Robot Arena 3

[Meganerdbomb]

How come no one want to talk about Early Access program?

It's kinda a big deal if they don't want to get down-voted early on.

I didn't think about it at the time but I'll definitely mention it now.

Though they are monitoring this thread so they might already be aware.

Of course Andy is monitoring this thread, he laughs his ass off doing it too

[Dexterhunter]

Wouldn't it be hilarious is there was a havok explosion button.

[Thyrus]

Why would you want this?  and wouldn't it be called unityexplosion

[Dexterhunter]

cause its funny

[Gauche Suede]

Why would you want this?  and wouldn't it be called unityexplosion

Uhh it should be Physxplosion since the game's using the Physx physics engine.

[Badger]

Why would you want this?  and wouldn't it be called unityexplosion

Uhh it should be Physxplosion since the game's using the Physx physics engine.

Really? Looking forward to it not working on AMD.

[Squirrel_Monkey]

How come no one want to talk about Early Access program?

It's kinda a big deal if they don't want to get down-voted early on.

Just putting it out there. I'm 100% against doing early access. Don't give an unfinished game to the general public. To me that's more of a cash grab than DLC as they can charge before they've even finished the game.

[Gauche Suede]

Why would you want this?  and wouldn't it be called unityexplosion

Uhh it should be Physxplosion since the game's using the Physx physics engine.

Really? Looking forward to it not working on AMD.

Don't worry, this game's requirements are so low that you"ll be able to get 120 FPS maxed out even if Physx physically makes AMD cards explode.

[Badger]

Why would you want this?  and wouldn't it be called unityexplosion

Uhh it should be Physxplosion since the game's using the Physx physics engine.

Really? Looking forward to it not working on AMD.

Don't worry, this game's requirements are so low that you"ll be able to get 120 FPS maxed out even if Physx physically makes AMD cards explode.

I swear physx doesn't even run on AMD. Not an issue for me but I'm not a fan of companies supporting nvidia's sh**ty anti-consumer business practises.

[Bobyasianboy]

Why would you want this?  and wouldn't it be called unityexplosion

Uhh it should be Physxplosion since the game's using the Physx physics engine.

Really? Looking forward to it not working on AMD.

That's a good point, forgot about that. It's not going to be a resourceful game though, I guess you can run it through the integrated graphics card?

Don't worry, this game's requirements are so low that you"ll be able to get 120 FPS maxed out even if Physx physically makes AMD cards explode.

I'm pretty sure it just straight up doesn't work with AMD cards.

[Badger]

Why would you want this?  and wouldn't it be called unityexplosion

Uhh it should be Physxplosion since the game's using the Physx physics engine.

Really? Looking forward to it not working on AMD.

That's a good point, forgot about that. It's not going to be a a resourceful game though, I guess you can run it through the integrated graphics card?

Don't worry, this game's requirements are so low that you"ll be able to get 120 FPS maxed out even if Physx physically makes AMD cards explode.

I'm pretty it just straight up doesn't work with AMD cards.

From what I've read it straight up doesn't, and AMD users need to use a CPU-only version which has a ton of features stripped from it. If it means a better physics engine it's great for nVidia users but really sucks for everyone else, and I imagine a significant playerbase of this game will be people without a dedicated gaming rig (more likely to have AMD/no GFX card)

[Squirrel_Monkey]

Don't mix up PhysX as a physics engine choice with PhysX as a high end Nvidia exclusive feature. This game will almost certainly use the low end physX that comes with many engines that works absolutely fine on the CPU.

[Bobyasianboy]

Why would you want this?  and wouldn't it be called unityexplosion

Uhh it should be Physxplosion since the game's using the Physx physics engine.

Really? Looking forward to it not working on AMD.

That's a good point, forgot about that. It's not going to be a a resourceful game though, I guess you can run it through the integrated graphics card?

Don't worry, this game's requirements are so low that you"ll be able to get 120 FPS maxed out even if Physx physically makes AMD cards explode.

I'm pretty it just straight up doesn't work with AMD cards.

From what I've read it straight up doesn't, and AMD users need to use a CPU-only version which has a ton of features stripped from it. If it means a better physics engine it's great for nVidia users but really sucks for everyone else, and I imagine a significant playerbase of this game will be people without a dedicated gaming rig (more likely to have AMD/no GFX card)

In that case, I don't think there'll be that advanced physics calculations in a game like this, the CPU version will probably be fine.

[Badger]

Don't mix up PhysX as a physics engine choice with PhysX as a high end Nvidia exclusive feature. This game will almost certainly use the low end physX that comes with many engines that works absolutely fine on the CPU.

Cool, thanks for the insight.

[Thyrus]

I know this is too much to ask but why don't you guys just wait to see how the game will be?
I trust Mr. Zoss and Click with the things they've said. I'm still scepitcal about some things as well but let's just wait and see. Even if RA3 is just an updated version of RA2 I wouln't mind.

-hypehype

[TDS]

I know this is too much to ask but why don't you guys just wait to see how the game will be?
I trust Mr. Zoss and Click with the things they've said. I'm still scepitcal about some things as well but let's just wait and see. Even if RA3 is just an updated version of RA2 I wouln't mind.

-hypehype

Thats pretty much all i'm expecting, which is fine, as long as the mod tools are open ended enough and the whole thing doesn't break down at high rpm/speeds/ect. because I think everyone can agree that  having to deal with stability and centrifugal force in mods with the powerful motors was more fun than the mostly boring spinners of vanilla

It's also not exactly rocket science to stop "massive" physics explosions these days :)
But I think you need the flexible shaft attachment points or else you need to model materials flexing (or the impacts get uninteresting because nothing really happens)  I'm hoping that the stacked motor spinner bug isn't in this one.

I'm also hoping for a control type that lets us adjust throttle without a wacky joystick controller or something, full on/full off doesn't really happen anymore unless you want your batteries and such bursting into flames and would be way too squirrely for drive.

... Now that I think about it, pushing your batteries too far and causing fires inside your robot would be relatively simple to do (each battery has a max amp draw, dont exceed it or add more batteries) and awesome, and could be a strong balance measure to push people away from the many many rotor spinners.

[WeN]

RA3 Different than RA2

[Stigma]

RA3 Different than RA2

Indeed

[Vincent]

From what I've read it straight up doesn't, and AMD users need to use a CPU-only version which has a ton of features stripped from it. If it means a better physics engine it's great for nVidia users but really sucks for everyone else, and I imagine a significant playerbase of this game will be people without a dedicated gaming rig (more likely to have AMD/no GFX card)

It's not actually that bad as you make it sound to be.  PhysX do work on AMD cpu just fine.  Most of the features that was disabled on AMD cpu aren't important, such as extra physical particles, physical volume cloud particles, etc etc.   AMD users aren't really missing out much because most developers don't actually use them in their games.

Kerbal Space Program is a good example of using PhysX and AMD players playing the game just fine.

[Badger]

From what I've read it straight up doesn't, and AMD users need to use a CPU-only version which has a ton of features stripped from it. If it means a better physics engine it's great for nVidia users but really sucks for everyone else, and I imagine a significant playerbase of this game will be people without a dedicated gaming rig (more likely to have AMD/no GFX card)

It's not actually that bad as you make it sound to be.  PhysX do work on AMD cpu just fine.  Most of the features that was disabled on AMD cpu aren't important, such as extra physical particles, physical volume cloud particles, etc etc.   AMD users aren't really missing out much because most developers don't actually use them in their games.

Kerbal Space Program is a good example of using PhysX and AMD players playing the game just fine.

I was thinking more of AMD GPUs rather than CPUs. But yeah, so long as everyone can play it equally ,it's cool