Gladiabots – Basic AI Guide

Overview

Since I did voice a complaint about the closed nature of the community I figured I would go ahead and share my AI, otherwise I sound kinda dumb.

This is a basic setup, not meant to show the best AI possible. I’m just sharing it for others to use. You can use it and change it if you want. I wish we could export and import setups, but I don’t know of any way to do that. There are some images included without explanations. I’m not playing this game much anymore, so I won’t be adding comments or updating this. It might become outdated pretty quickly. Be aware that your robots might get destroyed a lot if you use this setup.

I’m sitting a bit above 1300 ELO and somewhere at the top of Gold last time I checked. About 1 or 2 wins from Platinum. Not really sure how that all works but in case you wanted to know.

Can it be improved? Absolutely. There’s things I’m spotting just by saving the images. Have fun doing so.

What does it do that isn’t terrible? Elimination. And it can play the little ball catching game. It does not play the game where you hold points. Don’t even try.

What about it is terrible? It doesn’t do anything at all regarding the time it takes to aim or empty a clip. There is no group behavior. Bots do their own thing and don’t care if all the other bots are blown up or whatever. It catches balls only as an afterthought. You can simply delete the ball catching stuff. I used that for the single player.

• What lineup did I use when running this AI? A balanced one with all bot types.
• It goes pew pew. It works for all bots. It uses health packs. It uses the green shield thingies on the map.
• Basically if you want an AI to use that isn’t 100% pure awful (only 90%) here you go.

Aside from it being presented as images it should be easy to understand and change. Enjoy.