CREATUREFEST JULY 2025

[knux400]

Welcome back to the Bot Arena! Today's match is against Chaos, Beauty, and Splendour at the Gaiacorp Promotion. We'll also be performing another chassis upgrade, as there's a new one available in the shop.
 

"Wow. What a team setup. Did Spade copy Gaia's homework or something?"
"Might be the other way around. But yeah, it looks like it."

The new chassis we'll be upgrading to is the Khacor Smartmove, our first heavy chassis. Like the one before it, this one comes with an improved carrying capacity as well as weighing more on its own. Don't worry, though, we're still nowhere near the weight limit for any of these battles, and we won't even get close with only a single robot.
 

"Oooh, this one has red blinking lights. That's a plus."
"You mean the red lights are a positive development or the steel frame is literally shaped like a plus?"
"Yes."

Here's a quick look at how Schmoo's carrying capacity has improved...

And here's Schmoo all kitted out with her favorite machine gun and a new set of armor.

"What gives? You skipped over the cool black armor and left me with the football getup again, only this time it has rivets."
"Sorry, fashion is secondary to combat effectiveness. You can dress up however you want when we're through with the arena."

As Schmoo mentioned earlier, the Gaiacorp team is pretty much identical to Spade's team, the only difference being the weapon distribution and the improved armor. This means our strategy will be basically identical to last time- isolate and pursue a single target while avoiding the others, and exploit the 50 unit minimum firing distance shared by all Raptor-class weapons. Simple enough. This match only took two attempts in total, but if you want to skip to the winning one, go to 0:55.

Don't worry, though, the next match will be significantly more difficult.
"Oh, yeah. I was so worried I'd be facing reasonable odds for once instead of overwhelming ones. Thanks for the reassurance."