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halokiller posted: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). Mammoth and Deep Six careening off each other like a giant pinball game and rebounding off the walls and ceiling, smashing up the arena as they go .... Nope, can't see any down side. Make it so!
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i don’t understand why more bots don’t use shatter’s fancy wheels, it looks like a very good advantage. i’m guessing it’s because they are larger?
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logikv9 posted:i don’t understand why more bots don’t use shatter’s fancy wheels, it looks like a very good advantage. i’m guessing it’s because they are larger? They didn't seem to work all that well honestly. I would imagine controlling it is much less intuitive from the user side than a traditional car-setup or a 2/3 wheel setup.
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logikv9 posted:i don’t understand why more bots don’t use shatter’s fancy wheels, it looks like a very good advantage. i’m guessing it’s because they are larger? My understanding is that traction can be problematic, plus those wheels are more complex and fiddly poo poo to break and repair.
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logikv9 posted:i don’t understand why more bots don’t use shatter’s fancy wheels, it looks like a very good advantage. i’m guessing it’s because they are larger? You trade pushing power and traction by using these wheels. Sure you can circle strafe people, but you likely can't win a straight up pushing match. Remember that lovely Chomp/Basilisk fight? Basilisk had mechanum wheels in the rear, and that's one of the reasons it was barely mobile; it had very little traction. They're also more fragile and much more expensive than regular wheels, which can frighten some people away. Still, I agree that more bots should be at least trying out the fancy wheels.
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ah that's disappointing. it makes sense though because each team knows that at some point they're going to be a glorified push bot
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Omni wheels are cool, used them for my FIRST bot back in the day I think a flipper bot would get the most use out of them
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Fun episode. I am still in awe how Witchdoctor went from a semi-standard bot with a bunch of gimmick minibots to a killing machine.
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logikv9 posted:ah that's disappointing. it makes sense though because each team knows that at some point they're going to be a glorified push bot The builders of Shatter just did an AMA on the battlebots reddit: quote:Mecanum wheels are great because you can drive sideways, but due to some funky physics you end up with only ~70% of the pushing power of a normal bot. The wheels also have 115 parts each, instead of a normal which which has like, 2. So they're fragile. And expensive. Many types of Omni drive exist, but what I like about mecanums is that if they break, the robot just drives like a normal robot. So they have a nice Fail-Safe mode.
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Both episodes so far have been satisfying, especially since that Amazon $2 season worked. I'm interested in where the Mammoth robot is going to ultimately place. The wheels seem like a vulnerability, but since it's so large, surely the design would allow them to place it within the frame instead of so far outboard?
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hehe looks like Amazon fixed it I assume. Went from $1.99 to $14.99 - though season 3 costs $29.99 so I'm curious on why the price is half of that. Eh I don't care I'm not paying them to watch it
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Ragnarok with the wettest of farts e: OK, Mad Catter was worse Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Jun 22, 2019 |
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If that one made it to the initial broadcast, imagine how bad the one that got science channeled is.
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Railgun Max and the team are really cool.
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Nightmare guy is back Bring back Nightmare in exhibition tia
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I enjoyed Lucky vs Bloodsport "Yeah, it was cool"
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Is there a good place to get older episodes?
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sure,  e: if you're willing to pay there's always amazon though I guess they don't do season 1 and 2 of the revived series, just 3 and the current season 4 Scrotum Modem fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jun 22, 2019 |
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Chronojam posted:Is there a good place to get older episodes? A lot of the CC era ones are on YouTube So Hydra is like immobile Bronco? Cause I'm down with that
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It's a tradition that Whyachi bots have to drive like poo poo. I enjoyed Yeti vs Bite Force. Yeti is one of those bots that refuses to die and may have won by KO at the end if they could have flipped itself over. (also they got stuck 3 times during that fight but was edited out)
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Breaker Box and Duck are basically the same bots...
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Pretty much, though breaker box has been around for a long time now. It also has been perpetually under powered and has a history of battery problems, so nothings really changed with it.
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halokiller posted:(also they got stuck 3 times during that fight but was edited out) lmao show us the clinches you cowards
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I feel like for every season of battlebots that passes the bots just get more and more unreliable and prone to fail. It's like everyone starts their design with 'lets make the best weapon ever' and then forget that the thing has to actually move around and interact with stuff. So many bots which struggle with driving around before the opposing bot has even gotten a shot in. So many bots that have seemingly meaningless levels of complexity (two opposing drum spinners???!). Sawblaze and Penguin last season were great counter-examples. Barely working/barely existant weaponry, but a very dependable and robust design overall. MiddleOne fucked around with this message at 17:22 on Jun 22, 2019 |
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Robots are hard.
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I havent watched in years but i heard theres a new Razer. Is it any good? I will always be a Razer fanboy.
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Lid posted:I havent watched in years but i heard theres a new Razer. Is it any good? I will always be a Razer fanboy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxOchhOW--A Go to 43:00.
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It looks a lot less sleek than it used to, it looks randomly bulky. Like the difference between Burton Batmobile vs Nolan Batmobile.
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Lid posted:It looks a lot less sleek than it used to, it looks randomly bulky. Like the difference between Burton Batmobile vs Nolan Batmobile. IIRC, they actually designed Spectre so carefully that it would go overweight if they put a single coin on it. Spectre and Quantum have such strong crushers and drive systems that not only can they pierce any bot, they can ram them into the walls extremely hard. I really hope that Quantum wins the whole thing but I have a bad feeling about what some of the spinners can do to it.
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I suck at remembering the names but they really hyped that new flipper and then put it against an essentially defenseless forklift and it wasn't very impressive.
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wormil posted:I suck at remembering the names but they really hyped that new flipper and then put it against an essentially defenseless forklift and it wasn't very impressive. Both of those seem like garbage yeah. Just bring out Nghtmare again even if it fails it'll explode real nice
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big yawner this week, just put hydra vs bronco you cowards
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perpetually flipping each other into the air on top of each other, until they break through the ceiling and ascend into space
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wormil posted:I suck at remembering the names but they really hyped that new flipper and then put it against an essentially defenseless forklift and it wasn't very impressive. At least the flipper did work that one time it connected.
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MiddleOne posted:At least the flipper did work that one time it connected. "A hydraulic flipper may not be as powerful as a gas flipper but the huge advantage is that it can flip 50 times per match! This is a game changer!!" /only gets in one decent flip Doesn't matter how many flips it's capable of doing if the driver can't catch the other bot 
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lmao Cobalt, A+ choke Duck is built out of unobtainium, christ
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Duck really got lucky there, Cobalt's spinner wasn't looking any worse for wear after dishing out a beating and then it somehow gets hopelessly stuck in the ground.
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Well at least Bombshell didn't die upside down this time.
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