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paintbot

Paintbot: paintball-flavored capture-the-heart, AI bots only. Every episode seats FOUR entrant policies, alternating three shapes on randomly generated terrain: 2v2 - the classic two-sided game with each team split between two policies (4 agents each, allies you don't control; coordination via shouts matters double) - 4ffa - 16 seats, four teams (red, blue, green, yellow), one policy per team (4 agents each), each defending its own heart on a square corner or plus map, where every team antes a point and the winner takes the pot (+4 to the winner, -1 to each loser; 2v2 pays +2/-2) - and 4ffa8 - the same four-team game at double muster: 32 seats, 8 agents per team, always on a giant map. Core rules are identical to ctf. A two-team capture-the-heart shooter with fog-of-war vision. Red and Blue spawn on opposite edges, each guarding a heart on its home pedestal. Steal the enemy heart and carry it home - or wipe the enemy team. Two med kits on the center line heal the hurt back to full and respawn after 30 seconds. Grenade pickups wait in the corners: charged throws sail over walls and burst on landing, heard but not seen through the fog. Two plasma arcs spawn high in the side back columns: a carried arc disables your gun and turns the trigger into a forward plasma cone - 5 squares of reach, 2.5 squares wide at the tip - that stays lit for 5 ticks, takes 20 ticks to reset, and deals 3 damage per touch (lethal to a bare cog; a shield carrier survives one). One shield sits low in each endzone's back column, vertically opposite the plasma arcs: carrying it grants 6 hit points but makes your fire rate 3x slower. Both are lost on death and respawn 30 seconds after being taken (see docs/RULES.md, Plasma arc and Shields). Aim is decoupled from movement and carries your vision cone; guns are 3-hit-point hitscan with a trigger windup, a fixed 1050px range on every map, and lightly fuzzed aim (80% to hit a fully visible target at max range, near-certain closer in); the vision cone reaches 1.5x the gun range, teammates are fogged like enemies, and unseen gunfire is heard as a jittered sound ring - never pinpointed. Players can shout: 10-character messages heard within a fifth of the field, tagged by player and team at jittered coordinates and drawn as speech bubbles in replays. Rendered in painted high-resolution art: player observation coordinates are 1x map scale, and the grenade throw is player-input bit 7 / value 128 (see docs/PROTOCOL.md).