Besiege, an Awesome New Building/Destruction Game!

[Kungfooey242]

Guys, you need to play this game called Besiege! It's a game where you make some sort of siege machine to destroy troops and buildings! Its in alpha (v0.01) but it's really cool and there's not many bugs. It's only $7.
Here's a video if you wanna see what it's like (this isn't the trailer):
Here's the link to buy the alpha (the trailer is on here): http://www.besiege.spiderlinggames.co.uk/

[Squirrel_Monkey]

I've been playing this for a few days now.
Best thing is to make multiple contraptions in Sandbox mode and then you have pseudo-multiplayer.

[Meeko011]

Besiege in multiplayer would be ****ing amazing. The weapons only fire once though so I don't see how that would work.

[123savethewhales]

Long Range Catapult and Ballista









Fire Bomb with inverted pyramid explosive core


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2mFK7kgs10&feature=youtu.be#

[Reier]

sexy

[123savethewhales]

Automated burning wheels of death, only 8 blocks each.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNA2Ar4ykiw&feature=youtu.be#

[Badnik96]

123 stop being awesome at every building game ever

[123savethewhales]

EXTREME Fire Sled.  Nearly indestructible and easily mow down buildings and troops alike.  The trick of this game seems to be not building with wood.




You can grab this here

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=510422880

Here I mow down some explosive cows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbro1rgW6v4&feature=youtu.be#

Why stop at killing all knights when you can destroy EVERYTHING?

[123savethewhales]

Rocket off the map

[Sage]

Leave it to 123 to take it to an insane level.

[123savethewhales]

Besiege Gunbed

[123savethewhales]

Half Pipe seem to be the best melee weapon against human.  It push corpses away so you can maintain full speed and ram everything to death in 1 go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH5S-Czis80&feature=youtu.be#

Here's a Vertical Spinner.  Building one on besiege is about 50x harder than in RA2.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkstaGaOxhc&feature=youtu.be

[123savethewhales]

Bomber

[System32]

So Besiege has finally announced and released the Multiverse Update, which is a multiplayer sandbox/Level editor and playable mode.



Incredibly relevant to our interests is 0:20 to 0:35.

[Thyrus]

Will give it a shot

[FOTEPX]

So Besiege has finally announced and released the Multiverse Update, which is a multiplayer sandbox/Level editor and playable mode.



Incredibly relevant to our interests is 0:20 to 0:35.

Oh sh**, is this actually out now!?!? This is what I've been waiting for!

[Mystic2000]

yes it has, in fact, me and some people in the OOTA discord have been experimenting with robot combat in it yesterday, we have came up thus far with a simple list of rules which seem to work decently enough:

-No explosives, unthetered projectiles or any fire based weapons.
-5 categories for block max limits
25 : FW
50 : LW
75 : MW
100 : HW
200 : SHW
-Robot must fit in the bounding box
-weapon spam bots will be banned
-bots cannot be fully assembled with ballasts or pistons
-grabbers are legal but you can only grab a robot for 10 seconds
-saws are banned

for now it seems to function decently enough, also with the way the engine makes every part fairly fragile it's very difficult to make an effective spinner that doesn't explode Apex style after a couple impacts, which can allow for pretty interesting designs.

[FOTEPX]

yes it has, in fact, me and some people in the OOTA discord have been experimenting with robot combat in it yesterday, we have came up thus far with a simple list of rules which seem to work decently enough:

-No explosives, unthetered projectiles or any fire based weapons.
-5 categories for block max limits
25 : FW
50 : LW
75 : MW
100 : HW
200 : SHW
-Robot must fit in the bounding box
-weapon spam bots will be banned
-bots cannot be fully assembled with ballasts or pistons
-grabbers are legal but you can only grab a robot for 10 seconds
-saws are banned

for now it seems to function decently enough, also with the way the engine makes every part fairly fragile it's very difficult to make an effective spinner that doesn't explode Apex style after a couple impacts, which can allow for pretty interesting designs.

Weight limits sounds good, pretty much what I had in mind. Double should be allowed for walkers and 1.5x for shufflers, though.

Instead of vaguely wording it like "weapon spam bots will be banned", I think it should be something along the lines of "No more than 5 active weapons".

Not with you on the ballast/piston rule, it's one of the ways to get around the inherent fragility of the in-game engine. Also not with you on the grabber rule, or the saw rule.



Now, onto the meat and potatoes... I made the BBEANS arena in Besiege!



It's on the workshop, just search for "BBEANS Arena" and it should come up.

[Mystic2000]

i feel like that the uber-fragility of the game's engine is part of the challenge here tbh, also, braces say hello anyway

as for saws, at max speed they can cause a LOT of damage very quickly

and in fairness the grabber rule is more so clamps aren't a huge pain in the ass to make

[FOTEPX]

i feel like that the uber-fragility of the game's engine is part of the challenge here tbh, also, braces say hello anyway

as for saws, at max speed they can cause a LOT of damage very quickly

and in fairness the grabber rule is more so clamps aren't a huge pain in the ass to make

Yeah, but the fragility shouldn't be enforced.

In that case, they should have a speed limit, not an outright ban.

Oh, so grabbers in Besiege are just like grabbers IRL, then? :P