Multiplayer Basics

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Playing matches

Ranked match with match details in the tooltip.

The real competition takes place in career mode. The matches between 2 players are created asynchronously according to the matchmaking rules. Both players first need to deploy a match by assigning bot classes and programs to each bot. If both players deployed the match, the match can be watched by them. After either of the players watched the full match to the very end, the reward of XP points is given to them and the league score points are exchanged between them.

Game mode League score points XP points Description
Ranked matches normal impact normal impact This is where the real competition takes place.
Unranked matches no impact small impact Playing against random players of other leagues.
Private matches no impact no impact Playing against friends or other players of the community.
Tournament matches no impact no impact This is where the official and unofficial tournaments will appear.

Leaderboard and stats

Ingame leaderboard

The ingame leaderboard shows the current league ranking, the league score points, the XP level and the victory ratio. The stats button opens the Gladiabots stats page in the web browser showing further information about the players and the leagues. Both leaderboards hide inactive players. The website can show inactive players on demand.

Sharing matches

To share a ranked, unranked, private or tournament match with friends or the community one needs to find its replay ID. The replay ID is either accessible as tooltip by hovering or tipping on the match or it can be found on the Gladiabots stats latest matches page. This replay ID can be shared with other players.

If a player wants to watch a replay he needs to press the replay button and enter the replay ID afterwards. A replay can only be watched if the version of the game resolution engine of the viewer matches the version of the game resolution engine of the deploying players.

Sync accounts

It's possible to create a cloud sync connection between two or more accounts on one or more devices. Currently the developer creates this cloud sync connection manually. The following steps are required to use this connection:

  1. Make sure that each account has a valid player name.
    • To create the player name open career mode for each account and choose the player name.
    • To determine the current player name check the leaderboard or the Gladiabots stats page from ingame.
  2. Reply to the cross-device sync temporary solution topic at the forum with all the needed information:
    • Provide all player names of each account that should be synced.
    • Specify the main player name. The player name, AI programs and settings of this account is used for every other account.
  3. After the developer answered your post at the forum and told you that it's ready, you need to launch the game on every synced account. Always choose use server data when the data sync conflict message appears.

Working with synced accounts

Data sync conflict message

If the first account changes some nodes, the changes are automatically pushed to the server. The following steps are required to sync this changes with the second account:

  1. Close the game on the first account.
  2. Upon opening the second account the data sync conflict message should appear:
    • Choose use server data.
    • The changes should be synced.

Resolving data sync conflict messages

Sometimes there is a data sync conflict message and it's not clear which of the accounts is up to date. Warning: If the wrong option is selected all changes could be reverted. The following steps are recommended to solve this conflict:

  1. Launch the game on every synced account and choose keep local data for now.
  2. Try to determine the account that is up to date by checking the recently changed nodes on the different accounts.
  3. Close the game on every synced account.
  4. Launch the game on the account that is up to date.
    • When the data sync conflict message appears choose keep local data.
  5. Launch the game on all other accounts.
    • When the data sync conflict message appears choose use server data.

Windows: Multiple accounts and backup

Creating multiple accounts on the same device

Warning: The following actions could harm your system, especially when done wrong. Create a backup of all your data before trying any of this. Proceed at your own risk.

If the windows system contains several users, it's possible to login to any of them and start Gladiabots. Each one will have its own account. In single user environments it's possible to create more users to use as additional accounts by:

  1. Opening Computer Management by either searching for Computer Management in the start menu or by pressing Windows key+r and inserting the command compmgmt.msc into the run window.
  2. Add a user by browsing to the System Tools > Local Users and Groups > User folder, right click it and select New User... from the menu. Specify a username and a password.

Playing with a different account

Warning: The following actions could harm your system, especially when done wrong. Create a backup of all your data before trying any of this. Proceed at your own risk.

To start the game with a different account either logout your current user and login with the other user or run Gladiabots using the other user by:

  1. Pressing Windows key+r and inserting the command Runas /user:MyComputer\Gladiatest /savecred "C:\Gladiabots\Gladiabots.exe" into the run window. It's also possible to create a shortcut or a batch file with this command.

Creating backups

Warning: The following actions could harm your system, especially when done wrong. Create a backup of all your data before trying any of this. Proceed at your own risk.

A backup is useful if the game data is lost due to a system crash or failed sync. Under windows it seems like Gladiabots is storing all the game data under the folder HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GFX47\Gladiabots] of the registry. Create a backup of this registry key by:

  1. Pressing Windows key+r and inserting the command reg export HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GFX47\Gladiabots "C:\Gladiabots\Backup.reg" into the run window. It's also possible to create a shortcut or a batch file with this command.

Create a backup of this registry key for another account by:

  1. Pressing Windows key+r and inserting the command Runas /user:MyComputer\Gladiatest /savecred "reg export HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GFX47\Gladiabots \"C:\Gladiabots\Backup Gladiatest.reg\"" into the run window. It's also possible to create a shortcut or a batch file with this command.

Restoring a backup

Warning: The following actions could harm your system, especially when done wrong. Create a backup of all your data before trying any of this. Proceed at your own risk.

To restore the backup all one needs to do is executing the exported registry file The AI programs and settings are restored. It's not possible to restore a single AI sub tree this way.