Instead of the spacing being completely difficulty dependent (which would cause them not to rubberband to 1st place if they were any difficulty lower than 9), it's based on their difficulty & overall race standings & a little bit of port priority instead. This enables you to see a pesudo "rival" even when every bot is the same difficulty.
- Bots can roll & use eggboxes now
- Bots can be "tricked" by eggboxes and treat them like normal items, depending on their difficulty and how many normal items are around them.
- If exploding and in 1st place, they'll slow down to try and find someone to explode next to.
- Item usage is difficulty dependent, and thus far more aggressive for the rivals
Thing type 2004, adds a map-defined point for bots to gravitate towards or away from.
Angle: Changes radius, defaults to a 32 radius (or 64x64 area) without.
Ambush: When off, makes bots steer towards. When on, makes bots steer away.
Parameter: Changes how much the bot steers away/towards this point. If 0, defaults to 2.
(also, made bots ignore strong offroad if they could take a shortcut)
Rather than trying to steer away from walls (and failing), just pull the predicted point back and make the radius stricter.
Not an ideal solution compared to what the other method was trying to go for, but this has a better success rate -- and even in cases where false positives come up (like many instances Ezo pointed out), they will no longer be incapacitated by it.
- Massive improvements to object steering -- they do it more often and more strongly
- Steering towards hurtable players is now weighted on acceleration, and steering away from painful players is weighted on handling
- Bots now can get & use Thunder Shield
- Bots now know how to detontate Eggman Item explosions early
- Top speed gets a buff to make up for them losing lots of speed without drifting, weighted more heavily towards low acceleration characters
- Steer against objects more often
- Reduce steering toward rings
- Only steer towards items/rings in front of them
- Be slightly less trigger happy with using rings/shoes while boosting
Bots will steer *towards* rings, items, ring-stingable players, and players with lower weight. They will steer *away* from projectiles, traps, players using damaging items (such as invincibility), players with shields, and players with higher weight.
- Make ring usage smarter
- Ring usage threshold varies between characters (Tails will be more willing to dump rings, Metal will hold onto them)
- Decrease ring use threshold when they have a speed boost (tethering)
- Decrease ring use threshold when slowed down more than usual
- Properly implement Triple Sneaker & Rocket Sneaker usage
- Use smallest radius of all waypoints being predicted, to improve precision
- Bots never use prev waypoints
- Use sneaker if held for too long without a proper use
- Use sneaker if losing too much speed
- Use sneaker if you have another boost (tether, boosters)
- Add triple sneaker & rocket sneaker support
- Don't go towards shortcut waypoints without a shortcut item
- Bots get naturally better handling
