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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2019 14:41:30 GMT -5
Seriously, someone at Pixonic is losing it. War Robots is online multiplayer game, is anybody interested in hearing a War Robots story? Or do they need fictional character now to explain all the nerfs and removed freebies?
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Post by salieri on Mar 10, 2019 14:52:30 GMT -5
Seriously, someone at Pixonic is losing it. War Robots is online multiplayer game, is anybody interested in hearing a War Robots story? Or do they need fictional character now to explain all the nerfs and removed freebies? I actually want to see what our in game pilots feel and all. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2019 15:40:05 GMT -5
Seriously, someone at Pixonic is losing it. War Robots is online multiplayer game, is anybody interested in hearing a War Robots story? Or do they need fictional character now to explain all the nerfs and removed freebies? My 13k readers say otherwise to the lack of interest (though those last 3k were gained after the conversion began) You are different. You took inspiration from War Robots and made it into something else, which doesn't even have a connection to War Robots. It stands on its own. What I meant is that I (and I'm sure many others) are not interested in story in game without single player mode. Pixonic never had single player, the game has been out for years so I think it's too late for story now. |
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Post by moses on Mar 10, 2019 15:44:26 GMT -5
Some further observations: This dude doesn't get credited aside from his name. Perhaps he's an employee? All I know is that my attempts to contact Pix fell through so I gave up and broke away. This writer being a fan seems improbable. Is Kyle not a character? |
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Post by Thunderkiss on Mar 10, 2019 16:54:11 GMT -5
Seriously, someone at Pixonic is losing it. War Robots is online multiplayer game, is anybody interested in hearing a War Robots story? Or do they need fictional character now to explain all the nerfs and removed freebies? An established backstory would have been awesome if it were done at the games release, not 100 years later when no one cares anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2019 17:19:05 GMT -5
Seriously, someone at Pixonic is losing it. War Robots is online multiplayer game, is anybody interested in hearing a War Robots story? Or do they need fictional character now to explain all the nerfs and removed freebies? An established backstory would have been awesome if it were done at the games release, not 100 years later when no one cares anymore.
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I disagree. It's very hard to pull off a story in game such as War Robots. Sure, you can write story for checkers game, it's just that it's not going fit well into style of the game. Bethesda found out about it the hard way. For years Fallout was single player game where story was very important. Then they made it into mmorpg and it doesn't work anymore because other players will break your immersion. The work done by @ifail also proves that point, in my opinion. He started with War Robots, wrote his novel and realized that 99.9% of it was his creativity and rest was War Robots bots/weapon names. What does he need War Robots for then? In my opinion, there isn't enough in War Robots to tie it in to a story. |
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Post by foxypotato on Mar 10, 2019 19:29:55 GMT -5
Seriously, someone at Pixonic is losing it. War Robots is online multiplayer game, is anybody interested in hearing a War Robots story? Or do they need fictional character now to explain all the nerfs and removed freebies? I would like a little bit of info on how weapons like Tarans and magnums work for one. I can appreciate their mechanical design in that they appear to have a fusion reactor, a battery pack and the barrel of the Taran is shaped as if it is to capture the plasma in a toroid. Perhaps the reason for the 350 range is the breakdown of the toroidal field. I picked this up within the 1st few seconds of looking at a Taran. Come on pix give me some lore or back story on this stuff. I would also like to know more about the original factions in the game and what they meant with the Inquisitor and the early mention of a zealot faction. I know the game has gone down the tubes and it is just a bunch of dash bots and space magic now but at one point Walking War Robots was a cool game with interesting mechanical designs and factions that could have benefitted from some lore. |
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Post by AcuityAxiom on Mar 10, 2019 23:52:55 GMT -5
I would like a little bit of info on how weapons like Tarans and magnums work for one. I can appreciate their mechanical design in that they appear to have a fusion reactor, a battery pack and the barrel of the Taran is shaped as if it is to capture the plasma in a toroid. Perhaps the reason for the 350 range is the breakdown of the toroidal field. I picked this up within the 1st few seconds of looking at a Taran. Come on pix give me some lore or back story on this stuff. I would also like to know more about the original factions in the game and what they meant with the Inquisitor and the early mention of a zealot faction. I know the game has gone down the tubes and it is just a bunch of dash bots and space magic now but at one point Walking War Robots was a cool game with interesting mechanical designs and factions that could have benefitted from some lore. Tarans and Magnums cook up the plasma in the central sphere. The rest of the weapon is just a focusing cone (though granted I have very little idea how plasma works as a weapon). In my novel they're now all just referred to as plasma cannons. The Inquisitor (now called the "Exodus" in my novel, yes I know that's originally weapon but it fit) was built by a theocratic city-state exactly as foretold in the lore, but the state fell apart and the robot was picked up by the CCA (my novel's heroes). No info on the city-state remains, it fell to nuclear fire sometime around the three-day WWIII The official website says that the weapon "Fires bursts of bolts of high-temperature plasma, accelerated to enormous speeds." so from my years of hearing sci-fi bullsh*t i'mma say they're "Plasma Accelerators" First thing that pops up when i google it is the game Elite Dangerous, which from what i can tell is a space shooter, so i think it checks out. |
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Post by foxypotato on Mar 11, 2019 0:56:27 GMT -5
I imagine the plasma discharge from Tarans must be encapsulated in a magnetic field of some kind to prevent it from discharging into the atmosphere and to concentrate and accelerate the plasma within the weapon. If you look at the Taran it has a large barrel with a central rod running down the center as if it is firing toroid, or donut, shaped objects. The firing animations for the Taran even have a plasma ring leave the barrel when firing. This tells me the designers intended the mechanical design of the Taran to elude to its operation by encapsulating plasma in a magnetic field then shape plasma into a toroidal magnetic field as it is accelerated and ejected from the Taran. At one point the Taran barrel even had a recoil animation but that is long gone. I can appreciate good mechanical design and the Taran is one of my favorites. It would have been nice to have gotten some lore on how the weapons of War Robots work or insights into some of the mechanical designs of War Robots. Such as Why does the Stalker paint match the Magnum? Why does the Rhino paint match the Taran? Why do the Stalker and Rhino look similar and both come in camo paint options? Why are both bots clearly tied to the same family of plasma weapons? Perhaps the Magnum, Stalker, Rhino and Taran are all part of the same faction. Their mechanical design would indicate this. Why does the Kang Dae have a rectangular barrel? Is it some sort or railgun? That shape doesn't make sense for a cannon. Why does the Natasha have 4 small parachutes along side a large back mounted box? Are those pilot chutes to a larger main parachute stored within the box? Is the Natasha an airborne War Robots? When it comes to Redeemer, Taran and Magnum some insight as to how plasma is generated and the relationship between fire rate, damage and reload would be nice. The Magnum would indicate that infinite firing is capable if the plasma discharge is weak enough to be quickly regenerated and fired again while the Redeemer shows that powerful plasma bolts can fired but that it takes longer for the reactor to generate enough plasma to fire. How exactly does the stealth on a Stalker work? It is some sort of electronic counter measure to War Robots targeting? Explain the animation and sound it makes when going into stealth. I couldn't care less about the other stealth bots. They need to be deleted from the game. Is the Bullwark a RUS faction bot? It has similar hips to a Natasha. It is possible it was a rejected Nataha remodel and given an ability and turned into it's own bot for monetization reasons like the Raven. A lore explanation would be nice.   |
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Post by hyderier on Mar 11, 2019 1:17:44 GMT -5
Seriously, someone at Pixonic is losing it. War Robots is online multiplayer game, is anybody interested in hearing a War Robots story? Or do they need fictional character now to explain all the nerfs and removed freebies? Yes. Story and background would be very cool in general. Except I don't expect Pix to be able to actually pull it together and do it well enough to matter. It would require artistic, literary vision, and executing it over a long time. Pix has attention span of two whale upgrade cycles (current and next), so... no. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2019 8:43:39 GMT -5
Seriously, someone at Pixonic is losing it. War Robots is online multiplayer game, is anybody interested in hearing a War Robots story? Or do they need fictional character now to explain all the nerfs and removed freebies? Yes. Story and background would be very cool in general. Except I don't expect Pix to be able to actually pull it together and do it well enough to matter. It would require artistic, literary vision, and executing it over a long time. Pix has attention span of two whale upgrade cycles (current and next), so... no. Fair enough, many of you would like to see some kind of story/lore in War Robots. I personally could not care less for the reasons I have stated. |
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Post by PixelPower6 on Mar 11, 2019 9:51:04 GMT -5
I imagine the plasma discharge from Tarans must be encapsulated in a magnetic field of some kind to prevent it from discharging into the atmosphere and to concentrate and accelerate the plasma within the weapon. If you look at the Taran it has a large barrel with a central rod running down the center as if it is firing toroid, or donut, shaped objects. The firing animations for the Taran even have a plasma ring leave the barrel when firing. This tells me the designers intended the mechanical design of the Taran to elude to its operation by encapsulating plasma in a magnetic field then shape plasma into a toroidal magnetic field as it is accelerated and ejected from the Taran. At one point the Taran barrel even had a recoil animation but that is long gone. I can appreciate good mechanical design and the Taran is one of my favorites. It would have been nice to have gotten some lore on how the weapons of War Robots work or insights into some of the mechanical designs of War Robots. Such as Why does the Stalker paint match the Magnum? Why does the Rhino paint match the Taran? Why do the Stalker and Rhino look similar and both come in camo paint options? Why are both bots clearly tied to the same family of plasma weapons? Perhaps the Magnum, Stalker, Rhino and Taran are all part of the same faction. Their mechanical design would indicate this. Why does the Kang Dae have a rectangular barrel? Is it some sort or railgun? That shape doesn't make sense for a cannon. Why does the Natasha have 4 small parachutes along side a large back mounted box? Are those pilot chutes to a larger main parachute stored within the box? Is the Natasha an airborne War Robots? When it comes to Redeemer, Taran and Magnum some insight as to how plasma is generated and the relationship between fire rate, damage and reload would be nice. The Magnum would indicate that infinite firing is capable if the plasma discharge is weak enough to be quickly regenerated and fired again while the Redeemer shows that powerful plasma bolts can fired but that it takes longer for the reactor to generate enough plasma to fire. How exactly does the stealth on a Stalker work? It is some sort of electronic counter measure to War Robots targeting? Explain the animation and sound it makes when going into stealth. I couldn't care less about the other stealth bots. They need to be deleted from the game. Is the Bullwark a RUS faction bot? It has similar hips to a Natasha. It is possible it was a rejected Nataha remodel and given an ability and turned into it's own bot for monetization reasons like the Raven. A lore explanation would be nice. Dragoons were infantries, a marquess was a noblewoman, marquis is a nobleman. A hussar was a member of a dragoon. These are of European origin. (Marquess is actually pronounced mar-kwess, and marquis is the one pronounced mar-keess) This suggests factions for weapons, or certain manufacturers, maybe a European country produces these. The lock down weapons look similar with a sleek, futuristic primarily black design. Some robots look piloted (Griffin, Hover, Raven, Natasha, the Britbots, the American bots, Rogatka, Patton.) others look like AI or piloted from a distance. (Most newer bots, Raijin, Fujin.) I could say more about others but you get the point. Also, how does the Stalker resemble the Magnum and the Rhino? |
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Post by foxypotato on Mar 11, 2019 12:21:44 GMT -5
I imagine the plasma discharge from Tarans must be encapsulated in a magnetic field of some kind to prevent it from discharging into the atmosphere and to concentrate and accelerate the plasma within the weapon. If you look at the Taran it has a large barrel with a central rod running down the center as if it is firing toroid, or donut, shaped objects. The firing animations for the Taran even have a plasma ring leave the barrel when firing. This tells me the designers intended the mechanical design of the Taran to elude to its operation by encapsulating plasma in a magnetic field then shape plasma into a toroidal magnetic field as it is accelerated and ejected from the Taran. At one point the Taran barrel even had a recoil animation but that is long gone. I can appreciate good mechanical design and the Taran is one of my favorites. It would have been nice to have gotten some lore on how the weapons of War Robots work or insights into some of the mechanical designs of War Robots. Such as Why does the Stalker paint match the Magnum? Why does the Rhino paint match the Taran? Why do the Stalker and Rhino look similar and both come in camo paint options? Why are both bots clearly tied to the same family of plasma weapons? Perhaps the Magnum, Stalker, Rhino and Taran are all part of the same faction. Their mechanical design would indicate this. Why does the Kang Dae have a rectangular barrel? Is it some sort or railgun? That shape doesn't make sense for a cannon. Why does the Natasha have 4 small parachutes along side a large back mounted box? Are those pilot chutes to a larger main parachute stored within the box? Is the Natasha an airborne War Robots? When it comes to Redeemer, Taran and Magnum some insight as to how plasma is generated and the relationship between fire rate, damage and reload would be nice. The Magnum would indicate that infinite firing is capable if the plasma discharge is weak enough to be quickly regenerated and fired again while the Redeemer shows that powerful plasma bolts can fired but that it takes longer for the reactor to generate enough plasma to fire. How exactly does the stealth on a Stalker work? It is some sort of electronic counter measure to War Robots targeting? Explain the animation and sound it makes when going into stealth. I couldn't care less about the other stealth bots. They need to be deleted from the game. Is the Bullwark a RUS faction bot? It has similar hips to a Natasha. It is possible it was a rejected Nataha remodel and given an ability and turned into it's own bot for monetization reasons like the Raven. A lore explanation would be nice. Dragoons were infantries, a marquess was a noblewoman, marquis is a nobleman. A hussar was a member of a dragoon. These are of European origin. (Marquess is actually pronounced mar-kwess, and marquis is the one pronounced mar-keess) This suggests factions for weapons, or certain manufacturers, maybe a European country produces these. The lock down weapons look similar with a sleek, futuristic primarily black design. Some robots look piloted (Griffin, Hover, Raven, Natasha, the Britbots, the American bots, Rogatka, Patton.) others look like AI or piloted from a distance. (Most newer bots, Raijin, Fujin.) I could say more about others but you get the point. Also, how does the Stalker resemble the Magnum and the Rhino? Stock Stalker paint matches the Magnum. Stock Rhino paint matches the Taran. Put some Magnums on a Stalker and Tarans on a Rhino and you'll see it. |
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Post by AcuityAxiom on Mar 11, 2019 19:36:45 GMT -5
Dragoons were infantries, a marquess was a noblewoman, marquis is a nobleman. A hussar was a member of a dragoon. These are of European origin. (Marquess is actually pronounced mar-kwess, and marquis is the one pronounced mar-keess) This suggests factions for weapons, or certain manufacturers, maybe a European country produces these. The lock down weapons look similar with a sleek, futuristic primarily black design. Some robots look piloted (Griffin, Hover, Raven, Natasha, the Britbots, the American bots, Rogatka, Patton.) others look like AI or piloted from a distance. (Most newer bots, Raijin, Fujin.) I could say more about others but you get the point. Also, how does the Stalker resemble the Magnum and the Rhino? Stock Stalker paint matches the Magnum. Stock Rhino paint matches the Taran. Put some Magnums on a Stalker and Tarans on a Rhino and you'll see it.   |
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Post by Bladeacer on Mar 12, 2019 4:56:01 GMT -5
Umm is the story good?
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Post by The VVatcher on Mar 12, 2019 5:02:32 GMT -5
Is the story going to explain to us why the pilots are all women? Is the War Robots universe based on Amazonians from the future?
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Post by Thunderkiss on Mar 12, 2019 15:34:01 GMT -5
An established backstory would have been awesome if it were done at the games release, not 100 years later when no one cares anymore.
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I disagree. It's very hard to pull off a story in game such as War Robots. Sure, you can write story for checkers game, it's just that it's not going fit well into style of the game. Bethesda found out about it the hard way. For years Fallout was single player game where story was very important. Then they made it into mmorpg and it doesn't work anymore because other players will break your immersion. The work done by @ifail also proves that point, in my opinion. He started with War Robots, wrote his novel and realized that 99.9% of it was his creativity and rest was War Robots bots/weapon names. What does he need War Robots for then? In my opinion, there isn't enough in War Robots to tie it in to a story. Battletech and the whole battletech universe would beg to differ with you. Coming up with a sci-fi backstory is actually pretty easy, they were just super lazy. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2019 16:00:18 GMT -5
I disagree. It's very hard to pull off a story in game such as War Robots. Sure, you can write story for checkers game, it's just that it's not going fit well into style of the game. Bethesda found out about it the hard way. For years Fallout was single player game where story was very important. Then they made it into mmorpg and it doesn't work anymore because other players will break your immersion. The work done by @ifail also proves that point, in my opinion. He started with War Robots, wrote his novel and realized that 99.9% of it was his creativity and rest was War Robots bots/weapon names. What does he need War Robots for then? In my opinion, there isn't enough in War Robots to tie it in to a story. Battletech and the whole battletech universe would beg to differ with you. Coming up with a sci-fi backstory is actually pretty easy, they were just super lazy. Well, as I wrote before, you can write a story to anything. And if you hire talented writers it can be very good story too. I write this as somebody who played adventure, RPG and single player FPS games for a long time. There a good plot makes a lot of sense, because you fight/do things to advance the plot. In other words, the story/plot is part of the game. Don't know about you, but with games like War Robots I'm not going to think of the story when I play it. And if it's not part of the game when I play it, I don't care for it. However, I do accept the fact that you and others would like to see a War Robots story/lore nonetheless. Edit: Btw, Isn't Battletech turn based single player game? As I wrote, there you need a story. |
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Post by AcuityAxiom on Mar 12, 2019 21:49:32 GMT -5
Is the story going to explain to us why the pilots are all women? Is the War Robots universe based on Amazonians from the future? Pixonic seems to follow a very simple marketing acronym. Here I'll help you learn it. There Is Tno Sacronym =Monly Amysogonism Rand Ka Echeap Tmarketing Istrategy Nusing Gwomen  basically it In a nut shell. |
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Post by hyderier on Mar 13, 2019 0:14:36 GMT -5
Battletech and the whole battletech universe would beg to differ with you. Coming up with a sci-fi backstory is actually pretty easy, they were just super lazy. Well, as I wrote before, you can write a story to anything. And if you hire talented writers it can be very good story too. "Backstory" doesn't have to be a literal book-style story, even. It can be a bunch of details. Fictional historical facts. A timeline. Snippets about how certain technology works. Names of CEOs or engineers working on stuff. Famous pilots. Single battle scenes or maneuvers explained. Speech given by a president. The thing with a backstory it, it doesn't have to tell a story. It just needs to paint a picture. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2019 8:33:51 GMT -5
Well, as I wrote before, you can write a story to anything. And if you hire talented writers it can be very good story too. "Backstory" doesn't have to be a literal book-style story, even. It can be a bunch of details. Fictional historical facts. A timeline. Snippets about how certain technology works. Names of CEOs or engineers working on stuff. Famous pilots. Single battle scenes or maneuvers explained. Speech given by a president. The thing with a backstory it, it doesn't have to tell a story. It just needs to paint a picture. My big picture is fighting other people and trying to get resources to level my gear to... fight other people some more. None what you are asking for fits with that. But it is a matter of preference, if you want/need the other things I respect that. |
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Post by ᴛʜᴇ ʙɪɢ ᴅʀᴏᴘ on Mar 13, 2019 12:07:30 GMT -5
Well, sure, the OFFICIAL "War Robots Story" isnt anyone's personal, self-narrative that every player has created (to varrying degrees) with the game. The fact remains that player generated efforts, of which there have been many, actually led to and convinced Pixonic to finally develop some sort of backstory... THAT is the true victory, here... not that anyones self-narrative BECAME thee War Robots Story--this fictory isnt obe that you would place FIRST with where you score a Million plus damage... But still, it is a victory that no individual person may claim, but it was a victory nobe-the-less that the TEAM (everyone who has ever speculated about why things are the way they are in the game) has earned.
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Post by Bladeacer on Mar 19, 2019 18:10:45 GMT -5
Now I'm extra glad I broke away... warrobots.com/en/community/33?comment_id=1861This still slightly annoys me, but whatever. You even get these lore bits right in-game if you enter your ID. Well. Not much I can do then. I barely play anymore anyhow. And hey, if you don't want to support Pix, why not support me... You won't have to pay for anything  my.w.tt/OjQZzmNXWUAnd the rest of awesome players on Wattpad! |
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Post by moses on Apr 3, 2019 10:57:29 GMT -5
Nope he's the author according to the website So are we still sure he is not the character? |
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