Didn't have trouble shaking hands when you won, did you, you smarmy little hair-dyed git?
I was thinking that too. They were like the kind of person that only says "Good game" after a win, and not after a worthy battle.
I have no idea who we're talking about here. Was it one of the college guys on Team Overhaul? I thought it was cool that they shook hands with the lockjaw guy.
The team was talking about how great an honor it is to be facing such a battlebots vet and everything.
I thought the spinnybots were boring and they were always the best. I figured that out on uh... Shit what was that game called.
I don't remember. Maybe somebody here remembers! It was a 3d robot programming game, had probably late PS1/early PS2 graphics. You build robots completely from the ground up with wheels and legs and everything and you could customize their animations and everything. Programming was mostly done with a kind of tree system, instead of writing code you plugged code blocks into a basic logic and decision tree. I don't remember if you could actually write code, I wasn't old enough to do it anyway.
Anyway you pretty much had to do everything, if your robot had legs I think you had to program it and set up walking animations just to move. You could make it swing claws or jab with pistons and such but like in real robots it's easier to just stick a wheel and some blades and make it spin really fast.
I remember seeing a battlebots pc game in a bookstore once upon a time years ago. No idea if that's the game you're talking about. I never played it, just looked at the box. This was before I knew how cool battlebots was. :|
Spinners seem to have the most destructive power potential of any bot design. Doesn't mean they always win though. Depending on how the spinner is set up, who they're fighting against, the hardware inside both bots, and the driving skills of both teams, the spinner could easily lose to a less destructive bot just because that's how the match went. Look at how Nightmare fared in the current season, it was an old classic and practically one of the big names for spinners and it lost the first or second match.
The reason Tombstone and Icewave are doing so well is because they have such a big thick spinning blade mounted in such a position that the other bots have a hard time doing anything. In Tombstone's case, all the bots it went up against weren't armored well enough for Tombstone's big spinning blade. The last bot was literally armored in plastic.
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