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Another Person posted:You mean THE hypnodisc, or is there a new one? Because the real deal ripped poo poo to shreds with a flywheel. If you had a weakspot, an opening in your armour or any kind of design, hypnodisc would destroy it. I think there was a bot on the last episode that had a hypnodisc-like weapon, but instead of actually tearing things apart it kinda lightly bonked whatever it hit. Although I just watched a bunch of battlebots matches on youtube so I might be mixing up poor weapon design choices across the years.
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Great White Hope posted:I think there was a bot on the last episode that had a hypnodisc-like weapon, but instead of actually tearing things apart it kinda lightly bonked whatever it hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58j1MypGJDA&t=34s but bots have advanced since then.
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Coaaab posted:Warhead was the poo poo 10+ years ago: To be fair, it's Nightmare. Everything kills Nightmare.
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Jun 23, 2015 05:18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEqZ61-MPQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw5udUEzcXM
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Jun 23, 2015 05:19
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i would like to see a humanoid in battlebots who just picks his opponents up and rips them apart with his collosal robot strength
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Great White Hope posted:I think there was a bot on the last episode that had a hypnodisc-like weapon, but instead of actually tearing things apart it kinda lightly bonked whatever it hit. Hypnodisc was never Battlebots, he was Robot Wars, a UK show. The effectiveness of a flywheel on a battle bot is determined by the defences of the opposing robot, so if you get an enemy with very heavy, well constructed armour, a flywheel like Hypnodisc has will not be too effective. Icewave is probably the closest comparison to Hypnodisc from Battlebots. It isn't a flywheel, but the offense is the same. You have a really quickly rotating object with edges, corners or blades spinning on it. You ram that into another bot and punch into it, which then grabs and rips the shell off of the enemy bot. It has the same weakness too. If the armour is too thick, then you won't be able to punch into it and gain a leverage to rip their armour off. If that happens, and you can't manage to find some other weakeness like major supports or wheels you can punch off, then you will just ricochet off of the other bot repeatedly. It can be a good defence, to keep them back, but it won't beat them. Icewave is actually a really good evolution of Hypnodisc. It seems to have more coverage by the weapon, which protects the rear and sides better. Alongside that, the wheels are less exposed, which was a severe weakness of Hypnodisc. You hit his wheels, and you might break them. e; warhead looks like a vastly inferior hypnodisc. It doesn't have the objects that hypnodisc had which punch into armour and pull with rotation off. I hope Icewave kicks his rear end. Another Person fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Jun 23, 2015 05:31
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We're just biding our time until Real Steel becomes a reality. Someday as we're watching terrifying humanoid death machines rend each other limb from limb we will look at these days as quaint and primitive.
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Another Person posted:Hypnodisc info. Yeah, I know. Hypnodisc is/was awesome. Should have made it clear I knew Hypnodisc was different from the poor man's version they were talking about.
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Where can I watch this immediately
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ChrisBTY posted:We're just biding our time until Real Steel becomes a reality. Uh excuse me but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7bSN30RRCI
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Another Person posted:Hypnodisc was never Battlebots, he was Robot Wars, a UK show. The effectiveness of a flywheel on a battle bot is determined by the defences of the opposing robot, so if you get an enemy with very heavy, well constructed armour, a flywheel like Hypnodisc has will not be too effective. Surgeon General: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wj5r_QO6puE M.O.E.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsSVItSO4LI and Mechavore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hCD5tv1uv8
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Great White Hope posted:Yeah, I know. Hypnodisc is/was awesome. Should have made it clear I knew Hypnodisc was different from the poor man's version they were talking about. Oh yeah, I'm watching right now and Warhead really is a poor mans version. They took the aesthetic of Razer and the weapon of Hypnodisc, took everything both had which made them good and weakened them. Looking closer, Warhead does have something to punch into armour, but the disc isn't big enough to really take advantage of it. The disc needs to be wider, so that it spends more time punching into the enemy and grabbing onto something. Warhead's disc is pointed downwards on an angle as well, which only shortens the time that the jutty parts would spend in a position to really hit the enemy. This also has the disadvantage of making it much worse at fighting anything much bigger than it, because it will be plinking away at the heavier base of a robot, which will just make it ricochet off of it. Seems like a really poor design choice. It also looks too light to stay on the offensive with that weapon and centre of gravity, because it will just bounce off of heavier bots. It is like going into a boxing match and holding your elbows at your forehead level. You won't have the momentum or angle to really get good hits in. What a scrub. e; I have never seen Battlebots before, so I don't actually know any that might be closer to Hypnodisc. I will be sure to check those links out. I needed fighting robots in my life. e2; lol warhead got suplexed what a joke Another Person fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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When this happened I loving lost my tiny little mind. I loved the old battlebots show and this is all I ever wanted from it. Also the new show somehow isn't unbearable despite it only being 4 fights in 1 hour. I'm impressed. edit: Also it seems the power of the weapons has greatly outpaced the armor. I'm really excited.
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AlmightyPants posted:When this happened I loving lost my tiny little mind. I loved the old battlebots show and this is all I ever wanted from it. I really hope that they cut down on the amount of vignettes giving backstory and have more fights in later episodes. I don't know what they would even have in them after introductions have been done. The most they could do is show repairs to the robots being done and a pre-/post-fight interview.
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I don't understand why someone would build a fighting robot based on anything other than ruthless efficiency.
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I guess it's possible that crowd darlings could draw more favorable sponsorship deals. Of course they generally have to have the sponsorship before building the robot, I'm not sure how that works. Speaking of which. I stopped paying attention to fighting robots after Battlebots went off the air so I was unaware of the infinite glory that is Razer. Every Razer match I've seen on Youtube is basically it making the other robot look like the fighting robot equivalent of the Washington Generals. Both in style and substance (man, robot wars had some ugly robots and bad lighting)
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Dammit I had a perfect montage of Chaos 2 set to John Cena's theme tune around here somewhere... Also Mick Foley? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOSszw4LoqY and flippy poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXIreYJq-p0
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I didn't really remember the last season before the show got cancelled so I dug up some episodes on Youtube. Gary Coleman was in attendance and half of the run time was spent on Carmen Electra in a school girl outfit and comedy skits featuring the nerds that built the robots. The guy who made Ziggo was dressed in a gi in a dojo and his fighting style was to spin around really fast.
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Did Battlebots have house bots? Sir Killalot was the bee's knees.
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I don't think I ever saw Robot Wars. Is it...is it like a robot lumberjack match?
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I just remembered Robot Wars had judges who were used as decision and tie breakers. I want the job of deciding which robot kicked more rear end in a robot fight.
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Blooming Brilliant posted:I just remembered Robot Wars had judges who were used as decision and tie breakers. It sounds like this one does too so your dream job has hope yet.
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Another Person posted:e; I have never seen Battlebots before, so I don't actually know any that might be closer to Hypnodisc. I will be sure to check those links out. I needed fighting robots in my life. Battlebots seemed to have less strict rules about weaponry, so a lot of the better robots from the British show would be pretty bad on Battlebots. Like there were some robots that spun completely. No weakpoints, the entire robot is the weapon.
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Aphrodite posted:Battlebots seemed to have less strict rules about weaponry, so a lot of the better robots from the British show would be pretty bad on Battlebots. I used to own a VHS of the first Robot Wars World Cup and one of the bots from Battle Bots was in it. It never made it out of the starting gate though cause health and safety said it might be a danger to the audience or something liked that. Years later I checked on YouTube what this battle bot was and yeah it was one of those that spun entirety but with the added fun of a bunch of flails attached to it. Robot Wars at the end of the day was slightly more kid friendly and aimed more at a younger audience / dads with a garage and too much free time. Blooming Brilliant fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Jun 23, 2015 |
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Jun 23, 2015 15:09
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Is there any robot covered in anime decals like those Japanese drift racers
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Blooming Brilliant posted:I used to own a VHS of the first Robot Wars World Cup and one of the bots from Battle Bots was in it. It never made it out of the starting gate though cause health and safety said it might be a danger to the audience or something liked that. Was it Blendo? Blendo was actually made by the Mythbusters guys, well before the show. They were asked to withdraw twice, first after launching shrapnel from another robot into the audience and then years later after the walls had been raised damaging them with more robot shrapnel. They took it to Battlebots and it never won a match.
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Aphrodite posted:Was it Blendo?
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I always loved the intricately designed robots on the old Battlebots that almost never won like Mechadon and Warhead. Gutted to see that Chinkilla isn't in the new one like it was rumoured to be.
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Do not even ask posted:I always loved the intricately designed robots on the old Battlebots that almost never won like Mechadon and Warhead. I decided to check, and learned that both Mechadon and Snake managed to win matches.
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Do not even ask posted:I always loved the intricately designed robots on the old Battlebots that almost never won like Mechadon and Warhead. Apparently it was there but only as an exhibition thing.
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Kenny Florian loses his mind harder over robots scraping by each than he does when top ranked fighters get knocked out and I love it
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Aphrodite posted:Battlebots seemed to have less strict rules about weaponry, so a lot of the better robots from the British show would be pretty bad on Battlebots. Those were my favorites, like Ziggo and the previously mentioned Son of Whyachi. Except for Hazard though. Hazard somehow made being a full-body killbot boring. It's because I think it went undefeated. Through the entire course of the show. When I saw Hypnodisk my reaction was 'Did robot wars disallow full-body spinners?' It makes sense since there's really no strategy to fighting those things other than 'ram into it and hope your armor is better than their weapons.'
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Battlebots did 5.4 million viewers. All hail our new professional
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Yeah, Robot Wars had pretty strict rules on weapons and safety. For example, that dumb loving robot from the last episode of BB which had two partner robots which blew up would definitely not be allowed. It was a BBC production, so it had standards to maintain. It was the thinking man's fighting robots. Also, while yes, most of the Robot Wars bots would probably lose, like the one that was made of wood and fur that was always set on fire by Sergeant Bash, but I reckon a few would stand a chance in there. Hypnodisc, Razer, Chaos 2 (simlply due to speed) and Behemoth if they gave it a better weapon due to laxxed restrictions. So hype that Battlebots drew 5.4m, if it can keep it up then it has a good future.
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Razer was king of the UK, to the point where people started designing specifically to counter it in the chance they'd end up being against it. The original Hypno Disc, before they were forced to nerf it, was rad as gently caress too. I vaguely remember the reason they had to slow the flywheel was because there was genuine fear it would just shatter on impact with something and send shrapnel screaming off in every direction. gently caress Chaos 2.
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Another Person posted:Also, while yes, most of the Robot Wars bots would probably lose, like the one that was made of wood and fur that was always set on fire by Sergeant Bash, Nemesis owned though
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Blasmeister posted:Nemesis owned though he did, whenever I managed to get a Robot Wars game I would try and make something like him
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Great White Hope posted:Battlebots did 5.4 million viewers. There's something glorious about a small scale show about robot fighting doing a better rating than massive wrestling conglomerate WWE. I'm sure advertisers don't mind Battlebots either, and each show has to have like 1/10th of the budget, if that. When Vince gets wind of this and launches the X-Bot league it'll be glorious. I can already see the animatronic robot cheerleaders he'll film when ratings drop. Oh, and I hope we got lots of seasons and we see a bunch of jobber robots keep showing up just to get owned. Gotta make Plan X look strong, brother!
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