Robot Arena 3

[RTC]

Has there be any mention of the parts being directly imported from RA2 being modified in any kind of way, such as modification of normals, or general buffs/nerfs?

[cephalopod]

That sort of stuff I imagine we'll only know on release, as it's likely just the visual models they're using.

[RedSawn]

I'm curious as to how the points system will work, and if weaponless flippers/push/control bots will get some love in that regard

[Tygron]

I have a feeling, looking at what we have here, that walkerbots won't be viable. But they might surprise us.

Also hey it's ACAMS again :D Been a loooooong time.

[Meganerdbomb]

So is today the day we find out it was all April fools?

[WeN]

Emergency Will be back on RA3?

[TDS]

I have a feeling, looking at what we have here, that walkerbots won't be viable. But they might surprise us.

Also hey it's ACAMS again :D Been a loooooong time.

It's entirely on if the tourneys we run allow a weight bonus for them or what, it would be virtually impossible to program in a walker weight bonus that couldn't be exploited greatly.

It'll be interesting to see how they are doing lever/lifter/ect. forces and such, I have a few RA2 ideas that never panned out since the only way for them to work was the funky dunky servo drive

[DaProf]

hi, only been playing ra2 for a couple of months and then subsequently got super hyped for ra3, just signed up for any news and I would be really happy if someone could show me around

[Dexterhunter]

Is it April Fool's? Can we all go home and suffer now

[Fracture]

Just asking something slightly off topic: where do you go if you want to ask questions about things like development and all that to the developers?

They answered some questions on the Steam page. It seems like they just lurk the discussions on Steam/GTM/Youtube, so if you just mention something in this thread maybe they'll see it. Not sure if there's a way to directly contact them (someone mentioned e-mail/Twitter earlier), but apparently people have gone to their offices which are in Minnesota.

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for your continued questions and support! You have definitely kept us busy this week reviewing feedback from the Steam community, the Gametechmods forums, Youtube, and questions we received from two members of the mod community who were kind enough to come into our offices.

hi, only been playing ra2 for a couple of months and then subsequently got super hyped for ra3, just signed up for any news and I would be really happy if someone could show me around

Hello! Have you been playing the original game, or one of the mods? I would think you've browsed GTM a bit if you've been playing for a while, but if you're brand new then welcome to the community! If you'd like to improve your building feel free to take a look at Tutorials and Tips and create a Showcase thread to show your builds and get feedback. We're not exactly the most active place, but if you wanna see what everyone else is up to I recommend checking out their showcases or the Tournaments section. If you wanna talk about anything else, you should create a thread in a different section since this topic is for RA3; either Off-Topic Discussion or Chatterbox would work, though the latter is hidden to you until you join properly.

[Tygron]

It's entirely on if the tourneys we run allow a weight bonus for them or what, it would be virtually impossible to program in a walker weight bonus that couldn't be exploited greatly.

It'll be interesting to see how they are doing lever/lifter/ect. forces and such, I have a few RA2 ideas that never panned out since the only way for them to work was the funky dunky servo drive

It's been quite a while, but are there any walkers in RA2? From what I remember the physics don't really allow you to make a walker. So weight limits and bonuses aside I think it's sort of a wait and see if the physics of RA3 will allow it.
I've never understood the fascination of walkers to be honest. I mean sure they look cool, and if you do it right it gives you extra weight for other things you want to do to your robot. But it just seems so inferior to a typical wheel or tread style of mobility. I'm not saying there aren't successful bots out there, but iirc the ones that were were more shuffle bots. Still classified as walkers, but they more vibrated their way across the floor rather than actually walked.

[Scorpion]

If walkers workn it would at least open up more possibilities for art bots. Still I doubt that they will be making walker bots functional with unity, or at least it shouldn't be a priority if they still need to create new componenets.

[RedSawn]

The closest I'd say RA2 got to walkers is weapon crawlers, the game just doesn't feature the sort of control or mechanical complexity a true walker requires.

[Thyrus]

We have to keep in mind that this is a game and not a Simulation.  The later would be cool to have though

[Gauche Suede]

We have to keep in mind that this is a game and not a Simulation.  The later would be cool to have though

If this game gets really successful I can see people trying to clone this game.

[RedSawn]

Q&A Round 3

[Mecha]

No more rule of seven, so that's cool.
Paid DLC is still being considered. I actually don't mind as long as we get everything we regularly would from the start (Like something like redbird motors shouldn't be DLC) and the DLC is wacky extras of some sort. (however nothing op or game changing, i don't want some pay-to-win business going on.) Also if it doesn't effect modding, then it doesn't matter imo
And Lastly, they shouldn't be too worried about coming up to our expectations.
I mean, it means so much that they're doing this for such a small community of a game 13 years old.
If you're reading this RA3 team, thanks for caring.

[Reier]

im against dlc period but it absolutely CANNOT be anything that interferes with creativity I.e. components
something like dlc arenas would be less harmful but isnt extra stuff what modding is for anyway? a major worry of mine if they use dlc is they will try to limit modding to make people buy it and that will absolutely kill the game long term.

[Meganerdbomb]

I was talking to Andy yesterday. He said there's going to be 6 paid DLC, including one that provides 8 new components for only $18.88, and they're waaay better than the stock components.

[09090901]

Keeping the door open for paid DLC gives us flexibility to work with content creators who may have unique content that we can only obtain at an extra cost.

in cases where there's a cool piece of content that we can only obtain by supporting paid DLC.

I would hope this means official licencing for real life bots/arenas, and not selling user-created content for a quick buck.