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FRR: Backlash - Discussion
Topic Started: Oct 20 2015, 12:54 AM (10,333 Views)
Toxic
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I'm so excited for this tournament. It's going to be HUGE.

Very much afraid of Brian the Americans bots, especially the Middleweight. I'm predicting that thing to go far.
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BrianTheAmerican
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Cha0sFerret
 
a little worried that your lightweight might be just a little lacking in armor

You think it's bad now you should have seen Promethean Fire M1. http://imgur.com/a/iR5Zt I also slapped the links to each bot's evolutions on the wiki.

The_Angry_Goat
 
I really dont know what Furious Redemption is supposed to do

It's just a funky looking shell spinner

Super hyped for this tournament though! Some crazy designs here for this one
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The_Angry_Goat
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Hiicantpk
 
2 of the two teeth of the drum are sharp, designed to pierce and rip up opponents. The third tooth is blunt, which allows the drum to fling bots upwards, possibly onto their sides. Of course, once the weapon is spinning, its near impossible to tell which tooth will hit.


:headache:

‽ ROBOTICS (180 - 88 lifetime)

Ruination 4
Nick's Fuzzy Rules: 7-1
Glitch: 5-3
Hazardous Waste Removal: 6-2
Khnum: 4-4


ROBOT2
Hat Garage: 0-0
Lilian: 0-0
Blue Max: 0-0
Neuromancer: 0-0

"giant fucking dinosaur" is in my top 5 picks to win the nut ~V900
So you're saying no arenas that fill the driver booths with powerful hallucinogenic gas that argle bargle THE ENEMY'S GATE IS SIDEWAYS ~ Rocket III
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Meganew
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ARC: Aftermath Survivor
I entered
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7-8 with my antweight, Top Gun.
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DrummerBrian95
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Can we please just outright ban these ludicrous SHW "WalkingUberSpinner#1337N00BRAP3R" spinners?? They take absolutely ZERO creativity or effort to come up with and take up spots where we could actually see a decent, realistic, practical robot.
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FRR: Backlash
Veto: 2-0
Buzz Cut: 2-0
Halberd: 0-2
Airtime Extreme: 2-0

r/Battlebots Hammerfall:
Halberd: 5-1 (Reached Quarterfinals)
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Hooray For Lexan
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Dear Everyone:

Please stop. You're going to get walkers banned before I can enter my crazy walking crusher design, and I need that sweet, sweet point bonus.
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Meganew
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DrummerBrian95
Dec 1 2015, 09:14 PM
Can we please just outright ban these ludicrous SHW "WalkingUberSpinner#1337N00BRAP3R" spinners?? They take absolutely ZERO creativity or effort to come up with and take up spots where we could actually see a decent, realistic, practical robot.
I would agree with you if the design wasn't 6 years old >_>
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Cha0sFerret
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What just appeared in my hands?
Honestly, with those stats I don't see it winning more than a few fights. One hit will send it flying into a wall or hazard and it will probably kill itself with the impact damage. Meanwhile, the opponent will come out with half of its drivetrain still running and take a KO win. Unless he gets a spectacularly lucky hit or his opponent's design is equally bad, he has no hope of actually winning.

Most uberspinners aren't actually as threatening as they initially seem. They pretty much all sacrifice speed and stability for raw damage, so anything that can take a hit (and you'd be surprised at what can) will win. Even in the event of a double KO, the JD almost always goes to the opponent on aggression and strategy. I think when people realize uberspinners aren't competitively viable, we'll see less of them.

Regardless of viability, Endgame 2 will make an appearance eventually because I actually like how it came out. Excuse me for liking impractical designs.
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Eye of Fury: 1-1

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The_Angry_Goat
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to be fair, theyre easy to beat unless your robot has literally no parts that you can sacrifice. with 1 armor, ramming him into a wall will severely damage his drivetrain :P
‽ ROBOTICS (180 - 88 lifetime)

Ruination 4
Nick's Fuzzy Rules: 7-1
Glitch: 5-3
Hazardous Waste Removal: 6-2
Khnum: 4-4


ROBOT2
Hat Garage: 0-0
Lilian: 0-0
Blue Max: 0-0
Neuromancer: 0-0

"giant fucking dinosaur" is in my top 5 picks to win the nut ~V900
So you're saying no arenas that fill the driver booths with powerful hallucinogenic gas that argle bargle THE ENEMY'S GATE IS SIDEWAYS ~ Rocket III
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Meganew
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ARC: Aftermath Survivor
It's a delicious lulz bot
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7-8 with my antweight, Top Gun.
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Badnik96
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You're just a voice pal, you don't know a damn thing about racing!
yeah honestly you guys are being morons

this design has never worked outside of the one time nick did it and nick is a cheap bastard who actually put enough effort into the design to make it championship caliber, which you could do with literally any other design and be more liked.

it was funny the first two or three times. i made the mistake and i'm regretting it every week with joke results. dont go down my path.
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WhipCoil - The Crash & Burn Tournament 5 Champion
Redline - Robot Bastards LW Champion
Sling Shot - Bot-o-Rama 2016 Sportsman Champion
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Pyrite - FRR Backlash Lightweight Champion
Doomerang - Robot Fight Night Heavyweight Champion

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NFX
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Badnik96
Dec 1 2015, 10:56 PM
nick is a cheap bastard
confirmed :v:

But yeah, there's more to a walking uberspinner than just sinking as many stats into Weapon as possible without making the robot explode. Or even with making the robot explode. I'll be the first to admit that I got seriously lucky not having to face Industrial Bastardization in the finals, because I think that was the one robot that could somewhat comfortably defeat it. But if you have ludicrous Weapon and either no Speed or no Armour, then you'll pick up two or three wins perhaps, but the vast majority of its season will be treated as something of a joke. I know we're all here to have fun, but there's a line between the entertaining and the absurd, and I think we're getting pretty close to it.
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Speaking of absurd and entertaining, The Smiler has now been entered as my LW.
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Swiftsure- 2-0
Torque Dirty 2 Me- 2-0
Ayame- 1-0
Dead on Arrival- 1-0
Barley Picker- 1-0
Lethal Injection 3- 1-0

Robot Bastards 2 (5-5)
Apathy & Lethargy- 2-1
Trump ex Machina- 0-3
Rainbow in the Dark- 3-1 (6-3)

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Ayame- 6-1
Marauder- 6-1
Dreadnought Mk3- 3-4
Lethal Injection 3- 5-2

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TotallyNotSatan
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I have a new SHW.
Record:

RUINATION: THE UPHEAVAL
Altair: 0-0
Discordi: 0-0
Ballast: 0-0
Bozo: 0-0
Total: 0-0

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Total: 0-0

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The_Angry_Goat
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so I'm pretty sure that you +2 to wedges bonus has to be counted separately for each individual wedge, meaning that anything that is not a wedge on that robot will have 1 armor. the armor bonus just might not be worth it :v:
‽ ROBOTICS (180 - 88 lifetime)

Ruination 4
Nick's Fuzzy Rules: 7-1
Glitch: 5-3
Hazardous Waste Removal: 6-2
Khnum: 4-4


ROBOT2
Hat Garage: 0-0
Lilian: 0-0
Blue Max: 0-0
Neuromancer: 0-0

"giant fucking dinosaur" is in my top 5 picks to win the nut ~V900
So you're saying no arenas that fill the driver booths with powerful hallucinogenic gas that argle bargle THE ENEMY'S GATE IS SIDEWAYS ~ Rocket III
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The_Angry_Goat
Dec 2 2015, 12:56 PM
so I'm pretty sure that you +2 to wedges bonus has to be counted separately for each individual wedge, meaning that anything that is not a wedge on that robot will have 1 armor. the armor bonus just might not be worth it :v:
Technically correct, though I believe that the wedges encompass too much overall chassis % total for them all to qualify for a Bonus. You could probably get away with 1, 2 would likely still be over the limit.
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Spatula,Jan 29 2011
11:32 PM
I should go 3-1 this week but it'll probably be something like 0-4 or 0-5.

It sucks going 0-5. You lose all 4 of your bot fights for the week and you also lose at life.
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The_Angry_Goat
Dec 1 2015, 06:55 PM
Hiicantpk
 
2 of the two teeth of the drum are sharp, designed to pierce and rip up opponents. The third tooth is blunt, which allows the drum to fling bots upwards, possibly onto their sides. Of course, once the weapon is spinning, its near impossible to tell which tooth will hit.


:headache:

Guess whoever is writing can just roll a D6 / 2 and then round up to see what tooth hits.
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Robo*Con
Uptown Funk: 2-0
Remi IV: 1-1 (Lifetime 10-13)

Ruination 4
Tidal Wave II: 2-5 (Lifetime 19-15)
Remi IV: 4-3 (Lifetime 12-14)
Flandre Scarlet: 2-5 (Lifetime 3-5)
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Hooray For Lexan
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Yeah... you're probably better off using a frustrum (truncated cone, eg. Megabyte) shaped robot with no armor bonuses: with no corners, 9 armor will tank a few hits from most spinners.

Alternately, you could try something like omnidirectional drive, or even mount the weapon on a turret.

Also THREE motor-on-top overheads in the LW division? Good grief. Lifters, flippers, and hammers with good front armor are going to have a field day.
"you can give a fuck, just don't give too much of a fuck. there's an optimal level of fuckiness, and if you exceed your fuck quota you'll burn out."

- BEES

Trihunter on V900's New Undercutter:

Spoiler: click to toggle
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The_Angry_Goat
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HotDealsInTexas
Dec 2 2015, 04:21 PM


Also THREE motor-on-top overheads in the LW division? Good grief. Lifters, flippers, and hammers with good front armor are going to have a field day.
youre complaining about this for FRR? Ruination has something like 5 :v:

Hiicantpk
 
Guess whoever is writing can just roll a D6 / 2 and then round up to see what tooth hits.


I'm too cool to use dice :P
Edited by The_Angry_Goat, Dec 2 2015, 05:21 PM.
‽ ROBOTICS (180 - 88 lifetime)

Ruination 4
Nick's Fuzzy Rules: 7-1
Glitch: 5-3
Hazardous Waste Removal: 6-2
Khnum: 4-4


ROBOT2
Hat Garage: 0-0
Lilian: 0-0
Blue Max: 0-0
Neuromancer: 0-0

"giant fucking dinosaur" is in my top 5 picks to win the nut ~V900
So you're saying no arenas that fill the driver booths with powerful hallucinogenic gas that argle bargle THE ENEMY'S GATE IS SIDEWAYS ~ Rocket III
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Toxic
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Re: uber spinners: personally I have no problem with them. If they don't one hit KO you they are dead. a very solidly statted bot could probably even control the match.


With that said, Meganews SHW scared the crap out of me.
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