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| Cherry Bomb Classic - Discussion; Update: 7/21/16 - deadline, rules, and house bots/arenas! | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 3 2016, 11:41 PM (10,717 Views) | |
| NWOWWE | Nov 13 2016, 12:27 PM Post #501 |
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Team Blood Gulch Motto
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Blarg. I knew there had to be some kind of shenanigans going on.
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| The_Angry_Goat | Nov 14 2016, 02:18 AM Post #502 |
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oh good I finally lost |
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‽ 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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| GF93 | Nov 14 2016, 02:28 AM Post #503 |
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Vi veri veniversum vivus vici.
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...didn't I literally say "keep away from the walls" and "avoid hazards and house robots when I'm not taking him to them myself"? |
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Ice Cubed Robotics "I will not die until I achieve something. Even though the ideal is high, I never give in. Therefore, I never die with regrets." Cherry Bomb Classic: Season 2 (8-0) 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) Ruination: The Upheaval (20-8) Ayame- 6-1 Marauder- 6-1 Dreadnought Mk3- 3-4 Lethal Injection 3- 5-2 ALL-TIME RECORD Wins: 347 Losses: 230
Notable Achievements on Advanced Robot Combat for make benefit glorious Team of Ice Cubed Robotics
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| The_Angry_Goat | Nov 14 2016, 02:35 AM Post #504 |
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oh yeah, because you can totally control where you're going when your wheels are in midair |
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‽ 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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| GF93 | Nov 14 2016, 11:10 AM Post #505 |
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Vi veri veniversum vivus vici.
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So whilst getting ROFLstomped twice in succession in the MW and SHW divisions after all the effort I put into my strategies did hack me off, I was happy to see that the HW fight went well- very spectacular and violent! I especially liked the parts where TVC threw Lollerskate high enough into the air to smash it to bits on impact, and that final blow where the two stupidly-powerful weapons collided, that was epic. |
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Ice Cubed Robotics "I will not die until I achieve something. Even though the ideal is high, I never give in. Therefore, I never die with regrets." Cherry Bomb Classic: Season 2 (8-0) 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) Ruination: The Upheaval (20-8) Ayame- 6-1 Marauder- 6-1 Dreadnought Mk3- 3-4 Lethal Injection 3- 5-2 ALL-TIME RECORD Wins: 347 Losses: 230
Notable Achievements on Advanced Robot Combat for make benefit glorious Team of Ice Cubed Robotics
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| That Kode Guy | Nov 14 2016, 12:23 PM Post #506 |
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Ruiner of All
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I wrote SHW. You might have stood a chance if XIII didn't release Ganymede, but yeah. XIII being faster and more armoured than you and such made it pretty much clear that XIII was surviving longer than you. MW... as Gabe said on Discord, "fun fact: reversing into your opponent with bad control is a terrible idea!" |
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| GF93 | Nov 14 2016, 01:03 PM Post #507 |
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Vi veri veniversum vivus vici.
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I see. My intention with the MW one was to bait Rake Against The Machine into attacking my back and sides, then try and move out the way at the right moment when he came in to attack and respond with my own riposte. Sort of like how Lian beat the original Terminal Velocity when he had Empty Inside, but I guess the poor drive makes trickery-based approaches a lot harder to implement than I initially thought. As for SHW, well...let's just say Ganymede's going over and getting sold to Area 51 when TVC's in that arena.
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Ice Cubed Robotics "I will not die until I achieve something. Even though the ideal is high, I never give in. Therefore, I never die with regrets." Cherry Bomb Classic: Season 2 (8-0) 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) Ruination: The Upheaval (20-8) Ayame- 6-1 Marauder- 6-1 Dreadnought Mk3- 3-4 Lethal Injection 3- 5-2 ALL-TIME RECORD Wins: 347 Losses: 230
Notable Achievements on Advanced Robot Combat for make benefit glorious Team of Ice Cubed Robotics
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| The Monsterworks | Nov 14 2016, 01:26 PM Post #508 |
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Ridiculum et Terribilis
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Yeah, I'll second that notion. I got what you were trying to do in the MW fight, but control ratios have to matter, and one of the ways in which they come into play is in making trickery-based approaches like that one difficult to pull off. As for SHW, yeah, Shaba's strategy was to use the arena features against you and it worked. For the next time that we return to Shooting Star, there will be a time and release limit placed upon the house bots. Also yeah, TVC just pulled it off. I pretty much determined that its plow wouldn't last through two full-power hits (or one full power and two partial power hits). It was all a matter of whether or not you could get that monster over before your flipper was gone. |
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| GF93 | Nov 14 2016, 02:50 PM Post #509 |
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Vi veri veniversum vivus vici.
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Right. So the next time I do a MW spinner, I'm going to want to include some better traction, at least. I mean, having a powerful weapon's good and all, but I like to base my usual plans around strategy and driving skill, so if I can get that back to some capacity whilst not affecting the power of the weapon too much, then that'll work out better for me in future contests. For SHW though, that would be a good idea, limiting the House Robots in that arena. I wouldn't say I was outright robbed of the victory there, but I think it's the second time in a row that one of the deathspinner House Robots has directly been responsible for an immediate defeat. It's like, unless your machine is built to resist say, miniaturised nuclear warheads, you're a goner in approximately one or two shots, so limits on the times they're available would be handy in that regard. And for the HW? Yup, I wasn't actually sure if it could resist something like that after the similarly-powerful Funerary Procession tore it off earlier on- but thankfully that time, it was able to hold out just long enough to be able to flip Turbolulz over, so that's pretty encouraging at least. Still need to get someone out of the arena, though! |
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Ice Cubed Robotics "I will not die until I achieve something. Even though the ideal is high, I never give in. Therefore, I never die with regrets." Cherry Bomb Classic: Season 2 (8-0) 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) Ruination: The Upheaval (20-8) Ayame- 6-1 Marauder- 6-1 Dreadnought Mk3- 3-4 Lethal Injection 3- 5-2 ALL-TIME RECORD Wins: 347 Losses: 230
Notable Achievements on Advanced Robot Combat for make benefit glorious Team of Ice Cubed Robotics
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| Hooray For Lexan | Nov 14 2016, 05:45 PM Post #510 |
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Heavyweight
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God fucking damnit. I typed up the RP for Funerary Precession vs. Bass Drop, but judging by how it's not anywhere in the RP forum, it looks like I literally forgot to hit the fucking "post" button. Giant Washer for Most Embarrassing Loss goes to... |
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"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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| sapp2013 | Nov 17 2016, 01:10 AM Post #511 |
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Featherweight
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Hey just letting everyone know that I will be disappearing from the community (I know, short lived) for a while. Monsterworks had a post earlier, but I felt I should put something here. Real Life has just been catching up on me and I need to focus and get what needs to be done, done, and then hopefully I will come back. this will also be my last week for writing for the same reasons. I will still occasionally pop back on reddit and discord to make sure shit hasn't completely hit the fan, but I will be taking a giant step back from most of this stuff. Ill take the loss for any coin flips if my opponent happens to forget to rp against me because I just don't deserve to win if I am not here and active. Even if the other person isn't active anymore, give me the Loss. it has really been a joy meeting all/most of you and hopefully I will be back and this will only be a temporary good bye. if you need to reach me for whatever reason, PM me on reddit or the discord chat (sapp2013 for both) since I get those notifications daily on my phone. The reddit tournament, MonkeyWrench, is still scheduled to happen (since I don't want to be a dick to those who have entered and were looking forward to it), but because of HikerAdam's (Toxic's) disappearance, the tournament will be postponed until after PressureDrop has concluded. |
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Hammerfall 1: Biohazard black Widow 0-3 Ruination-Extinction: Frosty's Nightmare 2-3 PressureDrop 1: Popo's Corkscrew 4-1; made round of 16 so far (present) CBC: FW: Kamikaze Squad LW: Whack Attack MW: Minion Madness HW: FN2: The Second One SHW: Stevomobile | |
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| Hooray For Lexan | Nov 18 2016, 10:19 PM Post #512 |
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Heavyweight
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Shitballs. 0-3. I am actually curious about the results of my matches though (besides FP forfeiting because I'm an idiot). The matches as written seem reasonable, but based on the text of the match itself I don't understand why I lost the Judges' Decisions.
According to the match text, he caused mostly cosmetic damage to my wedge and wheel, while I completely disabled his weapon. This isn't really consistent than an 8-7 damage score, which would imply one judge thought Thallium caused more damage.
Again, I don't understand this. The "camping the ramp" strategy only got him one hit and You Died then countered it, at which point it sounds like I mostly controlled the match. That sounds like the strategy score should at the very least by something like 8-7, not 10-5 his favor, which is pretty lopsided. Monsterworks and Hiicantpk, would you guys mind explaining the rationale for how Judging scores were awarded? Again, they just don't seem to make sense based on the rest of the result. Also, we're getting match writing assignments tomorrow, right? Edited by Hooray For Lexan, Nov 18 2016, 10:19 PM.
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"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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| GF93 | Nov 19 2016, 12:46 AM Post #513 |
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Vi veri veniversum vivus vici.
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All RPs in. Doing them slightly earlier than usual because I have Comic Con all this weekend, so I won't be around for my usual Saturday. |
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Ice Cubed Robotics "I will not die until I achieve something. Even though the ideal is high, I never give in. Therefore, I never die with regrets." Cherry Bomb Classic: Season 2 (8-0) 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) Ruination: The Upheaval (20-8) Ayame- 6-1 Marauder- 6-1 Dreadnought Mk3- 3-4 Lethal Injection 3- 5-2 ALL-TIME RECORD Wins: 347 Losses: 230
Notable Achievements on Advanced Robot Combat for make benefit glorious Team of Ice Cubed Robotics
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| The Monsterworks | Nov 19 2016, 01:04 AM Post #514 |
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Ridiculum et Terribilis
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It's simple, scores aren't exactly a scientific thing. I could've played around with them a little bit one way or the other, but my overall sense from looking at the RPs was that you had no good counter in yours for his primary tactic. For the sake of writing something more than the purely perfunctory, I had Sekhmet semi-counter it so that it didn't do serious damage and we could actually have a fight. Really though, especially given that you weren't quite sure which side of the ramp you were starting on and really gave no indication of expecting his sneak attack, I should've just had him get to Sekhmet's wheels and that would've been it. For me, the write-up is usually more for entertainment purposes. The match is usually decided in my head beforehand based upon what's expressed in the RPs and how well that works with the designs and the stats. Honestly, it was close because, quite frankly, I think that Sekhmet is a better machine, and the idea behind that decision was to indicate how close it was instead of just giving him the early crippling blow and subsequent KO and putting you on zero points for the fight. Sucks that you're in tough in that group, but I honestly would really like to see Sekhmet qualify or potentially get a wildcard if it doesn't. Also yeah, writing assignments go up tomorrow. |
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Wins: a bunch Losses: more every week! Mastodon (Extinction) || Osiris (Armageddon!) || Elrathia (ROBOTS) | |
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| Hooray For Lexan | Nov 19 2016, 03:46 AM Post #515 |
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Heavyweight
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I understand. For me, what I normally do is write the match "as it happens in my head" based on tactics and the bots' stats and design, then if it goes to the judges assign scores based on that. By the way, what's the rule for who starts in what square? Is it "whoever RPs first gets gold square" or something like that? I know it's probably written in the signup thread OP somewhere... |
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"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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| Hiicantpk | Nov 19 2016, 03:47 AM Post #516 |
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".. if Kody is removing OOTAs, I'm flying to Canada for the sole purpose of taking a shit down his chimney. " - GF93Team 57 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) Lifter 2: Electric Boogaloo: 4-3 | |
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| British-Robotics | Nov 19 2016, 06:32 AM Post #517 |
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Did not expect Saunter to win that match, that's why he has an axe weapon to make good shots on top armourments! Thank you Anarchy ;). |
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TEAM TBR Team: FRR Backlash Powerdrive Jr 0-4 Lethal Carriageway 3-1 Sparkster 4-0 Chemical Explosion V2 1-3 "Completely British Killers" Ruination: The Contagion: Chemical Explosion - SHW Champion Rocket Knight - HW Quarter Finalist Awards: Ruination: The Contagion: Chemical Explosion: (Astrobot Award, The Windmill Award, Blood Thirsty Award (Shared with Redemption Denied) | |
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| Wolf51-50 | Nov 19 2016, 01:50 PM Post #518 |
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HmmmmMMMMMMM......
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Badnik you miserable scrub, you done fucked up! But in all seriousness, you really need to put more effort in your RPs. Having less than a paragraph of a strategy is one thing, hell assuming that Steven would FF wasn't good either, but having your teammate do all the work for a team event? That's just ridiculous. I'm not going off because of laziness, but you've been here for a while and I would think you would know how this works. Also, as your teammate for the SHW tag team terror, I fully expect you to write a RP that matches our team strategy.Sorry, I don't mean to come off as rude, but I'm just surprised by this Edited by Wolf51-50, Nov 19 2016, 01:58 PM.
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Alpha Robotics- Embrace the Carnage! Upcoming tournaments Reckoning: Revival Vovoka 0-0 (Lifetime 6-2) Current Tournaments: Ruination 4: The Upheaval LW: White Lightning 0-2 (Lifetime 3-5) MW: Diablo Genesis 0-2(Lifetime 5-2) HW: Coup de Grâce 1-1 (Lifetime 12-4)[currently reining HW CHAMPION] SHW: Fenrir 2-0 (Lifetime 2-1) "hey, that's my underground sex dungeon, not yours!" - The_Angry_Goat | |
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| The_Angry_Goat | Nov 19 2016, 02:27 PM Post #519 |
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I mean, Alex did say that people were allowed to have 1 person write the strategy in the little blurb about the tag team fights, so im really not sure where this animosity is coming from tbh |
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‽ 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 Monsterworks | Nov 19 2016, 02:51 PM Post #520 |
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Ridiculum et Terribilis
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Personally, I think that Tag Team RPs should be collaborative, they're more fun and engaging that way. However, I added in the blurb that Gabe is referring to because I didn't want to see people penalized if their partner loses interest, and also to acknowledge that sometimes, one person will just tend to take the lead on things. I understand being a bit disappointed, but the animosity is also something that I just don't get either. |
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