Robot Wars is coming back
Discussion
davepoth said:
Is there any reason why production was so rushed? Was it an "Oh s
t, Top Gear's gone down the stter, what can we do?"
I think so.t, Top Gear's gone down the stter, what can we do?"After an awful series, I quite enjoyed the final. Wrong result for me though - I thought Carbide had the best weapon in the entire completion, they just had problems getting it to work consistently.
davepoth said:
Is there any reason why production was so rushed? Was it an "Oh st, Top Gear's gone down the stter, what can we do?"
Would have been better to film it closer to when it was actually aired so that the robots could be developed better, including a safety/killswitch that doesn't knock out after a few bumpst, Top Gear's gone down the stter, what can we do?"MarkRSi said:
slipstream 1985 said:
T2 though what great tactical talks between the dad and the son.
... only to drive straight into Carbides weapon at the start 
Was lucky to survive those first few hits, otherwise a great drive.Good final, glad to see Thor back in as the best loser. Think he was definitely unlucky to have his first fight against Carbide, so much damage done in the first fight ruined chances for the rest, but someone had to be first, so fair it was best loser perhaps.
One bit that looked dodgy was where one bit flew off a robot in battle, through a hole in the arena wall and then ricocheted off at an angle. The good robots from this series seem do much more powerful than remember from earlier series.
Think it was the right result though.
One bit that looked dodgy was where one bit flew off a robot in battle, through a hole in the arena wall and then ricocheted off at an angle. The good robots from this series seem do much more powerful than remember from earlier series.
Think it was the right result though.
RemyMartin said:
Kill it with fire.
Hopefully any more series are canned, god why did I torture myself every week hoping it would be good.
Somethings are best left dead imo. Robots are truly gash and unless lots of really rich people build house robot standard bots its completely pointless.
what are you talking about. where else can you go to watch this stuff once you've uptodate on battlebotz?Hopefully any more series are canned, god why did I torture myself every week hoping it would be good.
Somethings are best left dead imo. Robots are truly gash and unless lots of really rich people build house robot standard bots its completely pointless.
moaning for the sake of moaning is unhelpful
Thought the last episode was the best of the bunch, carbide was really impressive shame it did not win guess next season it will have some of the problems ironed out with the weapon stopping.
Just to give you an idea of the power of carbides weapons compared to say hypno-disc from original RW:
Hypno-Disc:
Horizontal flywheel weighing 20kg that spins at 900rpm
Carbide:
Bar spinner weighing 25kg and spinning at 2300RPM
That is a big jump in kinetic energy
I think the first season has not been a good as i hoped but it will get better, for me the biggest problem would be that the contestants had so little time to build and test there robots but season 2 should improve on that.
Just to give you an idea of the power of carbides weapons compared to say hypno-disc from original RW:
Hypno-Disc:
Horizontal flywheel weighing 20kg that spins at 900rpm
Carbide:
Bar spinner weighing 25kg and spinning at 2300RPM
That is a big jump in kinetic energy
I think the first season has not been a good as i hoped but it will get better, for me the biggest problem would be that the contestants had so little time to build and test there robots but season 2 should improve on that.
Quite enjoyed the final!
I think the teams need a bit longer to get greater reliability and to polish off the machines a bit but overall I think it's got great potential.
In the final Apollo seemed to be just have the correct angle on their front end to be able to get under Carbide without taking the full force of the blade. Carbide looked vicious but it seemed to be when the blade smacked down on the floor that undid it, I suppose other robots tend to move when hit!
Hopefully it gets renewed, there's some great potential with robots pretty much there (Apollo, Carbide), ones that need just a bit more reliability (Pulsar) and some new builds, and perhaps more older ones to come out of the woodwork?
I was surprised how much damage that Carbide was able to do to the arena walls, and the way Thor's scoop was flung out of the arena. I think they might be going back to the drawing board on the arena design a bit and putting in some more reinforcement!
I think the teams need a bit longer to get greater reliability and to polish off the machines a bit but overall I think it's got great potential.
In the final Apollo seemed to be just have the correct angle on their front end to be able to get under Carbide without taking the full force of the blade. Carbide looked vicious but it seemed to be when the blade smacked down on the floor that undid it, I suppose other robots tend to move when hit!
Hopefully it gets renewed, there's some great potential with robots pretty much there (Apollo, Carbide), ones that need just a bit more reliability (Pulsar) and some new builds, and perhaps more older ones to come out of the woodwork?
I was surprised how much damage that Carbide was able to do to the arena walls, and the way Thor's scoop was flung out of the arena. I think they might be going back to the drawing board on the arena design a bit and putting in some more reinforcement!
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