I Fought The Law - SBVA

[Mr. AS]

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

why the **** would you leave in a run where one of the bosses kills themsevles without even touching the challenger bot? Having the VS knock out the Rammer for TGM was bullsh** enough, but now it's impossible for anyone else to win unless they too get lucky enough that the VA just kills itself

Seriously, you need to re-record matches like that where the challenger gets super lucky in a way that other challengere can't hope to re-create.

To be fair, that's not his fault from a hosting perspective. Upsets happen all the time (case in point: razor guy and insult to injury V from bbeans 1 and 5 respectively). At the very most it could be an AI issue, but that's about it.
What is 100% his fault though, is making such an unstable VS.

[Shield]

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

why the **** would you leave in a run where one of the bosses kills themsevles without even touching the challenger bot? Having the VS knock out the Rammer for TGM was bullsh** enough, but now it's impossible for anyone else to win unless they too get lucky enough that the VA just kills itself

Seriously, you need to re-record matches like that where the challenger gets super lucky in a way that other challengere can't hope to re-create.

To be fair, that's not his fault from a hosting perspective. Upsets happen all the time (case in point: razor guy and insult to injury V from bbeans 1 and 5 respectively). At the very most it could be an AI issue, but that's about it.
What is 100% his fault though, is making such an unstable VS.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Gulden]

And Neon wins another one.  Man, and I was confident on this one too.  :/

[090901]

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

why the **** would you leave in a run where one of the bosses kills themsevles without even touching the challenger bot? Having the VS knock out the Rammer for TGM was bullsh** enough, but now it's impossible for anyone else to win unless they too get lucky enough that the VA just kills itself

Seriously, you need to re-record matches like that where the challenger gets super lucky in a way that other challengere can't hope to re-create.

So basically....you are telling him to rig the tourney? 

[Avalanche]

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

why the **** would you leave in a run where one of the bosses kills themsevles without even touching the challenger bot? Having the VS knock out the Rammer for TGM was bullsh** enough, but now it's impossible for anyone else to win unless they too get lucky enough that the VA just kills itself

Seriously, you need to re-record matches like that where the challenger gets super lucky in a way that other challengere can't hope to re-create.

This is Karma for entering Paladin in LvD1 and TGMRW.

[Gulden]

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

why the **** would you leave in a run where one of the bosses kills themsevles without even touching the challenger bot? Having the VS knock out the Rammer for TGM was bullsh** enough, but now it's impossible for anyone else to win unless they too get lucky enough that the VA just kills itself

Seriously, you need to re-record matches like that where the challenger gets super lucky in a way that other challengere can't hope to re-create.

This is Karma for entering Paladin in LvD1 and TGMRW.

Treat it as you will...
I'm bummed about this too, but if you want to say this was against Badger, then sure...

This is why we have the BTSHDBBDDTBL Reward.

[Thrackerzod]

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

"i'm not going to win so the tournament is ruined"

[FightingBotInformal]

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

why the **** would you leave in a run where one of the bosses kills themsevles without even touching the challenger bot? Having the VS knock out the Rammer for TGM was bullsh** enough, but now it's impossible for anyone else to win unless they too get lucky enough that the VA just kills itself

Seriously, you need to re-record matches like that where the challenger gets super lucky in a way that other challengere can't hope to re-create.

So basically....you are telling him to rig the tourney? 

[Badger]

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

"i'm not going to win so the tournament is ruined"

"The tournament winner has all but been declared 3 bots in due to only having to fight half the bots of everyone else. That's not fair"
Doesn't really have the same ring to it does it mr strawman?

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

why the **** would you leave in a run where one of the bosses kills themsevles without even touching the challenger bot? Having the VS knock out the Rammer for TGM was bullsh** enough, but now it's impossible for anyone else to win unless they too get lucky enough that the VA just kills itself

Seriously, you need to re-record matches like that where the challenger gets super lucky in a way that other challengere can't hope to re-create.

This is Karma for entering Paladin in LvD1 and TGMRW.

[NeonCalypso]

Am I that lucky?

[Thrackerzod]

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

"i'm not going to win so the tournament is ruined"

"The tournament winner has all but been declared 3 bots in due to only having to fight half the bots of everyone else. That's not fair"
Doesn't really have the same ring to it does it mr strawman?

he only won one of his fights, the other two he lost pretty quickly.  it seems feasible that someone else could do similar

[Badger]

Aaaand that's this tournament ruined in one fell swoop

"i'm not going to win so the tournament is ruined"

"The tournament winner has all but been declared 3 bots in due to only having to fight half the bots of everyone else. That's not fair"
Doesn't really have the same ring to it does it mr strawman?

he only won one of his fights, the other two he lost pretty quickly.  it seems feasible that someone else could do similar

And only the best time counts.Honestly what's the point of even including the VS in the tournament if you can only get a good time by having it suicide? To ensure unlucky people can't win regardless of their bot-s quality?

[Thrackerzod]

And only the best time counts.Honestly what's the point of even including the VS in the tournament if you can only get a good time by having it suicide? To ensure unlucky people can't win regardless of their bot-s quality?

wait do the fights not get like added together or something

[Enigm@]

this is proof that islanders ruin everything

[Badger]

And only the best time counts.Honestly what's the point of even including the VS in the tournament if you can only get a good time by having it suicide? To ensure unlucky people can't win regardless of their bot-s quality?

wait do the fights not get like added together or something

IIRC it's only your best time. Total time would make this situation a lot less ghey because it would reduce the impact of wins-by-anomaly like this

On that note; Shield, you really need to put the results SOMEWHERE.

[Thrackerzod]

IIRC it's only your best time.

oh well if that's the case i take it back, that's pretty bad

[09090901]

Nice driving with Dark Al's bot.

[Mr. AS]

Nice driving with Dark Al's bot.

Peep those numbers. In all honesty, I'm glad the RA2 devs had the foresight to give a sign as to whether robots are AI controlled or not.

[kix]

Mmmmmm.. i did gud, badger?

[Dark-Al]

Nice driving with Dark Al's bot.

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Peep those numbers. In all honesty, I'm glad the RA2 devs had the foresight to give a sign as to whether robots are AI controlled or not.

First of all, I have a few points that needs to be clear up on Malleus and how it struggled to move before everyone decides on the "Shield is manually driving/rigging" the tournament conclusion that Geice and some other users had being pointing out. During when I was manually controlling Malleus in the test lab. Malleus show signs of having a large turning circle, the result of this was mainly due to the gyroscopic effect of the dual perms for Malleus' weapon. This isn't a problem when the weapon motor is off, but when I hold down the "Spin" button while turning the bot 45 degrees, a similar effect happen in vain to IRL bots similar to Sunshine Lollibot. Due to this, everytime when Malleus turned in large bursts such as turning 90 degrees sharply in any direction, the gyroscopic effect kicked onto one sides of the bot, allowing one of the law enforcement bot to easily get under Malleus and hitting Malleus around. Why Malleus struggled to move forward was heavily due to the position of the front plows and back, extender protection of the bot itself. If you looked carefully while watching the video, the front protection was completely low to the ground due to the Skirt hinge I used to put the extenders for the two front plows and the skirt backs, you did see that Malleus did move, but that only when the wheels were touching the ground and the plows weren't preventing the bot from moving forward from the plows being so low to the ground due to fears of having bots getting under Malleus. This may look like Shield wasn't moving the bot itself, but trust me if honestly wished to download the bot itself and tried to drive it, you'll see that the plows prevent the bot from moving far, unless the weapon motor was on and you have the drive moving forward. The same problem will occur even when you do drive it or AI the bot.