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Bot War takes place on a spherical planet that you can walk all the way around. The other soldiers are bots, controlled by AI. The game also has an experimental system for player controls, simulates tiredness from running, and has one shot kills.

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Update #10

Aug 8, 2020

A new update has been added to the beta branch. It's been a while since my last update, as I'm quite busy with other things these days. I actually made these changes back in December, but have only now got around to releasing them.

This update is all about the team AI, which coordinates all the soldiers on a team by giving them strategic objectives. The update fixes two problems:

If you follow orders, you typically spend a good deal of the game running between blue spawn points, which isn't all that exciting, and isn't a very efficient use of what is probably the team's best soldier.
Soldiers often pass each other, going in opposite directions between friendly spawn points. That is a waste of resources, as in theory the two soldiers could have saved time and energy by simply swapping orders. Furthermore, the more time soldiers spend moving between friendly spawn points, the less time they are spending attacking the enemy.

This update fixes both these problems by 1) always ordering the player to the nearest enemy spawn point, and 2) reassigning bots instead of having them run past each other. The AI still attempts to spread out the team's soldiers evenly along the perimeter of the team's territory, but it's the bots that are now assigned to the more distant positions.

The upshot of all this is that if you follow orders, you should find that you now experience much more action than you did before.

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you want to develop this game because it has great potential

Orzeł

Nov 13, 2022 @ 4:32pm

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Update #9

Nov 15, 2019

An ongoing issue with Bot War is that games tend to end up in a stalemate, and then drag on for ages. To fix this, I've made the following changes, which are now in the beta release.

The team AI now attempts to surround its enemies in order to prevent them from breaking out.
Players will now find that they are often ordered through a series of blue spawn points. What the AI is doing is manoeuvring you to a particular gap in the front line that it wants you to fill.

The bots on the blue team are now generally more skilled (quicker reactions and more accurate) than on the other teams. This causes the blue team to steadily make headway. On the higher difficulty levels, the difference in skill is less, and so the player plays a more pivotal role. So, if you find the game too easy, increase the difficulty level to give the blue team less of an advantage. Note also that there are now five difficulty settings.

The result of these changes is that games now finish in a timely manner. Expect further changes to the AI strategy in future updates, as I have some more ideas for improvements in this area.

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Controls Tutorial Added

Oct 3, 2019

I don't know how well players have been getting on with the controls in Bot War, as they're quite different from normal. I've been trying to create a tutorial video to explain how it all works for ages, and I've finally managed to create one that I'm happy with. The tutorial video is on the Bot War store page, but I've also uploaded it to YouTube.

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nice

this game good

Orzeł

Oct 5, 2019 @ 7:13am

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