Robot Wars RA2 - OFFICIAL MOD

[yugitom]

That video is from 2012, and running on 1/3rd power (20 bar as opposed to 70 bar max). On full power it destroyed itself.

We should be able to choose whether we have full power or not then. If we choose 20 bar, he havoks. If we choose 70 bar, the game crashes (or Flow immediately gets destroyed.) Ha ha.

[Impossible343]

Are you going to release Kronic seperatley(if at all)? Same goes for the RL Arena.

[Natster-104]

Are you going to release Kronic seperatley(if at all)? Same goes for the RL Arena.

He's gone over this, no

[HereticBlue]

Thankyou lads as usual, I hope the rest of the renders go well, I hope the other teams are interested and lastly I hope we find more featherweights!

That's not offensive.  "It's not a Plunderbird clone if the claw actually works" would be offensive.

The reason why I mentioned it is because a couple of other roboteers brought it up. I'm just being the middleman... Annoyingly as usual. 

Are you going to release Kronic seperatley(if at all)? Same goes for the RL Arena.

Maybe in a couple of years time when it would seem decent for me to spin off and do that small amount of work for another company but for now, no.

I do like the Flow replica, it looks almost like the real one without the gaping hole in the side .
That video is from 2012, and running on 1/3rd power (20 bar as opposed to 70 bar max). On full power it destroyed itself.

Really glad you like it mate Funnily enough when I was building Flow together in the botlab, I used a 80 bar pneumatic burst and it literally exploded so Yug1Tom wasn't far off with his guesstimation!

As you know I've made another one of your robots, Ricochet.

[Naryar]

it's a wedge... i guess

[Jarvis_Rapture]

It's the spinner killer, two fights with NST, two times bounced off the front and landed in the pit. Never needed maintenance above repairing the odd locked gearbox.

[cephalopod]

That Team Toad sticker just completes the look. :P

[Jarvis_Rapture]

It's so realistic, it might as well be a photo.

[jackster96]

Will you be making an arena for the featherweights? awesome replica

[Garfie489]

That's not offensive.  "It's not a Plunderbird clone if the claw actually works" would be offensive.

Actually to some roboteers it can be very disrespectful. Very few roboteers create a robot in order to emulate another design, we all want oyr robots to be unique and treated as such. To some people saying their robot is just a copy of another can be very disrespectful to their own design.

Often we try to optimise our designs, this can lead to many robots having similar features, not because they copied each other but because they are good enough engineers to constantly rework their robot till its perfect. By saying that they just copied someone else after all that hard work can be disrespectful

[yugitom]

I love wedge bots, this replica's awesome.

It's so realistic, it might as well be a photo.

That's not offensive.  "It's not a Plunderbird clone if the claw actually works" would be offensive.

Actually to some roboteers it can be very disrespectful. Very few roboteers create a robot in order to emulate another design, we all want oyr robots to be unique and treated as such. To some people saying their robot is just a copy of another can be very disrespectful to their own design.

Often we try to optimise our designs, this can lead to many robots having similar features, not because they copied each other but because they are good enough engineers to constantly rework their robot till its perfect. By saying that they just copied someone else after all that hard work can be disrespectful

In that case, I am sorry to the person who made the bot.

[Jarvis_Rapture]

That'd be Kenny. And the robots name is Cobalt. Possibly my favourite robot ever made:

And I'm not just saying that because his initials are carved into my robots flipper

[HereticBlue]

Thankyou lads!

it's a wedge... i guess

I'd watch what you say if I was you, unless you want everyone from the Robot Wars community to put your head in Major Damage's claw.

That'd be Kenny. And the robots name is Cobalt. Possibly my favourite robot ever made:

And I'm not just saying that because his initials are carved into my robots flipper

Ooh, that looks quite lethal, I might have to message him and see if he wants Cobalt in the mod! Mind hasnt everyone carved their initials in Flow's flipper? 


I've made some quick work here (well, quick by my standards!) and I've made the one of Vertigo's two active featherweights.



And thankyou to FOTEPX for making the BFE'd RA2 chassis for this and Ricochet to work in. :)

[Jarvis_Rapture]

Ooh, that looks quite lethal, I might have to message him and see if he wants Cobalt in the mod! Mind hasnt everyone carved their initials in Flow's flipper? 

It was more than quite lethal, it was scary. And it came 4th in 2012. Unfortunately it's non-existant now
I wouldn't go so far as to say everyone has... there are marks from NST and DB10, but Flow does have his initials milled into the arm:

[RpJk]

God you've been productive today, I'm guessing you had a day off? Nonetheless top quality as usual.

Also off topic question. What is the difference between the RW and RL arenas?

[yugitom]

God you've been productive today, I'm guessing you had a day off? Nonetheless top quality as usual.

[Garfie489]

Also off topic question. What is the difference between the RW and RL arenas?

RL has a proper CPZ is the mainly noticeable difference in terms of plan.

I think RL only has a pit - whereas RW has a flipper, flame jets and angle grinders.

Also RW has 3 sides where OOTAs are near impossible (back and each side). However the sides are only covered for 2/3 of the distance. The remaining side is exposed.

RL has one side exposed, with 3 sides with very high fences where OOTAs are possible with the most powerful of flippers (Dystopia, Ripper, Manta, ect).

Each arena has several variations (such as a small scale version), but thats the main stuff i see.

Also the general atmosphere outside the arena is completely different

[daleksec7]

Also off topic question. What is the difference between the RW and RL arenas?

RL has a proper CPZ is the mainly noticeable difference in terms of plan.

I think RL only has a pit - whereas RW has a flipper, flame jets and angle grinders.

Also RW has 3 sides where OOTAs are near impossible (back and each side). However the sides are only covered for 2/3 of the distance. The remaining side is exposed.

RL has one side exposed, with 3 sides with very high fences where OOTAs are possible with the most powerful of flippers (Dystopia, Ripper, Manta, ect).

Each arena has several variations (such as a small scale version), but thats the main stuff i see.

Also the general atmosphere outside the arena is completely different

RL has a flipper too but every video ive seen its rarely been used

[thesnowingsteak]

Can I say that I'm really looking forward to seeing Barberous and Major Damage you've done great work in the past and I think you'll do these two some well earned justice.

[Jaydee99]

Looking forward to seeing raging morg, tiny hurts, rip off and DTK fw.
Most awesome mod ever!