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I wonder if they will honor the 1.99. I didn't really want to buy the season but for $2 I'll give it a shot.
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Fish Of Doom posted:After their super arrogant, "It's not my problem that we couldn't get our tooth out of your armor," I cant wait to see Quantum get absolutely obliterated by some spinner in future episodes. Please let Tombstone blow up that stupid computer-designed arm, it's all I ask. Knowing how it did on King of Bots, the way it goes is you knock out the teeth(as the arm is super loving tough) and then it clamps you because it works perfectly as a clamp bot. Then you get driven into hazards over and over again.
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Jun 10, 2019 16:48
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IIRC from last year it charges you an episode at a time, so it'd be 2 bucks each week.
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oh jay posted:They fall under a good spot on the fun vs function matrix. Blacksmith in particular is like the worst way to build a hammer bot if you actually want to compete. Though a hammer that can spit out flames makes for good glamour shots I give them that.
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I enjoyed seeing that the tooth that went into Blacksmith destroyed and shorted out a bunch of important looking stuff.
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They bit through a lot of important bits on King of Bots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxOchhOW--A&t=2739s Hub Cat fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Jun 10, 2019 21:06
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is blacksmith the worst bot that's been in multiple seasons besides chomp and maybe nightmare?
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Jun 11, 2019 04:58
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Lone Goat posted:is blacksmith the worst bot that's been in multiple seasons besides chomp and maybe nightmare? To be fair, it's been fighting some of the best bots in the series. Bronco, witch doctor, bite force, Minotaur twice, Quantum. It's not a bad bot, it's just a jobber that puts on a decent show.
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Have flamethrowers ever shown to be effective? I guess in theory they help overheat the opponent, but I rarely see their opponents break down or any after battle analysis show heat damage.
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Jun 13, 2019 16:45
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The most I hear about them is that they tend to gently caress up internals enough that they have to spend more time on repairs, and iirc there was a bot last year where the team p much implied damage from the previous (flamethrower) fight wasn't fully fixed so that's why their bot broke down p easily.
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Jun 13, 2019 16:54
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Complete Control vs Bombshell had good use of a flamethrower (even if according to the Bombshell team it was superficial damage) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkB2X3lbnGc
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Mumbling posted:Have flamethrowers ever shown to be effective? I guess in theory they help overheat the opponent, but I rarely see their opponents break down or any after battle analysis show heat damage. I feel like there have been a few times where they've gotten lucky and managed to fry some important circuits
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Mumbling posted:Have flamethrowers ever shown to be effective? I guess in theory they help overheat the opponent, but I rarely see their opponents break down or any after battle analysis show heat damage. They've been directly responsible for a victory exactly once that I can remember. Complete Control melted some of the wires in Bombshell while roasting it in a hold. They mostly look cool. They can also make it hard to see, which makes driving slightly more difficult sometimes.
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Interesting! I grew up on classic Robot Wars so only the House Robots had those kind of weapons. I’m still working through season 3 so I’ve yet to see the flamethrowers do much. I feel like a grump though because I see these flamethrowers, projectiles, drones, etc, fold my arms and think “Back in my day...”
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halokiller posted:Complete Control vs Bombshell had good use of a flamethrower (even if according to the Bombshell team it was superficial damage) That axe looks so weak. Did they not have any other functioning weapons they could have used?
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Queering Wheel posted:That axe looks so weak. Did they not have any other functioning weapons they could have used? Complete Control's top armor wasn't great, a skilled/lucky shot could have disabled the whole lifter system or worse.
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Queering Wheel posted:That axe looks so weak. Did they not have any other functioning weapons they could have used? They had 4 different weapons that season a vertical spinner, a adjustable horizontal spinner that wasn't great but chopped off a bots wheels one time, the axe , and apparently they had a lifter that I don't think they used. Here is the damage that they got in the complete control fight A pic they posted in the old thread 
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Mumbling posted:Interesting! I grew up on classic Robot Wars so only the House Robots had those kind of weapons. I’m still working through season 3 so I’ve yet to see the flamethrowers do much. I always wanted the competitors to team up and kill the house bots
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Mumbling posted:Have flamethrowers ever shown to be effective? I guess in theory they help overheat the opponent, but I rarely see their opponents break down or any after battle analysis show heat damage. They are a great way to play the judges decision game :P... Just like Saw Blaze's saw last season, that didn't do too much to most bots, but created lots of pretty sparks to go with the flames...
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RBA Starblade posted:I always wanted the competitors to team up and kill the house bots That 10-bot rumble on the last season of Robot Wars was supposed to be that, but most of the competitors didn't keep their agreement.
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yay Fuzzy is back Black Dragon won the shoving battle, but I guess Texas Twister did more damage with the weapon Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Jun 15, 2019 |
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Mammoth is cool Can't wait til Shred self-destructs loving called it Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 02:40 on Jun 15, 2019 |
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Jun 15, 2019 02:27
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ah, the old homer simpson strategy
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Mammoth is cool It's got that "Just crazy enough to work" feel to it and it's amazing
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Is this yeeting help me I do not know I am not good with computers
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Bombshell, "We got a new self righting mechanism" * Gets flipped over, dies *
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Mammoth is going to get destroyed by the first good horizontal spinner it faces, but I loving love it
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The Glumslinger posted:Mammoth is going to get destroyed by the first good horizontal spinner it faces, but I loving love it The first good vertical spinner is just gonna cripple their wheels which would amount to the same thing. I kinda wanna see it go up against Huge though, just to see if Mammoth can actually engage in lift-off with a bot that can actully move semi-competently and with a weapon that's actually threatening. Alternatively, I wanna see a bot like Bronco tip it over like a cow. There was that other bot they showed off that didn't fight in the first episode and they might pit Mammoth up against taht since they're both very tall bots.
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Seems that Mammoth was basically made to be a fun bot for Bronco to play with. Although I guess once it gets tipped over by any bot that's GG
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SolarFire2 posted:When are we going to have to accept that Captain Shrederator just doesn't work? Full-body spinners really have an amazing capability to self-destruct.
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Yeah the full body spinners are playing the opposite of the Homer Simpson strategy where they're hoping they manage to KO their opponent before they inevitably fall apart
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SolarFire2 posted:When are we going to have to accept that Captain Shrederator just doesn't work? What's weird is that it's Chinese counterpart, shrederator tiger claw, worked extremely well and came in fourth at TIFR. They did say they only had 3 days to prepare for battlebots after being a last second replacement for chomp, which didn't help.
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Huh, the season actually is only two bucks on Amazon - I didn't get charged again.
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RBA Starblade posted:Huh, the season actually is only two bucks on Amazon - I didn't get charged again. Yeah every so often they accidentally lost the season for the price of the first episode. I got a season of survivor and a season of Star Wars Resistance the same way.
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Xelkelvos posted:The first good vertical spinner is just gonna cripple their wheels which would amount to the same thing. I'm interested to see how Mammoth does this season but I'm also real interested to see how it does NEXT season after they've gone away and thought about what worked and what didn't and made modifications
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Chomp is out this year? Rip.
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Not as good as the first episode since there's a little too much crippled bots. And lack of Minotaur's trademark death hum. Mammoth was cool though.Xelkelvos posted:The first good vertical spinner is just gonna cripple their wheels which would amount to the same thing. That would be an interesting fight since Deep Six is probably the most powerful spinner in the competition and would completely destroy Mammoth if it ever connects, but it's unstable as gently caress and the gyro forces would mean even a little push by Mammoth means Deep Six careens off somewhere and shits itself (and the arena).
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