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« on: September 15, 2019, 09:53:07 PM »
dis gon be gud. feels like the golden age again babyyyyholy nuts you mean predictions that actually matter???? ayy lets do it boyyo
Canopy of Love 2 - classic 2010-11. Looks pretty nasty. I question how efficient the disc weapon placement is however.
DANGA ZONE MK2 - i hope it does well. in all seriousness, the weapon looks incredibly weak and having a huge chassis like that is asking to get destroyed.
EARTHQUAKE - i hope this one does well too.
Heavy Wheel - that's what i'm talkin about. i always loved that look. lack of wedges means that losing lite teeth shouldn't be that big of a deal.
hit me no more - popup or flipper? looks to be poor wedges and the slope of the chassis looks very steep.
Hot garbage - getting there, but the weapon looks pretty weak and the narrow arms look like they would just get in the way. where did the weight go?
jonzu x naryar otp - weapon placement looks pretty good, heavy plows are really tough in 2.1 also which would be used pretty well. I question the wedge.
L = r x p - that weapon placement could be either really good or really average. have to see.
MOONMAN - i barely tested this thing but i think it looks pretty rad
Not Bushido - looks like a bad wedge and poor damage.
Scourge of Zoomer - you do not wanna use hypno teeth like that. (puny hitbox) pretty messy too. could do decent though.
Shouldve Kept It Dead - nah because this bot needs work and you need practice. firestorm flippers are a good idea but connecting them to shell plates = no. Spinner looks pretty weak and I can't really tell what the spike rack is supposed to do from this angle.
Stone Soup - i kinda dig this one but I think the shallow beater rack might be a little lacking in protection especially with no wedge and the disk looks like it has poor reach. I could still see it do well.
Twin Flowers II - one of the best builders makes one of the best bots I've seen in a long time.
Virus Proof - ripoff of storm front good basic design, I feel like it is very underweaponed however.
why - i agree.
My tier list:1) Twin Flowers II | Virus Bomb
2) Heavy Wheel | RedAce
3) Canopy of Love 2 | madman3
4) jonzu x naryar otp | 090901
5) MOONMAN | Reier
6) L = r x p | S_M
7) Stone Soup | Dreamcast
8) Virus Proof | Dreamcast
9) Scourge of Zoomer | UberPyro
10) Shouldve Kept It Dead | kix
11) Hot garbage | Sickle Robotics
12) DANGA ZONE MK2 | DeadGenocide
13) Not Bushido | DeadGenocide
14) hit me no more | kelimpel
15) why | Mefex
16) EARTHQUAKE | NickDustyOwl
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« on: September 15, 2019, 07:00:41 PM »
sweet
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« on: September 15, 2019, 03:48:00 PM »
uberpyro unfortunately went AWOL and we had to replace him with yours truly. i'm using the undercutter i said I would before signups began. the splash has been updated.
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« on: September 15, 2019, 02:13:32 PM »
i really liked the FOTEPX method of taking bots from showcases since it rewarded you for showcasing which is GTM's lifeline. just takes more effort is all
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« on: September 14, 2019, 03:16:50 PM »
centauri has a discord, no?
yes. and it is not a replacement for a forum and is only used to coordinate people during the tournament so it doesn't overlap
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« on: September 14, 2019, 01:49:17 PM »
pretty much everything yugi said was dead on and pretty much everything roboteer said was super condescending and dumb made me want to give him the biggest wedgie of his life. first of all, yea, having this fractured community is a real pain in the neck and is the main reason it's dying. second, i guarantee you that showcases are dying on all these other discords. don't get me wrong they may be super active, but they are dying because it's non-sustainable in the long term. forums are just so far out of the league of discord/reddit/twitter because they archive information and don't bury it. losing all that info is like burning books man i'm serious. how on earth are newbies supposed to learn if they can't lurk because they 1) can't find the dang channel and 2) can't view bots that other people built for longer than 5 min. it's just so bad. not that I think forums are the king of the hill by any means, but discord doesn't even do this better. immediate feedback? sure. a record of all post? abysmal. but that's the point of a community. saying forums are obsolete because of discord is like saying books are obsolete because texting was invented. that doesn't even make sense. for GTM i feel like our discord should be deleted. it's such a cesspool and only serves to further divide the community for no reason. obviously stuff like OW and PWS can't be given that same treatment nor should they, but they are still a major cause of the community fracturing. i was never invited to a lot of these communities because i don't know the secret handshake and i'm not sure I would want to if I did because i like to showcase bots? i'm not sure if there is a solution to this mess as a whole. i do think having leadership you can look up to would go a long ways to making this a better environment but i'm not sure who that would be either. I still doubt I would want to do it. 'cultural/technological progression' is only a small part of this despite people seeming to think it's most of the problem. a huge reason why gtm is dying is that no one showcases anymore because people are too busy throwing their bots in the trash to immediately get buried on other fractured platforms instead. it's really depressing knowing that none of those bots will be remembered in 10 years. do you think anyone would remember this in ten years on discord? yeah right. but there is a guest reading it here right now. I don't think this actually has anything to do with the fact that GTM has bad rep or it's a forum. When I joined in 2014, GTM had gone through a **** ton of drama and forums weren't exactly hip and happening, yet I'd say there was a lot of activity. Obviously not compared to the older days I weren't around for but, nevertheless, it was way more active than it is now and I felt it was in a good place. I just think Discord has allowed people to incredibly easily make their own private forums and it's escalated to this.
this is exactly it. it also blows my mind that pretty much all of the people posting on this topic about why GTM is awful and should fail are pretty much the exact members causing it in the first place.
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« on: September 13, 2019, 01:32:29 PM »
zodiac is pretty neat but rapture has a really nice look to it.
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« on: September 12, 2019, 02:02:37 PM »
at least the bottom and only bot looks kinda cool
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« on: September 12, 2019, 01:22:41 PM »
I've thought about it but i doubt i would want to or have time.
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« on: September 08, 2019, 10:13:44 PM »
Strengths and weaknesses of the bots in my opinion (no comments on driving skill which is just as important)
Exactly Lethal: agile, great wedge, strong weapon | exposed drive, difficulty self-righting
Hell March: agile, stable, high damage | big chassis with weak armor, bad case of the wheel reversal bug, low battery power
Ground Zero 5: good weapon, agile, heavy | the camera sucks cause the chassis is so off-center, exposed drive
No Train No Gain: strong weapon, protected front | no rear stabilizer, slow
jeffff: difficult to damage | very difficult to drive especially in the octagon
Push for Pit: strong drive, heavy | no weapon, bad wedges
Sledgehog Mini: hard to hit/wedge, durable weapon | weak armor, no wedge
Moldy Sponge 2: strong drive, heavy | difficult to drive, not invertible, tin foil armor
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« on: September 08, 2019, 03:23:43 PM »
SPLASH BRACKETS VIDEOS Playlist: Winners 1 Losers 1 Winners 2 Losers 2 Losers 3 Winners 3 Losers 4 FINAL
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« on: September 08, 2019, 01:57:27 AM »
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« on: September 08, 2019, 01:54:46 AM »
ready for my de facto ironforge win
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« on: September 08, 2019, 01:53:15 AM »
I can hear the DMCA's rushing to your mailbox
Cool drawing tho
Thanks!
And yeah, this COULD get me sued maybe, but this should fit the legal definition of a parody. I studied the general criteria and was at least able to work that part out. Add a few legal disclaimers and have a good argument on the legitimacy of this parody and I should be able to dodge some of these copyright bullets.
hes kidding i really dont think you have to worry at all about parodies that aren't for profit and have no chance of hurting the profits of the IP. you have nothing to worry about bud. even if you did, unless you get a waaaay bigger following RW/BB wouldn't even notice anyway.
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« on: September 03, 2019, 02:35:12 PM »
standard is 100% mandatory for a competitive tournament.
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« on: August 30, 2019, 11:20:18 PM »
nobody wants to use a forum in 2019, and nobody wants to use anything with the letters 'GTM' in the name. there's a reason gtm gets next to no new users nowadays while all the other communities bring them in by the bundle
most of y'all already realise how trash gtm's rep is in the robot combat community by now, and more than likely we're going to take it to the grave
i think can ra2 actually has a decent future ahead of it, but i don't see it being with gtm as the main community
the irony is a bit stunning. you do realize constantly complaining about a forum sucking without adding helpful feedback is exactly the problem that causes a forum to be bad right not criticizing any admin work you do, just saying that these constant snide comments is hardly being the change you wanna see. and if you don't wanna see change then that's another problem.
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« on: August 30, 2019, 10:52:51 PM »
Tournamentsmentioned this in my competitive irl thread but it's just a problem of the irl meta as a whole. you can't build for looks and combat effectiveness with ra2. you gotta pick one or the other. if ra2 was a game where a real life design was just as effective ingame then you could but it isn't. the old standard rules barely had this issue but standard builds take away a lot of what many people enjoy about the game and i realize this. there isn't an easy solution. Moddingdsl was always crappily balanced, just back in 2008 no one really bothered that hard to infomine and figure out all the efficiencies until 123stw. which led to the great efficiency race which had its own pros and cons. which led to ironforge which is still the only ra2 version I would consider overall balanced. use DSL to build artbots and IF to build bots you fight with. doesn't seem like a big deal to me. Discord and other placesgtm is old. older than many members, seriously. as someone who might seem incredibly ancient to newbies i can say that a big reason for the decline is a combination of culture shift away from forums and just ra2 being squeezed out of every drop of innovation that can be. it's just old, man. for a crappy budget game it's a miracle it's still around at all. there is also a huge shift away from tight engineering into art bots. not bad or good, but the pretty bots today are nowhere near as well designed on the whole as from the pros of yesteryear when it comes to actual battles. i'm also aware this high standard scared a lot of people away. the main problem with discords is they have no way to look back at old posts. very shortsighted, great for chat but they do not provide a substitute for a forum. they're made for different things. Zoomersif you act stupid then you'll be treated as such. been this way since the dawn of time. just be kind and respectful to others. fyi badnik is a newbie and i don't really know who any of the people hoppin mentioned by name are including hoppin. tldr; yes but its always been that way
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« on: August 30, 2019, 04:38:59 PM »
09 entered as the prodigal lawyer. signups closed
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« on: August 30, 2019, 12:47:55 PM »
one week and one spot left to enter.
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« on: August 25, 2019, 02:29:25 AM »
ive wanted one my whole life
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