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Battlebots has a page up on Amazon Prime Video again, but it's prompting for Discovery+ this year.  Maybe that will change after the first episode's up
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Bluh, episode's up on Amazon now, you do need Discovery+ after all, 5 a month. I'll just have to make a note to cancel it
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:i want Pain Train to be good, but good lord, they just spin that eggbeater up and then cannot turn for poo poo It seems like a lot of newer teams have that issue, I guess they don't have a chance to practice or drive on the material in advance They were better than last year but same problem still
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That pic makes it look like Shatter's not bothering with the ablative armor
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Great Beer posted:So do you just start giving remotes to the audience? I don't think you can fit 250 people around box. Either a team of volunteers or just have them all more or less slaved to the same controller(s)
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Has Rotator really never won Lol
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BurntCornMuffin posted:They've had wins, going 1-2 in season 5's quals. Oh I misunderstood the guy, was going to say
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They should add some slight hills or elevation too. Varied terrain is more interesting and would mix things up
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Ror posted:I totally forgot that they tried to stage a few giant robot fights, turns out they're all hilariously bad. I timestamped the "action". Lmao at fight 2
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I want to see another extra-heavy barely mobile walker or crawler at some point, it's a fun idea even if the extra weight allowance is really just pity points
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Railing Kill posted:I think of Duck like I think of the stax archetype in Magic the Gathering, which is not good. Like, I get the value of a control build but it can be done without being so dang boring. Even the thing's aesthetic design is boring. I think anything that blocks or interferes with the other person driving is banned now. They should loosen that hard though. Add chaff and chains, tangle the other person up, box em in, who cares?
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Rip in parts Blade
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The thing with that fight wasn't the swap for the catcher, it's that it specifically disabled their main weapon and they won by doing nothing. They also started ignoring the ref after that
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Here's how Ghost Raptor can still win:
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DarklyDreaming posted:Re-entering as four separate robots? Ghost Compies
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Lol at that being a split decision
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Lol the Tombstone/Free Shipping fight Tombstone could probably use some sort of an overhaul
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I'm telling you, 500 1 pound bots. Name them the Smiths.
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That was probably the worst possible strategy for Deep Six to do
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House robots in Robot Wars were lame if only because no one ever teamed up to try and intentionally kill one (presumably because in the rules they couldn't)
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Lmao it's what I always wanted to see thank you
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Huge honestly should've been counted out. It couldn't move in a straight line way before it knocked Switchback out
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Rusty will drop in from the rafters on the winner, taking the nut for itself Also, how heavy is the nut, how feasibly could you make a robot containing it in some way
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=771rW5eI6y4 Lol It's a fun idea though
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Rip that Omniwheel robot, done in by logistics I want P1 to win now by doing nothing lmao
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I'm pretty convinced now that Tombstone's general design needs some sort of overhaul or rethought, it just can't really keep up anymore. Feel like that should've gone to Mad Catter. Black Dragon was a little more aggressive but MC did more damage. Control was even. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Any word about post-season stuff this time around or can I go ahead and cancel my discovery+ sub after next week
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Minotaur or bust now let's go
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Borsche69 posted:sawblaze is the best though. SOB/TDD but it does real straight up damage I ate at a local park yesterday and a kid in a bench a ways from us agreed, loudly First time I've ever heard a single person talk about Battlebots in person lmao
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The bot of Theseus
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PostNouveau posted:lol if Jake Ewert just spray-painted "Hydra" on Son of Whyachi or something. We've seen shots of multiple chassis for lots of robots, so I assume it's not just that.
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That one team technically has two different bots in right? I wonder if that's related
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ante posted:Someone sneaks a second bot into the same fight My god that's Rusty's music!
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Sir DonkeyPunch posted:You know, I was thinking in the past episode that it seemed like flippers weren't aiming for the DQ as much as I thought they should, I guess that rule explains why That's a weird rule change. I guess it's for safety?
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Really surprised how things ended out! I think the problems as ever are just that the refs are really inconsistent and a lot of the rules around sticks/outs/controlled movement/etc. are poorly thought outBushido Brown posted:Separately on the “controversy” I’ll say without spoilers that it wasn’t as controversial as I expected and I assume that it must have read differently live, because I didn’t see anything here that I thought would really change the outcome. Reddit is saying that the audience went apeshit particularly towards the women RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Apr 7, 2022 |
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sweet geek swag posted:If you have to dodge the other bot, you shouldn't be looking for a count out. [/spoiler] Yeah exactly. Minotaur was "crab walking", but also really obviously limping in Witch Doctor's direction - it had to keep retreating from it. Also I always laugh when they have a guy come out with a crowbar and get to it lol
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