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tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-21 18:31:09
August 20 2016 23:45 GMT
#1
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Hi,

I just play against a SUPER or custom AI.

Instructions on How to play agains this supers AI:

1)Go to http://sscaitournament.com/index.php?action=tutorial

2)Videotutorial on YT:


3)Enjoy


Important points:

1)For some users may it be difficult you can ask for assistance on FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bwapi/
2)Some A.I. dont run with Multi-ChaosLuncher so you can play them on UDP if you have another computer.
3)Here is the list with all the A.I. s and their stats or win ratio: http://sscaitournament.com/index.php?action=scores
4)Some AI uses .EXE files, in order to run those you must put = null on config file.


Im a amateur D player and here are some games on First Person View


1)




2)


Youtube Playlist vs AI: youtu.be



I really recommend to you to try it and have a real good time! alone.

And post your experiencies and show support to sscaitournament.com!

Cheers!
LetaBot
Profile Blog Joined June 2014
Netherlands557 Posts
August 21 2016 00:02 GMT
#2
These AIs aren't super yet.
If you cannot win with 100 apm, win with 100 cpm.
tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 21 2016 00:07 GMT
#3
On August 21 2016 09:02 LetaBot wrote:
These AIs aren't super yet.


They are a good start tho.

LetaBot is very good. Not a lot of people know them, well... i least i didnt know they exist!
A good starting point to people afraid to play 1v1 on iccup
HeatEXTEND
Profile Joined October 2012
Netherlands836 Posts
August 21 2016 00:16 GMT
#4
interesting
knuckle
Shinokuki
Profile Joined July 2013
United States923 Posts
August 21 2016 01:03 GMT
#5
good post. UMS like these will help new players transition easily
Life is just life
snowfruit
Profile Joined May 2016
Germany34 Posts
August 21 2016 03:51 GMT
#6
If you train only with BWAPI bots, it can at least take you from complete beginner to a level where you can compete with D rank players. It might depend on your race though, since there are only a handful of good bots.

As someone who never played a real RTS and just finished the campaign, it took me more than a hundred games to get used to the UI, hotkeys, macro, build orders, scouting and matchup knowledge.. Playing these bots is a really fun way to learn all that. The fact that you can choose which race and BO to play against, and even choose a slower speed setting if you want, makes the whole learning process much more productive.

Older players take all this stuff for granted. I would have been so embarassed if I had to play those older players while trying to get good. At some point you will have no idea what you're supposed to do, and because you can only play on fastest, you will be overwhelmed to see your minerals pile up to 3000 in seconds or see all your units die while you try to plan your next move. That doesn't sound like fun to me.. No wonder so many new players are quitting. Luckily we have BWAPI =D
ionONE
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany605 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-21 07:55:53
August 21 2016 07:30 GMT
#7
Wow this is awesome and surprisingly easy to setup, maybe post this on starcraft/reddit?
Just lost vs the zerg ai :p that lurker burrow micro haha. I tried to setup the ai 3-4 years ago but it didnt work.
Thank you for posting this. A great tool to improve and resemble a human player.

Is the ai reacting to my build, how does it work? Is it possible to see a Spire build t v z?

Edit: ahhhh this Killerbot help so strong ... loving it
JANGBI never forget
Cele
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Germany4016 Posts
August 21 2016 07:48 GMT
#8
LetaBot SSCAI 2015 Final+ 90% Winrate

No suprise for me, i played a couple of bot's already and Letabot is the strongest i've seen so far. It can still be beaten relativly easy if you know what it's doing though for a C- player.
Broodwar for life!
tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 21 2016 08:03 GMT
#9
On August 21 2016 12:51 snowfruit wrote:
If you train only with BWAPI bots, it can at least take you from complete beginner to a level where you can compete with D rank players. It might depend on your race though, since there are only a handful of good bots.

As someone who never played a real RTS and just finished the campaign, it took me more than a hundred games to get used to the UI, hotkeys, macro, build orders, scouting and matchup knowledge.. Playing these bots is a really fun way to learn all that. The fact that you can choose which race and BO to play against, and even choose a slower speed setting if you want, makes the whole learning process much more productive.

Older players take all this stuff for granted. I would have been so embarassed if I had to play those older players while trying to get good. At some point you will have no idea what you're supposed to do, and because you can only play on fastest, you will be overwhelmed to see your minerals pile up to 3000 in seconds or see all your units die while you try to plan your next move. That doesn't sound like fun to me.. No wonder so many new players are quitting. Luckily we have BWAPI =D


Yes, its a very good practice to play against this AIs, im sure a lot of D/C will lost at least one game

There is nothing to be ashame of losing to older guys tho.

I rembember the quote of Michael Jordan: " I missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.



That advice is for life in general, failure is part of life. Good luck.

tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 21 2016 08:05 GMT
#10
On August 21 2016 16:30 ionONE wrote:
Wow this is awesome and surprisingly easy to setup, maybe post this on starcraft/reddit?
Just lost vs the zerg ai :p that lurker burrow micro haha. I tried to setup the ai 3-4 years ago but it didnt work.
Thank you for posting this. A great tool to improve and resemble a human player.

Is the ai reacting to my build, how does it work? Is it possible to see a Spire build t v z?

Edit: ahhhh this Killerbot help so strong ... loving it


Im not very familiar with reddit, maybe you can help.

Lol, that Zerg ai has very good micro. I dont know exactly how they build it, but there is a tutorial on how to build one. Most AI stuck at late game...

I think the AI chooses the build at start, im not sure 100%
tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 21 2016 08:07 GMT
#11
On August 21 2016 16:48 Cele wrote:
LetaBot SSCAI 2015 Final+ 90% Winrate

No suprise for me, i played a couple of bot's already and Letabot is the strongest i've seen so far. It can still be beaten relativly easy if you know what it's doing though for a C- player.


Agreed. But i found that most of them can easily be defeaten by an early push (im T). Bunkers and tanks outside the natural expansion, but if you go for a fast expansion, that will be very fun.
HerbMon
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States469 Posts
August 21 2016 08:58 GMT
#12
This will be a great training tool. Good work.
How we will win in the period ahead.
fLyiNgDroNe
Profile Joined September 2005
Belgium4100 Posts
August 21 2016 11:28 GMT
#13
say what you want against AI but its more fun to play vs any AI than playing vs human with high ping.
Drone is a way of living
snowfruit
Profile Joined May 2016
Germany34 Posts
August 21 2016 13:09 GMT
#14
On August 21 2016 17:03 tumejoramigo wrote:
There is nothing to be ashame of losing to older guys tho.

I rembember the quote of Michael Jordan: " I missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

That advice is for life in general, failure is part of life. Good luck.


Oh I agree. You learn something new from every loss, and you've gotta enjoy that. But I'm weird when it comes to online play. Others might not get embarassed like me, but they too will feel frustrated when they get stomped. I just don't think iccup is the best place to learn if you're new. Hopefully this will be less of an issue on ShieldBattery, as there will be plenty of noobs.

On August 21 2016 16:30 ionONE wrote:
Is the ai reacting to my build, how does it work? Is it possible to see a Spire build t v z?

At least against Protoss, Killerbot (Marian Devecka) will make some Mutalisks if your corsairs are late or you skip them entirely. Also, it's possible to force more zerglings instead of drones with a 1base opening. So it does adapt, but not enough against an early rush. I don't think it will make mutalisks in tvz against a bio opening. Although to be honest, I find it almost impossible to hold off lurkers without tanks..

In general, I think most bots don't adapt at all in terms of build orders. Some of them do, like ICEbot. But they have very poor judgement as you might imagine.
FourTwentynator
Profile Joined August 2016
6 Posts
August 21 2016 16:38 GMT
#15
i can't get a protoss bot to work, im getting an error that im missing a .dll =/
tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 21 2016 18:25 GMT
#16
On August 22 2016 01:38 FourTwentynator wrote:
i can't get a protoss bot to work, im getting an error that im missing a .dll =/


There is a lot of protoss bots, try to ask on facebookgroup for support. If you are getting that error maybe the PATH to dll file is wrong, also you must use both DLLs files: binary and bwapi.dll


snowfruit
Profile Joined May 2016
Germany34 Posts
August 21 2016 18:32 GMT
#17
I'm also missing libgmp-10.dll when I try to run krasi0.
tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 21 2016 18:44 GMT
#18
On August 22 2016 03:32 snowfruit wrote:
I'm also missing libgmp-10.dll when I try to run krasi0.


I try also but couldn't run krasi0 bot :/

The easiest bots to configure that i found (and skilled also) are:


-Marian Devecka
-Iron Bot

Those bots start for me at first try, others requiere more time, there is a IRC channel where the autors connect to solve this things:

IRC: irc.freenode.net #bwapi
http://facebook.com/groups/bwapi
tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-21 18:52:12
August 21 2016 18:47 GMT
#19
On August 21 2016 22:09 snowfruit wrote:

Oh I agree. You learn something new from every loss, and you've gotta enjoy that. But I'm weird when it comes to online play. Others might not get embarassed like me, but they too will feel frustrated when they get stomped. I just don't think iccup is the best place to learn if you're new. Hopefully this will be less of an issue on ShieldBattery, as there will be plenty of noobs.



Yes is true, iccup is full of old players that fake noob acounts
joust85
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada53 Posts
August 22 2016 00:13 GMT
#20
Arg. Followed all of the steps closely, but I can't seem to open a second instance of broodwar using ChaosLauncher. It either points me to the instance of starcraft already running, or simply crashes. Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?
LetaBot
Profile Blog Joined June 2014
Netherlands557 Posts
August 22 2016 03:30 GMT
#21
On August 22 2016 09:13 joust85 wrote:
Arg. Followed all of the steps closely, but I can't seem to open a second instance of broodwar using ChaosLauncher. It either points me to the instance of starcraft already running, or simply crashes. Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?



It is mentioned in important point 2


2)Some A.I. dont run with Multi-ChaosLuncher so you can play them on UDP if you have another computer.


You could use a virtual machine or a sandbox program as well to make it work.
If you cannot win with 100 apm, win with 100 cpm.
ionONE
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany605 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-22 12:15:35
August 22 2016 12:07 GMT
#22
I have tested all bots with a winrate +80% winrate, only Marian Devecka works so far following the videotutorial.
JANGBI never forget
LetaBot
Profile Blog Joined June 2014
Netherlands557 Posts
August 22 2016 12:13 GMT
#23
On August 22 2016 21:07 ionONE wrote:
I have tested all bots with a winrate +80% winrate, only Marian Devecka works so far following the videotutorial.



Did you make sure to download the BWAPI.dll for each bot as well.

LetaBot for example runs on BWAPI 3.7.4 whereas Marian Devecka runs on BWAPI 4
If you cannot win with 100 apm, win with 100 cpm.
tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 22 2016 23:52 GMT
#24
On August 22 2016 09:13 joust85 wrote:
Arg. Followed all of the steps closely, but I can't seem to open a second instance of broodwar using ChaosLauncher. It either points me to the instance of starcraft already running, or simply crashes. Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?


Make sure that you run the program in admin mode. Some bots requiere an aditional computer and create the game on UDP in order to AI to join the game.
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
August 24 2016 02:02 GMT
#25
I've been watching the SC AI Tournament stream for the past several days, and I have to say it's fascinating. I love how everyone makes unique bots that operate in distinct and weird ways. There's the Lurker-abusing leapfrog bot. There's the 1-base Zealot bash-your-head-against-the-opponent bot. And there's the super impressive macro-intensive strategic bots that will micro its units in some uncanny-valley facsimile of a human opponent.

But I love how the best, most undefeated, highest-ELO bot is one that just builds 16 cannons in its natural and goes for 2-base Carrier. Bots just have NO ANSWER to the Carrier unit and freak out whenever they see static defenses.

When I saw this thread I decided to give it a go. I followed the instructions in the video and everything is working great. KillerBot is up and running. Thanks for making this thread! It made the process super easy.

As with any AI it's not hard to abuse. KillerBot completely collapses to cheese, including any kind of cannon rush. It doesn't even react. You can kill it completely just doing some unorthodox shit.

Things get much more interesting in normal games.

If you're good at SC/BW you will still crush the AI. They can't compete with timing attacks, counters, and good harassment. But if you're not that good at SC/BW, especially multitasking? Well, I went for a sub-par build to see how things would play out. I supply blocked myself once, and I didn't harass much. Ultimately I got my expansion up with some light defenses.

And then KillerBot wrecked my shit with superior macro and some surprisingly reasonable Muta micro. It actually circled its Mutas around my defenses to hit my mineral line, and it kept poking at my bases (including my main) until it found a weakness. The AI could even determine if it had enough Mutas to overrun my defenses, at which point it would attack my dragoons or cannons and take them out. Really impressive work for an AI. It didn't care much for storms though.

I know a lot of people have "ladder anxiety" when playing against real people, even when it's just a friendly. If you're a new player who want to improve your mechanics without judgment, or if you just want to practice your build orders, I would probably recommend this approach. It will give you a much more realistic challenge than the standard SC/BW AI, and KillerBot's 12 hatch opening is the perfect thing to macro against. And if you get bored with KillerBot, there's like 100 other bots for different races.
TL+ Member
snowfruit
Profile Joined May 2016
Germany34 Posts
August 24 2016 15:44 GMT
#26
If you leave any breathing room for Killerbot, it will have 70 drones and 3/4th of the map just 12 minutes into the game. Good luck with that. :D

The competition is really heating up. I hope the next AI tournament results will look like this:
1. Letabot
2. Killerbot
3. tscmoo

Although if Letabot and Killerbot meet in their current state, I think it will go to Killerbot, since Letabot is pretty much guaranteed to die to a Lurker opening.

By the way, the AI ladder seems to be quite erratic. Letabot 2015 had a 90% winrate just a few days ago, now it's at 55%. Might wanna change the system.
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
August 24 2016 18:20 GMT
#27
LetaBot is impressive. Various openings and really good micro.

Wonder if the bots will ever be able to deal with Lurkers properly. There's a good Lurker push bot that some times shows up in http://www.hitbox.tv/sscaitournament and it just kills.
TL+ Member
LetaBot
Profile Blog Joined June 2014
Netherlands557 Posts
August 24 2016 20:42 GMT
#28
On August 25 2016 00:44 snowfruit wrote:
If you leave any breathing room for Killerbot, it will have 70 drones and 3/4th of the map just 12 minutes into the game. Good luck with that. :D

The competition is really heating up. I hope the next AI tournament results will look like this:
1. Letabot
2. Killerbot
3. tscmoo

Although if Letabot and Killerbot meet in their current state, I think it will go to Killerbot, since Letabot is pretty much guaranteed to die to a Lurker opening.

By the way, the AI ladder seems to be quite erratic. Letabot 2015 had a 90% winrate just a few days ago, now it's at 55%. Might wanna change the system.



That is the LetaBot submitted to the SSCAI 2015. I keep it around to collect data for my thesis. The LetaBot version I send to the CIG 2016 should be more consistent. It is currently at 85% and can be fount in the top 5.

I doubt that killerbot will be in the Top 3 in the SSCAI 2016. The latest version of my bot (not submitted) should be able to defeat it, and other bots also caught on to its strategy.

It will most likely be between the following Terran bots:
- Iron Bot
- Tscmoo
- LetaBot
- Krasi0

On August 25 2016 03:20 Aylear wrote:
LetaBot is impressive. Various openings and really good micro.

Wonder if the bots will ever be able to deal with Lurkers properly. There's a good Lurker push bot that some times shows up in http://www.hitbox.tv/sscaitournament and it just kills.



It will be able to deal with lurkers once the MCTS is fully implemented. Then it will also have the concept of tank lines.

I haven't fully added the text mined build orders yet. So the openings will be more varied soon.
If you cannot win with 100 apm, win with 100 cpm.
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-24 21:24:50
August 24 2016 21:23 GMT
#29
On August 25 2016 05:42 LetaBot wrote:
It will most likely be between the following Terran bots:
- Iron Bot
- Tscmoo
- LetaBot
- Krasi0

Tscmoo is definitely looking really good. Good luck in the tournament man. =)


On August 25 2016 05:42 LetaBot wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 25 2016 03:20 Aylear wrote:
LetaBot is impressive. Various openings and really good micro.

Wonder if the bots will ever be able to deal with Lurkers properly. There's a good Lurker push bot that some times shows up in http://www.hitbox.tv/sscaitournament and it just kills.



It will be able to deal with lurkers once the MCTS is fully implemented. Then it will also have the concept of tank lines.

I haven't fully added the text mined build orders yet. So the openings will be more varied soon.

That's awesome! LetaBot is my favorite bot to watch right now. I'm looking forward to seeing the updated version.

Question: How did you deal with XIMP? Did you have to do anything special for it or did LetaBot's normal behavior counter the cannon wall-in? Seems like most bots are programmed to be scared of static defenses so XIMP just rolled people for a while.

edit: wording
TL+ Member
LetaBot
Profile Blog Joined June 2014
Netherlands557 Posts
August 24 2016 23:04 GMT
#30
On August 25 2016 06:23 Aylear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 25 2016 05:42 LetaBot wrote:
It will most likely be between the following Terran bots:
- Iron Bot
- Tscmoo
- LetaBot
- Krasi0

Tscmoo is definitely looking really good. Good luck in the tournament man. =)


Show nested quote +
On August 25 2016 05:42 LetaBot wrote:
On August 25 2016 03:20 Aylear wrote:
LetaBot is impressive. Various openings and really good micro.

Wonder if the bots will ever be able to deal with Lurkers properly. There's a good Lurker push bot that some times shows up in http://www.hitbox.tv/sscaitournament and it just kills.



It will be able to deal with lurkers once the MCTS is fully implemented. Then it will also have the concept of tank lines.

I haven't fully added the text mined build orders yet. So the openings will be more varied soon.

That's awesome! LetaBot is my favorite bot to watch right now. I'm looking forward to seeing the updated version.

Question: How did you deal with XIMP? Did you have to do anything special for it or did LetaBot's normal behavior counter the cannon wall-in? Seems like most bots are programmed to be scared of static defenses so XIMP just rolled people for a while.

edit: wording



Just perform an early push whenever you see an early photon cannon.
If you cannot win with 100 apm, win with 100 cpm.
tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 25 2016 17:46 GMT
#31
On August 24 2016 11:02 Aylear wrote:
I've been watching the SC AI Tournament stream for the past several days, and I have to say it's fascinating. I love how everyone makes unique bots that operate in distinct and weird ways. There's the Lurker-abusing leapfrog bot. There's the 1-base Zealot bash-your-head-against-the-opponent bot. And there's the super impressive macro-intensive strategic bots that will micro its units in some uncanny-valley facsimile of a human opponent.

But I love how the best, most undefeated, highest-ELO bot is one that just builds 16 cannons in its natural and goes for 2-base Carrier. Bots just have NO ANSWER to the Carrier unit and freak out whenever they see static defenses.

When I saw this thread I decided to give it a go. I followed the instructions in the video and everything is working great. KillerBot is up and running. Thanks for making this thread! It made the process super easy.

As with any AI it's not hard to abuse. KillerBot completely collapses to cheese, including any kind of cannon rush. It doesn't even react. You can kill it completely just doing some unorthodox shit.

Things get much more interesting in normal games.

If you're good at SC/BW you will still crush the AI. They can't compete with timing attacks, counters, and good harassment. But if you're not that good at SC/BW, especially multitasking? Well, I went for a sub-par build to see how things would play out. I supply blocked myself once, and I didn't harass much. Ultimately I got my expansion up with some light defenses.

And then KillerBot wrecked my shit with superior macro and some surprisingly reasonable Muta micro. It actually circled its Mutas around my defenses to hit my mineral line, and it kept poking at my bases (including my main) until it found a weakness. The AI could even determine if it had enough Mutas to overrun my defenses, at which point it would attack my dragoons or cannons and take them out. Really impressive work for an AI. It didn't care much for storms though.

I know a lot of people have "ladder anxiety" when playing against real people, even when it's just a friendly. If you're a new player who want to improve your mechanics without judgment, or if you just want to practice your build orders, I would probably recommend this approach. It will give you a much more realistic challenge than the standard SC/BW AI, and KillerBot's 12 hatch opening is the perfect thing to macro against. And if you get bored with KillerBot, there's like 100 other bots for different races.


Im glad you liked the thread. Ladder Anxiety is real!

Yes, if you let KillerBot grow (By not attacking ) has a solid macro, if you play a lot vs this A.I. will be very useful for developing SC macro skills.


What is the bot with the carrier build?
tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 25 2016 17:48 GMT
#32
On August 25 2016 00:44 snowfruit wrote:
If you leave any breathing room for Killerbot, it will have 70 drones and 3/4th of the map just 12 minutes into the game. Good luck with that. :D

The competition is really heating up. I hope the next AI tournament results will look like this:
1. Letabot
2. Killerbot
3. tscmoo

Although if Letabot and Killerbot meet in their current state, I think it will go to Killerbot, since Letabot is pretty much guaranteed to die to a Lurker opening.

By the way, the AI ladder seems to be quite erratic. Letabot 2015 had a 90% winrate just a few days ago, now it's at 55%. Might wanna change the system.


Yes, KillerBot has amazing macro. Did you lose some games to A.I.?
snowfruit
Profile Joined May 2016
Germany34 Posts
August 25 2016 20:02 GMT
#33
On August 26 2016 02:46 tumejoramigo wrote:
What is the bot with the carrier build?

It's Tomas Vajda / Ximp

On August 25 2016 05:42 LetaBot wrote:
I doubt that killerbot will be in the Top 3 in the SSCAI 2016. The latest version of my bot (not submitted) should be able to defeat it, and other bots also caught on to its strategy.

It will most likely be between the following Terran bots:
- Iron Bot
- Tscmoo
- LetaBot
- Krasi0

Interesting. But after seeing krasi0 vs Killerbot in nepetas recent cast, I have to agree. I'm thinking too much in terms of AI vs human.

On August 26 2016 02:48 tumejoramigo wrote:
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On August 25 2016 00:44 snowfruit wrote:
If you leave any breathing room for Killerbot, it will have 70 drones and 3/4th of the map just 12 minutes into the game. Good luck with that. :D

The competition is really heating up. I hope the next AI tournament results will look like this:
1. Letabot
2. Killerbot
3. tscmoo

Although if Letabot and Killerbot meet in their current state, I think it will go to Killerbot, since Letabot is pretty much guaranteed to die to a Lurker opening.

By the way, the AI ladder seems to be quite erratic. Letabot 2015 had a 90% winrate just a few days ago, now it's at 55%. Might wanna change the system.


Yes, KillerBot has amazing macro. Did you lose some games to A.I.?

I lost a ton against AI. Though I won my first ladder game after that. :D

I decided to upload an FPV as well:
ClysmiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2192 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-26 03:43:14
August 26 2016 03:40 GMT
#34
Just stopping by to say hi to a fellow Andrew Smith.

Also, did you write this AI? I'd be interested to see the scripts.
tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 26 2016 04:51 GMT
#35
On August 26 2016 05:02 snowfruit wrote:
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On August 26 2016 02:46 tumejoramigo wrote:
What is the bot with the carrier build?

It's Tomas Vajda / Ximp

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On August 25 2016 05:42 LetaBot wrote:
I doubt that killerbot will be in the Top 3 in the SSCAI 2016. The latest version of my bot (not submitted) should be able to defeat it, and other bots also caught on to its strategy.

It will most likely be between the following Terran bots:
- Iron Bot
- Tscmoo
- LetaBot
- Krasi0

Interesting. But after seeing krasi0 vs Killerbot in nepetas recent cast, I have to agree. I'm thinking too much in terms of AI vs human.

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On August 26 2016 02:48 tumejoramigo wrote:
On August 25 2016 00:44 snowfruit wrote:
If you leave any breathing room for Killerbot, it will have 70 drones and 3/4th of the map just 12 minutes into the game. Good luck with that. :D

The competition is really heating up. I hope the next AI tournament results will look like this:
1. Letabot
2. Killerbot
3. tscmoo

Although if Letabot and Killerbot meet in their current state, I think it will go to Killerbot, since Letabot is pretty much guaranteed to die to a Lurker opening.

By the way, the AI ladder seems to be quite erratic. Letabot 2015 had a 90% winrate just a few days ago, now it's at 55%. Might wanna change the system.


Yes, KillerBot has amazing macro. Did you lose some games to A.I.?

I lost a ton against AI. Though I won my first ladder game after that. :D

I decided to upload an FPV as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMSLO0eJ5Bg


I will try to play against Tomas Vajda

Almost 200 apm and you lost, A.I. beat me too!

In 100 years Artificial Intelligence will take over the world!

The sad part is when BroodWar Custom A.I. will reach A/B level of play probably we will become too old to play against them!


tumejoramigo
Profile Joined August 2016
33 Posts
August 26 2016 04:53 GMT
#36
On August 26 2016 12:40 ClysmiC wrote:
Just stopping by to say hi to a fellow Andrew Smith.

Also, did you write this AI? I'd be interested to see the scripts.


In their Facebook Group they discuss code and help to build yours, ask there
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
August 27 2016 02:04 GMT
#37
For those of you who want to practice build orders and macro, I found three solid bots (1 for each race) that work on the current version of BWAPI by just downloading their .dlls from this page:
  • Iron bot [T]
  • KillerBot [Z] (Marian Devecka's, "Savage Zerg bot")
  • Flash [P]
Krasi0, LetaBot (any version), and tscmoo need other versions or extra stuff, but those three function fine when following the video tutorial in the OP.

Unorthodox stuff still breaks them (gas steal Flash and see what happens) but they all provide a challenge if you let them do their thing. It's been fun exploring the AI world, I'm curious to see what they all can do.
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LetaBot
Profile Blog Joined June 2014
Netherlands557 Posts
August 27 2016 02:31 GMT
#38
On August 27 2016 11:04 Aylear wrote:
For those of you who want to practice build orders and macro, I found three solid bots (1 for each race) that work on the current version of BWAPI by just downloading their .dlls from this page:
  • Iron bot [T]
  • KillerBot [Z] (Marian Devecka's, "Savage Zerg bot")
  • Flash [P]
Krasi0, LetaBot (any version), and tscmoo need other versions or extra stuff, but those three function fine when following the video tutorial in the OP.

Unorthodox stuff still breaks them (gas steal Flash and see what happens) but they all provide a challenge if you let them do their thing. It's been fun exploring the AI world, I'm curious to see what they all can do.


For my bot you need to download the BWAPI.dll from the site and replace the BWAPI.dll from the chaoslaucher folder with the BWAPI.dll you download.
If you cannot win with 100 apm, win with 100 cpm.
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-08-27 02:46:53
August 27 2016 02:35 GMT
#39
Huh, I tried that. LetaBot (CIG 2016) didn't move the SCVs at all so I figured it was broken.

Edit: Will do some testing, will report back.

Edit 2: Alright, so while using BWAPI 4.1.2 Injector [RELEASE], replacing the BWAPI.dll in /StarCraft/bwapi-data/BWAPI.dll with the one provided for LetaBot, and pointing the bwapi.ini to LetaBot.dll, Chaoslauncher (running in administrator mode) does not ever open a second instance of SC/BW. It does the usual "Mainthread already running" message but then does not open a new window, whereas it works with every other AI setup. I think this is the problem I ran into earlier as well. The "didn't move SCVs" may have been another Terran bot.

Edit 3: Out of curiosity, I started a 1v1 vs computer game in the single instance of SC/BW running LetaBot. It froze the window for a good minute, then it suddenly activated and crushed the computer in 16x speed. Still cannot open a second instance of Brood War.
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LetaBot
Profile Blog Joined June 2014
Netherlands557 Posts
August 27 2016 13:16 GMT
#40
On August 27 2016 11:35 Aylear wrote:
Huh, I tried that. LetaBot (CIG 2016) didn't move the SCVs at all so I figured it was broken.

Edit: Will do some testing, will report back.

Edit 2: Alright, so while using BWAPI 4.1.2 Injector [RELEASE], replacing the BWAPI.dll in /StarCraft/bwapi-data/BWAPI.dll with the one provided for LetaBot, and pointing the bwapi.ini to LetaBot.dll, Chaoslauncher (running in administrator mode) does not ever open a second instance of SC/BW. It does the usual "Mainthread already running" message but then does not open a new window, whereas it works with every other AI setup. I think this is the problem I ran into earlier as well. The "didn't move SCVs" may have been another Terran bot.

Edit 3: Out of curiosity, I started a 1v1 vs computer game in the single instance of SC/BW running LetaBot. It froze the window for a good minute, then it suddenly activated and crushed the computer in 16x speed. Still cannot open a second instance of Brood War.



You should download the BWAPI 3.7.4 . That one has the .bat file you need to generate a multi instance hack for BWAPI 3.7.4 , it also has a chaoslaucher which is set up correctly for BWAPI 3.7.4
If you cannot win with 100 apm, win with 100 cpm.
nepeta
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
1872 Posts
August 29 2016 08:34 GMT
#41
Good to see the interest in Broodwar AI grow! The top bots really are an improvement these last couple of years, real fun to play. With the growing interest of humans to play these AIs, the coders are improving even further, so I say gg

At the moment LetaBot is really pushing things with a scientific approach that translates into a really nice adversary, Blizz should hire this man. krasi0 and Iron are doing good work too, but unfortunately they don't have much time. Persistent updates and long-time involvement, you can't beat it.

Keep those games vs AIs coming and if you like you can send me the replays, I always like to cast man vs machine matches!
Broodwar AI :) http://sscaitournament.com http://www.starcraftai.com/wiki/Main_Page
RogerThat
Profile Joined August 2016
11 Posts
September 05 2016 16:19 GMT
#42
nice
danielias21
Profile Joined May 2015
39 Posts
April 21 2017 02:07 GMT
#43
BWAPI will be compatible with 1.18?
Broodwar4lyf
Profile Blog Joined February 2016
304 Posts
April 21 2017 02:41 GMT
#44
they seriously need to make playing with bots easier. all i could play using that latest bwapi was killerbot and ironbot
https://cinesnipe.com
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
April 21 2017 02:44 GMT
#45
I forgot about this thread! I should check out the new bots and updates.

Does anyone know if we'll ever be able to play vs custom AI in a singleplayer/custom game? Right now it's exclusive to multi-instance multiplayer games so you can't save/load for testing purposes, and it's a bit of a hassle to set up.
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danielias21
Profile Joined May 2015
39 Posts
April 21 2017 05:15 GMT
#46
i hope blizzard will improve AI by using the methods that BWAPI use.
Moataz
Profile Joined January 2018
Egypt267 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-28 04:26:14
January 28 2018 04:25 GMT
#47
On April 21 2017 11:44 Aylear wrote:
I forgot about this thread! I should check out the new bots and updates.

Does anyone know if we'll ever be able to play vs custom AI in a singleplayer/custom game? Right now it's exclusive to multi-instance multiplayer games so you can't save/load for testing purposes, and it's a bit of a hassle to set up.


You can create/join, save/load multiplayer games using Loacl PC mode, instead of UDP (either another PC or VM), but mainly you need 2 copy Starcraft folder somewhere else, because in multiplayer games (Local PC/UDP) there should be 2 versions of the .mlx (save-file) in maps\save\ in each of the players' folders, so you can create/join the saved game later by browsing to the .mlx file without getting "The game creator closed all available slots!".

You also need to direct Chaos to the other SC folder from settings, before running the other instance of Starcraft.exe, to also save the game in its own path.

Other things can go wrong during the process, but those 2 are the main.

The core idea is to have 2 processes of Starcraft.exe running from different folders, you can check that by Task Manager or Process Explorer.
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Moataz
Profile Joined January 2018
Egypt267 Posts
March 17 2018 15:14 GMT
#48
A very uncomplicated helpful tutorial here.
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ahmadahmad
Profile Joined July 2024
1 Post
July 31 2024 07:48 GMT
#49
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Quatari
Profile Joined February 2010
Australia48 Posts
July 31 2024 11:34 GMT
#50
Probably the simplest way to set things up & play 1v1 against a wide range of bots these days is to use SCHNAIL (https://schnail.com), which also supports custom hotkeys. It has a leaderboard of each bot's rating against humans.
ThunderJunk
Profile Joined December 2015
United States733 Posts
July 31 2024 21:55 GMT
#51
This is especially good for players who don't have excellent internet. This is why lan parties are so important. Finding a similar-skill practice partner who hangs out in the same room as you while you guys heighten each others' skill is, of course, the highest tier of practice. But barring that, with some clever lifestyle choices, one can get pretty gud at Broodwar playing AIs like these. I see the top guys practicing against specific timings and playsytyles, which is apparently offered with this app.

When Flash came back from the military, his close friend and absolute ladder fiend, Motive was able to give him the highest-quality practice against gargantuan stormtoss - and Flash got really good at that lategame scenario. It's ridiculous that P has to go up to 9 bases to trade fairly against 5 base terran by getting pushed back into a 7 / 7 split and sucking up the opponents resources. Like, Toss literally has to macro gateways across 3 mains while constantly pressuring with zealot stormdrops on a partially stable 150ish supply Terran until the Terran mines out of his stolen future 6th and 7th bases.
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