- Hearthbuddy supports all kind of Hearthstone game modes and can therefore be described as feature complete: check
- Hearthbuddy runs without crashes: check
- Hearthbuddy doesn't have performance (technically wise) issues: check
- Hearthbuddy still has some bugs (card playing logic): check
Therefore, for my understanding, the status "beta" fits absolutely fine.
What you are talking about is a "release candidate" (RC) version, which we haven't achieved yet.
Card playing logic is 90% of a TCG Bot , if it fails there, it fails in general. With the current state of the bot I can blatantly say that it does no iterations or permutations about all the possible plays that you can do per turn, instead it just sees what cards you can play with the mana you have and has like a predefined way of playing those cards, it rarely plays the odds with things like 50%/50% chances to try to always get the best outcome.
It is too binary, there is no preparation for future turns, no preparation against AoE, some hero powers just think about the current turn and not the current turn and the next one, for example Fireblast, if it doesn't kill anything it just uses it to attack face, thats the fireblast logic, 1 line of code. This bot wins half of the games that I win by playing myself
As I said on the ExileBuddy forum, even though I love pushedx work since I follow it since SRO times, Buddy at the moment is living from the HonorBuddy fame, nothing else. If it wasn't the profit that Diablo3 generated to botters, community would never fix the broken bot that DemonBuddy was, it had to be created a plugin that would take full control of the bot to fix the stop and go issues, navigation was horrible, that is why I say, compared to that, a bot for Hearthstone should be way easier to develop, the hard part is the Logic it takes a good player to develop that not just a good coder and it takes a lot of work thinking towards the strategy and tactic.
I am using another HS bot that was released near HearthBuddy release and it performs wonders, I've reached legendary 2 seasons ago and haven't played much last season and the bot makes 90% of the same decisions that I would do, sometimes it even plays better than me making decisions that I would never consider but agree after I see it. And it costs as much as HearthBuddy which makes me disappointed with the path Buddy chose, because I always loved how community-devs relationship and how the HB was community driven and the quality standards, the new features, the performance improvements always minmaxing. Because after all thats what you want in a (ro)bot, you want it to play when you aren't playing it, and you want it to perform as good or BETTER than humans. After all thats why robots replaced humans on inumerous functions, because they would do it better than humans on the decision making or repetitive tasks.
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