Racine_ (Battlenet USeast), a fog of war worshiper, has tinkered around with ScAiEdit III made by Camelot Systems. There are no tutorials for ScAiedit III but you can find a good tutorial about ScAiedit II which is the previous verison at: http://underworld.fortunecity.com/retro/914/tutorial.htm. With this program you can change the Artificial Intelligence Scripts in starcraft but only for the 1.07 verison. Future patches did not allow changes in the AI - at least until someone figures how to modify the AI scripts on 1.10.
The AI script contains the build orders and the decision making code that the computer uses to try and win against humans. Racine's has made a new Ai script for each race. You can play against each race on the same map (very nice balaced pro map). Racine himself is a very good Broodwar player who would give any programer a decent game; his other ability just happens to be that he actually studies artificial intelligence academically.
I want to warn you that if you are a newbie you will not be able to win against his new AI. If you are a decent player (a 2000 game melee non money map player) you will have difficulty beating the comp if you do not play aggresively. If you turtle, you are dead - no matter who you are. If you happen to be boxer try a 1v2 and you will lose: gg, no rm, thx! This new Ai is played on UMS setting on a map he provides. He has only one trigger at the start to chose the race or races you will play against - the rest is just hard core superior AI.
The zip files contains the instructions on how to set it up and play the comp. Its easy. The readme file is short and although it makes things look more complicated than they are I tried it myself and it is simple.
Of note: if you do not know how to view 1.09 reps the readme file will teach you how to.
Anyways have fun, Racine_ wrote about 3000 lines new Ai script that really rock for all those comp bashers. By the way... if you happen to be one of those comp stompers and have difficulties agaisnt humans at 1v1, after you practice with this new AI comp and beat it, you will beat 95% of all battle.net.
Of note all the anti-computer tricks work so if you want a challenge do not do them (like making all the comp workers follow you witha worker). The computer has # new AI scripts, one for each race so the strenghs of the different match ups will vary:
Terran :
vs T : Medium
vs Z : Weak ( M&M no control )
vs P : STRONG
Zerg :
vs T : Weak (Because it can not build sunkens correctly at expansion)
vs Z : STRONG
vs P : Medium
Protoss :
vs T : STRONG
vs Z : Medium-Strong
vs P : STRONG
Try Zerg v Zerg or Toss v Toss and you will wet your pants. Funny thing is that racine is a Terran player and he refers that the terran AI is the worst to work with and the one he tried the hardest to make stronger.
Another fog of war worshiper,
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This newspost is written by Ragnar "Entropy" Birko himself. Thanks to him for working on this AI script. Even thanks to Racine_ maker of the script!
Links
http://www.entropyzero.org - You can Find Racine's new AI file here
http://www.entropyzero.org - Official site
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