Robot Arena 3

[RedSawn]

In the second match your battery died - there's no steady decline like in the RA2, when you're out of power, you're dead.

DSL2.2 has a system like that, actually.

Didn't know that - RA2 in general, then.

[Sage]

Yeah I noticed the chassis collision is messed up. I bet it's an easy fix though!

Game needs a lot of work.

[Badger]

OK, I got a bot to work quite well with skid steering and 4 z-tecs. I think the trick is to keep the z-tecs relatively far apart and they must be TOTALLY level, else some wheels won't touch the ground, and you have no leeway like you had in RA2.

[Thyrus]

By now the devs know they have to fix more than just the multiplayer. let's just wait for a post that might comes later today

[Jules]

Yeah I noticed the chassis collision is messed up. I bet it's an easy fix though!

Game needs a lot of work.

It unfortunately isn't that easy of a fix as far as I know. Unity 5 (or 4) does not natively support concave rigid bodies. I assumed the team had figured out a system to deal with this, but clearly they haven't.

To illustrate- This bot does not tip over, and it is interpreted as a giant cube. The same width on the bottom as it is on the top.

[Sage]

the problem is with unity? interesting.

[RedSawn]

Yeah I noticed the chassis collision is messed up. I bet it's an easy fix though!

It's certainly above my knowledge with Unity (one undergrad project). If they're rendering chassis as meshes on the fly, then surely a meshcollider would work, and they'd never have to touch a boxcollider? But you'd have to assume it wouldn't be so easy.

[frezal]

This makes me sad. RA1 was a disappointment, but it was still a pretty fun game. No, you couldn't build anything that resembled a real Battlebot, but it was easy to work with and had its own set of challenges. And skinning was super easy!


When the demo came along showcasing RA1 with a physics engine (followed shortly by the RA2 demo featuring Nightmare), I was so excited. Then as more was revealed about RA2, the hype continued to build. We can create our own weapons and design our own chassis? "Forklifts" are finally a reality? Cool!


RA2 came out, and although it had its flaws, it did pretty much everything it needed to do. The user experience improved upon the original game in almost every way.


Now I see screengrabs and twitch streams of this game and feel disappointed. What was improved over RA2? The new chassis design system looks neat, but it's horribly broken if the chassis can intersect with itself and wedges don't work. The component system looks virtually unchanged. Weight classes have disappeared, though this might be so that it fits more in line with the current Battlebots.


If they fix the game, I'll buy it. The arena designs look great. Until then, it's not worth installing Windows to give it a try.

[Urjak]

This is... heartbreaking. If Jules' video is anything to go by, the game is quite literally worse than stock RA2.

Damn.

[Sircreepalot2]

im not going to refund it, im going to wait a bit and see what they do. its tough waiting that long for this honestly.

[Jules]

It has more to do with PhysX than Unity, but basically, as it works, an object with a rigid body (basically moving physics) has to be convex. There are ways to program around this, for example. Generating multiple colliders that act as one.
These devs clearly didn't even care to try.
Sorry to be blunt and dickish, but it's a fact.

Again- sorry about the potato quality recording. IDK what is up with it.

[Naryar]

This is... heartbreaking. If Jules' video is anything to go by, the game is quite literally worse than stock RA2.

Damn.

As far as I've played, it is worse than Robot Arena 1.

[Philippa]

I can't really watch in high quality on my phone, is there a robot called Inky in the game?

[Badnik96]

Indeed there is Kurt.

[Philippa]

Indeed there is Kurt.

aw yis

Everything is better with a bit of Inky.

[Badger]

Also noticed one of the tournaments is called GTM Brawl or something similar

[RpJk]

So from I can gather RA3 isn't good. Looks like its wait and see territory for me then.

And I was kinda looking forward to hearing more postivity than this. The game will get better, just got be optimistic.

[090901]

is this some kind of sick joke lmao

[Mecha]

Ouch. From what I've heard thus far this game isn't very good. Maybe Andy really did make it
I think after hearing this negative feedback they'll take this a little more seriously. I still have hope they can fix some of the more broken features. Maybe then I'll buy it.

[Urjak]

As far as I've played, it is worse than Robot Arena 1.

...god help us.

What's worse is that it seems like the problems lie in the fundamental mechanics of the game—mods won't be able to rescue it. I hope that the developers are able to address these issues, but I'm not holding my breath.