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Post by davortrogon on Feb 27, 2023 11:16:32 GMT -5
Have you ever been in a Free for all and everyone stops shooting and has fun? Have you ever done something that most would consider impossible? Any tales of conquest? Won a 5v1? Have you ever broken some of the physics and something weird happened?
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Post by davortrogon on Feb 27, 2023 11:24:39 GMT -5
To start, (and this is an increasingly rare occurrence) everyone stopped firing. We just stopped and looked at each other. A full Cryo Ravana, A Spear Khepri, a Punisher Cossack, and me in my double magnum Blitz. After about 30 seconds we switched robots. I turned into my Hover, and ended up staying in the air the next 8-9 minutes of the round, the Ravana became a Scorpion, the Cossack sat there and was looking at us, and the Khepri switched to a variety of things. Those 2 kept switching, while I would travel all around the Valley map, looking at what they turned into, all without touching the ground. We all were just so peaceful. Eventually the round ended and the next one reminded me of just how special a moment I had just had.
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Post by Jeb on Feb 27, 2023 11:37:56 GMT -5
Couple of things recently:
1. Managed to steal a Titan kill on Castle or Canyon, not sure which, with my Raven. Pulled a double jump from halfway across the field and came down almost literally on top of an Arthur that was fighting off a couple of meta boyz. Unloaded my blast shotguns over the top of its shield as I was descending and then sat and laughed as the remaining bots ate my lunch.
2. Pulled off a beautiful Nightingale sneak flying between a pair of Titans on Springfield this morning to capture their home beacon while in stealth, and then called down an Orion strike on both of them while they were trying to figure out how to get to me. That killed one of them and gave me enough time to get off the ground again.
This no-drone era has been a lot of fun.
Oh, and then there was the time I won a FFA while sitting in my Gareth and watching a pair of Ao Mings slug away at each other 800M away. I've got a screenshot of that somewhere.
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Post by davortrogon on Feb 27, 2023 11:49:40 GMT -5
As far as glitches go, when I was still trying to get out of Dead city after the rebalance, I figured out how to get my weapons stuck into walls. I can get the side of the Hover to touch the building, even with a Punisher T equipped. I can also in various maps and certain locations get stuck in weird ways, like the circular supports in Canyon; in the corner no one goes a bit past the UFO; next to the excavator at the end of the map, and under the bridges in Castle. Flying forever at any height still makes the Hover the most maneuverable robot in the game.
Speaking of the Hover, there are several tricks you can do.
For one, if you spam the ability, you can fly forever. If you do it at the right frequencies, you can even refuel while accelerating. It's almost as fast as a Seraph; traveling about 20 meters per distance update, or around 40 meters a second.
If you spam the landing as you touch the ground, you can get the initial jump again. If you use this multiple times it will feel like you are on a trampoline and you will dodge almost all flamethrower activity, except for the Ao Jun's fire because it's aiming makes it really good at shooting you through moving up and down fast.
If you hold fuel while hitting the ground you will still be able to fly, but you will waste a lot of fuel and slow down, so unless there is a reason to stay in the air just land.
If you spam the landing incredibly fast you can actually get a unique jump that is twice as powerful because you can activate the initial jump twice in an instant. This takes a whole lot of practice, but based off of the Castle map's river ledge to cliff as a reference, it took 7 seconds to normally take off and use all fuel to accelerate to the top; reaching empty and falling back onto the top of the cliff, 8-10 seconds using the spamming fuel trick after a normal launch to get to the top of the cliff, and only 4 seconds using a power jump. I hit the ceiling of the map very hard, and could have traveled about twice the height of the map if there was no ceiling.
A power jump in the right spot is powerful enough to glitch your top weapons into parts of the ceiling. In Castle map, under the bridge by the top of the map, I glitched a Snaer into part of the ceiling of under the bridge.
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Post by 079 on Feb 27, 2023 11:50:28 GMT -5
I once killed a Loki with my Trebuchet Butch from 600 meters away and with no Quantum Radar. I used the trick of locking onto another red, eyeballing my crosshair on the Loki, and landing both salvos on it. I felt pretty good after that one!
I also got another crazy Loki kill with my Cerberus. I was trying to get a Loki off of a beacon, and was trying to the Blackout ability to make my life easier. I took aim, and only managed to land the bottom particle of the ability on it, which is the corrosion particle. The Loki had no signs of damage, so I was really surprised when the Loki jumped away (Jump Module) and then suddenly died in midair, with me getting a kill with the DoT effect. It took me a little bit to even realize what happened!
And lastly, I have been having a ton of fun with my new Freedom Skyros lately. Even without drones, it is staggeringly durable, allowing me to sit on beacons and stall for time against many threats, which includes titans since I have the Theseus legendary pilot. Basically, I am doing the less cool version of the now-beloved tank Loki.
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Post by davortrogon on Feb 27, 2023 11:57:47 GMT -5
Iv'e only had a few encounters with hackers. The most memorable one was in Moon map. It was free for all (I'm stuck in free for all) and it was about 8:30 on the timer when they came. Fafnir, constantly flying up and down. Everyone stopped firing and started attacking this player. I had my Ares ready, and several people had already died from this player. I lined up a shot, and thank goodness I had a shieldbreaker at the time, because I killed it in one go. Everyone spun in circles to celebrate, and marched to where it spawned again. After about 3 of me killing this enemy, It brought out a Kid Titan. I was on the top hallway in the middle of the map, and it was charging from the hallway towards me. It fired into my shield, as if it didn't even know what it did. I actually managed to kill it in one shot, which was a shock to me because it was one of the only times, even to this day, that one Retribution attack killed a Titan. After they were gone everyone waited about 2 minutes before continuing the game.
This whole encounter was in the Fafnir Meta.
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Post by spectre729 on Feb 27, 2023 12:39:56 GMT -5
this was years ago but i was abusing the glitch where raijin can climb the wall on springfield and the invisible wall on dead city
i wasnt very successful on springfield but i actually made some progress on dead city
unfortunately my opponents didn't find the raijin floating 30 meters on the invisible wall trying to go higher amusing
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Post by Adazahi on Feb 27, 2023 12:52:13 GMT -5
I got this on video on my channel - yesterday I was trying to record some basic erebus and typhon gameplay so I could make a longform video comparing the two. With the Erebus, I got 11 kills in one game, and with typhon in another game I got 8 kills, as well as a super cool clip of a revenant and scorpion teleporting to me at the same time and me killing them both.
Some real exciting stuff!
EDIT: Also, no recording of this, but many many years ago I had some glitch happen on castle that just made my Hover completely unkillable. I was running orkan/pinata though, so I just sat there and held the peashooter on some reds. This wasn't some ghost bot glitch either, they were shooting me and I was shooting them (I was doing damage, they were not). They must've thought I was hacking lol.
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Post by davortrogon on Feb 27, 2023 14:33:45 GMT -5
I saw in a video people using Phantoms and Scorpions to get multiple people outside of Springfield using the dam, but with the remastering they changed the hitboxes. I can't get out of any map anymore. It was so cool, flying in an infinite space, with no restrictions; my Hover ale to take me to unreachable heights. In Dead city on a few occasions I flew to and beyond the height of beacon light; it is actually a lot higher than you would think.
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Post by Rollo Tomasi on Feb 27, 2023 19:10:36 GMT -5
I saw in a video people using Phantoms and Scorpions to get multiple people outside of Springfield using the dam, but with the remastering they changed the hitboxes. I can't get out of any map anymore. It was so cool, flying in an infinite space, with no restrictions; my Hover ale to take me to unreachable heights. In Dead city on a few occasions I flew to and beyond the height of beacon light; it is actually a lot higher than you would think. Yeah, I’ve been in Limbo on several maps and I find the vastness of it a bit creepy. How / why is it so huge compared to the game arena? It’s probably just a default template starting point for the game engine, but still…creepy.
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Post by Poopface on Feb 27, 2023 20:38:17 GMT -5
Maybe it’s because I march to the beat of an epileptic drummer, but the first thing that came to mind was the response to this movie line. ⬇️ 
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Post by spectre729 on Feb 27, 2023 22:10:50 GMT -5
Maybe itâs because I march to the beat of an epileptic drummer, but the first thing that came to mind was the response to this movie line. â¬ï¸  that's a great question for 1 million dollars USD, I can buy (values via War Robots Fandom) 3,333,333 cossacks and 1 punisher or 862068 noricums and 3.73 cossacks ORRRRRRRRR... how many Mk3 Patton with 4 mk3 noricum can we get? a noricum costs 290k ag = $1.16 USD a patton costs 500k ag = $2 based on that ratio, 1 million silver is worth $4 in addition, 500 au costs $5 and for noricum, x 1 doritos costs y 1
for patton, x 2 doritos costs y 2to max a noricum, you need: 63,740,000 ag, 500au, and x 1 doritos to max a patton, you need: 64,220,000 ag, 500 au, and x 2 doritos the cost to max a noricum is ((63,740,000*4)/1,000,000)+5+xy =$259.96+xy(4 noricums is $1039.84+4x 1y 1) the cost to max a patton is ((64,220,000*4)/1,000,000)+5+xy = $261.88 + x 2y 2one maxed built is $1301.72 + 4x1y1 + x2y2 so with $1,000,000, we can build 1,000,000 / ($1301.72 + 4x1y1 + x2y2) maxed pattons(does not include gold spend to speed up upgrades for the impatient 「illegitimate child」s nor taxes) someone check my math pls im not a math major im a CS major that can do print("Hello World")
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Post by Endobot on Feb 28, 2023 5:44:12 GMT -5
The coolest things I can remember achieving in the game all seem to revolve around Scorpion back when it was a real killing machine; Teleporting to a bot, killing it, then turning around and managing to kill the one shooting you in the back (or the next nearest one close bye) before teleporting back - I liked to call that a Two-fer. Teleporting to one flying around over water thinking they were safe, managing to kill them and then quickly teleporting back before hitting the water (they needed to be pretty low on health though). Using jump module to jump up to one either flying or on a ledge above you and getting the kill. Using jump module to jump after one that thought they could just jump away to safety and getting the kill before teleporting back. And also the multitude of cat and mouse shenanigans when dealing with other Scorpions. I don`t find anything really provides that sort of fun anymore and really miss it.
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Post by BB on Feb 28, 2023 8:35:45 GMT -5
Clip is 5 years old now, but still a top highlight for me. At the time the Ancilot was the meta, and the Ssack was the ssack.
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Post by Cdr. Crimmins on Feb 28, 2023 21:48:32 GMT -5
I've done some cool stuff over the years but this I accomplished moments ago. In the inaugural match of the 2023 Every Bot War, I first deployed a sacrificial scout (1.6 Destrier armed with 1.5 Pins) on Canyon to snag a beacon or two and scout out the enemy. It rapidly became apparent that we had a seal clubber with us who was just shellacking the enemy team. As is my want, I backed off and pretty much just observed the carnage from afar but could not resist throwing a salvo down range as a heavily damaged titan clawed it’s way out of the enemy spawn…  You gotta love Desty titan kills. On 33k total damage no less.  And yes, I reported the asscan for what good it will do.
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Post by Taboga73 on Mar 1, 2023 9:39:17 GMT -5
My Warrior Typhon piloted by Rapahel Petit roasted a Nodens from a player named "DeadlyFire". A bit of shrimp on the barbie if you will.
Pretty cool or hot depending on which side of my Igniters you were on.
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Post by Poopface on Mar 1, 2023 16:19:23 GMT -5
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Post by davortrogon on Mar 7, 2023 14:20:58 GMT -5
I have gotten a weapon out of the map or glitched into some buildings.
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Post by shadethefluffmech on Mar 9, 2023 14:20:19 GMT -5
Maybe itâs because I march to the beat of an epileptic drummer, but the first thing that came to mind was the response to this movie line. â¬ï¸  that's a great question for 1 million dollars USD, I can buy (values via War Robots Fandom) 3,333,333 cossacks and 1 punisher or 862068 noricums and 3.73 cossacks ORRRRRRRRR... how many Mk3 Patton with 4 mk3 noricum can we get? a noricum costs 290k ag = $1.16 USD a patton costs 500k ag = $2 based on that ratio, 1 million silver is worth $4 in addition, 500 au costs $5 and for noricum, x 1 doritos costs y 1
for patton, x 2 doritos costs y 2to max a noricum, you need: 63,740,000 ag, 500au, and x 1 doritos to max a patton, you need: 64,220,000 ag, 500 au, and x 2 doritos the cost to max a noricum is ((63,740,000*4)/1,000,000)+5+xy =$259.96+xy(4 noricums is $1039.84+4x 1y 1) the cost to max a patton is ((64,220,000*4)/1,000,000)+5+xy = $261.88 + x 2y 2one maxed built is $1301.72 + 4x1y1 + x2y2 so with $1,000,000, we can build 1,000,000 / ($1301.72 + 4x1y1 + x2y2) maxed pattons(does not include gold spend to speed up upgrades for the impatient 「illegitimate child」s nor taxes) someone check my math pls im not a math major im a CS major that can do print("Hello World")The conversion rate of silver is 2 silver per gold (penny) if that changes anything
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Post by dinnerplain on Mar 10, 2023 20:44:59 GMT -5
And also the multitude of cat and mouse shenanigans when dealing with other Scorpions. I don`t find anything really provides that sort of fun anymore and really miss it.
teleporting to a scorpion just as it teleports back, getting in some good damage and then being 400-500m away (after you teleport back) from each other is a lot of fun 
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Post by davortrogon on Mar 21, 2023 1:40:56 GMT -5
Well I'm nowhere near done with this yet but I am beginning to organize a community vote in discord to bring a concept robot to the real game. It's going to take a long time, but I think we can do it. Right now we are going to ask people to share their ideas to be voted on so we can have an idea to stand behind as a community. Hopefully, through Pixonic's greed and eventual distrust once again in the community, people will begin to want a community robot again! Hopefully we can make that happen.
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Post by Cdr. Crimmins on Mar 21, 2023 9:49:12 GMT -5
And also the multitude of cat and mouse shenanigans when dealing with other Scorpions. I don`t find anything really provides that sort of fun anymore and really miss it.
teleporting to a scorpion just as it teleports back, getting in some good damage and then being 400-500m away (after you teleport back) from each other is a lot of fun  Had a game this morning on Dreadnought where a Scorpion tucked under the Dreadnought fragged my Hellburner so I dropped into my ExplShotgun Blitz and ran over there only to see him teleport away facing away from me. I sat back and waited. It was worth it.
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Post by airfix2 on Mar 21, 2023 14:53:05 GMT -5
i once defended a beacon on springfield from ~3+ players. i was using a shell with flames. there was this one fenrir who charged toward the beacon, guns blazing, but i somehow killed him. i was only stopped when the other reds all charged at me at once.
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Post by davortrogon on Mar 21, 2023 20:39:17 GMT -5
I once got 10 kills with a Hover without dying. No healing, only jump module and out - matching flame Ravanas, Hawks, Scorpions, Falcons, (This was a long time ago; The Hawk was Meta).
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Post by dinnerplain on Mar 22, 2023 5:49:00 GMT -5
teleporting to a scorpion just as it teleports back, getting in some good damage and then being 400-500m away (after you teleport back) from each other is a lot of fun  Had a game this morning on Dreadnought where a Scorpion tucked under the Dreadnought fragged my Hellburner so I dropped into my ExplShotgun Blitz and ran over there only to see him teleport away facing away from me. I sat back and waited. It was worth it. I too love doing this to those vanishing devils  You've just got to hope that they don't get too carried away and forget to teleport back in time 
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Post by airfix2 on Mar 22, 2023 12:45:04 GMT -5
also had a game a while ago where there was a hacker using a murometz in FFA, and he was doing hard rain for at least a minute or more. i still somehow managed to come in first though.
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