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Tournament Archives / NORMIES VS FREAKS [SBV]
« on: May 16, 2013, 05:00:36 PM »

I want to say "thanks" to Mr. AwesumSauce once again, and to everyone who entered!

THE SPLASH :


THE BRACKETS :

THE VIDEOS :
all GROUP A fights :

http://www.2shared.com/video/yFFWfdSW/G_A.html (better quality)
all GROUP B fights :

http://www.2shared.com/video/9mFOCcAM/G_B.html (better quality)
all GROUP C fights :

http://www.2shared.com/video/Fb9l94Io/G_C.html (better quality)
all SEMI-FINAL A fights :

http://www.2shared.com/video/jRFtJWei/S_A.html (better quality)
all SEMI-FINAL B fights :

http://www.2shared.com/video/AjtsHCKh/S_B.html (better quality)
all FINAL fights :

http://www.2shared.com/video/-2V9-p_-/F_online.html (better quality)

There will be no "awards" thread, I will just PM the prizes to the winners, when the tournament is finished.

CONGRATULATIONS TO :

The tournament is over!

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Off-Topic Discussion / I have 2 conundrums for everyone :
« on: May 02, 2013, 08:05:03 AM »
1. Who is the prettiest and the deadliest robot at the same time?
2. What is stock, legal in all tournaments, LW, made of plastic, generic at general, have only 7 weapons, but can one-hit-kill Neglected Waterbug in 2 seconds in most arenas, one-hit-kill some others HWs MWs LWs as well?You will find out the answers soon, but I want to see some tries at first.


The contest is over.

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Contests / A little contest...
« on: April 23, 2013, 01:58:21 PM »
This weird bug can be reproduced very easy :
Let's see if someone can guess how  :mrgreen:
Prize : +rep point for the knowhow

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Tournament Archives / NORMIES VS FREAKS tournament
« on: April 12, 2013, 05:14:43 AM »

First, I want to say "thanks" to Mr. AwesumSauce, which agreed to be my AIer.

Everyone, these are the final rules, so make sure that you will "sponge" every word of them :

- MW (max 399.0 kg without the smartzones) stock ONLY;
- The bots CAN be with an underweight;
- All AI parts ARE ALLOWED, EXCEPT the 140 cm red and square extenders, the beta redbirds and etc. beta game components;
- "cheatbot2" IS NOT allowed;
- Custom parts ARE NOT allowed;
- Realistic rule DOES NOT apply;
- Normal building with normal glitches ALLOWED (no AAM, no BFE (except for the skinning or the armour shine) and no "Hax mode");
- You are NOT ALLOWED to manipulate/BFE the chassis dimensions in any way;
- The new 090901 uberstack (mostly, stacked stuff inside the motors) is NOT ALLOWED;
- Multibots are NOT ALLOWED;
- PLEASE, make some nice skins for your bots;
- You CAN use DSA;
- The bots MUST be built within the default max sphere, ONLY the moving components can pass thru it, but NOT too much, if a static components pass it, it will be considered cheating;
- Bots that cannot be controlled by humans (only by the AI) ARE ALLOWED;
- You MAY NOT update your bots once they are sent, except if there is a problem with them, so choose wisely;
- Bots that can crash the whole RA2 game are NOT ALLOWED;
- Totally weak bots, even worse than SFTW, with not even a theoretical chances of winning, ARE ALLOWED;
- All the rules apply for the both 2 main categories of bots;
- These ARE the 2 main categories of bots :
1. Normies :
All regular bot types that are allowed everywhere, they MUST show a controlled movement (the crawlers and the 1 WD HSs can be normies or freaks, depending on how controlled they are, bots that cause Havok explosions are still normies if they show controlled movement).
Basically, the normies are the Rammers, Popups, Hybrids, "Cheap Norris" type bots, etc.
2. Freaks :
They MUST NOT show a controlled movement, they can sit still without moving, can be a bumple ball, can cause havok explosions on purpose, can be AGOD-ed heavily, can have stucked components into the walls, basically, any cheap tactic you can think of.
Basically, the freaks are the Trinity flyers, Nasty pickles, no WD Gyro drillers, Multi piston glitchers, Piston movers, Walkers, etc.
EVERYTHING you can think of, feel free to go wild with this rule, however, the dealing with the OOTA and the countdown is still your problem;
- You CAN enter with : one normie bot in total, or with one freak bot in total, or with one normie and one freak bots in total, but NOT with 2 normies in total, or with 2 freaks in total.
So, maximum 2 entrants per author.
If you want a better chance to win, then better start building one normie and one freak bots;
- I and Mr. AS will be judging, which bots from what main category are;
- A 2 bots from a same author CAN be in a same group, and they will fight each other as an independent participants, and can even eliminate themself;
- Since there are a lot of good AIers around, I will prefer if you AI your bots by yourself, or at least put the smartzones and rename the controls.
Of course, that if you can't AI, Mr. AS will AI the bots, but you must have at least an idea of like what bot type your bots must be AIed. Send notes about the AI-ing of your bots with the bots PMs.
It will be a lot harder with the freaks, but together we will find the best way to AI them.
- All matches will take place ONLY in a reskinned "Ant latenight Rumble" arena with the hazards OFF :

- ALL matches will be 2 minutes;
- There will be NO restarts due to havok explosions or whatever (so the havok explosions are now a legal part from your tactic), I will record what happened from the first time;
- An uneven total number of bots is NOT a problem;
- ALL the battles will be a 4 bots "Battle royal"s "free for all" style;
- EVERY match will be filled with up to 4 bots with this bye bot :

394.3, DSA, 4 pinks, 10 x 10kg ballasts, invertible, AIed as a rammer, armour shine, very fast
- I will not try TOO hard with this entrants :
http://www.2shared.com/file/3KfMw9jv/host_bots_for_NvsF.html
Password :

fYD%98*)(Kf:P"::>kfIU$RD$diLlfnR##E@po{{f,ploFKufijPf;UYT%;'PO&$637673HIDPp2pl.dfl.v

- All bots will be randomized (in a real hat) into the groups BEFORE EVERY ROUND;
- There will be NO Loser's bracket;
- EVERY round there will be a 3 matches for every group/heat, when the "Match result screen" come up, the first bot on it will get 3 points, the second 2, the third 1, and the last one "will drink a glass of cold water" only.
After that 3 matches in the group, the points are summed, and the first 2 bots wins by points and qualify for the next round, the 2 losers are totally eliminated.
This scheme will be for all the matches and rounds.
If there are more than 2 bots with a same amount of winning points, they all will qualify for the next round, or even win the tournament;
- The bye bots CAN win and eliminate (humiliate) entrants, but they will not qualify for the next round, and the next round will not have any bye bots if there is no need for this.
Also, if in the prevous rounds there were no need for a bye bots, and in the next there is, a bye bots will be included allways to fill up to 4 bots, so no way for a match with less than a 4 bots;
- The winner WILL GET the new texture pack and the reskinned arena, the second place WILL GET ONLY the texture pack. The CHAMPIONS MAY NOT release any of the prizes (or a part of them) to the community under any circumstances, any leaking will lead to punishments.
The final preview of the texture pack :
- If in the final match there are any 2 bots from a same author, they WILL be nerfed to give the others a better chance.
I will BFE the armours and make them twice weaker (the weight, the armour shine and the skins are preserved) as follows :
Plastic         80 > 40
Aluminium 100 > 50
Titanium    150 > 75
Steel         175 > 87,5
DSA           200 > 100;
- A same person CAN win first and second place with 2 bots;
- Some of the bots MAY become a part of the Mr. AS AI;
- Mr. AS will send me his bots before everyone else and after I post my entries, and he will not be able to change them anymore, then he will start any AIing work or see any of the other bots;
- There will be unlockable achievements during the fights, but just for fun, I will not give or take any points for unlocking them;
- If I win something, I will share as it follows :
1st           = share the arena
2nd          = share nothing
1st & 2nd = share all the prizes.

Instead of seeking for a loopholes and arguing with me, just try to ask nicely if you don't understand something, or you just are not sure about is something legal or not.

black  = the entries are accepted and OK with the rules, but not AIed yet
green = the entries are AIed and totally ready
red     = there is a problem with an entry, and the author needs to contact me
N        = normie
F        = freak

- N,F - Venko
- N,F - Mr. AwesumSauce
- N,F - J
- N,   - Mechadino
- N,   - ianh05
- N,   - 090901

The signups are closed !

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This is a demonstration of what you can do with my new (way better) texture pack :
It will be the prize for the winners of my MW stock fighting tournament (also and the reskinned arena that I will use), that I'm about to host.
No other way to be obtained!
The bots submission period will be very short (2 weeks max), so better start learning stock fast  :laughing
The newbies, that are not that good at stock will still have their changes, due to my rules.
Not the-best-stock-bots-ever will be required, so people that build DSL only can try their chances too.

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Off-Topic Discussion / What would You want for the next BotM contest?
« on: April 02, 2013, 01:27:55 PM »
Also, even if I win again, I will not determine the next BotM. A promise!
A promise is a promise.
All, feel free to post text opinions as well.

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Off-Topic Discussion / a request
« on: February 10, 2013, 12:04:24 PM »
Did anyone knows, where I can find a high quality original scans of RA2 English box covers (front and BACK, maybe the disk too)? Google didn't bring anything useful, it had to be someone that have it legally...

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Stock Showcases / Venko's showcase
« on: February 06, 2013, 12:26:59 PM »
I miss venko's showcase. :P
Miss no more...

Yo, 'sup! Greetings to the old pals, old vets and the new users. Mr. AwesumSauce (with a help from 090901, I think) found me in Skype, and since there is a interest on my old work in RA2, I made this rar containing almost all pics I uploaded back then ('cos my showcase was deleted (reason unknown), and I accidently delete my pics in my imageshack account) :

http://www.2shared.com/file/2Q1qrY2J/my_uploaded_picz.html

Although I really want to come back and build bots, I'm busy a lot with my real life stuff (like most of the vets that left), so I'm not planning a comeback. But since, I'll permanently leave the RA2 comunity, there is no point of hiding my secret stuff anymore (yeah, I had the bad habit of not showing my best stuff (both effective and art bots)). So, I may think of releasing a rar with all (this means a lot) my bot files (like the beetle bros do), if I have some spare time. If this happens, you will find very very interesting and useful stuff there. I also gave Mr. AwesumSauce some rars to check for a "useful stuff from the past". That's pretty all for now. See ya.

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Contests / A.D.D.I.C.T. 1
« on: August 30, 2008, 09:44:59 PM »











I OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCE MY A.D.D.I.C.T. 1 CONTEST FOR OPEN


Awesome
Dream
Designs
In
Contest
Tournament


There are a lot tournaments in the RA2 community where a lot awesome bots are fighting for supremacy. But all this fight and total effectiveness at all costs lack something... So im starting a tournament where the design is more important not the effectiveness. I know that some of you look at this as some "girly miss world contest" and dont like bots that are build "just for fun" and call them 'freaks' and stuff. And they dont give attention on this bots cos "they are not allowed in tournaments". Well,... here they are allowed.

THE RULS :
1. Only stock parts + bonus AI parts. No cheat parts, no DSL parts and no ANY custom made parts.
2. Bots DO NOT needed to be AIed. No need weight for smart zones too. But bots IT IS needed to be wired properly !!! I must have a way to control them for the review video !!! If the weapon or drive system is SO complicted i will contact the creator for help or tips.
3. Every pretender may enter only with ONE bot. And this bot MUST have some way to do a damage (lets say for example at least one spike ;) ). Bots, even good flipers, that can push but dont have a way to make points/damage are NOT allowed !!! SO basicly this mean bots like stock steel yard dogs and snowjob are FORBIDDEN !!!!
4. I will keep the privilege to NOT accept some bot if i "find" him as copy of some old cool looking bot or the bot is SO LAME and dont have a chance compared to other competitors. Or any other reason that i cant think of for now... I will just say to the competitor to make new one to enter.
5. Let's define what kinds of bots must enter. Crawlers and bumping balls are OK. Trinity glitch and other total uncontrolable or even flying bots are OK. BUT Nasty pickle and other bots that do a GOOTA (get out of the arena) and go into the void are NOT OK.
6. This is a design contest that must show how far you can go from the effective bots to your dream bots that will break the "regular" as a concept. The bots MUST look total awesome shocking mega cool looking instead of effective fighter ! The bots MUST have some unique or unseen to now driving/moving or weapon system. Or the bot must have some "concept" or "general idea in him" that the bot and his skin and everything in him to follow. Example : The bot can be a tool or food or car or TV or any other object but moving and with weapons and with proper skin as this object.
7. NO AAM and bot file editing and other cheat methods. NO custom PYtoning too. I will call this "ANTI Mad RULE" ;) . Just bots like his PYtoned wallking creatures or 'things' are not allowed :) . But stacking and other legal in tournaments glitches are OK.
8. The SKIN of the bot is mega important too. Try to put some more time in this part please. The bot snapshot (this you see in TEAM HQ) is NO needed.
9. The weight class of the bot dosnt matter !!! All feel free to make it what class you need to realize your idea. I will put only the MAX WEIGHT LIMIT OF 3000 kg. I dont like to wait hours to load... If you build a SHW i only want from you guys to remove the anti-ballast part you use after the building is finished.
10. Only 'who is in the tournament' status will be showed. Submited bots will be a secret until voting started. So please dont showcase any of the competed bots ! ONLY THE BOTS will be showed without 'who build what bot' !!! If someone break the secret and showcase his bot or tell who is his bot maybe will be kicked out of the tournament !!!
11. You will send to me the bot file (If someone dont know how to get the bot file fom the game, he can post "how to do..." here in this threat or PM me about this). You dont need to made splash of the bot or something like this...
12. After the registration is closed after some time (dont know how much it will take me) i will make a introducing the robots video and upload it with all bots and some primitive splash for every bot.
13. Then i will start a vote. Every registered user in gametechmods.com can vote ONCE. Every one have the right to vote even for his own bot ;)
14. Since i hear that lots people afraid that i will win 100% some tournament for design like this, i must say that : I WILL NOT ENTER in my own tournament. Happy now guys :biggrin: ? BUT i will give my vote for someone...
15. The deadline for submiting bots and how long will be the voting will be choosed by me, depending on my opinion on number of competitors or voting activity.
16. After the vote is finished and we have a winner then i will post who build what (his bot). The vote will be like this one for "bot of the month" contest. Everyone post the number of the bot he choose in post only ONE time. So others can see who for what vote. I hope no one will know the bot he vote for by who is build :) Design matters not the person who build it after all...
17. If we have a "draw" vote i will choose in the last moment by me how to choose a winner. But dont worry it will be a fair way, i will not roll a dice :biggrin:
18. You need also to choose a cool name for your bot. Your bot skin or name CAN NOT contain something that will jut who is the creator of the bot.
19. This 7 persons can vote, but they must send me their vote in a PMs, cos mostly they will vote for their bots and this will help to others to understand who-build-what which must not happen !

Read carefully every word in 'RULS' section before enter or ask something !!!

THE PRIZE : ONLY the winner will get a prize. He will choose ONE between 3 prizes :
1. Since this is a design contest the first reward is a design too. The winner will have the right I to make ONE awesome skin for someone of his bots. What he choose to be this skin, WHEN he choose. But you all dont think that this will be just some regular skin... I have some new aces in my hand...
2. Something that i call "my bot theme". This basicly mean that i will make what he wants theme for his bots that is very east to apply. This including main chassis texture, decal texture, rim line pattern and some decals all this what he wants.
3. This reward is a secret. The winner will learn it in the last moment when he need to choose. But by my opinion this one is a WAY better than the previous two !!!

It is up to him will he share the prize or not.

REGISTRATION : CLOSED

VOTE : CLOSED

RANKING :
1. Mad TV - 7 votes - by Mad
2. Butterfly of heck - 6 votes - by SB
3. The iron boxer - 2 votes - by R1885
3. All gears of destruction - 2 votes - by Nar
5. Leapfrog - 1 vote - by Urjak
5. Max pain - 1 vote - by SSG
5. Sledge hammer rammer - 1 vote - by Hydro


You can send me your bots this ways :
[Just remember to include your nickname form here (the gametechmods.com) and is the bot SHW.]
1. Rar or zip it, upload it here, and send me the link in a PM.
2. Send it on (arealen@yahoo.com).
3. Contact me in MSN (arealen@yahoo.com) or in Skype (vveennkkoo) to discuss some other ways to send it to me.
After you send the bot to me, make sure you will get a answer that i received it and accept it as an entry.


"...And only your own dream limits will be a bound..."


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Existing Games / What about this bot game ?
« on: August 10, 2008, 05:12:20 AM »
Robot Wars: Extreme Destruction (2002)

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MIN requirements : Operating System: Windows® 98, ME, XP;Processor:  500MHz Pentium® III or 100% equivalent;Hard Disk (available space): 500MB ;Memory: 128MB RAM;Drive: 8x CD-ROM;Display: 16MB 3D Graphics Card (capable of running DirectX® 8.1)

RECOMMENDED requirements : Pentium III 800;256 Мб RAM;Display: 32MB 3D Graphics Card (capable of running DirectX® 8.1)

You can build bots in this game too.

Is this game good?
Did someone play it?
Did someone know stuff for it?

If you want i can test it and tell you guys how is it compared to RA2...

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Discussion / HOW TO MAKE MORE COOL GRAPHIC IN RA2
« on: July 24, 2008, 12:00:51 PM »


Since RA is a lil bit old game and graphic is not the "TOP" nowdays, i surch for different ways to improve it. Since 1280x1024 on 32 bit on HIGH on every option was not enough for me i continue to surch for a way. For those that dont know what is "Anti-Aliasing", this is the function of your videocards that make your modern games look "smooth" and "blury" and you dont see the difference between pixels. So if someone can see the above pic, he will see whats the difference. If someone wants more cool graphics in RA (the only one thing that you will need is a modern graphic card) he must go to videocard control panel and choose Anti-Aliasing level what he wants, lets say for example 8X ;) instead of "Use application settings". And voala you will have RA graphics like on the right pic. It will not change the creepy textures or simple 3D models but it will help a lil ;) So let me know what you think about this...

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Discussion / IF YOU NEED YOUR OLD BOT PICS...
« on: July 21, 2008, 01:30:38 PM »
Since i have folder on my PC with almost all bots pics that can be finded on net. If someone is lost his bot pics on his showcase on old RA2 forum and want them to start showcase here he may contact with me. Since i download almost all pics i may have them. If someone is interested call me in MSN and i will explain how we will do this...

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Modifications / *WOW* JUST LOOK AT THIS ...
« on: June 29, 2008, 02:33:00 PM »


:o

The new generation of skin editing is coming soon from me...
See this ? I dont even edit the GMF file for this...
Every component can be made with different and variable transparency and with shape and holes and so... No limits more in skining... I kill them... Even chassis can be made like this... NP to make everything what we want. So expect from me soon MEGA COOL skins...
I will work with Sage to make our skins even better and include some mega cool skins in his pack...
Just imagine some new well made matrix components like this in DSL...
If someone is interested he can contact with me and i will explain to him how to make skins like this. NP :biggrin:

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Modifications / I have a new idea ...
« on: May 30, 2008, 05:09:26 PM »
I have a new idea ...
If there are enouth people that are happy with this idea i will start it...
I call it "Second chance pack"...
We (ALL,me too) are so blindness from our needs to win in RA2 so we forget from where we started and we abound our firsts not-so-good bots...
I want to give a chance to all bot builders (someones will say me too) that cant make a good enouth bots for Legendary Starcore to no matter of this to show theyr bots to all 'cos you (someones will say me too) deserve it... You (and i) put a lot work on our bots so if they are not good enouth for S4 why not to make a our pack? I have bots for S4 but have not so good freak bots too...
I have a idea for this pack to be freak-bot pack and have a funny bots that are not so efective but cool-loking and funny to watch theyr battels... The only ruls in this pack will be: the bots to be allready AI-ed 'cos i cant , and of course to not win vs strong S4 bots :lol: ....
So let me know what you think for idea like this...

You all remember when you was losing from bots like coal miner, bear, emergency...?
You remember the good old time when you build freak bots with no glitches and play only for fun not for wining...?

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Modifications / Give me ideas for arena...
« on: May 29, 2008, 04:59:33 AM »
Post here your ideas for arena that i will do...
Use a pics please !
Just draw something on paint and explain it here...
Its beter for me to see it...

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Modifications / Hi RA2 MANIACS, LOOK HERE...
« on: April 25, 2008, 02:36:06 AM »
COMMENT WHICH TEAM OF THOSE YOU WANT TO SEE IN STARCORE PACK 4.
'cos i made strong team but need help to choose team name,moto and logo.
So if want one of those or have better idea please post it here!
HERE:

PLEASE ALL USERS VOTE AND COMMET WHICH YOU WANT TO SEE IN STARCORE 4!
bye for now

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