Major changes

• Blueprints can now be reordered or deleted directly from the Arena view! Use the pencil icon at the top of the blueprint selector.
• Competitive-season improvements
  • Added proper UI for viewing statistics. When you click the ranking flags on the sides of the Battle Log page, you'll be brought to the leaderboard as usual, but now there are two more tabs: "Current season" and "Last season". These show reward information, your lowest/highest attained leagues, and the season's start and end times.
  • If you participate in a season by completing all of the placement matches and then log in during the next season, you'll now be told that a new season has started (and you're given the option to go directly to your statistics!). Previously, there was a tremendously vague dialog that would pop up.
• The campaign and tutorial now have fast-forward and pause capabilities.
• In-game documentation improvements
  • Fixed a bug where you couldn't add Blockly examples in a specific case.
  • Search results are now highlighted in yellow.
  • Fixed a bug where you couldn't search for special characters.

Minor changes

• Allow playing already-completed missions even if a new prerequisite is added before them.
• Guests can now edit their defenses, but they can't save the result until they've converted to a full account (this is as opposed to having to convert to even edit the defense).

[ 2019-12-27 23:40:44 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.