweak to make the battlefield corners even more desirable.
  • Note: 1.04 had drifted to 1641 (9th) / 1630 (38th) at this point.
  • Code size: 1393 (3 colors)
• 1.07 - 11/10/2006
  • MiniBot Melee - 1649 (10th)
  • General Melee - 1624 (45th)
  • Rollback to 1.04.
  • Trying a weird change to MinimumRisk code: test up to 3 points along each potential movement angle.
  • Code size: 1409 (3 colors)
• 1.06 - 11/9/2006
  • MiniBot Melee - 1661 (10th)
  • General Melee - 1639 (34th)
  • Rollback to 1.04.
  • Tweaks to radar code.
  • Higher weight to enemy that last hit with a bullet.
  • Miscellaneous tweaks to MinimumRisk factors.
  • Points generated for MinimumRisk are much closer to the tank.
  • Code size: 1437 (3 colors)
• 1.05 - 11/8/2006
  • MiniBot Melee - 1653 (11th)
  • General Melee - 1636 (34th)
  • Removed some artifacts of direction changing movement, freed some more bytes.
  • Removed corner distance factor from MinimumRisk calculation.
  • Tweaks damage by enemy factor in MinimumRisk calculation.
  • Code size: 1313 (3 colors)
• 1.04 - 11/8/2006
  • MiniBot Melee - 1661 (10th)
  • General Melee - 1642 (34th)
  • Removed random direction changing factor in MinimumRisk calculations. (Inherited from Luminarious, more of a 1v1 characteristic.)
  • Tweaks to bullet power and segments, mostly to save a few bytes.
  • Increased wall buffer for destination points.
  • Code size: 1393 (3 colors)
• 1.03 - 11/6/2006
  • MiniBot Melee - 1661 (10th)
  • General Melee - 1642 (33rd)
  • Tweaks to bullet power at low energies that should (and in tests, appear to) increase overall survival scores significantly.
  • Uses real corner distance instead of "larger wall distance" in MinimumRisk calculations.
  • Take damage done by each enemy into account in MinimumRisk calculations.
  • Code size: 1497 (3 colors)
• 1.02 - 11/5/2006
  • MiniBot Melee - 1654 (11th)
  • General Melee - 1635 (37th)
  • Rollback to 1.0.
  • Miscellaneous movement tweaks.
  • Code size: 1439 (3 colors)
• 1.01 - 11/4/2006
  • MiniBot Melee - 1647 (13th)
  • General Melee - 1627 (46th)
  • One tweak to gun segmentation.
  • Less GuessFactor bins in gun.
  • A few BulletPower tweaks.
  • Several subtle movement tweaks, such as a change to the random direction changing behavior and a larger wall buffer when generating destination points.
  • Code size: 1440 (3 colors)
• 1.0 - 11/3/2006
  • MiniBot Melee - 1650 (11th)
  • General Melee - 1634 (37th)
  • Initial release.
  • Code size: 1443 (3 colors)