MegaBots Really Happening....Finally

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It looks like what we have been promised for a long time is actually going to happen...GIANT ROBOT DUEL! USA vs Japan. You can watch it live next week on Twitch. While I have high hopes, I am keeping my expectations fairly low.

Check out the video.

This is Eagle Prime, America's entrant into the Giant Robot Duel, in its first-ever live-fire combat trial. Eagle Prime is the first MK3-class MegaBot from MegaBots, Inc. It weighs in at 12 tons, stands 16 feet tall, seats two, is powered by a 430 horsepower V8 LS3 engine, and costs a cool $2.5M. Cupholders come standard.

Eagle Prime will be representing Team USA in the upcoming Giant Robot Duel against Suidobashi Heavy Industries. Subscribe to this channel to watch the Duel!
 
Gigus Fire said:
Oversized rc cars with paint balls.
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I cannot share your cynicism. That is cool!

- How many RC cars do you ride in?
- I would not want to get hit with that paintball. Substitute with a solid projectile, and you have quite the dangerous weapon
- Can I mention FLAMETHROWER!!!!!!
 
Glad cupholders come standard or I'd soooooooooooooo not buy one....
 
Needs GIANT SWORDS!. Arena event with projectile weapons, boooooooriiing. Bring the full metal contact!
 
jardows said:
I cannot share your cynicism. That is cool!

- How many RC cars do you ride in?
- I would not want to get hit with that paintball. Substitute with a solid projectile, and you have quite the dangerous weapon
- Can I mention FLAMETHROWER!!!!!!
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I say it's like an RC car because it seems very unsophisticated. It looks as if the robot can become unbalanced and fall over without any chance of getting back up. They took the easy method for locomotion as well.
 
dgingeri said:
This is the next 'sports' craze. NFL will be replaced with giant robot wars (and come in cheaper.)
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Omfg You're right....

This over runball any day

Think of the technology advancements that would accomplish, wanna build mars faster? Launch a bunch of automated versions of these to bore tunnels and if we find aliens..well this will work way better than a cargo lifter :p
 
fuzzylogik said:
so, how long before we get actual mechwarriors and the battle field changes forever?
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I think the correct evolution is, we'll see Hammer's Slammers first.

Hovertanks;

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The actual fight was melee only, as of the last time I read up on it. Given the Eagle Prime weighs almost twice as much, this may be a short fight. Not sure what the arena is like, but at least it has a chance if it requires any kind of off road. Also seems it can hunker down if needed.

On the other hand, the Kuratas looks like it could have come straight from patrolling the corridors in GitS and potentially more stable. It also looks to require hardpack surface to operate. Wouldn't have to be a really smooth surface, but it would be hopeless in the sand, mud, and maybe even grass.

Either way, it should be quality entertainment, if only to finally see 2 several meter tall mechs duke it out with actual people piloting them. They are very different machines, so surprises wouldn't be surprising.
 
funkydmunky said:
Not real, in any proper way when you stick actual humans in there. 430 hp engine? Fuckin TV garbage.
Will impress many 12 yr old boys though. Some here?
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430hp is still on the low side to run the hydraulic pump for something like this.
 
This will be total BS.

Judging by the 'glacial' speed these things move and target, the show will be edited heavily to make a 20 minute run seem like 1 minute.

Not to mention editing out the 90 minutes of mechanical and technical fails.

Someone in production and editing will have a nervous breakdown over this.
 
funkydmunky said:
NO! No it won't because it is main-stream TV garbage!
Do you honestly believe what you said?
Do you watch CNN and read the NYT target audience member?
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OK. Look at how many tons of metal they are displacing and they are going to be punching each other? A pilot is going to get seriously injured.

The completely silly part about robot Jox is that they have to be manned.
 
The idea that this is a step on the way to mechwarrior like combat is fun, until you think about that amazing gazillion dollar fully combat ready March beeing taken down by a dude with a ~$6,000 .50 cal shooting the pilot from a mile away. Why do they always have a huge glass canopy?
 
Im just waiting until I can nab my own titan and pop off an excellently timed titanfall on my enemys car.

mord said:
The idea that this is a step on the way to mechwarrior like combat is fun, until you think about that amazing gazillion dollar fully combat ready March beeing taken down by a dude with a ~$6,000 .50 cal shooting the pilot from a mile away. Why do they always have a huge glass canopy?
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Hrmm Mechwarrior mechs were armored and Titans from titanfall are impervious to measly 50 cal rounds. Think of the mass driving power of Tones 40m cannon or the Monarch with its massive 30mm chain gun. 50 cal is like a 22 cal to a real battle mech. If our race and plabet survives time it will probably be at least 1000 yrs before we see actual tech like the stuff in video games.
 
Eh, dumb. Don't mean to be "that guy" but this really is a waste of time. The robots are just excavators modified, basically. There's nothing "robot" about them. And they're slow and super basic. Nothing impressive technically at all...nothing that hasn't been done for decades.

Then the fights and weapons are mad weak sauce. If that "enemy robot" had real man fucking weapons that "'Murica robot" would have been TOAST. I'm sure the enemy bot would have just sat there too as it's imminent demise took 10 minutes to roll up and get it's arm into position to go in for the kill. Dramatic.

Yeah, I think I'll pass on this one.
 
mord said:
The idea that this is a step on the way to mechwarrior like combat is fun, until you think about that amazing gazillion dollar fully combat ready March beeing taken down by a dude with a ~$6,000 .50 cal shooting the pilot from a mile away. Why do they always have a huge glass canopy?
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Tech today won't really allow for a feasible Mech as in Mechwarrior, (Battletech). On the other hand, when the day arrives that it is feasible, I can imagine that a canopy could be proofed against .50 cal. The standard already exists, (UL10). Reality though, is that there just isn't much of a need for it.
http://www.tssbulletproof.com/ul-10-bullet-resistant-glass/

At the same time, art from a game rarely matches real life implementations, so the artwork never bothered me or even generated much thought past, what would it take to build one.
 
tangoseal said:
.............. If our race and plabet survives time it will probably be at least 1000 yrs before we see actual tech like the stuff in video games.
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Actual, I doubt we will ever see such things because I think that by the time that we could make them a reality, they'll be make useless by far superior tech. The fun thing about Battletech, or that universe, is that it is supposed to be long after a time of lost technology. It was always strange that they had these destructive weapons system with terrible guidance paired up with sophisticated Electronic Warfare and stealth technologies. And yet they remain at this stasis point of technology for thousands of years. It's better not to think too much about it and just enjoy the stories and games, trying to make it real for yourself just uncovers the problems.

Anyway, what point is a tank or a mech when a nation can fry every living soul in a massive city any time they want to? Nuclear weapons are a problem only because of the last effects. If you could get around that nasty fallout then the only thing stopping someone from using them would be world condemnation and the threat of retaliation. MAD works now, it's tested all the time. But I wouldn't call it peaceful solution to diplomacy.

Anyway.
 
lcpiper said:
Tech today won't really allow for a feasible Mech as in Mechwarrior, (Battletech). On the other hand, when the day arrives that it is feasible, I can imagine that a canopy could be proofed against .50 cal. The standard already exists, (UL10). Reality though, is that there just isn't much of a need for it.
http://www.tssbulletproof.com/ul-10-bullet-resistant-glass/

At the same time, art from a game rarely matches real life implementations, so the artwork never bothered me or even generated much thought past, what would it take to build one.
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Neat info. I wonder if the lvl10 is designed to stop a FMJ or AP round. World of difference there in some materials.

I'd assume a real world military implementation wouldn't put the pilot out there so vulnerable.

I was mostly thinking how for the foreseeable future offensive capability will trump defence. To the point stealth is the best defence. I dont mean only outright invisibility, just efforts to keep the enemy from knowing where you are.
 
tangoseal said:
Im just waiting until I can nab my own titan and pop off an excellently timed titanfall on my enemys car.



Hrmm Mechwarrior mechs were armored and Titans from titanfall are impervious to measly 50 cal rounds. Think of the mass driving power of Tones 40m cannon or the Monarch with its massive 30mm chain gun. 50 cal is like a 22 cal to a real battle mech. If our race and plabet survives time it will probably be at least 1000 yrs before we see actual tech like the stuff in video games.
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Ok, sure 1000 years from now i'd believe 1cm thick clear polyunobtanium will laugh off measly .50 cal rounds. But hand held quantum decoherance beam projectors might mess it up!
 
So much hate in this thread for literally the first prototypes of this kind of machine. I mean honestly if you are expecting Gundam, you are seriously out of touch with our current level of technology with machines like this and watching way too damn much Anime.
 
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