A smarter grapple: new tricks for your bot AI

The GRP-1 grapple got two upgrades.

The cable bends round corners

A grapple's cable now wraps round the corners of walls and blocks instead of passing through them. Its length is measured round the bends, each bot is pulled along its own end of it, and the Arena draws it bent.

A faster hook that homes

The hook now flies at 30 m/s, closes on a bot within a metre of its path, and homes on an enemy within 15° ahead.

Put it to work in your bot AI

The house's grapplers learned to use it better too. See the grapple coding sample in Brain code's Coding samples tab to script your own bot's behavior with one.