Major changes

• Overhaul tutorial and campaign experience.
  • Overall, scripting is now covered much earlier.
  • The non-scripting missions were revamped.
  • Many frustrations have been addressed, e.g. large Arenas were made smaller, instructions should be clearer, and there should be better help when you fail.
  • In general, the tutorial should be much faster now.
  • When you try to leave a campaign mission by clicking the button at the bottom, you'll now see a prompt asking if you're sure you want to leave. Many users lost progress because they had accidentally clicked that button.
• Adam, the creator of Bot Land (and person writing these messages to you!), will now show up in the Streams tab for his development streams of Bot Land. You can watch him there on most weekdays!

Minor changes

• The Steam version on Mac should no longer warn you about incompatibility on launch.
• Prevented pressing the browser's back button while in the tutorial or campaign.
• When in Blueprint Management Mode (via the pencil icon in the blueprint selector), pressing escape or deleting your blueprints will now take you out of that mode.
• If you play Bot Land from a mobile device, the "reset replay speed" setting will be checked by default.
• Colored account-deletion buttons red to make them more obviously destructive.
• Shield now shows its range in the tooltip.
• Fixed a bug in Campaign Mode where bots sometimes wouldn't be placed where they were originally after retrying. This was caused by having new blueprints.

[ 2020-01-08 03:47:41 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.