UHW Bots and their place in RA2

[thurston_studios]

Hello again gametechmods! I was not sure about where to place this post, so I have relegated it once more to the Off Topic section until such time as I have input enough to organize a Tourney.

Looking through the game and the AIs that are included, I was a bit disappointed to find that there were a sad number of UHW builds. My development team has had some fun lately building a beast of a machine and thought it might be well to challenge the gametechmods community to show off their hardest possible hitters in the form of a UHW showdown!

Really after some input from the community on the idea, check out this article I have made in behalf of my co-modder


http://www.jimsra3mod.com/UHW.html

[helloface]

Shouldn't you focus on one thing instead bouncing off of a bunch of things at once?

[thurston_studios]

Just an off-topic sidetrack from the development team, liked the idea myself. That's not to say that there's no wisdom in that approach to focus.

[Galacticruler]

You call those ultra-heavy weights?
I made a bot yesterday at 11,000Kg.

[Sage]

You call those ultra-heavy weights?
I made a bot yesterday at 11,000Kg.

UHW is a defined weight-class, so there is a limit to the weight. The "official" UHW is 5000kg. You can go to the below link to see the other weight classes accepted by the community.

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?topic=3078.0

[qwertythe300th]

I like the idea. I can build something.

[Galacticruler]

UHW is a defined weight-class, so there is a limit to the weight. The "official" UHW is 5000kg. You can go to the below link to see the other weight classes accepted by the community.

So...where would mine be classified?

[MassimoV]

Gigaheavyweight. Only built by Enigma.

[090901]

Gigaheavyweight. Only built by Enigma.

Venko made a 23,000 kg stock bot bro

[thurston_studios]

Sounds awesome! I would really love to see some community builds, and wouldn't mind running some matches and posting the results

Perhaps one of the more senior members could help out with tourney guidelines and such

[playzooki]

COTT was a lagfest

[Naryar]

The problems with uhw is that it's freaking big and heavy, and you have a building speedbump around 2500kg.

also, lagfest. Due to all this no one builds UHW nowadays.

Do it and make an UHW tournament anyways, there hasn't been one in forever and it was good. Just forbid multibot use so it's actually UHWs, not overgrown SHW's.

[thurston_studios]

It definitely looks like it will take a beast of a machine to run a really intense match between UHW bots. I think the potential for a fun (and messy) match is there though. In any case feel free to send me designs and I can put together a showcase/matchup page for the community.

Thurston_studios@hotmail.com

[Naryar]

Make a thread in the Discussion part of the Tournaments forum. Be sure to read the tournament making rules as well.

If you want to have a freeform bracket then go ahead.

[thurston_studios]

Sounds good, thanks!