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Robot Arena => Discussion => Topic started by: Jimxorb on September 23, 2016, 10:14:19 PM
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Hi all,
I'm just stopping by to say "Hi".
Does anyone remember me? I used to be an admin on the official Robot Arena forum as well as the official tournament host. It's been exactly 12 since I registered on here.
For those that play RA2 still: If I can find it, I believe I have a USB stick somewhere with all of my old bots on, after all these years, does anyone want me to upload them and make them available for everyone? I spent a lot of time back in the day on many of them. Jex, E-Rupt and Hades might be my most well known, as well as Death Port 2. If people are interested I will dig it out tomorrow, tidy it up a bit and then will upload my entire collection.
EDIT:
I have uploaded my entire bot collection, here is the link to download it:
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=284
I have a write-up on each bot I am in the process of finishing and will post it here.
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Totally would be interested in that.
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Welcome back, Jim!
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i don't know this guy but...
Welcome Back! Jim!
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Hey fam.
GTM's gotten it's own official tournament (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=19266.0). It'd be cool if you checked it out. Maybe you could show some of those youngsters a thing or 2.
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Man, you were gone before I even got here. Always fun to see random people pop up like this.
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Hey fam.
GTM's gotten it's own official tournament (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=19266.0). It'd be cool if you checked it out. Maybe you could show some of those youngsters a thing or 2.
I'm not sure my rusty old bots would stand a chance against some of the modern creations. I'm sure lots has been discovered in regards to more effective designs in the last 10 years, so I am sure I'd be stomped.
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It's really cool to see you back here. I hope I do as good a job of hosting the GTM tournament as you did hosting the RA2 ones.
Also, I'd encourage just joining, anyway. Who knows, you could end up paired up with the newbies that aren't as good as people were 10 years ago :P
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Also, I'd encourage just joining, anyway. Who knows, you could end up paired up with the newbies that aren't as good as people were 10 years ago :P
Or people who are just terrible at stock. Hi. :D
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Wow. It's Jimxorb.
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Whoa. Nice to see you stop by man. :)
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Hey, nice to have you here, would love to see those bots.
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Hi all,
I'm just stopping by to say "Hi".
Does anyone remember me? I used to be an admin on the official Robot Arena forum as well as the official tournament host. It's been exactly 12 since I registered on here.
For those that play RA2 still: If I can find it, I believe I have a USB stick somewhere with all of my old bots on, after all these years, does anyone want me to upload them and make them available for everyone? I spent a lot of time back in the day on many of them. Jex, E-Rupt and Hades might be my most well known, as well as Death Port 2. If people are interested I will dig it out tomorrow, tidy it up a bit and then will upload my entire collection.
-Jim
J-j-j-j-j-j-jj-j.....JIMXORB?!?!?!?!!?!?!!
Welcome back....
Thanks for the popup man...
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I'm working on tidying up my Bot collection a bit and writing a bit of info about various designs and why they came into existence. Where is the best place to upload this when I am done?
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The file uploader (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?page=file_host), Mediafire, anywhere to be honest
Edit to Yugi: Yeah, sorry, I assumed he would've wanted to upload as an all-in-one bundle collection
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That's for uploading in bulk. You can also use the bot exchange (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?page=page1887) if you want to keep them archived with the rest of GTM's bots, but you'd have to upload them one-by-one.
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I rather have them uploaded in bulk that be thrown on the cluster f that is the bot exchange. you can put them in the Bots section of the downloads area then.
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?action=downloads;cat=2
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Hello. :)
I always like it when ra2 legends randomly stop by.
Like Mr. AS said, it would be great if you entered The GTM Championship.
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I have uploaded my entire collection of 96 bots. These are old bots (12 years+) but I have charged all of their batteries up and they are ready to go. Enjoy!
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=284
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Actually, I had wanted to take a look at some of your more famous bots. Thanks!
(also, thanks for nigh on inventing the popup, man.)
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I didn't the popup wedge. The first time I saw one, if my memory serves, was Omegaforce's ICED OUT, his used 2 iron spikes that fired forward, I previously had 2 spike strips in a wedge that fired upwards. I switched to his forward set up and used a y connector with 2 razor tips on each DDT. This design is what really made popup wedges popular, that bot was called Death Port and this weapon set up blew the iron spikes out of the water.
I gave Death Port to Be0t, he liked it. He made a new version which was slightly larger but kept the overall shape and internals. He handed it back to me with this new set up. I actually stripped all the internals out and positioned them correctly as Be0t had only placed them very roughly, the robot got a skin and became Death Port 2 aka DP2. DP2 became the RA2T#2 champion and the ARC T2 (I think) champion. This design was cloned a lot, it was incredibly powerful. When he was entered into the tournaments he just looked like a wedge, nobody knew what weapons he had, which was obviously 4 razor tips. The trick to using this design is to get under a bot and stay under the bot, even if you need to push them to a wall before you dish out the damage. Be0t was very good at driving this style of bot.
I eventually made Death Port 3 which was similar but had a flipper with a small wedge, this design would get under any bot that did not have a similar set up, a design I had previously used on Hades. All of these bots are included in my collection. DP2 actually has the skin I gave him after he became the champion, this is the exact way he looks on the tournament arena floor skin. His original skin has been lost to time.
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Be0t was very good at driving this style of bot.
man the glory days when driving mattered
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Hi all,
I'm just stopping by to say "Hi".
Does anyone remember me? I used to be an admin on the official Robot Arena forum as well as the official tournament host. It's been exactly 12 since I registered on here.
For those that play RA2 still: If I can find it, I believe I have a USB stick somewhere with all of my old bots on, after all these years, does anyone want me to upload them and make them available for everyone? I spent a lot of time back in the day on many of them. Jex, E-Rupt and Hades might be my most well known, as well as Death Port 2. If people are interested I will dig it out tomorrow, tidy it up a bit and then will upload my entire collection.
EDIT:
I have uploaded my entire bot collection, here is the link to download it:
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=284 (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=284)
I have a write-up on each bot I am in the process of finishing and will post it here.
Welcome back!
EDIT: I still have my B4B sig:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/furezo/frezalb4b.jpg)
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Hi all,
I'm just stopping by to say "Hi".
Does anyone remember me? I used to be an admin on the official Robot Arena forum as well as the official tournament host. It's been exactly 12 since I registered on here.
For those that play RA2 still: If I can find it, I believe I have a USB stick somewhere with all of my old bots on, after all these years, does anyone want me to upload them and make them available for everyone? I spent a lot of time back in the day on many of them. Jex, E-Rupt and Hades might be my most well known, as well as Death Port 2. If people are interested I will dig it out tomorrow, tidy it up a bit and then will upload my entire collection.
EDIT:
I have uploaded my entire bot collection, here is the link to download it:
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=284 (https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=284)
I have a write-up on each bot I am in the process of finishing and will post it here.
Welcome back!
EDIT: I still have my B4B sig:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v255/furezo/frezalb4b.jpg)
Hey! Awesome.
I found one of my old ones:
(https://photos-2.dropbox.com/t/2/AABPSE-nAK4YeXn0-rppXlqMR6Te0gK_Jh9gZZqC5l1igw/12/1615584/jpeg/1024x768/3/1475031600/0/2/Photo%2027-09-2016%2C%2011%2020%2055%20pm.jpg/ELecqQEY6cCDBCAHKAc/HRa3YLOtFpRgP_ddXgEOdWqhgFEHmyAv82m6AxSdtYY?size_mode=3&size=1024x768)
Also found this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050209004523/http://www.b4b.jimxorb.com/Tree1.htm (http://web.archive.org/web/20050209004523/http://www.b4b.jimxorb.com/Tree1.htm)
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any stories/history behind the jex and e-rupt series?
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any stories/history behind the jex and e-rupt series?
Yeah. I was in the process of writing them up. I shall continue tonight. E-Rupt was basically an accidental dicovery, I kept that one a secret for a while and just posted a video of what he could do and challenged people to work out how it was achieved. I believe it was Clickbeetle that got it right in the end after quite a while. Frankly I was opposed to people using a bot like that in tournaments. I do remember having some fun matches using E-Rupt against C2's flipper bots, often the matches ended with 1 flip.
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any stories/history behind the jex and e-rupt series?
Yeah. I was in the process of writing them up. I shall continue tonight. E-Rupt was basically an accidental dicovery, I kept that one a secret for a while and just posted a video of what he could do and challenged people to work out how it was achieved. I believe it was Clickbeetle that got it right in the end after quite a while. Frankly I was opposed to people using a bot like that in tournaments. I do remember having some fun matches using E-Rupt against C2's flipper bots, often the matches ended with 1 flip.
Probably should do this write-up at some point if anyone is interested. I still remember so much about these bots. I spent so much time building them back in the day.
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Just found this thread. How was no one interested in this? I'd be totally down for gathering 'round the fire and listening to old war stories.
any stories/history behind the jex and e-rupt series?
Yeah. I was in the process of writing them up. I shall continue tonight. E-Rupt was basically an accidental dicovery, I kept that one a secret for a while and just posted a video of what he could do and challenged people to work out how it was achieved. I believe it was Clickbeetle that got it right in the end after quite a while. Frankly I was opposed to people using a bot like that in tournaments. I do remember having some fun matches using E-Rupt against C2's flipper bots, often the matches ended with 1 flip.
Probably should do this write-up at some point if anyone is interested. I still remember so much about these bots. I spent so much time building them back in the day.
Also did I really figure out the E-Rupt setup? I don't remember doing that but now that you mention it, I do remember it being a mystery for a long time and trying to guess how it worked. Some people were speculating that you just used cheated burst motors.
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You can use the quake burst motors, but adding DDTs with sideways 60 cm. extenders and angle connectors will provide you with the rupt glitch.
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You can use the quake burst motors, but adding DDTs with sideways 60 cm. extenders and angle connectors will provide you with the rupt glitch.
You need to read comments more. This thread was made in 2016
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why do you just make up terms like "quake burst motor"
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Can you guys please stop replying to his bumps so I only have to delete one post instead of 3-4 posts, thanks.
also im pretty sure the quake burst motor is from firebeetles part pack