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PBS Newshour posted:The arena should be on a frozen lake so it could occasionally break up into ice chunks and the robots would have to do cool stunts to fight each other and avoid the watery depths. This but lava.
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Gaz-L posted:...robot curling? Robot King of the Hill.
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Sep 8, 2016 04:56
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I thought the teams did control the stuff in the arena? At least they did last year.
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Sep 8, 2016 05:29
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keevo posted:I thought the teams did control the stuff in the arena? At least they did last year. They control the pulverizers, which don't really do that much
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Sep 8, 2016 05:31
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Absolutely. Without arena hazards the event might as well be performed on a flat plane, and robots like Tombstone would be far less effective in that situation. Giving control of the hazards to the teams would make things more strategic and fun. No hazards. Tombstone only. Final Destination. I did think they over compensated thanks to the previous Battlebots regarding the hazards. The old show had complaints that the hazards and the operator influenced matches too much. The screws are the only one doing anything and only because of the chance of being thrown out of the arena.
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Sep 8, 2016 11:07
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PBS Newshour posted:The arena should be on a frozen lake so it could occasionally break up into ice chunks and the robots would have to do cool stunts to fight each other and avoid the watery depths. And the qualifying round should be robot dancing. Bonus points for synchronized dancing with teammates (stationed outside the box, of course. Robot dancing is dangerous!)
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Sep 8, 2016 11:29
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edit: oh ffs, if the browser is still on the submit a thing page and I submit I shouldn't be double-posting. Stupid internet and your occasional hiccups with the near-instant worldwide communication.
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Sep 8, 2016 11:36
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:I don't know why Battlebots is so bad at arena hazards, but man, they're not getting any better. Well, because it's easier to not use them than to remove the mechanics for them.
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Sep 8, 2016 13:49
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Robot King of the Hill. Dang it, Robobby
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Sep 8, 2016 14:59
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RBA Starblade posted:Dang it, Robobby All bots must use propane.
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Sep 8, 2016 15:47
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Probots!
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Sep 8, 2016 18:01
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Speaking of ~Anime~, the MIT exhibition match is also up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujhoA6NN5z4 As for the shameful performance of Road Rash, here is their reddit excuse: quote:I SPENT SO MUCH TIME PRACTICING DRIVING ROAD RASH I FORGOT TO TEACH EMPEROR DANE HOW TO DRIVE THE WEAPONS. HIS FIRST MOVE WAS TO JACKHAMMER THE HEAD INTO OUR PINCERS, DESTROYING THE ANGLE GRINDER DISCS IN A PUFF OF YELLOW SMOKE AND SNAPPING THE PIN THAT LETS US TRY TO SELF RIGHT.
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Sep 8, 2016 18:41
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:No liquids basically. make a flybot that just carries a huge banner and fly it in front of the other team's driver so they can't see
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Sep 8, 2016 19:12
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Other fun Road Rash facts: it was originally a hammer bot but had to be changed at the last second because the producers didn't like it. They described the version they showed up with as "shamelessly Dead Metal".
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Sep 8, 2016 19:45
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DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:make a flybot that just carries a huge banner and fly it in front of the other team's driver so they can't see Idk if that specifically is against the written rules, but they do have a couple of other rules that stop similar vision obstruction (Deliberate smoke generators, Lasers or flashing lights) and is obviously against the spirit of the rules enough that they wouldn't let it fly. In addition, the battlebox is apparently ridiculously turbulent and hard to fly drones in. If you remember all the drones doing nothing but crash and die, that's part of the reason that happened. The other part is, of course, that drones suck to begin with.
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Sep 8, 2016 19:53
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Nobody's designed a meaningful weapon you can mount on a drone yet.
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Sep 8, 2016 20:25
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I miss when the spinners consisted of the entire bot and either tore the other guy to shreds or just blew itself up on impact.
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Sep 8, 2016 20:27
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You cut Tombstone's blade so it can provide lift, jam that into a quadcopter, then make your floor bot like 10 pounds and just flee constantly while your heli-chopper goes for robots from the top.
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Sep 8, 2016 20:38
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Aphrodite posted:You cut Tombstone's blade so it can provide lift, jam that into a quadcopter, then make your floor bot like 10 pounds and just flee constantly while your heli-chopper goes for robots from the top. There's a rule that flying bots can only be a maximum of 10 pounds.
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Sep 8, 2016 20:43
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RBA Starblade posted:I miss when the spinners consisted of the entire bot and either tore the other guy to shreds or just blew itself up on impact. Two of those were in this season, and you can probably guess which of those outcomes happened. Invader ABC incarnation of the notorious Megabyte, lost control and died, unfortunately allowing Mohawk to be in the show for another episode. Moebius which actually suffered a mail mix up whereby they did not receive their battery mounts. The battery mounts they fabricated at the tournament were promptly poo poo out as soon as Moebius got to speed. They were also notable for having the coolest entrance in the show.
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Sep 8, 2016 20:49
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Two of those were in this season, and you can probably guess which of those outcomes happened. Lmao, how could I have forgotten the Brutus fight?
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cpt shrederator - actual win for chomp was a fbs ringmaster was a "ring spinner" which seems suspiciously like an fbs but i dont think i ever actually saw this robot fight
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Ring spinner is a little different in that the top of the bot isn't spinning, but they are pretty similar in most ways. Here's a key difference though, poking a hole in the top of Ringmaster would not instantly kill it. I sort of forgot about Cpt Shrederator, it's not a shell spinner, which I equate with FBS. Also, just doesn't have the style of these guys 
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Sep 8, 2016 21:04
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Moebius was the best joke in the series.
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Ring spinner is a little different in that the top of the bot isn't spinning, but they are pretty similar in most ways. Here's a key difference though, poking a hole in the top of Ringmaster would not instantly kill it. 
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Technically Moebius, invader, and Shredderator are shell spinners since theyre a small box with the spinning mass covering it. A full body spinner would be something like Melty B (1 pound) or Death By Translation (30 pounds): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJJGMS2BzY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YB_58rUY6A These bots use a single wheel and software that modulates the wheels speed allowing them to move directionally while spun up. While a shell spinner would have maybe a third to half of its weight in the shell and the rest being the hidden chassis, motor, batteries, etc a battlebots class FBS would have all 250 pounds of its mass spinning.
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Whatever happened to Ziggo? I loved that little spinner bot made out of a wok.
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I want to see someone make a giant metal sphero ball with spikes on it. It would suck but it would also look cool. Call it BB-Hate and be done with it.
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Sep 8, 2016 23:49
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mashed_penguin posted:I want to see someone make a giant metal sphero ball with spikes on it. It would suck but it would also look cool. Call it BB-Hate and be done with it. Or maybe That Which Is Not A Moon (TWIN-AM)
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Ziggo was lightweight, it would get demolished here. You could run four of them as a multibot though, and still have weight left over for a drone that flies up to the ceiling and exists solely to keep a few pounds of weight out of harms way... you'd still lose horribly, but you'd lose spectacularly. I can't find any record of Ziggo fighting post-Battlebots, but I asked over on the reddit board. Obsessive nerds are handy sometimes.
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I mean, you scale up Ziggo and it's basically just Megabyte/Invader. They could absolutely run a Heavyweight Ziggo
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Its a shame you can't make a 250 pound drone with a hammer or spike on the bottom to basically pile drive into enemies.
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Wade Wilson posted:Its a shame you can't make a 250 pound drone with a hammer or spike on the bottom to basically pile drive into enemies. A hammer/spike on a drone won't do much as all the energy from it is just going to effect the drone, there needs to be something to anchor the bot for a hammer to be effective. It would be cool to have an Eggman Robotnik type drone swinging a giant mace back and forth, but realistically it would gently caress the drone hitting something more than it would effect what was being hit.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:A hammer/spike on a drone won't do much as all the energy from it is just going to effect the drone, there needs to be something to anchor the bot for a hammer to be effective. Yeah, it would be more of a gimmick bot than anything. Oh wait, a drone with a magnet system on the bottom that could land on an enemy bot and then start drilling into it. EDIT: 24x 10 lb drones that somehow have a drilling system on them flying around like this and doing tons of light-damage attacks over 3 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbKD7oHJ8tY Some Pinko Commie fucked around with this message at 13:09 on Sep 9, 2016 |
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That drill bot with a magnet exists, was in the season. Failed to land on the other robot. Once again, it's ridiculously difficult to pilot a drone in the battlebox because it's actually quite turbulent in there due to the way it's ventilated.
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Pakled posted:There's a rule that flying bots can only be a maximum of 10 pounds. If the blade's on the bottom, it's not a flying bot. It's a hover bot.
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MMM Whatchya Say posted:Once again, it's ridiculously difficult to pilot a drone in the battlebox because it's actually quite turbulent in there due to the way it's ventilated. I would imagine any combination of large spinny weapons buzzing about might have an effect on air currents, too.
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Rumble 3 is up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-xQuS92N1g Lockjaws flipper works! Although its either not working properly or it sucks
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Looks fine to me, it worked every time with decent pop. It's no Bronco, but I don't think it was intended to be a launcher. If we're talking about robots that suck, lets talk about Ghost Raptor.
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