#BotBash

[battlebots-daily]

Kram

[massadopted]

How to use BotBasher for a Sybil-resistant Galxe campaign

When it comes to web3, growth hacking, and reward-based loyalty campaigns are considered go-to strategies to gain followers and build a vibrant community around your project. And platforms like Galxe, Zealy, and Link3 are among the top sources that many projects use for membership campaigns, holding giveaways, and distributing NFTs. But as we ran campaigns on these platforms, there’s one thing…

[dpargyle]

The latest botbash ~ some sorta sapphic paperback romp that never was…

Footnotes: Images generated in collaboration with the Midjourney AI engine (via promptoMANIA’s Prompt Builder) & heavily edited within Affinity Photo, beFunky Photo Editor, PowerPoint, & Sketchbook Pro.

ID: A paperback cover. All crinkled, wrinkled, & falling to pieces in places. It’s night - a creepy house with trees, possibly dripping blood, covers the bottom foreground of the composition. Above this, a green eyed woman with brilliant curly red hair looks off hungrily into the darkness. Beside her, a sultry blonde looks down ~ eyes closed. A full blood moon covers them both ~ almost like a blasphemous halo. The author name is ‘Cassandra Thaw’. The publisher is Craptastic. The book’s title reads Blush to Dust.

[mvmadvice]

General Advice: Getting Started (part 2)

Alright, so now you know a little more about the community as a whole. But how do you actually get started playing MvM?

First of all, you need to decide between Mann Up and Boot Camp. Boot Camp is F2P while Mann Up requires tickets. Tickets are 99 cents each, but you need to buy a new one for each mission you complete.

Boot Camp is good for practice. The goal usually isn’t to win (although that’s part of it!), but to try out new things. Maybe you’ve never played Sniper before and want to try him out. Maybe you want to test different loadouts on Soldier. Go wild! Just be careful, some people take Boot Camp far too seriously and will attempt to vote kick you if you play off-meta.

Mann Up is the P2P version of Boot Camp. They have all of the same maps except for Wave 666 (Ghost Town), which is Boot Camp exclusive. The Mann Up community is full of a wide variety of people, from total beginners to 5k tour pros. The most popular Mann Up map is Two Cities, which is the only map that offers killstreak kits as a reward. The other maps offer botkiller weapons. Note that only the higher tier maps will drop Australiums, if that’s what you want from MvM. Gear Grinder is also a fairly popular map, since they also offer unique rewards that aren’t your standard botkillers.

Okay, so you’ve chosen your game mode. Whether you want to stay F2P or go P2P, it doesn’t matter. You’re now part of the community! So you select the map you want to play on and enter a game. Now what?

Well, you first need to be aware of the hated term: the meta. The accepted “meta” for MvM is as follows: 1 Scout, 1 Soldier, 1 Demoman, 1 Heavy, 1 Engineer, and 1 Medic. To over-over-oversimplify, Scout collects money, Soldier deals damage, Demoman kills uber Medics, Heavy bodyblocks/deals damage, Engineer provides utility, and Medic heals. This ‘meta’ optimizes the capabilities of each of the classes for almost every situation. You can almost never go wrong with this team.

However, there are many, many exceptions. For tanks, Pyros with the Phlog are the best option. In fact, Pyro can often replace Soldier, Heavy, or Demoman, especially after the release of the Gas Passer, which is another great tool for picking Medics with. Even after it’s nerf, the Explode on Ignite upgrade for the gas passer still makes Pyro a very viable alternative to Soldier, Heavy, or Demoman.

The two most-hated upon classes in MvM are Sniper and Spy. Sniper requires the ability to reliably get headshots. This isn’t too difficult on larger robots, but he is a very hit or miss class to pick. Many beginner Snipers don’t understand that playing Sniper in MvM could be a major detriment to the team. However, in the right hands and under the right circumstances, Sniper has indisputably the highest damage output of any class, even without a pocket Medic. Spy also has his niche situations. He is exceptionally good at killing giant Medics, since disguises will always trick robots, as long as you are out of their line of sight before the disguise is active. However, robots have perfect reactions to Spies. Even if you are behind them, they will catch you if you are undisguised and uncloaked. In addition, if you stab a robot, all surrounding robots will be notified of your presence. Finally, if you sap a giant robot, it will turn to face you but not fire. With his disguise and Dead Ringer, Spy can not only pick priority targets, but replace Scout as a cash collector. As long as he does not get caught in crossfire, he can easily collect cash far behind enemy lines without the need to run in with an Ubercharge canteen.

There are also expected meta loadouts for each class. Scouts should equip the Mad Milk and Fan o’ War. Soldiers should have one of the three banners. Demomen should not use the Quickiebomb Launcher. Heavies can pretty much do what they want, so long as they do not use the Tomislav. Medics need the Kritzkrieg. Pyro weapons vary, but the Gas Passer is extremely important. Snipers should have Jarate or equip the Cleaner’s Carbine and Bushwacka for a tank-killer loadout. Spies should always have the Dead Ringer for damage mitigation.

The meta, of course, is subject to change. There was one point before the Gas Passer nerf when two Pyros could beat a mission on their own. Empire Escalation can be beat by a very skilled Medic, Demo, and Scout (and no other players). Bavarian Botbash's meta has four Soldiers, one Scout, and one Engineer (because AMERICA and also because it’s the most effective). The last wave of Hamlet can be easily beat by a team of 6 Pyros. The meta is just a suggestion. It has been tested by tens of thousands of players and deemed the most efficient way of winning. However, if you are new to the game, I suggest following the meta as closely as possible, at least on your end. What your teammates do is not under your control in this regard.

Finally, due to the somewhat strict meta in MvM, you must learn how to acceptably play every single class. This includes Pyro, Sniper, and Spy, who aren’t commonly used. It’s tough, yes, but remember you only have to play them acceptably. If everyone can carry their own weight in the game, winning will be easy. It doesn’t matter if you can’t rocket jump or if you don’t get an A+ on every single wave. As long as you can fire rockets and get the $50 bonus, your team is unlikely to kick you. At the same time, you can still contribute to your team while on an off-role (that is, a class you do not main).

If you want to find out what other classes do, you’ve come to the right place! I’ll be queuing plenty of advice for each class, as well as incorporating Youtube video guides from other players and community guides from Steam.

[ubercharge]

speaking of (reblogging of?) tf2, mvm in specific. u know what was fuckin fun? multi soldiers on botbash when the soldiers are good. that was fun

[swanoftravel]

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#BotBash (at Intel Developer Forum 2015)

[neorobo]

Christian Ristow's mechanical performance at BotBash 2001. About a month after 9/11 happened.

Christian Ristow is an alumni of Survival Research Labs. Basically it's robotic/mechanical performance art.

This happened about midnight during Bot Bash 2001, Bot Bash being an offshoot of Battlebots. Had robot combat and a few other events.

[massadopted]

Sei Network integrates Humanode BotBasher

Humanode is excited to announce that Sei Network has fully integrated Humanode BotBasher into its Discord server, and will be utilizing it across its entire ecosystem! Sei is an open-source Layer 1 blockchain specialized for exchanges, optimizing every layer of the stack to offer infrastructure for trading apps of all types; from gaming to NFTs to DeFi. Leveraging a novel consensus and technical…

[massadopted]

Sybil-resistant airdrops with Humanode BotBasher

A specific occurrence exclusive to the crypto world airdrops provide a unique opportunity to engage with the community and reward loyal supporters. An airdrop is a promotional activity where the protocols and projects grant a series of tokens to their early supporters after launching native tokens. This move is mainly aimed at getting traction and attracting users who will trade in when the…

[massadopted]

Democracy in Discord servers - 1 Person 1 Vote Polls with BotBasher

Are you tired of messy and confusing polls in your Discord server? Have you ever found yourself questioning the integrity of your community’s voting process, especially when the same person votes multiple times or users create multiple accounts just to skew the results? Well, you’re not alone! We’ve been there too. With an overall spam rate of 13% on Discord, maintaining a spam-free server can be…

[massadopted]

Humanode BotBasher Latest Version is Out!

(April 19, 2023) The Humanode team is proud to announce that the initial Beta testing of BotBasher for Discord has been completed and that it has shipped a new beta release of BotBasher for Discord today! BotBasher for Discord is an application that has been created utilizing the Humanode private biometric verification technology, allowing Discord users to verify that their account is owned by a…

[dpargyle]

‘Rose Praying’ ~ This one took many composite Midjourney generations to create the ultimatte composition. I’m less photocollaging/photobashing & more what I’ve decided to call ‘botbashing.’

Footnotes: Images generated in collaboration with the Midjourney AI engine (via promptoMANIA’s Prompt Builder) & heavily edited within Affinity Photo, beFunky Photo Editor, PowerPoint, & Sketchbook Pro.

ID: A stained glass version of a cathedral - complete with many towers. Roses & thorny vines abound. Towards the bottom of the piece, a pink-haired woman stares up at the edifice. She wears a blue denim jacket with a single rose stitched into the back of the collar.

[mvmadvice]

Tag Masterpost!

general advice: stuff you gotta know in general about MvM

all classes: includes advice for all of the classes (following are pretty self explanatory)

scout advice

soldier advice

pyro advice

demoman advice

heavy advice

engineer advice

medic advice

sniper advice

spy advice

outsourced advice: advice from someone other than the mod(s)

Two Cities advice: advice for all Two Cities Tours (the following are specific tours)

Mannhattan Metro Malice

Mannhattan Empire Escalation

Rottenburg Hamlet Hostility

Rottenburg Bavarian Botbash

Boot Camp advice: for boot campers

Ghost town: Ghost town (aka Wave 666) specific advice

Mann Up advice: for mann up-ers

Community: anything involving community-made maps, whether it’s advice about individual maps or sharing links to join them

This will be updated as more tags come up! In addition, if we ever post an untagged trigger and you would like for us to tag it, please send us an anon and we will rectify that mistake as soon as possible.