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nooneofconsequence posted:Is Ziggo coming back? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ngygH4ii8
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nooneofconsequence posted:Plan X looks like it's going to just get shredded by anything with a competent spinner. It got shredded by a lovely walking spinner.
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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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Man, that was a blast from the past. Amazed that not only is it back, but moved up from Comedy Central to network TV, not that that means as much as it used to. Did my heart good to the Ladybug girl back and still battling. Pretty sure that thing was the cover to a plastic children's sandbox. (I had a turtle one)
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nooneofconsequence posted:Plan X looks like it's going to just get shredded by anything with a competent spinner. Yeah, I think the fix was in on that first fight somewhat. Plan X has a better story going forward and variability through different equipment loadouts, and just looks like a cooler bot. It did no real damage to lovely walker bot, but that bot would take out huge chunks of it any time it got the chance to. I guess you could get points for control, but I think controlling a crappy walker and getting it to flip back over is more impressive than moving around Plan X with what has to be a dozen wheels or so. It really needs to switch out that hammer for a sawblade of its own, and give the minibots literally any weapon because they seemed useless in the first fight. I'm sure explosives of any kind are banned, with good reason, but they seem like perfect suicide bombers. On the other hand, the only real damage the walker did was when Plan X was stuck and helpless, so it's hard to call it a superior design. Basically, show me the judge's scorecards, or I'll never take this seriously as a sport  .Robnoxious posted:Also important, does Grant Imahara have a bot in the field? Well c'mon now, we want to have some question as to who the winner is. If you put a Grantbot in the ring it'll be over real quick. You'd have a prime Muhammad Ali fighting Glass Joe from Punch Out every other week.
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NowonSA posted:Yeah, I think the fix was in on that first fight somewhat. Plan X has a better story going forward and variability through different equipment loadouts, and just looks like a cooler bot. It did no real damage to lovely walker bot, but that bot would take out huge chunks of it any time it got the chance to. I guess you could get points for control, but I think controlling a crappy walker and getting it to flip back over is more impressive than moving around Plan X with what has to be a dozen wheels or so. It really needs to switch out that hammer for a sawblade of its own, and give the minibots literally any weapon because they seemed useless in the first fight. I'm sure explosives of any kind are banned, with good reason, but they seem like perfect suicide bombers. quote:Well c'mon now, we want to have some question as to who the winner is. If you put a Grantbot in the ring it'll be over real quick. You'd have a prime Muhammad Ali fighting Glass Joe from Punch Out every other week.
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Some of you might be thinking "hmm, Complete Control sounds familiar for some reason." This is why:
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Coaaab posted:Deadblow never won anything, though. Eh, I have to figure Grant's got some sweet robot tech now though, having more experience now.
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i'm surprised how much I enjoyed the reboot. I was really happy they didn't stuff it full of sappy backstory crap.
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Oh man, I loved battle bots back in the day. I can't believe it's back, and with such a spectacular episode. That minibot just exploded in such an amazing way.
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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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MikeNCR posted:Some of you might be thinking "hmm, Complete Control sounds familiar for some reason." Still though, a hybrid wedge/flipper bot? Two things most people loathe in a Battlebot. We want massive carnage not a flippybot.
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Watching the westcoast broadcast, and man Icewave looks as good as anything I remember from any of the previous seasons. Nice carnage out there
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Seriously gently caress wedges.
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Jesus loving christ, its been decade and Nightmare still doesn't have a way to loving right itself Thought that destruction of the tiny bot might been the single best hit I have ever seen on battlebots The Glumslinger fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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According to this Wiki page the Jay Leno Chinkilla bot was there! There's also a list of robots that are in the competition. Is Bronco built by the same people who made Toro because that robot was cool as hell. http://battlebots.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Badnik96/(SPOILERS)_BattleBots_2015_Competitor_Chart 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. keevo fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Jun 22, 2015 |
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The Glumslinger posted:Jesus loving christ, its been decade and Nightmare still doesn't have a way to loving right itself Nightmare is up to his usual tricks of losing but in a spectacular fashion, just like the old days. This time the addition of liquid fuel to the arena made it even better. https://gfycat.com/BrownMildDouglasfirbarkbeetle Fatality
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keevo posted:According to this Wiki page the Jay Leno Chinkilla bot was there! There's also a list of robots that are in the competition. Is Bronco built by the same people who made Toro because that robot was cool as hell. I want to see a quadcopter with a machine gun next year
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If anyone has questions about anything related to Battlebots, I'd be glad to help out. I've been building bots since 2002, and watching this show just made me feel 20 years old again.  That exact sticker is the reason I'm posting here today. I saw it in person at Battlebots, and made a mental note to remember that website (and then lurk for 4 years before registering). If it was good enough for Complete Control, it must be a great website! iastudent posted:Why would you design a bot without wheels I haven't read the rules for this current Battlebots, but you usually get a weight bonus if you have a non-wheeled robot. Son of Whyachi really abused that in Season 3 when the bonus was 50% I think. It barely qualified as a walker then. The rules were changed to be more strict about what a "walking" robot was and the weight bonus was reduced. Honestly I don't think that Wrecks qualifies for the weight bonus under the old rules. Pakled posted:Another bot with minibots. Interesting. I'm curious if those'll ever be effective. Were they allowed under the old rules? Yes. You built to a weight limit, so the sum of your bots must be under. In practice it was never effective. You lose if 50% of your weight is KO'd. If you have two bots each weighing half the limit, you lose if one of them is knocked out. And obviously a, say 120 lb bot would have a really good chance of KOing a 60lb bot. There was a superheavy weight (340lb) bot call The Swarm in the old battlebots that was three roughly equal weight bots, one a lifter, one a pusher and one a spinner, but it never made it to the TV rounds. You saw what happened to the tiny Warrior Clan bot. That thing was completely destroyed, and replacing a bot like that is not cheap. As a side note, I've personally lost a match to Warrior before. They didn't really explain it in the show, but when the spinning ring gets up to speed, somehow it turns all of that stored energy into powering the flipper. Like the ring comes to a dead stop and the flipper activates with enough force to launch a 240lb bot 6 feet into the air. Possibly causing four separate and independently fatal things to happen to said launched robot. *cough, cough* Liar Lyre posted:Anyone remember the one bot from the old series that had a huge hydraulic claw that crushed other bots? Razer, made by the guys who made Warhead. They don't want to (or can't?) compete with Razer in Battlebots because of the reputation it had in Robot Wars. There might be copyright issues there. keevo posted:Is Bronco built by the same people who made Toro because that robot was cool as hell. Yup. I saw the Inertia Labs guys in the intro. 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. I fought a flying robot once with an antweight bot (1lb). I don't think flying robots will ever do well because they'd be fragile, and you can't properly deliver any kind of real force to the other guy. I supposed a flying robot that could grab the other guy and drop them repeatedly could work in theory, but it'd be really, really hard to pull off in combat. In robot fighting, the dominant position is on the bottom, not the top.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQFYzyrfrP0 Oh Nightmare, after all these years you're still trash  Also Plan X is the best if only because of the glowing brain in a jar Pakled posted:Another bot with minibots. Interesting. I'm curious if those'll ever be effective. Were they allowed under the old rules? IIRC they only ever came out during the exhibition matches before the final, so you'd get stuff like Minion versus three Biohazards, because why not.
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GuavaMoment posted:That exact sticker is the reason I'm posting here today. I saw it in person at Battlebots, and made a mental note to remember that website (and then lurk for 4 years before registering). If it was good enough for Complete Control, it must be a great website!  LURK MORE FUCKER! 
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It's TYOOL 2015, Battlebots is back, and Multibots continue to ruin everything.
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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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They mentioned a wildcard in the warhead fight, can someone explain the wildcards to me as I can only watch the fights on youtube and not the whole episode at the moment.
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Pakled posted:
Like drop a shotput right onto their flipper mechanism on borebots like Biohazard.
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I'd like to see nightmares builder come back with a redesign like he did with backlash. Nightmare is cool as gently caress but it's a pretty bad robot all things considered. Backlash was able to self right and function while upside down.
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Blue Canary posted:They mentioned a wildcard in the warhead fight, can someone explain the wildcards to me as I can only watch the fights on youtube and not the whole episode at the moment. They didn't really explain it, but I assume it's either a second chance to continue in the tourney or some kind of losers bracket. E: oops, double post
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Great Beer posted:They didn't really explain it, but I assume it's either a second chance to continue in the tourney or some kind of losers bracket. I'm guessing that there'll be 4 wildcards then, as they need 4 robots to make it a round of 16 for round 2.
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MikeNCR posted:Some of you might be thinking "hmm, Complete Control sounds familiar for some reason." Hey that's me.
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Blue Canary posted:I'm guessing that there'll be 4 wildcards then, as they need 4 robots to make it a round of 16 for round 2. Yeah there are 4, so that's probably what it is. razorscooter posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQFYzyrfrP0 I love that the commentators call it. "Oh this is gonna be a classic" Does anyone know what happened to Tony Buchignani? Hazard was so simple but so loving good that it took a bot designed specifically to beat him to finally dethrone it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHSAH8U0fL4 Gotta love Tony just clapping oh hey there Bloot, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxV92vHgyCA
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Next episode is gonna have Last Rites. For those of you who haven't seen anything since battlebots or robot wars ended, and don't know what Last Rites is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztQpwI1KfEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjlUIILyo0 It's a pretty big deal. Also, it doesn't have that flipping issue Nightmare has.
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MikeNCR posted:Some of you might be thinking "hmm, Complete Control sounds familiar for some reason." He'll always have a place in my heart for suplexing Will Wright's bot.
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Awesome to see this back, even though the only way I have of watching it right now is through individual fights uploaded on Youtube. Anyone know the name of the Battlebot that had a massive clown thing on top of it? I want to see that thing get shredded again.
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The Whole Internet posted:Next episode is gonna have Last Rites. For those of you who haven't seen anything since battlebots or robot wars ended, and don't know what Last Rites is: This thing owns bones, excited about next week. These minibots seem dumb as hell, though; you'd figure you could get more out of a bit more armor than some annoying little jerks. I thought Warrior Clan might be on to something with their design for them but that one just got loving annihilated.
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Liar Lyre posted:Anyone remember the one bot from the old series that had a huge hydraulic claw that crushed other bots? 
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GuavaMoment posted:Razer, made by the guys who made Warhead. They don't want to (or can't?) compete with Razer in Battlebots because of the reputation it had in Robot Wars. There might be copyright issues there. Yes! Razer was one of my favorite bots. It looks like some one made a Razer clone in the reboot with a burning mohawk. If it has the same crushing strength as Razer, that is going to be my favorite to win.
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