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The surprise for a human player won't gain the deepmind AI much advantage. A human can recognize the concept "I am being worker rushed" and immediately counter
by habitue 8y ago
The surprise for a human player won't gain the deepmind AI much advantage. A human can recognize the concept "I am being worker rushed" and immediately counter it, necessarily having more workers at their starting site than the attacking player who sent only their starting workers.
As the grandparent stated, a worker rush only works against the built in starcraft computer player, because the computer AI is too dumb to recognize "I am being worker rushed" and may not commit all of its workers to defending.
- ragona 8y agoI disagree. The part that everyone seems to forget about Starcraft is the micro; humans are imperfect at controlling their units, and even relatively decent players (say Diamond-ish) will sometimes lose to something like a worker rush.