Robot Arena III Reviews

This game seemed like it was going to follow up on a great classic, but arrived in a terrible state and was abandoned pretty quickly. Go back and play RA2, this game has no place in anyone's library.

The game is nowhere near finished but the devs long since abandoned it. Don't waste your money. hitboxes are terrible, all weight classes thrown together.

It is with great regret that I post a No Review. Robot Arena III is not finished yet. For a "released game" it is on par with Sword of the Stars II. There are some great ideas and vast improvements on the orriginal, but it is not a complete game yet. This game never should have left early access in its current state. Good: -Excellent improvements on the RA2 designing system -Complete chassis customizability -Loads of parts and weapons to make truely unique machines of death! -Freaking ROBOT AREANA 3 !!!!! Bad: -Not pollished at all -Bugs in the bot editor -Very buggy physics -Sometimes your bot just implodes when you load it into the arena -No LAN multiplayer ?!?! -No editor undo button

Needs lots of work as the game is early access, but you can build some pretty funky stuff then drive it around. Was a huge fan of RA2, and so far have been a huge fan of RA3. Lots of freedom to build to your heart's content. You can build some completely unrealistic abominations that make absolutely no sense, then blame it on the game developers, or you can build some really neat stuff. The freedom may allow cheating, per se, but it can also allow you to make some complicated contraptions, art, replicas, or things that were only possible through exploits or cheat components in RA2. You can build totally IRL, or you can freely build completely unrealistic without the use of exploits.

First time I ever disliked something that bad that im refunding, The game is really really early and not finished to even be considered early alpha. I would recommened all fans of the previous games to stay away from it until all the basics are finished. Everything just feels so bad. no options outside of the launcher. Some of the noise and models are from Robot arena 2, controls to create the robots are horribly designed for consoles in mind rathar than Pc. Graphicly feels like a really old game. but i can say the game preforms nicely. For now i would say to AVOID it, wait it out and see if it fixes most of the problems any Early access game has.

You had one job, guys. One fucking job and half the time you havent even been seen about. The Dev's are AWOL as far as i'm concerned and have been for ages, the game still needs a hell of a lot of work and yet there hasnt been an update in a long time. Because of this, i highly recommend you do NOT buy this. Will update if they ever show their faces again. Quite a shame because there are some nice ideas here but Robot Arena 2 just... it just works and you can get it for free if you do some digging.

and no update in about a month.... devs it was every week.... lets do something with this.. Either make it free to play or open it to the workshop and let people make the game what it should be...

As a former RA2 player and fan of combat robotics in general, I was excited to hear that a sequal to the preivous title was finally being released. (Their timing also probably took advantage of the return of Battlebots to TV, but that's aside the point.) So I hastily bought it, eager to see it for myself. It's been a while, so I apologize if I don't recall some details correctly. The bot builder section was okay. It was a little hard to grasp at first, but I eventually figured it out, and it definately was more powerful than RA2 in many key areas. The crashes and subsequent glitching up of the designs were harder to manage, but fortunately a patch managed to fix it. This isn't to say that it is perfect, of course. The weight would sometimes change abruptly when you exited the build screen, and some things were stille a little... finicky. Tolerable, though, because surely the developer would iron these quibbles out. Bot in hand, I started expedition mode. I was a little disappointed by the UI used to select the arena and opponents. It lacked a lot of the trimming RA2 had... you know, like the opponent's weight class. Guess they wanted to leave that for us to figure out. Nonethless, I started my match in the warehouse. After bearing through the surprisingly un-exciting announcer - even compared to RA2 - speaking, the match began. Bots slammed into each other. Parts flew. I pummeled my opponent apart, and prepared to land the killing blow, expecting the game to release sparks or even an explosion to come with my victory. Instead, a pop-up instantaneously appeared over my bot, informing me that I had won. That was it. I couldn't even admire my handiwork thanks to it. As I later found out, this also occurred with immobalization, as well as being hit by a subway or falling into lava. Kinda anticlimactic. So, I finally started the tournaments part. I liked these in RA2. I selected my bot, picked a tournament, hit continue, and.... nothing. Nothing happened when I clicked. To top it off, since I was technically entered in the event, it also locked my bot on the build section. I hoped that the designer would fix these issues. Instead, they disappeared into thin air later the year. I hope this was an informative cautionary tale.

I am a huge fan of Robot Arena 2. when i saw for the first time RA3 on Steam, I wasn\'t scared by the negative reviews. I was sure that, yes, the game needed some work, but i was also convinced that the game was really fun. ...I was incredibly wrong. I know, I know, the game is still in early access, but there are a lot of basics problems that not only need to be solved, but changed. Starting to the bot lab. Ok, now you really have the complete possibility to create any, ANY shape for the robots, but the price to pay is too high. The way you modify the chassis is really too difficult. I had trouble even with simple robot desings, the multiple layers scheme is far from being clear. But there is more... Mounting the parts can be really frustrating. The process is really slow, I don\'t get why the parts must to be mounted in a \"standard\" position UNDER the chassis, and then, repositioned where we want. But i like the idea of moving mounted parts, this really is an useful thing. I do not like the way you wire the motors/pistons in RA3. it works in the opposite way of RA2, I found it too messy. But maybe it\'s just me. Ok, time to try our new, fresh built robot, right? ....Right? No. For no reason, the physics of the game decided to punch herself with all of his might, resulting in a complete DISASTER. Without touching any key, my robot started to bounce illogically all along the arena. Any attempt to stop it was useless. I\'ve tried to add weight, add more wheels, everything. But no, nothing changed. The only thing i could do was delete the bot and build a new one. In the nex time i\'ve tried different things. I\'ve tried to save space putting motors and wheels outside the chassis (mounted properly with extenders), but for no reason the back of the bot started to bounce. Another scrap. I\'ve also found that you can overlap parts. I was able to put 5 batteries in the same place. You can\'t see a thing like that in a 2016 game. Then i\'ve tried to build a robot in the style of \"Chaos 2\": 2 big motors at the FRONT (ztech HP) to avoid wheelies, light and with a short wheelbase: a functional design in RA2 and in the real life. But what happened next got me mad. Not only there is an exaggerated, insane amount of centrifugal force generated by the motors (that also spin at ridiculous low speed, considering that\'s the most powerful motor of the game) but the centrifugal force does not change even when the motors are spinning at max speed. The result? Trying to go forward, my robot started to continuosly roll over backward. I was crying inside me. Without hope, i built the last robot. Big, heavy, slow, but functional. Then i\'ve tried to battle. Sad. Really sad. A lot of sounds are missing, visual effects like fire and sparks are exaggerated and badly done. When you hit your opponent, you don\'t fell like you are hitting it, but you fell like you are pushing, or bouncing on it. You don\'t feel that you are damaging it, you don\'t see the deformations on the chassis, you don\'t see and feel nothing. The only thing that remains is a slow, sad, frustrating game. I hope that this can help the developers. In those contitions, i can\'t play the game without getting mad. BUT. I see potential. I think this could be a really funny game in the future, but things need to be changed. I wish good work to the developers. Maybe in a few months i will be back, to see if something changed. Like me, a lot of people care about this game.

Went back to try this again. Wasn't worth it. Game still broken and unplayable. Was a staff member for the RA2 community for years, so believe me, please don't waste your money on this broken game that the devs refuse to fix. Should be removed from Steam.