The General Chatter Thread.

[Domanating]

Who's up for a dive? My swimming pool is ready

[AlexGRFan97]

For a second then I thought those were all mantises. Mantis? Manti?

[Domanating]

For a second then I thought those were all mantises. Mantis? Manti?

Lol. I like them but there are limits

Mantis and mantises are the correct terms. Mantid and Mantids were invented and are, apparently, the most used ones by American English folks

[Probably Rob]

Currently drinking this wine:



Apparently, this is the biggest picture of the wine I can find.

Bereich Nierstein.

[HurricaneAndrew]

forget to add sandbags to the bed?

Nah, I've got about 150 pounds worth of log in the bed. The issue here was the front end. The road forms a T and I couldn't get it to turn.

[Naryar]

For a second then I thought those were all mantises. Mantis? Manti?

Lol. I like them but there are limits

Mantis and mantises are the correct terms. Mantid and Mantids were invented and are, apparently, the most used ones by American English folks

>that many apex predators in a garden
>my ****ing face when hollywood ecology

[Hydro]

Typical. Murricans can't drive on snow. :P

Well for one, it is ice that seems to have been the problem. For two, we ain't required to prove we can drive in it because we ain't Finland.

I'll have you know that my bike does excellently on all but the slickest of ice, however. And I have the bicycle equivalent of performance tires!

[cephalopod]

Is there going to be GTM Awards this year?

Yeah, I'll start that up soon, we usually do it in the latter part of December, but we'll get a discussion thread up before to discuss potential category changes.

[Naryar]

Typical. Murricans can't drive on snow. :P

Well for one, it is ice that seems to have been the problem. For two, we ain't required to prove we can drive in it because we ain't Finland.

I'll have you know that my bike does excellently on all but the slickest of ice, however. And I have the bicycle equivalent of performance tires!

yeah jonzu doesn't seem to drive his bike as well as his car on ice...

[Badnik96]

Hey, can someone upload the Stock RA2 Tornado? I need it for Series 9 but I CBA to download a whole other Stock file for it

[That Robot is a Spy!]

Serious discussion, do you guys think RA2 is dead, or near death?

[Jonzu95]

Serious discussion, do you guys think RA2 is dead, or near death?

Well, I've noticed that the forums are about 10 times quieter than 5 years ago. Hard to say but it's still the best robot combat game ever.

[AlexGRFan97]

Hell no. BB6 was the biggest competition to date, DSL 3 got a beta release and after ten years, we're finally getting a look at a potential sequel. If anything we're only just beginning to push the game to its limits. We still got atleast 3 years left.

[That Robot is a Spy!]

Serious discussion, do you guys think RA2 is dead, or near death?

Well, I've noticed that the forums are about 10 times quieter than 5 years ago. Hard to say but it's still the best robot combat game ever.

That's like saying David Cameron is the best Conservative Prime Minister of the 21st Century. By that, I mean there's not a lot of choice.

Hell no. BB6 was the biggest competition to date, DSL 3 got a beta release and after ten years, we're finally getting a look at a potential sequel. If anything we're only just beginning to push the game to its limits. We still got atleast 3 years left.

But people could enter more than one robot into it.

DSL 3 is very much a massive side project to those developing it. Don't expect it to be complete for a long, long time, by which the community would be even more barren.

There will be no sequel to RA2. Maybe a few new sh**ty robotic combat games, but no sequel, which is a shame, I admit.

[Natef]

I think Stock is dead, or at least on life support.

[That Robot is a Spy!]

I think Stock is dead, or at least on life support.

Agreed, and DSL is pretty damn close to that too. Just the handful of designs, over and over again.

[RpJk]

In my honest opinion I think RA2 is nearing the end of the road, I'd give 2 1/2 years. Every great mod apart from DSL has became abandoned at some point (Battlebots and Wham's RW mod I mean come on lads the full version will never happen sadly) and the thing Sic is working on will probably enter the same fate soon. Not a lot of breakthrough this year as well. Being honest I've been playing RA2 heavily recently with free time in tech but can't be bothered showcasing it. Pessimistic as I may be but its the truth.

Tu fui, ego eris

What it was it will become.

[ty4er]

the building community is growing smaller, but there are still a good amount of builders here. even if the community does eventually die, i doubt people will stop playing ra2 completely


the only problem i see is that people lack creativity and can't build many non-generic bots anymore, and there's only a certain amount of effective generic designs that people will build, which means people wont build as much

[Mr. AS]

If you guys think RA2 is dead, do something about it! Start a tourney... go on a showcasing spree... do SOMETHING apart from just letting it die.

[Jonzu95]

If you guys think RA2 is dead, do something about it! Start a tourney... go on a showcasing spree... do SOMETHING apart from just letting it die.

Truth.