Blood Bowl: No Rerolls, No Problems

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Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

Ok who's playing the BB2 beta? How is the AI? Any obvious bugs? Is there any reason at all to get it over BB1 and FUMBBL?

# ¿ Sep 12, 2015 08:05

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 00:01

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

I went and bought Blood Bowl 2 anyway because I loving hate myself.

Also I didn't see anyone post the song yet so here it is: http://tindeck.com/listen/jvdn

# ¿ Sep 17, 2015 08:54

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

The AI seems a bit better but still pretty dumb. Some highlights of Skaven vs a Hard AI Orc team:

Using 6 guys to mark 2 downed linemen who were nowhere near the ball
Using a black orc to blitz and hit someone he was standing next to, then not moving (and he got a pow)
2DB blitz with no block against a guy with block as the first action for no good reason
Using a blitz to hit a guy when there was already someone else next to them who could have blocked (again for no reason I could see)
Not getting the ball carrier into a scoring position on turn 15 even though there was space and MA spare
Generally ignoring the fact that it's the last turn or close to the last turn

Steve Holt! fucked around with this message at 09:04 on Sep 19, 2015

# ¿ Sep 19, 2015 09:01

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

Der Shovel posted:

This has happened to me a couple of times as well versus the AI. It's infuriating, especially since the game doesn't support any kind of resuming.

My internet cut out for a few seconds and the game was able to reconnect me, so it does almost support resuming. It might be similar to BB1 where if you start the game right away after crashing it tries to reconnect.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2015 10:43

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

Rogue posted:

Is there any way to download/parse a fumbbl match and run it through a variance calculator to see how bad your dice really were? Some games just feel like you can't get anything done, I guess I'd like to know if I'm making mistakes or just getting unlucky.

Don't know about fumbbl but there is/was a really bad windows app that could do it for BB1, so I took a quick look at what might be possible in BB2. Looks like the replay files are just zipped up XML files with all the data in it, so it should be pretty easy to extract stats out of them. The files are in C:\Users\<username>\Documents\BloodBowl2\Profiles\<coach name>\Replays and you just need to extract the bbrz files (I used 7-zip). I'll probably try to do something with it this weekend if no-one else has.

Edit: Actually I'm not going to post any of the XML in case Cyanide put in some credentials in plain text.

Steve Holt! fucked around with this message at 11:42 on Sep 21, 2015

# ¿ Sep 21, 2015 11:39

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

Real time plz.

# ¿ Sep 23, 2015 13:49

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

Wow looks like Cyanide gave me both Woodies and Lizardmen even though they said you only get one if you preorder.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2015 13:00

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

I think I need a bit more of a dumb guy explanation for this TV thing.

Also for anyone looking for games with goons, the best way is probably still to use the #tgbloodbowl channel in SynIRC. http://irc.lc/synirc/tgbloodbowl if you don't have an IRC client.

# ¿ Sep 25, 2015 23:55

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

Exmond posted:

I believe this is how it works but I am super unsure.

Okay, we have a game. I have a 1200 TV team. I have been selling my guys and buying guys so I also have 500,000 in petty cash (I could of used this money to buy more players, but I didn't).

You have a 1000 TV team. For Inductments you get 200,000 bonus dollars because my tv is 200 bigger than yours! You spend it and everything is good.

My turn I get 0 bonus dollars because of my TV BUT i have 500,000 in petty cash. I just spend it willy nilly.

At the end of the game I will get the money I spent on Inducments back.

I think thats what they are trying to say is how it works.

OK so it's a straight-up Cyanide bug then right? You're not meant to get petty cash back if you spend it?

# ¿ Sep 26, 2015 00:17

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

I finally followed up on my promise from ages ago and made a website that will pull out all the rolls from a BB2 replay and let you know how diced you got. Check it out at http://onesandskulls.com.

It's a bit rough around the edges but it works and I'm probably done with it. If anyone notices anything super weird, upload your replay somewhere and let me know and I'll see if I can work out the problem.

# ¿ Dec 14, 2015 00:56

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

BB2 patch details: http://bloodbowlgame.tumblr.com/post/134533599140/hey-coaches-it-has-been-a-very-busy-3-months

Field grid! Player name/type overlay! You can see the other team during inducement selection! Looks pretty nice.

# ¿ Dec 16, 2015 00:47

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

I just updated http://onesandskulls.com/ (the BB2 replay dice checking website) so that you can share results. If anyone has any games were you were really lucky or really diced can you link the replay or website results? I want to put an example replay on the site. Also if the website isn't working for whatever reason let me know.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2016 11:39

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 00:01

Steve Holt!: Aug 28, 2006; STEVE HOLT!; College Slice

Yeah I got the email too. The website is: http://www.bloodbowl-game.com/worldcup/.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2016 00:27

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