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Discussion / A blast from the past... Checkin' da archives.

« on: July 03, 2009, 03:31:29 PM »

Ive been working with a friend to get a bot exchange up ever since i saw this thread. As far as i can tell there is no current exchange right?

The one im working on dosent have any fancy features like being able to detect weight class and such automatically

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Discussion / Official Rights to Robot Arena 2

« on: June 24, 2009, 04:56:03 PM »

Wow roboman do you not understand copyright? We would be issued cease and desist letters if we made a clone "RA3" game in the quake3 engine. Everything concerning "robot arena" is ATARI's intellectual property, you can't use it for whatever the you want...

We could use the quake3 engine to make a robot arena-type game and call it something like "DSL" with no robot arena attached, but that would still take a ridiculous amount of effort... and it also wouldn't cost any money or require the rights to the game, which is the opposite of what this thread suggests we do...

If anyone wanted to make a new version of this game using a open source engine would be the best idea. Quake 3 engine might be good - im not a coder i have no idea but its definitely better than buying the RA2 game.

You dont have to call the game RA3 and even if you do i doubt anything will happen. Robot Fights, Arena Of Robots, Robotic Arena. Any stupid name will work.

Selling it is not viable. Modders have a inherent problem that they lose interest and arent real coders. Unless you make a real company and hire people you wont be able to finish or sell it.

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Discussion / A problem so annoying, an awnser so simple...

« on: June 24, 2009, 04:48:23 PM »

System32: i never saw the old bot exchange but it would have to be more than just HTML. There is either a PHP, Java or Flash script that was used to upload the bots.

Id like to see what you have though

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Discussion / New to RA2 modding

« on: June 22, 2009, 09:35:20 AM »

I'd flame the out of you for blatantly disrespecting the amount of effort put forth by people that got no reward, including one that continued to work despite a brain tumor, but I figure that I'll leave it for someone that was around and knowswhat it took to finish.

If you want to bitch about the gameplay, write a letter to Infogrames. See if they care.

The people who made this mod werent forced to do it - they did it for their own enjoyment and there seems to be a community of people who like it. so i dont know how they didnt get anything out of it.


And i dont know why i would write a letter to infogrames about a mod a player made, but i guess you arent the smartest guy.



And while i dont like this mod, i really recommend you guys strengthen up your tutorials on these mods - as someone who just discovered these mods it was pretty hard trying to figure out what they do and how to solve crashes and bugs

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Discussion / New to RA2 modding

« on: June 21, 2009, 09:29:27 PM »

It seems like almost every bot does it. Scout for example is a flipper but he just drives right at me and even if his flippers are on top of my bot it just keeps firing a way. I

 dont know the possibilities of the AI coding but i thought there would be some dodging like you would see in battlebots where the bots would get angles on each other and hold back for a while before attacking.

EDIT: Just played as some bot Hammerhead and i was YU812. As far as i can tell Hammerhead is a crappy robot that moves at 6mph with weights on the front of it but it managed to knock off half the parts on my bot. Scoring in this game is retarded - if two bots collide they both cant get points for damage because instead of creating interesting or realistic design people just throw as many blades or spikes on their bot as they can. Sorry guys but you guys created a ridiculous game that while it has much deeper building options it has crappy gameplay

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Discussion / New to RA2 modding

« on: June 21, 2009, 07:59:03 PM »

DSL isnt the big mod for this game is it? The AI is terrible, it just rams you the entire time and if you happen to have a bot less powerful than the AI you spend the entire time pinned aganist the wall. The AI is so dumb it will continue to ram into you until it destroys itself

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General Support / RA2 runs at crawl speed

« on: June 20, 2009, 08:44:11 AM »

Oh my bad i thought by VRAM you meant video ram.

What processor, os and video card do you have?

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General Support / RA2 runs at crawl speed

« on: June 20, 2009, 07:07:46 AM »

No offense roboman but you dont know hat your talking about - once you terminate a game it is dumped from the RAM (or at least it should).

Redline if HL2.exe isnt still running i dont know what the problem is. Have you tried exiting out of steam?


If you could post your stats that would be more helpful - because its impossible to have 6gb of VRAM.

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Discussion / New to RA2 modding

« on: June 20, 2009, 06:47:27 AM »

Are mods like DSL and Starcore compatible with each other? Is there a place a i can find more info about these mods?

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Discussion / New to RA2 modding

« on: June 19, 2009, 10:33:05 AM »

Hi everyone - I recently reinstalled RA2 and have been playing it but i remember that the game had a big modding community which is how i found this site. Ive looked around a bit but its kind of confusing.

I installed the Starcore pack and its been crashing alot, i have the CD version so is that he problem?

Are there other mods i need to install and what do i need to play online because i can never find games