Tencent's AI plays StarCraft II, and wins over 90 percent of the time

Re:Tencent's AI plays StarCraft II, and wins over 90 percent... by Nasrudith on Friday September 21, 2018 @12:55PM (#18041027)

Also a factor is that the game is balanced for human inputs. As many crazy micro trick videoes demonstrate by doing things like optimal gapping zerglings against siege tanks.

If players could do that reliably we would start seeing major unit changes. It already happened to the original void rays who would do things like attack themselves to maintain charge to keep massed annihilation capability.

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Re:Tencent's AI plays StarCraft II, and wins over 90 percent... by mattnewton on Friday September 21, 2018 @01:07PM (#18041091)

Players can’t do that mostly because it would be impossible to correctly determine which zergling was targeted, this bot has access to perfect game state information from the sc2 editor api and it looks like it is using it to me.

However, a bot could use just the same information a player could theoretically have access to but humans can’t pay attention to it all at once- that would be a real advantage. This one is basically cheating extra information though.

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