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Contests / Re-stocked AW Design Contest #2: PREHISTORIC and The Good Ol' Boys

« on: March 08, 2013, 12:42:42 PM »

This time there's no limit on type for either bot! however your bot must be themed to suit the team.

Rules:

*Upload a splash using the GTM image host and PM me the link.
*Include the team name your bot is contesting for a spot in (PREHISTORIC or Good Ol' Boys) within the PM you send me.
*Stock parts only!
*AI parts are allowed, Excluding the 140cm square extender.
*cheatbot2 is not allowed.
*Custom parts ARE NOT allowed.
*Realistic rule DOES NOT APPLY.
*Normal building with normal glitches allowed (no AAM, BFE or hax mode).
*Show the weight in your splash.
*You MUST include a shot of the insides.
*You should name your entry something that suits the team it belongs to.
*Entries must be reasonable splash size (nothing too big).
*One entry per member for each team.
*Entries must be in before the 16th of this month (16/03/2013) AEST.

The winner will be decided by a vote just like BOTM and the winner is to send me the bot so it can be added to the pack.

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Contests / VOTE: Re-stocked AW Design Contest #1: Red Zone

« on: March 08, 2013, 09:11:23 AM »

#1:



#2:

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Discussion / RA2 Live.

« on: March 07, 2013, 08:13:55 PM »

Quote from chatbox:

"I wish someone would host a live RA2 show :P I was going to years ago but could never get the stream quality to my liking. That would be an awesome place to chill and chat while someone hosted a live RA2 show with community building, random AI matches and mini-tournaments."


Has anyone got experience in streaming games on ustream or something?

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Tournament Archives / Ultimate Stock AW Rumble

« on: March 04, 2013, 04:43:02 PM »

This display tournament will feature the best AW's from the current version of the Ultimate Stock AW AI which is made up of:

*Robo Zone 2 AI (AW's only)
*Starcore AW's
*Stock Mini's
*Team Retro (4 teams of old AW's, including AW's from the AW tournament that never got started years ago)
*Member teams (currently only Firebeetle, Clickbeetle and myself)
*ASAI AW's

Each match will be 2 mins and will be a rumble featuring 1 bot from RZ2 AI, 1 from Starcore AW's, 1 from Stock Mini's and 1 from other teams (Retro, member teams and ASAI AW's). Matches will be done from top to bottom of each group so the first decent AW in each pack will face other and the last in each will face each other etc.

This tournament will feature quality control which means the robot needs to be able to do some reasonable damage so no boring pushers, hammers, flippers or popups here! just the best AW's in the pack. I will upload 10 matches max per video.

When 1 group is out of decent bots the matches will become 3 bot battle royals, when there are 2 groups left it will become 1v1 and any left overs from the last group will face of against each other in 4 bot battle royals, 3 bot battle royals or 1v1 depending how many bots are left in that group.

For those who want to make any predictions on the winner of the tournament (Bot or AI pack) here is the pic of the AI pack (remember there will be quality control):


Mini - Backyard Ripper will be representing Stock Mini's as that was it's original AI pack.

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General Support / Problem: Fraps recording slow and recording 2 videos instead of 1.

« on: March 04, 2013, 04:00:22 AM »

Fraps is currently recording my RA2 game slowly, the game will be running fine but for some reason fraps is recording it much slower. Fraps also records 2 videos instead of 1, most likely due to the slow speed that it's recording at.


Anyone else have this problem before? know any fix?

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Contests / Re-stocked AW Design Contest #1: Red Zone

« on: March 01, 2013, 03:05:16 PM »

This is a new contest to put together AW's, BW's and either Cruiserweights or SHW's for the Re-stocked AI pack. We are starting with AW's and the first team is Red Zone.

Red Zone is best known for it's popups, however since AW popups are so hard to make I will allow the following in this contest:

1. Popup
2. Flipper
3. Wammer

Rules:

*Upload a splash using the GTM image host and PM me the link
*Stock parts only!
*AI parts are allowed, Excluding the 140cm square extender
*cheatbot2 is not allowed
*Custom parts ARE NOT allowed
*Realistic rule DOES NOT APPLY
*Normal building with normal glitches allowed (no AAM, BFE or hax mode)
*Show the weight in your splash
*You MUST include a shot of the insides
*You should name your entry something that suits the Red Zone team.
*Entries must be reasonable splash size (nothing too big).
*Only one entry per member
*Entries must be in before the 9th of this month (9/03/2013).

The winner will be decided by a vote just like BOTM and the winner is to send me the bot so it can be added to the pack.

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Tournament Archives / Bigger Brother.

« on: February 24, 2013, 04:24:42 PM »

In this tournament I have teams made up of 1 LW and 1 MW from various teams in the ultimate stock AI pack fight in the robo zone arena with the LW starting the match and after 30 seconds their "bigger brothers" get released from their cages.

I might do 4-8 groups depending on how it works out. Here is group 1:



Match 1 - Spin Doctors vs The Champions
Match 2 - Cauntem Fysix vs Red Zone
Match 3 - Alien Invasion vs Team Pyscolone
Match 4 - Second Place vs Twists of Fate
Semi final 1 - Winner of match 1 vs Winner of match 2
Semi final 2 - Winner of match 3 vs Winner of match 4
Final - Winner of semi final 1 vs Winner of semi final 2

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Off-Topic Discussion / The Youtube Captions Win/Fail Thread.

« on: February 16, 2013, 01:26:01 PM »

Post all the videos you have found with funny captions :)

Here's an epic fail:
http://youtu.be/6r1_4NP4dYs?t=4m15s

Something to do with immigrants first and then employment 2 lines later. Turn English auto captions on.

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Tournament Archives / All Round Bot Builder Championship (Sign-ups Closed!)

« on: February 16, 2013, 04:21:42 AM »

I'm thinking about planning to start the new tournament for the 10th anniversary of the game, it's basically the same as the one I didn't get to finish due to losing all the stuff on the computer I was using back then. Here are the rules:

*Stock.
*AW, BW, LW, MW and HW.
*Multi-bots (2 clusters maximum per multi-bot) are allowed.
*Hybrids are allowed as long as you haven't used any of the hybrid's weapon setups on another bot.
*Multi-bots can use different weapon setups as long as you haven't used them on any other bot.
*No Nasty Pickles, Bumble bots, Trinity Flyers, Crawlers or any other cheap robots.
*Robots must show controlled movement and have at least 2 wheel drive.
*Standard in-game glitches (such as axle loading) allowed.
*No AAM, Hax mode, Trov glitch, BFE or any other nonsense.
*No new uberstack glitch.
*No Cheatbot2.
*AI parts are allowed but...
*No 140cm extender.
*No trying to find loopholes, you should know what "Stock" means.
*Best 3 out of 5 rounds using all 5 entries (1 bot per round starting with AW and HW going last).
*Double Elimination.
*I will restart matches due to match-altering glitches only.
*Robots that cause 2 glitches will be eliminated and given the loss.
*All matches will take place in the (possibly re-skinned) combat arena.
*All matches will be 3 minutes in length.
*I can AI all basic bots, anything odd will require you to AI it yourself.
*32 entries max.

*Every weight class on your team must use a different BASIC robot type from this list (no flail SnS and normal SnS on the same team):

1. Rammer
2. Hammer
3. Popup
4. Horizontal spinner
5. Vertical spinner
6. Face spinner
7. Poker
8. Flipper
9. SnSer
10. Side hammer
11. Juggler
12. Drum

AW variations, these are allowed in addition to the above basic types for AW's only to provide some more variation:

*Axle HS
*Axle VS
*Axle FS
*Axle Drill
*Axle Popup
*Flail/inertia bots.

NOTE: This tournament will have it's AI pack released as "GTM AI" that we can build upon with teams from other members, as sort of the official AI pack for the community.

Entries:

I will be entering with this team:


1:Ianh05
2:Venko
3:090901
4:Lightning S.
5:Mazakari
6:Mr. AwesumSauce
7:Virus Bomb
8:Kurt Wylde
9:Fracture
10:GameKing3
11:Squirrel_Monkey
12:Pwnator
13:R1885
14:Rob Collins
15:Wolfsbane
16:Mystic2000
17:Scrap Daddy
18:kill343gs
19:Surprise entry (Clickbeetle)
20:RPJK
21:Jonzu95

Green = Team received and accepted.
Red = Team received but update needed.
Normal text colour = No entry yet but have stated interest to enter.

Countdown for updates:
Time expired!

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Existing Games / PS4, Xbox720 blocking used games?

« on: February 15, 2013, 10:17:46 PM »

So if these rumors are true how many people will buy games and never play them to see their value skyrocket after a number of years?

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Modifications / Ultimate Stock AW AI Pack Progression Thread. V1 Released!

« on: February 11, 2013, 08:00:49 AM »

Progress report:

Completed:
Robo Zone 2 AI
Starcore AW's
Stock Mini's
Retro AW's
Clickbeetle and Firebeetle AW's
My own Team
ASAI AW's

Working on:
New Re-stocked AI AW's.
2 more teams of my own.
A Botexchange team.

Waiting on:
ARBBC AW's
More member teams

Preview:


Download:
https://gametechmods.com/uploads/files/6335Ultimate Stock AW AI.rar

Just wondering if anyone has any antweights laying around? I won't be accepting scrappy AW's unless they are old bots.

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Site News and Feedback / Blocking users could be easier.

« on: February 07, 2013, 06:36:11 AM »

Last time I was here and people suggested blocking/ignoring users, I had a look around and couldn't find it. This time I have noticed you need to go to your own profile and add their names to an ignore list. Most forums I have been on simply have a block user option on everyone's profile so you can just go to their profile and block them, surely I'm not the only person who didn't really know this list existed?

• Reply
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Off-Topic Discussion / Return - with 1 condition

« on: February 07, 2013, 05:30:19 AM »

I'm thinking about returning on one condition, Total immunity from BS such as trolling and name calling. I will be able to host tournaments (in a speedily fashion as always) work on AI packs and maybe post some new bots.

I did put a lot of effort into my work here and was sad to have to throw a lot of it away but I wanted to make a statement that I will not be toyed with. I'm here to have fun not to be mocked by some trolls.

So if you would like some faster run tournaments and some more AI packs I'm more then happy to provide such things given the terms of the return are met. I don't think it's too much to ask.

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Chatterbox / About Ian.

« on: October 31, 2012, 04:49:32 AM »

*I don't have the best social life.
*An illness made me drop out of school, never graduated year 12.
*The same illness means I can't enjoy things like take-away food and even basic white bread.
*I was bullied a bit at school.
*Even home life can be tough.
*I don't drink, smoke or do drugs. I believe you can have fun without all those things.
*over the past year I have lost 2 special family pets.
*I came here to let out my creative side as I don't have any artistic talent.
*I was raised with the saying "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything".
*I will defend myself if my character is attacked.
*I was mad that people would rather spend time talking about silly things then take notice of my work.
*I did everything here for you guys not for my own ego, I just loved being creative with tournaments and such.
*I have always wanted to make others happy, often caring about others more then I care about myself.
*I had over 30 gig worth of RA2 on my PC.
*I had almost 200 RA2 videos on my youtube.
*I wish I could find a place to let out my creativity, my dream is to make games that allow the player to create certain games (based on the title) from a simple menu interface with a variety of options etc.
*I believe back in the day was better, you could get 32 entries for tournaments no problem. People here don't care about the game as much as back then.


Anyone who knows me knows I'm a nice person, it sucks that here I come of as a drama queen considering I have done more for the community then I have done for anyone else.

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Modifications / Robo Zone 2 AI with arena's!

« on: October 27, 2012, 02:34:22 PM »

https://gametechmods.com/uploads/files/Robo%20Zone%202%20AI%20with%20Arenas.zip


Enjoy.

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Discussion / game is losing the fun-factor again due to lack of community.

« on: October 27, 2012, 11:09:02 AM »

Why I am losing interest again:

*0 help on the new AW AI pack.
*1 team for the GTM AI pack.
*No feedback on the new RA2RPG boss set-up, barely any on the general topic.
*12 views on the Robo Zone 2 final video.
*My completed Robo Zone 2 tournament topic has almost 1000 less views then nary's 1 round so far tournament (roughly 2 hours vs 33 mins total video time).

I fear that if Trov releases any mods these days he wouldn't get the thanks he deserves, instead people would just download and play the mod without saying anything or ignore it completely. People put in time to provide the community with new and exciting things so I can see why the community is lacking new AI packs and Arenas.

Some questions:

1. What do you want to see more of?
2. Why don't you comment much? (ignore if you do).
3. Where do you spend most of your time on the forum?
4. Do you watch tournament videos that don't feature your own bot?
5. Why don't you enter BOTM?
6. How many AI packs do you have?
7. Do you play stock, DSL or both?
8. What have you given to the community?

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Discussion / Robot Arena 2 RPG! (take 1402852)

« on: October 24, 2012, 12:48:16 PM »

We all know we want an RA2 RPG for the forums so let's share idea's here :)

*Upgradable bots - Start as a noob and make progress as your bot becomes the next RA2RPG king.
*Boss battles - Face the ultimate RA2 baddies!
*Loot drops - Better opponents drop better loot, bosses drop epics like, Razor tips, shiny hubs, HP Z-tek motors etc. and normal opponents drop cruddy loot like pole spikes and square extenders.

How it could work:

*Maps! - Arena maps with enemies placed on them, each has a boss and some normal opponents.
*Random drop system - using a virtual dice roll to determine what item you get.
*RA2RPG crew - People to bring it to life, design new maps/arena/bosses, upload videos etc.

Example level map:


Each fight takes place on the current map.

Loot list (WIP)
==================
Common loot (normal opponents):
*Square extenders (not 140cm).
*Sledge hammers.
*Ram plates.

Rare loot (boss drops):
*Razor tips.
*Iron spikes.
*Maces.
*Snow plows.
*Shiny hubs.
*HP Z-Tek.

RA2RPG Vanilla world map:


*Start at 250kg weight limit and get 50kg extra per map completed.

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Existing Games / Borderlands Legends

« on: October 24, 2012, 12:01:12 PM »

A new Borderlands game is coming next week for iOS! Here are the features/price/screenshots:


*Release date = Oct. 31
*Price = $4.99 iPhone, $6.99 iPad.
*Top down action-rpg-strategy.
*Thousands of different weapons.
*Play as your favourite characters from the original Borderlands.
*Randomized missions.
*36 unique powers and abilities.
*Strategic cover system.
*Fight for your Life mode.
*Boss Battles.
*Enemy level scaling.
*Control all four characters simultaneously.
*Enemies include Skags, Bandits, Crimson Lance and Spider Ants.
*Characters possess three action skills and six abilities.
*Weapons, Shields and Utilities.


Screenshots:

Looks pretty cool for an iOS App :)

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Discussion / What would a robot arena 2 raid look like?

« on: October 18, 2012, 01:01:41 PM »

Title says most, a raid is a map with multiple bosses that you progress through in order to get the loots! You can get creative in this topic with pics etc. if you want/are able to draw things(which I am not).

Here's an example:

Bridge of Doom raid - Vanilla (Stock AI), Lightweight-Middleweight raid. A dark style raid with lots of fire and evil bots :P 3 different paths to get to the end boss (Devil II obviously who drops the feared red extender).


Wiki link to arena's:
https://gametechmods.com/RA2wiki/index.php?title=Category:Arenas

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Chatterbox / Mad Skillz thread!

« on: October 14, 2012, 09:17:14 AM »

Video taken 5 years ago O.o


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeHPywdUVZ8&feature=plcp#


Post your funky skills!