Since November 2014 the Queller AI has been providing a smarter and more humanlike opponent for thousands of Planetary Annihilation players. Though you might say it really dates back to 1999 when my first Queller AI was released for Total Annihilation.
As of version 4.0, Queller has included support for the Legion Expansion, a completely new faction for Planetary Annihilation: TITANS that slots in seamlessly alongside the existing faction.
But that isn't all. Working along the Legion Expansion team gave me access to some of the game's top players as playtesters. Watching them take on Queller has taught me a lot of valuable lessons and I've fed that into improving its game further, ensuring it's using the latest tricks from the meta.
4.0.2 - 2016/05/14
This latest release is based on the latest Legion Expansion 0.11.0 playtests and brings some much needed improvements to Queller's Legion game, further differentiating it from its MLA play.
- Uber no longer uses the Nova
- Uber will use more Meteors
- Uber will only use Legion T2 bombers and gunships when it has air dominance
- Increased chance of Uber Legion teching to T2 bots
- Uber produces Panzers earlier in response to air and orbital threats
- Uber stops producing Havocs once advanced units hit the field
- No longer keeps the Thor at range
4.0.1 - 2016/04/29
Following the release of the Planetary Annihilation PTE a couple of errors in the way Queller displayed its personalities was discovered. These were fixed here. Also players were advised to uninstall the AI Compatibility Mod Patch Client (different from the AI Compatibility Mod Patch)
- Uber builds OmniSilos a little further away from its buildings
- mikeyh fixed error in way personalities were passed between hosts which also makes it compatible with PA's stable release
- mikeyh removed dependency on AI Compatibility Mod Patch Client
4.0.0 - 2016/04/25
This was the big one. The culmination of months of work, it included complete support for the Legion Expansion, as well as drastically improving Queller's MLA game.
- Added support for the Legion Expansion
- Big thanks to Alpha2546 and Graushwein for their help
- Sub-Personality changes:
- Removed Uber Eco
- Uber Dox renamed Uber Rush
- Added Uber Land: ignores the water completely
- Added Uber Naval: gets in the water as fast as it can
- Added Uber Tank: no bots used
- Added Uber Aggressive: it's Uber but a little more rash
- Uber Air is now Uber but without the air limits
- Uber Turtle is now Uber Cautious: a more conservative and tech happy Uber
- Smarting spacing between defences for Uber
- Uber looks to have a greater air presence before bringing out bombers and gunships
- No more idle scouts in base
- Implemented a nasty hack to work around the bomber_attack neural net being broken so that bombers and gunships will leave the base
- Uber doesn't use scouts for artillery vision any more
- Check if fighters are needed somewhere before attaching them to bombers
- No longer sacrifices air defence for mine vision in its platoons
- Uber doesn't wait for you to go orbital before building Orbital Factories
- Errors in T1 bot and T2 vehicle factory placement fixed
- Resolved issue which prevented the building of vehicle factories when alone
- Uber switches to Kaijus if getting overwhelmed by subs
- Uber properly defends its orbital lasers with fighters like it's supposed to
- Uber uses Sparks to fight tanks not bots
- Uber is better at hording its air force
- Uber only goes advanced bots for torpedoes or to counter orbital or when bot rushed
- Uber favours the Ares and Zeus over the Atlas
- Uber won't build the Zeus when it doesn't have a strong lead in the air
- Uber more cautious about rushing a nuke when it has a planetary threat to deal with but throws more resources at building it
- Properly checks air factory ratios
- Fixed bug preventing Platinum properly building Hummingbirds
- Fix for Zeus stopping Gold reinforcing its Kestrels
- Gold is more active with its fighters
- Bronze and Silver don't clump their anti-nukes together
- Bronze and Silver send Support Commanders through teleporters
- Bronze and Silver transport Support Commanders by Astraeus
- Advanced fabbers will build Pelters at Gold or higher
- Bronze and Silver no longer position Holkins specifically to target Commanders
- Silver no longer smashes with its primary eco planet
- Some minor performance improvements
- Silver and Platinum are a little rasher with their armies, while Bronze is more conservative
- Higher levels try to be smarter about not building MEXs near threats
- Titans excluded from standard platoons as pathfinding does not play nice and it could stop the AI attacking
- Won't build orbital lasers if no surface threats remain in the system
- Uber now less predictable in the late game especially on higher resource bonuses
- Fixed a bug where Titans never left the base
- Uber gives higher priority to Commander snipes with Holkins
- Updated to work with the latest Planetary Annihilation release
- Thanks to mikeyh and PRoeleert for their help with this
- Uber less likely to build advanced defences to allow greater focus on factories and super weapons
- Uber commits more fabbers to Titan builds if it can
- Uber updated for change in radar ranges
- Uber more aggressive about using Pelters against Commanders
- Uber tries to better protect itself against air snipes
- Bronze now better recognises existence of Drifter
- Bronze and Silver no longer build naval factories at the same time as other factories
- Bronze never area builds
- Cap on the number of Pelters Silver can build per base
- Bronze is more likely to try for a Ragnarok
- Bronze now correctly checks Advanced Air Fabber ratio
- Bronze no longer produces T1 units from T2 factories
- Bronze will include Drifters in standard armies
- Limit building of Orbital Factories by Gold and Platinum
- Fix unnecessary travel between Orbital Factory builds
- Bronze builds a broader range of units in the Unit Cannon
- Uber Tech now properly checks requirements of an Advanced Vehicle Factory
- Uber now properly checks requirements of an Advanced Bot Factory in all situations
- Uber T2 bot usage properly regulated according to whether it's a land, naval or lava map
- More specialised usage of single laser turrets for base defence
- Uber no longer builds Booms, Locusts or Grenadiers
- Uber uses less GIL-Es when it uses them at all
