postbots

  • The map feature your bot is ignoring

    ByDrekken

    Why Hello Reader, I was watching a replay where a single marine held off two roaches for way longer than it should have. If you can believe it was because the marine was standing on a Xel’Naga healing shrine and getting 10 HP back every tick. Most bots don’t even know healing shrines exist. Dogtato walked through this on the latest PostBots session. The shrines are sitting right there on two maps in the current pool. Torches has one that allows air units. Persephone has one for ground units…

  • How to train your bot’s micro from scratch

    ByDrekken

    Why Hello Reader, Training micro with reinforcement learning sounds like something only Alphastar could do. But what if you could start with just one unit and two actions? SharkNice showed how to easily train unit micro from scratch using Sharky RL Matrix Training (or Stable Baseline 3 for python) , starting with a single Stalker kiting two Roaches and scaling up from there. But the key take away though : scope your action space to preset functions your bot already knows. Instead of giving RL…