Robot Arena 3

[WeN]

When RA3 is out, I create good bots (but bad building skill)

[TDS]

Did they skip QA 3 ?

No

Hm, apparently on my phone I could only see 2 and 4

Here's hoping there's a motor that doesn't backdrive (like the old servo motor) ... if so I may have an evil plan that was just too big and heavy for ra2 vanilla.

I hope to god there's some sort of mirror or rotate functionality, lining sh** up and rebuilding a chasis over and over so everything fits took like 90% of my build time.

[Thyrus]

in the video you can see that we will be able to relocate components even when there's another one is attached to it. pretty sure you can edit the chassis during building as well then. even though those two things are not related

[Fracture]

sucks that pax east is already sold out. idk how many of us are near boston though, hopefully they'll take good pictures for fb and twitter

[Stigma]

Did they skip QA 3 ?

No

Hm, apparently on my phone I could only see 2 and 4

Here's hoping there's a motor that doesn't backdrive (like the old servo motor) ... if so I may have an evil plan that was just too big and heavy for ra2 vanilla.

I hope to god there's some sort of mirror or rotate functionality, lining sh** up and rebuilding a chasis over and over so everything fits took like 90% of my build time.

Same here, rebuilding a chassis to fit one or two more components or two shave some weight off is a huge bugbear of RA2 I have

[TDS]

in the video you can see that we will be able to relocate components even when there's another one is attached to it. pretty sure you can edit the chassis during building as well then. even though those two things are not related

We'll see, what they seemed to show was a copy + paste, I'd like the ability to make a radial array or mirroring from one side to the other, like say you make a triangle body and want a spike at each corner, it's a /tremendous/ pain in the ass.  At least have visible coordinates so you can tell if the parts are lined up.

Also no more motors with offset shafts from the centerline >.>

[J]

There is no limit currently defined, nor do we intend to provide a limit initially. Testing every permutation and combination of components would take quite a long time and we don't want to set an arbitrary limit. We want the user to be able to experiment with the bot creation as much as possible and discover what inherent limitations there are. What does that mean? Well let's say you chain 100 components together and it works, that's awesome, if you add the 101st component and the physics fail and things fly apart, well "The more you know".

There is no limit currently defined, nor do we intend to provide a limit initially.

There is no limit

At this point, I don't care if the game will be sh'it or not.
They already satisfied me with this, alone.

[DeadGenocide]

There is no limit currently defined, nor do we intend to provide a limit initially. Testing every permutation and combination of components would take quite a long time and we don't want to set an arbitrary limit. We want the user to be able to experiment with the bot creation as much as possible and discover what inherent limitations there are. What does that mean? Well let's say you chain 100 components together and it works, that's awesome, if you add the 101st component and the physics fail and things fly apart, well "The more you know".

There is no limit currently defined, nor do we intend to provide a limit initially.

There is no limit

At this point, I don't care if the game will be sh'it or not.
They already satisfied me with this, alone.

THANK **** ON A LADDER

Now we don't have to use long components

[Thrackerzod]

Now we don't have to use anti-ballasts

Uh... pretty sure this refers to rule of 7, not weight limits.

[09090901]

just download serge's unlimted mass mod

[DeadGenocide]

Sorry I read it wrong

[J]

I find it funny how the only "limit" they hint at, is how far the physics engine will let things work.
This was already common knowledge to all of us. I mean, you can stick everything but the kitchen sink to a motor/etc, and see if it spins/activates/etc, and if it doesn't, then you know you've gone too far.
But now.... Since it lacks an actual limit and is now purely up to the physics of if it works or not... This is going to make things so much more interesting.

[DeadGenocide]

I find it funny how the only "limit" they hint at, is how far the physics engine will let things work.
This was already common knowledge to all of us. I mean, you can stick everything but the kitchen sink to a motor/etc, and see if it spins/activates/etc, and if it doesn't, then you know you've gone too far.
But now.... Since it lacks an actual limit and is now purely up to the physics of if it works or not... This is going to make things so much more interesting.

I mean you can't stick the Ruler on

[TDS]

It depends how they code the physics, since all objects are rigid in RA2 they made all the shafts flexible (or else it would have been boring with impacts not doing anything) physics explosions were just the engine being unable to carry zeros and deal with bad things happening.

I've got to assume modern systems are more stable, I've made some bonkers stuff in games like besiege that dont detonate all the tim, as long as the energy levels are high enough for fights to not be boring, but not so high you cant control anything, there's no reason to not just have shafts and hinges be on impossible to move rotation axis's, so stuff that would cause detonations like spinners on spinners "could" be doable.

I'm just hoping whatever bugs show up, and there will be a bunch, won't be gamebreaking, or can be modded into reasonableness.

[Thyrus]

I swear to christ if this actually runs off that godawful piece of performance sh** unity engine you have officially lost 5 customers. NONE of my friends play any game ran on that stupid gamemaker/indie toy. I'm sorry but if that's the case we're out. Please make it on a REAL engine like unreal, they even offer tutorials on converting from unity.

  not him and his friends!

[Reier]

whatever you do dont pay attention to that badwolf66 guy on steam he has some grade A awful ideas

[Mr. AS]

Also a Record your battle option so you can easily edit it on WMM, Sony Vegas or whiever (sic) video software you may use.

This guy knows that there's already plenty of software out there for recording game footage, right?

The official tourney idea might be cool though. I'd enter an RA3T#1.

[kill343gs]

An official tourney based on my original RA2 annual series will begin discussion shortly after the release of RA3 so we can get a feel for where the meta is headed and reorganize the tournament staff for said tournament.

[Reier]

im just hyped we can drive bots for said tournament. ai tourneys just dont have the same kick man

[The Red Blur]

We'd obviously need to accommodate differing time zones, though, and that can be difficult.