Like the title says we are talking about arenas but what are we talking about?

Well drum roll please 🥁🥁🥁

The UK arena, US arena and Eye Of The Storm (King Of The Hill) arena have been remade and redesigned!

Kupa messaged me one day thinking about updating the arenas and it turns out we had the same brain cell. Few days later we had worked out the designs for me to work from and my gaggle of geese have been working hard on them since! So let's get down to the 411!

The UK arena has changed from it's previous incarnation. The floor space is bigger for that all important combat, going from 10m x 10m to 15m x 15m.

The walls are much higher so instant elimination OOTAs are much much harder.

And of course what is a UK arena without the signature floor flipper which has increased in power and the pit of oblivion which this time can't be activated until a minute has elapsed

But this time there are two new hazards in this arena. The side walls are now lined with horizontal spinners which will leave a mark and the corner OOTAs. You can escape them.......but can you do it in time?

The US arena returns and is completely different from it's previous incarnation. The floor space has changed geometry and size. The arena now is armed with hazards (I wanted a pit but nooooooooo never get what I want)

we have 4 killsaw sets in each side of the arena, stay over the slot for a second and prepare to feel the saws cutting your soft underbot.

We have the dreaded shelf which if you get stuck up there and you can't get off in 10 seconds you will be eliminated.

The Arena screws which will drag you and you will know what its like to be a wine cork!!

And finally we have 4 lower wall OOTAs which like in the UK arena you can escape but tick tock goes the clock!

The Eye Of The Storm KOTH arena was fun to make when I first made it following the design that kupa sent. Over the time I kept looking at the arena when it was in game and thought I could make this look better. The idea was fun that kupa designed however the visual aspect of what I did for the original was not vibing with me over the months.

So I wanted to remake it from the ground up while still using the same design and well it has been redone and it is giving the vibe I want. The original vibe I wanted was sort of game show arcade kind of vibes which I feel that the new one hits the bill perfectly!

In the new version there's more glow more neon and more aesthetics. Like now in the new one there are 4 glowing rings which move up towards the middle. Every 30 seconds each ring will turn purple and when the last ring is purple the fun begins! The floor starts to spin and get faster and faster and faster!

Expect to see these new arenas in game soon! That's it for me today and remember peeps: KEEP HONKING!

Let's finish this Dev Diary up with some fantastic shots from our community:

Left: Ugly Duckling Right: Big Bell Robots made by @Thorpe on the RR2 Discord! Arena: Brickbots 4.0 by Liam (that's me!)

Terminator 2 vs Titanic in the (old) UK arena - robots by @eli.the.boye on the RR2 Discord!

Liam

Robot Rumble 2

https://discord.gg/RobotRumble2

This updates header features Emerald Splitter and Partagaz built by @mutedjono on the RR2 Discord!