Well the month is finally here. Don't know the day thou

Decent discussion of a few behind the scenes things in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnsiGddjwo
Most important bits from it, in my opinion, are that there may not be a live audience in attendance, and that the actual event may not even be live-streamed. So it is a concern that when the final fight does happen, it will be somewhat edited to make it look cooler. Like that one anime about playing Basketball with Mechs.

>>15747923
>there may not be a live audience in attendance, and that the actual event may not even be live-streamed

Isn't it kind of late in the game for the word "may" to even be in the discussion? Unless they slipped their date again, this feels like shit that should already be decided less than a month out.

>>15748017
Judging from how the panelists say it, they just don't know the full details.

>>15748017
They don't want Celestial Being to attack the prototype.

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Honestly I don't expect much of a fight per se.
What I do expect is sort of what that 3rd video showed: An obstacle course / shooting gallery, with maybe a fight after. An interesting afternoon of viewing to be sure, but not something that will meet the hype. Which is fine of course. I just want to be entertained.

>>15747892

>Megabot tips over , falls and crushes Kuratas injuring both pilots

>>15748182
Kek

>>15748182
>>15748192
Does that count as a win for USA?

>>15748198
As long as it's on top top sure. Megabot should be disqualified for not having a sufficiently cool name though.

>>15748232
What name would /m/ give it?

>>15747892
>be passionate about giant robots
>build one with your own group/company for the sake of it
>a bunch of random cunts overseas wants to challenge you with a glorified tractor
>sure thing I guess
>said overseas group collect funds from all over the place and build a new machine trained specifically to destroy your work
>like, actually destroy it.
I feel like this whole thing has gone wrong at some point
>inb4 LOL I WANT BLOOD AND DEATH YOUR MUCH PUSSY TO DIE IN REAL LIFE FIGHT THAT WE WILL FORGET AFTER A COUPLE MONTHS

>>15748351
Hard to say how into it the Kuratas team is. They've been kinda mum on the subject.

>>15748295
shit hitler 9000

>>15747892
>Well the month is finally here.
And then it was delayed a month.

>>15748351
>be passionate about giant robots
>want to make Battletech real
>try to fulfill your dream and get together with some friends to cobble together a robot from a tractor and other parts
>try to crowdfund to gather interest in battling robots as a sport
>crowdfunding spectacularly fails
>has an idea
>makes a new crowdfunding campaign but with extra jingoistic rhetoric and issues a challenge to a Japanese guy who says he wants to make giant robots real
>Japanese guy accepts
>use funds to make better functioning robot, comparatively speaking to your first
>Chinese company builds a robot and challenges both of you
>[DESIRE TO FIGHT WITH ROBOTS INTENSIFIES]
Honestly, I think the fight itself will be pretty tame. Kuratas and MKIII both have paintball guns. Maybe we'll get a punch or two in it but I doubt the chainsaw or other contact weapons the Megabots guys made will be used at all.

>>15748550
>And then it was delayed a month.
source?

as for the rest of your post:
That's why I think it will be more of an obstacle course type thing. I can't see either team wanting to sacrifice their very expensive mechs.

Megabot's a shitty pile of scrap.

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>>15750637
Kuratas is stylish as shit, sure, but I get a boner from rust bucket mecha.
We gotta pass through Mech Warrior aesthetic before we get to Gundam.

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>>15750652
>Kuratas is stylish as shit, sure, but I get a boner from rust bucket mecha.

Kuratas is a rust bucket, anon.
The guy who made it made it in his own time, learning hyrdraulics and electronics as he went.
The thing is assembled using a shitty lifting crane bought cheap off of Ebay.
The guy who made it is a simple smith, not some top university attending, top of the line machinery using god of mechanical engineering.

It has nothing to do with technology, it's all about aesthetics. The people doing Medabots are simply head over heels for Mad Max. Mad Max cars are cool as fuck but it wouldn't make sense to claim we first needed o pass through a Mad Max phase before we started doing modern cars.

Aesthetics and technology have very little in common. Like, you can stuff an old PC into a pro-gamur 360 degree super case or cram several GTX1080s into a vintage case, or a steampunk case, or whatever.

Same here. If the Gundam guys succeed in making it move at 1:1 scale, any realistically looking humanoid mechs could be doable, regardless of what they look like aesthetically.

>>15750623
>"The Real Steel-style matchup was due to take place this month, but is again being pushed back, this time to September. MegaBots claims the delay is down to "logistical issues." Although the event is not open to the public, fans can catch the action on YouTube and Facebook."

From: https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/02/megabots-eagle-prime-robot-duel/
Which was posted by their twitter account https://twitter.com/MegaBotsInc/status/893492595229315072

>>15750732
>https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/02/megabots-eagle-prime-robot-duel/
well shit.

>>15750689
Good points. I do honestly like them both though.
I'll admit the Megabot is more, "We turned construction vehicles into a mech" type aesthetic, which I'm fine with. Whatever gets the mech to move the way it's supposed to is fine by me. So in keeping with the car analogy, I think Actual construction equipment is the Model T of mecha, and we are currently moving into the generation after that, where people are able to experiment with aesthetics.

I really, really want this to do well enough that people throw a lot of money at both of them and grow interest in the whole thing.

>>15750765
In some twisted state of boredom at work, I had a hell of an idea for a mech control scheme involving the pilot at the center of gravity in a harness, and all of their limbs being completely hooked up to an exoskeleton with encoders that could translate their movements to the mech. The idea would be to use a human's natural sense of balance to balance the mech. I'm just bummed that I'll most likely never afford to be able to make a prototype properly for many years without putting a decent place to live or kit cars on the back burner.

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>>15753487
>The idea would be to use a human's natural sense of balance to balance the mech.

That's not how it works at all.
All of your balance organs are located in the upper half of your head.
It can't balance stuff if you're but a tiny bit above the center of gravity with a ton of stuff on top.

>>15750689
>The guy who made it made it in his own time, learning hyrdraulics and electronics as he went.
>dedicating yourself to your love that you learn shit on the fly
It's beautiful

>>15748295
Fapinator 5000

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>>15748351
Retarded Americans are quite retarded. They always wanted to prove that they are still number 1 while they are having shit politics and crumbling economy.

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>>15753762
>It's beautiful

It's pure human spirit at work.
He started working on it after he had made a 1:1 metallic Scope Dog and thought that with it out of the way, he might as well try to make one that moves.

>>15748295
Manifest Destiny

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>thread still exists 3 days later
huh. this is new for me. Might as well continue taking up space up /m/.
>>15756232
that's so good I think I'll steal it for my tabletop mech game
>>15753841
How did you know what I call my right hand?
>>15748541
That sounds like it was named by /d/, /pol/, and /r9k/ together.
>>15753487
I always default to Vision of Escaflowne when thinking about mech controls, even though there are probably much better ones to use.

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>tfw 1/1 RX78 was taken down to make it combat ready for this event.

>>15759686
Is such a thing even possible?

>>15748295
Vulture

>>15759700
ancient aliens
no. engineering a static piece vs a self-supporting and moving piece is very differnt

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>>15750652
>>15750689
Mk3 isn't a rustbucket, though, and you can't really call it Mad Max either.

>>15748162
>>15748550
I don't even care that they won't go all out on eachother. As long as they can make it entertaining to watch them do some stuff it'd already be an accomplished mission to me.
It would be even cooler if it could become some G Gundam tournament in the near future but that seems to be a little too optimistic right now.

We haven't seen anything new on the Kuratas since what, 2 years?

They've shown nothing, but they did say they were improving it, by the time the challenge vid came out.
I really, really want to see what a team with a man who started the project with pure passion can do.
Especially compared to Megabots who've been constantly publicizing and showing their iterations, and with sponsor and kickstarter backing to boot.

>>15760956
I hope they just show up with an actual Scopedog.

>>15760956
>They've shown nothing, but they did say they were improving it, by the time the challenge vid came out.

It's a single guy doing it all in his spare time. JAPANESE SPARE TIME (that's like what, 2 hours a week). Give him a break.

Its going to be trash. Theyll pussy out and stop the fight if someone gets close to getting scratched.

That said, any more knowledgeable anons want to fill a moron like me in on how long before we start seeing faster and more combat ready mecha that could make an entertaining sport or viable war machine? Will I live to be able to enlist in the militarys mech division?

>>15762157
>Its going to be trash. Theyll pussy out and stop the fight if someone gets close to getting scratched.

I feel like it's going to be way lamer than that. No one is going to come close to getting scratched. They're going to just plop paint balls at each other for a while then have one staged melee attack for effect.

And no there's nothing a military mecha could do that wouldn't be done better, less complex and cheaper than a tank because we don't live in an anime.

>>15762157
>mecha that could make an entertaining sport
Probably never, if you imagine real-life robot sports to be in anime. With airsoft, paintball, and other wargames you're not actively destroying your own gear during every single engagement, and no one wants to deal with the fallout of players dying in a sport, so a giant robot fighting sport would need to be flashy, non-lethal, and have some sort of damage system that balances pilot skill with equipment used. And then you'd need some form infrastructure to keep the everything (robots, equipment, arenas, and so on) maintained, which means you're going to need a lot of money going into this sport.

>viable war machine
Powered armor looks promising. Scopedog-sized robots and larger are going to get fucked by physics, more practical weapon platforms, and the air force.

>>15762193
I'm afraid this is the closest to the truth.

>>15747892
There's something I find disgusting about the Megabot. Maybe the design, maybe the approach, maybe the goal, maybe the image, maybe the
>yiss we did the first ever robot oh no somebody did it before let's fight

It looks severely unfinished, it looks flimsy, it looks boring. I'm not a weeb and I like western mechs over gundams but this is shit.

>>15753844
don't be a weaboo

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>>15762757
The proportions are what bothers me most. Large and wide shoulders, small torso area, long and skinny legs, track base that's wider then the MKII but that has skinnier tracks

>>15764096
It'd be perfect had they made the legs wider. It also has too much exposed wiring, it needs more armor.

>>15747892
Well, at least we're safe from Kaijus

>>15762757
>There's something I find disgusting about the Megabot
Maybe the fact its less of a giant robot and more of just a riced out piece of construction equipment.

>>15753844
are you trying to say that we as Americans consider Taiwan the enemy? You disappoint me

>>15764453
I mean, that's how it started in Gundam, right?

I just want the japs to post more robot porn

>>15764096

Ok, the shoulder eagle is a nice touch, I'll give 'em that. But the proprtions are all fucked.

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>>15765259
But why is the eagle low poly?

>>15747892
>tau on the left
>ork on the right

>>15766924
i gotta give it credit for the pickup-launcher

>>15764086
I don't love Japan. I just hate America trying to meddle with other's affairs just to prove that world that they're powerful and still the world's number 1.

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>>15764096
I think you're right.
It just needs more of a torso.