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Terrible AI. The movement intelligence is stupid above all measures. I see a lot of potential in here, and usually I give at least two stars for the effort alone, but this one is clearly undeveloped. Sorry for the harsh words, but that is just my personal opinion.
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how did this game rate high enough to get badges? here's the strat as far as i can tell: build, save, play, lose, exit, reload, play, lose, exit, reload, play, win! save. Rinse and repeat ad infinitum. . . or until you get the badges, if you have the patience and nothing else to do. Seriously disappointing. 1 star
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For me, the dragon seemed to not target any bot set to follow it... So I set the sword to follow the dragon, and controlled the shield manually on the outside of the sword... worked for me.
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Horrid control system!
Why can't u just give each robot a hotkey? Like 1,2,3,4,5? You can only have 5 robots anyway. Just number them from top to battle.
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Does the "Dragon" melt my sword in 5 hits or what? I need a better sword. Challenge 4 is a pain. Arghhhh make him autofocus the shield or something.
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2/5. A tired idea "arena combat" idea implemented poorly with a flawed AI system and without even the courtesy of a plot for a backdrop. The only thing that saves it from a 1/5 is the weight system, which actually makes strategy necessary in Career.
Challenge mode should be renamed "Fight against the poor AI to win" mode.
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A lot of potential in this game, reminds me of a hardcore battle bots. Best way to get through, just get the best armors and the best guns and win. No need for strategy. Wish the controls were more versatile.
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hell, this game is just pure frustration. after trying a billion times, the best way to do challenge 4 is to have the sword follow the shield and keep it about 2 bot lengths away from that bastard dragon and micro the hell away. No cheap tricks here
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The AI for your bots is terrible. This coupled with the atrocious control of your bots makes this game a chore to play. 1/5
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The chanllenges are way too long... I mean, you can't control everything like this forever, something fails and you get beat when you're 80-90% done, very annoying...
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This game has tons of potential but...not being able to move around? Hell, I know 2 year olds that have use their brain better than a robot. Hooray for badges of the day bringing me to games with EXTREME faults...*sigh*
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Crap. Glad the badge was quick to get. Just load the first challenge, leave, come back a few mins later and repeat 4-7 times.
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sorry for double post, cant edit post. P.S. I have played Bot Arena 2 on GameGecko, but what ever happened to the original?
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Don't you just love it when you're tell your bots to go attack something and then another one comes and they start shooting the new one instead of concentrating on what you told them?
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In challenge 2, I can't even kill one of them. They move as fast as the one given to you so they simply surround and continue to pound on me.
In challenge 4, the dragon completely ignores the shield until the sword is destroyed.
In challenge 5, the range of the weapon given to you is barely larger than the ones of the enemies.
3/5. Should've made the arena larger, had some weapons with even longer range (Even if that made them a bit weaker!) and not had 'wander mode' make the allies dumb as bricks.
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wow. this game is 4 years old. The creator of this game will not change the controls and update everything. more likely he/she would make newer one if he/she hasnt already
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what a pointless game. To get the badge of the day with the least amount of aggravation just play introduction training a couple of times and you will get the badge.
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Challenge 4 is far from impossible, or from requiring mere luck. Here's how to do it: Set your shield to follow the dragon at the start, then just control your "sword". Make sure it always stays in maximum range of the "dragon". and you will only get shot a minimum. If the dragon starts turning around immediately back off, but don't forget to follow it too so you have a chance to defeat it before your shield dies. It takes a few tries to get a hang of it. Hey that's why it's labelled as hard! But overall those are 30 points that can be obtained with very little time ;-)
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I think I could control a Roomba by screaming and waving my arms at it better than these robots can be controlled with a mouse.
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Congratulations! You just won the Mechanical Samadhi Badge and 30 points!
At the very beginning, tell shield to follow the dragon, then manually move sword around, keeping him in range to keep firing, but not close enough so that the dragon shoots him. It may take a couple tries but you'll eventually get it.
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I beat Challenge 4 using charrrlie's strategy, it takes some practice though. Set Shield to follow Sword, then move Sword in a big circle around Dragon, who will have to chase. You want to make sure that the angle between Dragon-Shield-Sword is about 120 degrees, this will guide where you go next with Sword. Shield won't wander as much because you keep moving away from it. Dragon will take damage whenever both Shield and Sword are in attack range because all your shots will go past Shield at this angle.
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How the f**k is that a sword if its fireing? When it gets close to dragon it turns away, wtf??
Why it isnt like hammerhead to attack at melee range if its "Sword"?
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whatever happened to the guns like i don't know wat it called but it looked like a face and it killed enemys in one hit because it attack like 999,999,999 times a minute