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Off-Topic Discussion / Political Compass Thread
« on: February 05, 2017, 06:53:23 PM »
> Want to see how my political beliefs habe changed over the past few years
> Try to find political compass thread
> Its gone, nice job mods reeeeeee


New political compass thread

Looks like I'm very close to where I was a few years back according to this, even though I think I've shifted quite far right in most aspects.


www.politicalcompass.org


Btw if you find a better political compass site please share

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Challenge Board / Badger vs Jamied666 (Badger Wins)
« on: January 16, 2017, 06:59:39 AM »
Ironforge LW (70-125 KG)
no RA2CF
No crawlers or 1WDS
SnS Banned
Ring Arena
Best of 3


Geice to host

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Site News and Feedback / Forum reorganisation suggestion
« on: January 05, 2017, 02:01:35 PM »
Seriously guys, we all know that Trov's inactivity is an issue for the site, as the is the sole person with full access to the site, and this single point of failure is and has been failing for a while now. I think we need to group together to call for trov to promote a member here to Admin, as even if he feels like his current contributions are sufficient, I think even he can see that he is likely to go full-AWOL at some point in the future, if he hasn't already.


While there are several candidates for promotion (and this has already been extensively discussed in other threads), I think the obvious choice is Craig, who has a slightly unnerving amount of uptime on the site and has shown dedication and maturity through thick and thin. Other options would include Kill and Naryar, being the only other semi-active mods, but their activity would probably lead to similar complaints to what we have now.


Of course, this would leave a vacancy in the moderator position. While this may not need to be filled, I think another addition to the mod team really cannot hurt. Again, there has been extensive discussion on this topic, and I will not elaborate on this point seeing as everything has been said better and in more deal in other threads.


Trov, if you're reading this, as I hope you do, please do not take this as an insult to your work for the site. We're not saying that we want you gone, we're saying that we want you to have some assistance, as the needs of the site are greater than the amount of time you can dedicate to the site.


Hopefully the community can rally behind this message, and we can show Trov that we all think that we need a little change.

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Off-Topic Discussion / Happy Birthday America!
« on: January 01, 2017, 02:26:33 PM »
Here's to another 2017 years of freedom  :dance:

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Tournament Archives / BittyBots - DSL2.2 LW IRL Tournament [Signups]
« on: December 23, 2016, 07:31:34 PM »



DSL2.2 IRL (VERY strict IRL standards will be upheld. Rejected bots will be displayed as examples of insufficiently IRL bots.)
LW (249.9 and under, not including smartzones)
Cheatbot 2 is not allowed
2 minute fights (draws will be judged by me, not decided via points.)
DSC's extender pack allowed
Bots with frenzy hammers, typhoon teeth (large and small) and replica disks will be subject to extra scrutiny. "Tryhard" bots will be instantly rejected.
Ring spinners and SnS are banned
RA2CF is permitted. BFEing chassis height and/or burst arcs is also permitted.
Swiss army bots are allowed, but you must tell me what permutation you want to use when entering your bot (i.e. against rammers I want X setup, for the rumble I want Y setup etc), max of 3 versions allowed.
Multibots are allowed (if you're insane...)
Skinned components are allowed
I reserve the right to reject a bot for any reason

2 bots allowed per person
Bracket structure will depend on number of entrants, most likely will be a 4-way group rumble, with the top 2 moving on to a BO1 double-elimination bracket

The arena used will be the bitty bots arena:

My Entries:


Examples of acceptable bots:


Examples of unacceptable bots:



NOTE - When signing up, please specify if you want your bot(s) to be entered in the mini-tournaments. Also, if you have any trivia or fun facts about your bot, let me know!

Total accepted - 31
Time remaining: lul
Black = Entered
Green = Accepted and AI'd
Blue = Accepted
Orange = Minor changes required
Red = Rejected

- Badger
- Badger
- Guldenflame
- Guldenflame
- Botomatic1000
- TheRoboteer
- Mystic2000
- Mystic2000
- DemonOfTomorrow

- Baconus_Yum
- TGM
- TGM
- TheRoboteer
- Pressure
- DemonOfTomorrow
- Playzooki
- jdg
- jdg

- Baconus
- Jamied
- Jamied
- RedAce
- RedAce
- Rob
- Rob

- Badnik
- Badnik
- Tashic
- Tashic
- Mr AS
- Mr AS

The following are a series of mini-tournaments, that can be opted-in to when signing up your bot for the main tournament. If you want to enter, please say so when applying for the main tournament!

KING OF THE HILL
- Lumazone KOTH mini-tournament
- Max 16 entrants (12 left)
- 4-way rumble
- Top 2 bots per round proceed

- Badger
- Badger
- RedAce
- RedAce

SUMO BASHO
- Clawtop vs SaberTooth, from my Stock remakes
- Max 10 entrants (3 left)
- Longest time wins

- Badger
- Badger
- Mystic2000
- TheRoboteer
- TheRoboteer
- RedAce
- RedAce

TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
- BittyBots arena
- Team tournament, 2 bots per team. Can be from different builders, if both consent.
- Max 8 teams (4 left)

- The Hornets (Badger)
- Name TBA (TheRoboteer)
- Savage Spinners (DoT)
- Elemental Eliminators (RedAce)
- Team Surgical Wildlife Technology (Boto and Rob)

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Tournament Archives / EMERGENCY EXIT - SBV
« on: December 16, 2016, 08:52:49 PM »



SPLASHES

LEADERBOARD

VIDEO


GRUDGE MATCHES
3-way lightweight rumble
395-540kg rumble
Winner rumble
LW rammers vs Backon Emergency
Death Inflicting Thingy vs. Hot Girl
Kris Wolf vs. LW Rammers
Turbo Rock vs bitter sweet
Dinistrio v Nicoals The Boxer

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Tournament Archives / The Forge: Wedges-Be-Gone SBV (PART 2 IS A GO)
« on: December 09, 2016, 02:57:02 PM »





SPLASH:


BRACKETS:
http://challonge.com/wedgesbegone


VIDEOS:





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Site News and Feedback / We need the playground back
« on: December 01, 2016, 05:16:54 AM »
Offtopic is a garbage board, we need to get Playground back. What's the point of an offtopic board if it has actual rules?

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Tournament Archives / EMERGENCY EXIT - Signups
« on: November 28, 2016, 06:19:39 PM »




RULES:
Stock
Any weightclass
No popups or stiltbots. Meltybrain and custom .pys are banned.
1 bot per person. After the first week of signups I'll allow you to enter a jokebot as a 2nd bot (John vs EMERGENCY incoming)
Custom components (including skins) are banned. Even sage's skin pack; I'm on a fresh RA2 install for this one lads.
RA2T#2 Arena
Fights last 1 minute 30 seconds
Bots will fight EMERGENCY. You can only win by KOing (WBP or OOTA via havok do  not count) EMERGENCY within 1:30.
Rankings will be based on weight; Bots that beat EMERGENCY (from lightest to heaviest) then bots that lose to EMERGENCY (lightest to heaviest)
Ties will be decided by a BO1 match in the RA2T#2 arena lasting 3 minutes.
After the tournament I'll be doing plenty of bonus matches, so feel free to request any. Currently planned:


SIGNUPS:
Signups will last 2 weeks, or until I get bored and just start it. So get your entries in quickly.
I can AI but strongly encourage you to do so.
Time left for signups: Closed!


1) Wen
2) MNB
3) Baconus_Yum
4) Silverfish
5) Silverfish
6) DeadGenocide
7) Dreamcast
8) Baconus_Yum
9) Jamied
10) Geice
11) RedAce

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Tournament Archives / DSL Revival - Make DSL 2.2 Great Again! [Inactive]
« on: November 20, 2016, 05:16:17 PM »
Considering that DSL has devolved into an aidspit of IRL, I thought it'd be nice to host one last DSL-S tournament in DSL.


RULES:
HW (400.0 > 800.0)
Standard DSL-S ruleset (i'll flesh it out to be more explicit if I actually get any interest)
ALL replica components in the weapons tab are banned.
BBEANS Arena v2, DSL tournament arena, Combat Zone or Vaporzone (Will put it to a vote)
3 min fights
Double-elimination BO1 format with BO5 finals
Meltybrain is banned, but SnS are not.
Bots must show controlled movement
Unlimited entries, max 2 per person. Signups will be open for a while, at least a month.
RO7 break allowed
DSC's IRL extenders allowed


Rules (up for debate):
Ban 1WD bots?
Ban SnS?
Ban Gothic hammer? Any other components? Allow replica weapons under a certain DP?


So what do you guys think

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Existing Games / GTMCraft Episode 2: Trump Builds a Wall Edition
« on: November 13, 2016, 03:42:43 PM »
New thread so we don't spam the Minecraft thread
IP: 137.74.47.130
You'll need to be whitelisted to play on the server. Post here with your MC username so I can add you to the whitelist.

Minecraft 1.11, Survival, Hard
Admins

Badger (TheyCallMeBadger)
Craig (Craaig_)

Notable locations
Sand Village - You can see it from spawn
Good for beginning, you can get some food and shelter for the night
Ty4er's house - X=85 Z=350
DemonOfTomorrow's House - X=50 Z=300
Craaig's house - X=-10 Z=600
Breeding pit - X=-20 Z=320

If you're cool with me adding your house to this list PM me on here or discord. If we know where everyone is we can interact more!

Rules
No griefing (I'm making multiple backups per day anyway so I can just roll it back)
No altering spawn
No PvP for no good reason (legitimate reasons could inclue a player being in your house/mine without your permission. If it wouldn't be cool in an RP server, it's not cool here)
No TnT use near other players or their homes
No burning down forests

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Off-Topic Discussion / Our independence isn't working out so well
« on: November 09, 2016, 02:19:48 PM »
http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/08/news/economy/uk-economy-brexit-25-billion/index.html


Looking forward to seeing where that £350 million a day is gonna come from.

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Tournament Archives / Chassis Swap-Up Awards
« on: November 06, 2016, 08:00:27 AM »


Voting
You have a week to vote (closes on Sunday 13th November)

Best match:
Best-built bot:
Most disgusting chassis:
BTSHDBBDDTBL:


Thanks for watching and participating. As always, criticism is welcomed.

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Other Tutorials / How to cap your RA2 framerate properly [NVIDIA ONLY]
« on: November 04, 2016, 07:55:17 PM »
Unfortunately this 'fix' is for nvidia cards only. Maybe someone on the red team can post below if Catalyst has a similar feature. iGPU users are SOL. If you don't understand anything in this guide, Google is your friend.
Why would I want to limit my framerate?
Good question. There are a couple reasons. Be default, this is my how my PC runs RA2 at the title screen:
It can go up to 5,000 FPS at times, which is not only totally unnecessary, it produced an unholy amount of coil whine, which I never usually get on my gtx 970. It also puts unnecessary strain on your GPU. My 970 really doesn't need to be running at 87% capacity like it is in the above screenshot. After capping the framerate, my GPU is only running at 11% usage, which is much better.


In addition, the follow camera breaks above a certain framerate for some reason. You can prevent that by limiting your framerate.

How do you limit your framerate?

OK first off I'd like to re-iterate that this is for people with NVIDIA GPUS ONLY.
First off, you'll want to download nVidia Inspector (direct download link). Unzip that bad boy, place the contents wherever and open up nvidiaInspector.exe. You should be greeted by a screen that looks a bit like this:

Click the button that I've helpfully highlighted in red. Another screen will pop up that looks a little something like this:

Now click in the box at the top that I've highlighted in red, and type in it "Robot Arena", and then hit enter. The rows of techno mumbo-jumbo below it should change. Now look for the "Frame Rate Limiter" option under the "Refresh and Sync" section, as I've highlighted in the image below. Set that to whatever framerate you want, I'll talk more about that later. I've set mine to 120fps.

So we're done, right? Nope! Now you have to click on the "add new game" icon I've highlighted in blue on the image below, and select your ra2 exe. I renamed my .exe just to make this guide more confusing, but yours should just be called "Robot Arena 2.exe". Look at the image below for reference. (If you have multiple copies of RA2, for example one for Stock, one for DSL etc, you should repeat this for each different version, adding each version's .exe).

Now you can click the big green "Apply Changes" button in the top right, and close nVidia Inspector. We're done!

What framerate should I choose?

The main choice here is 120 or 60. I chose 120fps because a 60fps lock gives me ghastly input lag, but I'm not sure if that's because I use a 144hz monitor like a weirdo. Your monitor is 60Hz, so it shouldn't make a massive difference. Try them both out I guess, I think 120fps will feel better but it might still break the follow cam whereas I'm fairly sure 60fps won't.

You might have also seen that you can choose a temperature instead of a framerate. Don't bother.

Why don't I just force enable V-sync, record with FRAPS or do one of the other million methods of FPS capping?

A few reasons. I couldn't force V-Sync through inspector the the nvidia control panel, which is really weird. And it causes input lag, although i'm not sure if it would cause more than this method at 120fps. Recording everything with fraps is obviously incredibly impractical and comes with a performance penalty. While my method is a PITA to implement, it has no real downsides except the minor input lag introduced (which will be an issue with ANY FPS-limiting method).

It didn't work! How do I fix it???

You messed up. Go google it or re-read the tutorial, dumbass.

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Challenge Board / Badger vs WenXiangLee (Badger Wins)
« on: October 21, 2016, 09:32:25 PM »
Stock BO3
Ring Arena
No SnS
090901 to host
HW (400.0-800.0)

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Off-Topic Discussion / I'm a good boy who dindu nuffin
« on: October 14, 2016, 05:11:27 PM »
nuffin to see here

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Tournament Archives / Chassis Swap-Up SBV
« on: October 11, 2016, 11:25:09 AM »

Splash:
Brackets and groups (SPOILERS):
Videos:

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Stock 1.4 HW
Vaporzone arena hazards on
No Zteks (HP or otherwise), no DDTs, no component wedges
No popups or SnS
Standard stock ruleset, no AAM, BFE, Hax mode etc
If someone doesn't submit a legit bot on time, we'll continue the rumble without them

You have a week from approval, good luck my fellow retards.

Cheers to RedAce for hosting

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So I've seen too many gifs and videos of people recording their monitor with their phone camera, and it looks like ass. So here's my guide on how to properly record RA2 gameplay so you can share it with the world.


Step 1 - Download OBS:
You can find it at this webpage. click on the big "Download OBS Studio" button



Step 2 - Configure OBS:
So you're gonna have to edit the settings on OBS. It should start up looking something like this:

If there's anything in the "Sources" section, right-click it and click remove. Otherwise, right-click in the Sources section, mouse over "Add" and select "Game Capture". Just click OK, it doesn't need to be configured.

Also, left-click the speaker icon next to the mic/aux bars. It should turn red. Nobody wants to hear your microphone when they're expecting to watch RA2.
Next, click "Settings" above the exit button, and below Studio Move. Click "Output" to view the output tab.

Those are my settings. There are a few things going on here. Video Bitrate is, for all intents and purposes, the quality of your video. Bigger numbers mean better quality, but also bigger video files. I set mine to 5000, you can experiment going higher or lower. Keep in mind that I'm recording in 1080p in 60fps, lower resolutions and framerates require less bitrate.
You may not have the option for NVENC for your video encoder. Rule of thumb here is to open the list and, if you see any hardware options, choose them. Otherwise, go for software (x264).
In the recording section below that, you can change where you're saving your video files to (I'm saving mine to D:/Tutorials). I also set my recording quality to High, which actually makes it higher quality than the bitrate you provided above. You can select the top option in the drop-down list (same as stream) and edit the bitrate to have finer control over your video quality.
Set your encoder to the same as above


Now onto the Video settings

Set the top 2 settings to the maximum resolution your monitor allows. My monitor goes up to 1080p, so I entered the option of 1920x1080. Below that, the default framerate is at 30. I changed mine to 60, but beware that it doubles the size of your video file. If in doubt, leave it at 30.


Finally; the hotkey settings

Those are the only 2 hotkeys you need to change. I set them to the same thing, but you don't have to. Top hotkey starts your video recording, bottom hotkey stops it.


Step 3 - Configure your RA2:
There's no point recording in whatever resolution you've selected if RA2 runs at a lower one. You need to go into your RA2 folder and open ra2.cfg in notepad (or notepad++). Edit the FSDisplay and FS3DDisplay settings to match your own. They are the 4 lines below the first 2, as you can see in the picture below. In obs I set my resolution to 1920x1080, so for the width lines I change the number to 1920, for the height lines I change it to 1080.



Step 4 - Recording:
Open up your RA2 with OBS running, pick your bots and arena, start a match and press your record hotkey. Then just watch. When the match is over, press your record hotkey again. Pretty simple. I would strongly recommend using the Action Camera for recorded fights, which you can find in  GTM's download section.


Step 5 - Postproduction and uploading:
So you have your video file, what do you do with it? Well, you could just upload the video file outright to a site like YouTube to share the video, or to gfycat to make a gif out of it. You could also open the video file in a program like Windows Movie Maker to add music in the background or to add multiple recordings together into 1 video, for example to make a challenge video out of 3 separate matches. If you don't know how to do that, you can google some windows movie maker tutorials, I'm not teaching you

So yeah, that should be everything you need. Please stop making crap videos and do it properly.

Addendum
OK so there's a couple other things you need to know. If you're on a seriously potato PC, OBS may lag your RA2 when recording, especially if you're on an older laptop. Try to record on a desktop, laptops are REALLY not made for video production unless you're dropping ungodly amounts of money on a laptop. If you don't have a choice, you can always fiddle with the Output settings in OBS, change the encoder preset to High Performance, and change the recording quality to "Same as stream". It's also worth fiddling around with different encoders to see which works best. You can also reduce your resolution from 1920x1080 to 1280x720.

If you're on a laptop, ensure it's plugged into a charger and its cooling vents are not blocked. Change your power plan from balanced to high performance in windows. Close down extra programs running in the background.

If OBS is still lagging after the above tips, you're best off pirating FRAPs I guess, but YMMV, I remember FRAPs as having a higher performance impact than OBS. Other alternatives you could look into include Camtasia Recording Studio, Bandicam, or even MSI Afterburner's recording features. Just make sure you pirate paid-for recorders so we don't have to see the bandicam watermark above your videos.

If you're looking to edit and render your videos for a more professional look, it's worth looking into (read: pirating) Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas. Make sure you're rendering to an MP4 file, with a bitrate of 12mbps for 1080p 60fps, or 8mbps for 1080p 30fps. Having a beautiful framerate and high resolution means nothing if you rape your footage with compression artifacts.

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Discussion / Is it time to give up on DSL 2.2 for DSL-S play?
« on: October 08, 2016, 12:51:08 PM »
Title, really. Since we discovered how broken mechavore discs and frenzy hammers are, there has been a huge dive in interest in DSL non-IRL tournaments. Of the last 3 DSL 2.2 DSL-S tournaments, all have been won by bots spamming mechavore discs or frenzy hammers (scrapheap challenge 2, the cauldron 2, clone clash). Maybe the dip in interest is due to the surge in IRL building, but I think people are bored of making bots with only 2 viable weapon choices (weapons that lend themselves to a narrow range of bot types as well), and watching tournaments where the bot without the OP components is at a severe disadvantage.


Is it worth considering moving back to DSL2.1? Even though it wasn't the most balanced mod ever, it had a more varied metagame than DSL2.2 does right now.

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