Major changes:

• Remove rounds from Bot Land. Previously, there were three rounds per match, so you would have the opportunity to learn how the opponent's bots behaved and then change your strategy between rounds. Now, there is a single round per match, and you can retry the battle once if you lose. The retried battle will match the ranking type of your first battle, so if you lost a ranked battle, the second attempt will also be ranked. The attacker will get slightly more bots than they got per round before, but not as many as they used to get in the overall match. Note that the balance numbers will likely have to change after testing this out for a bit. Also, for an overly verbose explanation behind this change, check this out.
• If you lose a public-attack match, a "retry" button will appear.

Minor changes:

• Fix bug where an error would appear if the guest-feedback dialog spawned while in Campaign Mode.
• Improve tooltips
  • Increase text size of the tooltip telling you that you can increase the replay speed.
  • Clarify that revenge matches are always unranked.

[ 2019-12-06 18:31:01 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.