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Woo, I had no idea this was back for another season. Is it streaming anywhere so I can catch up on the latest tournament?
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Luigi Thirty posted:Woo, I had no idea this was back for another season. Is it streaming anywhere so I can catch up on the latest tournament? Science Channel has it but most episodes are locked behind a subscription.
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Jun 20, 2018 15:58
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Luigi Thirty posted:Woo, I had no idea this was back for another season. Is it streaming anywhere so I can catch up on the latest tournament? Discovery has an app, but it's subscription locked. Buy the season on Prime, otherwise.
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Jun 20, 2018 16:08
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Luigi Thirty posted:Woo, I had no idea this was back for another season. Is it streaming anywhere so I can catch up on the latest tournament? It's On Demand here, if you have cable or sat.
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Jun 20, 2018 19:10
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Sure maybe there is some exceptions, but at the end of the day Robot Wars, even the new series is very tame compared to Battlebots. Robot Wars is more an endurance race than Battlebots because of how it's set up. Battlebots is very much single explosive bouts with hours or even days in between to diagnose and fix up damage while Robot Wars is more drawn out matches (and the bots are just as dangerous at the Battebots ones as the weight classes and some of the weapon rules are the same) and I think 20-30 minutes to fix the bot up for the next match iirc.
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tangentially related https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1009150968787849216
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Jun 20, 2018 22:45
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Xelkelvos posted:Robot Wars is more an endurance race than Battlebots because of how it's set up. Battlebots is very much single explosive bouts with hours or even days in between to diagnose and fix up damage while Robot Wars is more drawn out matches (and the bots are just as dangerous at the Battebots ones as the weight classes and some of the weapon rules are the same) and I think 20-30 minutes to fix the bot up for the next match iirc. I tried watching the Robot Wars revival and most of the matches ended when someone drove in the giant "You instantly lose" part of the arena which was dumb and bad. If they got rid of that so that most matches weren't supporting a push meta or resulting in an accidental win/loss then Robot Wars would be fine.
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Jun 20, 2018 23:26
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I checked out the fightcard on their main website and it seems there is a 3 bot battle that will only be on the Science Channel airing of the show, and it's got me wondering if they have been doing this every week?
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Jun 22, 2018 23:00
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:I checked out the fightcard on their main website and it seems there is a 3 bot battle that will only be on the Science Channel airing of the show, and it's got me wondering if they have been doing this every week? It's been a mix of extra fights & short segments.
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Jun 23, 2018 00:22
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When it was one minute to the top of the hour and Bite Force stopped moving, I thought it was over but lol nope
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Jun 23, 2018 02:03
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Chomp is trash.
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Propaganda Machine posted:Chomp is trash. Overhaul is nearly as trash. Most boring match ever.
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When you lose to Overhaul, time to hang it up. rear end ton of commercials causing the episode to run overtime and I missed the end. I assume Bite Force annihilated End Game? Also why was the episode called forklifting time if that bot wasn't fighting?
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Jun 24, 2018 02:08
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I still don't get why Chomp has such an awkward and tall chassis Like, why is the part where the hammer connects to the top of the body not the top of the robot? Why is it so narrow?
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The Glumslinger posted:I still don't get why Chomp has such an awkward and tall chassis It's the way it's designed. The mechanism for firing the hammer is tall and awkward so when they armor it it's tall and awkward.  I don't know their funding situation but you would think after a couple of years of flopping around the ring like a trout they would try and give it a wide and more stable design. The original autocad concept looks like it would work better, but they obviously had to design around the hammer mechanism once they put it together. 
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Jun 24, 2018 02:54
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Rectal Death Adept posted:It's the way it's designed. The mechanism for firing the hammer is tall and awkward so when they armor it it's tall and awkward. Knowing the team behind it, at this point getting the current design working "right" is probably a challenge to them. One thing that a lot of people miss is that the CG on Chomp is way lower than it looks, since most of the stuff above the wheels is full of air/nitrogen. If I recall correctly their CG is somewhere around 4-6" above the ground. The flopping around is caused by a mix of a few things: The floor of the box & traction paint on it doesn't work well with magnets, (this was their original plan to help with stability) the hammer swings with a crazy amount of force, (see: https://www.facebook.com/ChompTheBattleBot/videos/803072849888497/ ) and to allow the 360deg travel on the hammer, they had to limit the overall width of the bot, which is the real factor that makes the bot unstable as opposed to the CG.
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It looked like Chomp might've damaged Overhaul at the end of the fight when it was able to land some hits, but it was too late to matter to the judges at that point. It was knocked around pretty good up until then.
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wormil posted:When you lose to Overhaul, time to hang it up. Wouldn't say annihilated. Actually End Game had it won, but didn't go in for the kill when Bite Force stopped moving. But Bite Force got it fixed and started running again and flipped End Game and game over.
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And yea, if your bot can't beat Overhaul and their cat ears, it might be time to fix something.
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sawblaze needs a better primary weapon for that top-tier plow
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logikv9 posted:sawblaze needs a better primary weapon for that top-tier plow No that's actually their gimmick. They're a passive-weapon bot masquerading as one with an active weapon as to not be illegible.
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logikv9 posted:sawblaze needs a better primary weapon for that top-tier plow Its actually kind of perfect. Its basically a wedge with a weapon that makes lots of pretty sparks for the judges.
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Jun 24, 2018 07:13
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It drives great too. Good kudos to the engineering and the driver.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Its actually kind of perfect. Its basically a wedge with a weapon that makes lots of pretty sparks for the judges. Yeah they gamed the format hard.
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Jun 24, 2018 07:20
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Sawblaze probably makes the best use of a flamethrower out of any other bot since the revival (I know that's not saying much)
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Jun 24, 2018 07:54
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Saws and flamethrowers don't seem to do anything but at least they look cool.
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wormil posted:Also why was the episode called forklifting time if that bot wasn't fighting? They had a short sketch at the top of the episode called "A Day in Faruq's Life" or something where he announced everything he did. "It's photocopying time! It's potty time! It's forklifting time!"
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Grand Fromage posted:Saws and flamethrowers don't seem to do anything but at least they look cool. Well, I mean, if it wasn't already over, this very hot slice might've been dangerous. https://i.imgur.com/nhlL43P.gifv edit: also they posted some of Overhaul's 360 cam footage of it fighting Chomp. I enjoy hearing the up close sounds. While the drive motors are kind of annoying the hissing gas tanks and killsaws and hammer drops are amazing up close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d28asuzKVs8 Rexxed fucked around with this message at 10:13 on Jun 24, 2018 |
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MiddleOne posted:No that's actually their gimmick. They're a passive-weapon bot masquerading as one with an active weapon as to not be illegible. holy moly it's so ingenious
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Sawblaze has consistently been chopping its way through the armor of other machines. It doesn't crumple armor or fling parts through the air but to say it does nothing is disingenuous.
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I like how people still pretend drones do anything.
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RBA Starblade posted:I like how people still pretend drones do anything. Has there even been a drone yet? I think their ineffectiveness is realized.
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Pakled posted:Sawblaze probably makes the best use of a flamethrower out of any other bot since the revival (I know that's not saying much) How quickly we forget about complete control cooking bombshell
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BurntCornMuffin posted:Has there even been a drone yet? I think their ineffectiveness is realized. This last episode had someone bring in a flamethrower drone on Shredorator which didn't accomplish anything in itself.
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The problem with saws is they take time and you're only allowed to hold the bot for ten seconds. I get why that rule exists but no saw is going to get through armor and into loving up internals in a few seconds.
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Didn’t overhaul get something important cut? Like sawblaze actually does some very deep cuts they just don’t look impressive
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Didn’t overhaul get something important cut? Like sawblaze actually does some very deep cuts they just don’t look impressive It was hard to tell, there were a few deep cuts but the fight ultimately ended when it seemed like Overhaul's wedge front was stuck under the side of the battlebox. Oh hey someone put that fight on youtube from season 3 ep 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS3kJdPWsyo
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Didn’t overhaul get something important cut? Like sawblaze actually does some very deep cuts they just don’t look impressive I don't know about not looking impressive, some of those cuts literally glow for a good while after, and it looks awesome.
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Great Beer posted:Sawblaze has consistently been chopping its way through the armor of other machines. It doesn't crumple armor or fling parts through the air but to say it does nothing is disingenuous. It looks pretty, but it doesn't really seem to be accomplishing much most of the time.
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