zephyrus-sc2-parser VS pdx-tools

This is insanely cool! Very impressed you managed to implement a full parser in Rust.

I implemented a basic one in Rust a while back: https://github.com/ZephyrBlu/rust-parser

And a full one in Python with a few bells and whistles ages ago: https://github.com/ZephyrBlu/zephyrus-sc2-parser

Don't maintain either of them though :(, and the Rust one is super rough.

SC2 is a very interesting area for data analysis, but at the same time I found it very challenging. There is so much nuance and inconsistency across games it can be really hard to do accurately do things like categorize builds or measure build timings.

The area I ended up focusing on was builds, and I feel like I did some interesting stuff there: https://sc2.gg/reports/top-openings-2022/.

I found personal statistics less interesting than aggregate statistics. Even pro games are very volatile, ladder games even more so. Extremely hard to get reliable signal out of them if you're trying to track things across games. Even simple things like Collection Rate are poor indicators without significant categorization work (Matchup, build, opponent build, etc).

There is the sc2reader parser which has been around for a while, and I also have a Python parser.

Check out this guy's work, he tracks a lot of details. https://app.zephyrus.gg/login https://github.com/ZephyrBlu/zephyrus-sc2-parser

This is one of the projects I've been working on for over a year: https://github.com/ZephyrBlu/zephyrus-sc2-parser.

I love analyzing SC2. I wrote my own replay parser, I created a replay analysis site (FYI this is an old video) and I regularly post graphics of stats/analyses such as:

This is the parser: https://github.com/ZephyrBlu/zephyrus-sc2-parser

I uploaded the save file to pdx.tools and tells me that I spent:

Thanks for sharing, very inspiring. I love Rust for parsing video game replays / save files. I've authored a Rocket League replay parser (boxcars) and an entire suite of web visualizations (via Webassembly) for EU4 called pdx.tools https://pdx.tools

It's not easy to work with proprietary formats, but they've both become pretty popular, so I would 100% recommend sinking more time into this project as long as it scratches your itch. Gamers are always looking for more stats and deeper insights

I'm not sure though how many people would like to download an application just for this purpose. While this feature has indeed not been implemented by any other tool, you can find other web-based ones like https://eu4.osallek.net/wiki/1.35.3/idea-groups for ideas and https://pdx.tools for general analysis with more diverse features.

If you don't play on ironman, you can use the continue button to get into the game again. For ironman saves, you can look at the map modes which are available in the lobby when loading the save. Or you can melt the save to turn it into a non-ironman mode. Or you can activate a mod which just changes the enddate to continue playing. But this disables achievements and you have to make sure that the mod changes nothing else, because other changes will likely break your save(so don't use extended timeline). Or you can use websites likes skanderbeg.pm or pdx.tools to see information about your save

You could ask the pdx.tools developers in their discord. They often implement features which are suggested to them

You can melt the save (e.g. with pdx.tools ) and then switch to them to see the details

R5: You can use pdx.tools to check if some advisors events have fired in your game already. I don't usually forget if i have fired radical reforms or not in my game already, but this was a quite early one, and the Korean into Korean EoC mission trees are melting my mind atm. They are great tho. I mean totally op, which is nice, but all the if, if else and whatnot are heavy in this one.

You don't need to wait for the rebels to span. If they're unwilling to negotiate from the handle rebels screen it means you still have too much Sunni land. Unfortunately the game does a very poor job of indicating this. There's a website called pdx.tools that apparently is very good at helping here but I usually just give away one province at a time, let a day pass, and see if I've reached the necessary count. I've included pics of the flips below.

You can upload your save here: https://pdx.tools/ to see how much dev each religion has.

I dropped one of the saves into pdx.tools & it doesnt show domination in the list of DLCs, so exiting europa somehow removed the DLC from the save. :(