Major changes:

• Drastically improve performance on the Battle Log page.
• Fix bug on mobile where hardware tooltips wouldn't show up.
• Moving bots or chips is now considered to be a change when it comes to editing your defense. That means that if you simply move a bot and try to leave your defense, it will prompt you to save the changes.
• Increase code execution timeouts by 50%. This should hopefully fix issues some players have reported where their bots had totally stopped moving.
• Show an entry in the battle log instructing you to make a defense even when you have attack replays. Previously, this entry would only show when you didn't have a defense but ALSO didn't have any attack replays.

Minor changes:

• Fix a bug where you could join a public-attack link from a new account that still had to complete the tutorial. Now, the tutorial takes priority.
• Allow pressing Enter to rename a script on mobile.
• Clarify Cloaking in documentation.
• Add tooltip to mobile "Test Mode" button to indicate what the button does.
• Fix bug where dragging hardware on desktop and then pressing the "back" button on your browser (or mouse or keyboard) would leave the dragged element on the screen forever.
• Fix width of changelog so that it doesn't fill the screen.

[ 2019-10-16 20:40:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Do you like strategy games? Are you a regular human who still hasn't figured out how to move at the speed of light? THEN OH BOY IS BOT LAND THE GAME FOR YOU!

In Bot Land, all of your bots follow scripts (so you can snap your controller in half for all we care). You'll tell your bots how to perform actions ahead of time, that way they don't need a lousy human to control them mid-battle. This allows your bots to fight even while you're offline; they'll protect your CPU against other players' attacks.

Now, let's be honest... you're a great gamer—that's why you're reading this description—but even you might still lose a match or two. That's where replays come in handy. Maybe your opponent cloaked, bypassed your bots, and destroyed your CPU while your own bots were busy calculating prime numbers with a billion digits. You can use that information to improve for next time.

Then, after improving your defense, you can attack other players' CPUs in the same way. Maybe you've got a killer strategy involving LANDMINES or TELEPORTATION or OTHER BOLDED WORDS, the likes of which no one has ever seen before. You finally find the perfect chump on which to unleash this onslaught. They've got measly bots with artillery and shields, so you teleport behind them, misquote a meme, and punch them in their shiny metal backs. You're the top dog-bot now.

And when you win...? Oh, don't even get us started. You'll earn Botcoin, which, through a myriad of steps, roughly translates to fame and fortune in real life (the steps are really just a sense of satisfaction and a profound feeling of "the courage was within me the entire time!"; Botcoin isn't a cryptocurrency). You'll buy new items, make new strategies, teach a wasp bot how to love, ponder whether we're all just living in a simulation, and then look up how to remove wasp-bot stingers from your arm. It's great fun.