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Robnoxious posted:I think SJWbot got that round... but what was the point of those minibots? They did gently caress-all. I think they're supposed to jam up opponents' spinny parts but they didn't seem to have very good control. Warhead owns, bots with spinners seem to be the best.
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Jun 22, 2015 02:33
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Another bot with minibots. Interesting. I'm curious if those'll ever be effective. Were they allowed under the old rules?
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Jun 22, 2015 02:46
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Hot drat, I remember Nightmare. That one was brutal.
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Jun 22, 2015 02:47
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That minibot getting eliminated was pretty cool.
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Jun 22, 2015 02:57
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I liked that one shot at the end of one of Plan X's minibots impotently running into Plan X after it just got shredded to hell.
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Jun 22, 2015 03:11
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NowonSA posted:Eh, I have to figure Grant's got some sweet robot tech now though, having more experience now. The team that made Razorback makes bomb disposal robots for the military. There are all sorts of skill levels represented in this competition. Pakled fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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Jun 22, 2015 04:45
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keevo posted:Also according to some Reddit user, one of the changes in rules is that flight and non-tethered projectiles is allowed. I don't think any of these bots can fly but god drat this needs to have another season so we can have flying robot battles.  this is awesome. I want to see a flying bot utterly destroy a wedge/flipper bot.
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Jun 22, 2015 07:17
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mashed_penguin posted:I really enjoyed last nights show. It was impressive how much carnage they managed to get in all the matches. I don't remember old seasons having as many bits flying off ever. Yeah, one of the new rules in the reboot is there has to be some kind of powered weapon, they can't just be a wedge.
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Jun 22, 2015 16:51
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That flame looked like it could have been bad.
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Jun 29, 2015 02:21
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Oh boy, two spinner bots. 
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Jun 29, 2015 02:27
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Heel bots.
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Jun 29, 2015 02:30
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Wait. This bot has a camera tracking system? What benefit does that have if it's manually controlled?
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Jun 29, 2015 02:32
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Jun 29, 2015 02:39
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Rematch!
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Jun 29, 2015 02:48
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Complete Control doesn't seem to be controlling very well
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Jun 29, 2015 02:52
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Goonbot loses.
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Jun 29, 2015 02:59
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Witch Doctor advancing is a bit odd to me.
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Jun 29, 2015 03:00
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KyloWinter posted:I don't think anything beating tombstone. If I was a betting man, I'd put money on Tombstone.
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Jun 29, 2015 03:02
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Coaaab posted:So would I, but I bet they were lame anyway. Of the fights they only showed quick highlights of, Radioactive vs Sweet Revenge looked really lovely. Sweet Revenge's spinner seemed too weak to affect Radioactive and Radioactive's axe looked hilariously impotent. Radioactive is really sleek looking but that axe seems like a terrible weapon and it's gonna get its rear end handed to it when it faces any competent bot.
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Jun 29, 2015 06:22
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mashed_penguin posted:I'd put it out there that they only won because Nightmare is a massive I think Nightmare deserved a wildcard more than Warhead or Witch Doctor. 
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Jun 29, 2015 18:22
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machine that beats itself as badly as it beats other robots. Also the flaming minibot got one shotted by Nightmare.
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Jun 30, 2015 07:41
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GaussianCopula posted:It seems very beneficial to win a wildcard if you are a girl. The only team that got one and deserved it were probably the guys from MIT. Warhead and Witch Doctor definitely seemed like iffy choices to me, but in addition to Overhaul I think Chomp was decent.  I would have preferred Nightmare and Complete Control get in over Warhead and Witch Doctor, but hey.
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Ask Me For Warez posted:Drop napalm from a quadcopter. That's legal, right? The rules say the only allowed flame weapons are those fueled by propane or butane.
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Whitenoise Poster posted:What about sticking chunks of dry ice in or on your bot. This isn't for combat purposes I just think it would look cool to see a bot just constantly leaking fog. They say that weapons that intentionally create smoke or fog are against the rules. This is presumably for the benefit of the cameras. Pakled fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Jul 2, 2015 |
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Aphrodite posted:It had a saw underneath or something, but yeah it sucked. And then they took out the saw and replaced it with, of all things, a hook. The internet tells me that there were indeed some battlebots defeated by a plastic ladybug with a hook underneath but I never saw it do anything other than lose on TV and I can't find any videos of hook-Tentoumushi winning a fight so I can only assume that everyone that lost to it had a mechanical failure unrelated to the battle because what the gently caress is a hook supposed to do
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Jul 3, 2015 02:58
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Whoever goes up against ghost raptor in the next round is gonna have an easy time.
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Jul 6, 2015 02:41
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raditts posted:When I heard they were bringing this show back I was really hoping they would force them to be more creative than A Goddamn Wedge vs. Another Goddamn Wedge this time. They changed the rules so every bot has to have some powered weapon, though it seems like half the time the weapon will fail and turn a bot into basically a wedge
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Jul 6, 2015 02:45
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Plan X sucks and is gonna get wrecked.
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Jul 6, 2015 02:47
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That stupid brain got ground up in the screw.
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Jul 6, 2015 02:52
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There aren't any more fights this episode, are there?
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Jul 6, 2015 02:53
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Liar Lyre posted:I'm surprised Radioactive didn't just explode in those clips against Tombstone. It looks like it's made of plastic. Radioactive looks like a joke. Its gimpy axe looks like it does precisely gently caress-all and it doesn't even have a wedge to fall back on like almost all other bots that have lovely weapons.
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Jul 6, 2015 03:04
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Despite the general distaste for wedge/flipper bots, I can't help but like Stinger. It just seems like a well-designed flipper with an easy self-righting mechanism, something that far too few bots in this tournament seem to have, plus the driver seems really skilled, having a bum wheel in that last fight didn't seem to slow it down at all.
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Jul 6, 2015 15:42
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IRQ posted:No way, Bronco flipping Plan X on its rear end in like 5 seconds was hilarious. Also ironic because it only won its qualifying match because the circular saw thing it fought flipped itself over. What was Plan X's weapon even, just that dippy flame thrower? Some of the backstory footage or whatever you want to call that showed it had a large vertical spinner. The version they brought to the competition, however, was a lot smaller and either wasn't working or was woefully underpowered and did precisely gently caress all against Wrecks and it didn't look like they even managed to power it up against Bronco.
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Jul 6, 2015 22:02
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Witch Doctor performed better than I thought it would.
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Jul 13, 2015 02:11
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Can't wait to see Tombstone tear apart a terrible, yet sleek-looking bot.
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Jul 13, 2015 02:19
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And here I thought that hook on Overhaul was useless.
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Jul 13, 2015 02:39
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Bite Force kinda sucks. How did it get the 3 seed? Was it seeded based on its old design that shows up in all the graphics?
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Lone Goat posted:The drivers need to figure out what the hell they're doing. They're always bonking into each other and freeing inverted/trapped robots. There were a couple points where, if the minibot's flamethrower had been working properly, it would have hit Witch Doctor. Seems like the bare minimum that a minibot should accomplish is "don't attack the main bot."
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The Whole Internet posted:I still think biteforce is okay, but that was definitely not the best showing in that fight. Bite Force being seeded so highly seems weird to me. Like, who could think that it's better than Bronco? I'm assuming that its  stats and seeding were based on this version of Bite Force that appears in all the promotional material and models in the show. I guess they were forced to make a last-minute change to get rid of that top part and it's made the bot worse.
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