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Re: Why does everyone hate this game so much?

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Originally Posted by Oblarg View Post
To be fair, nothing in that clip even remotely resembles battlebots. All I saw was unintentional entanglement and resulting (unfortunate and nigh-unavoidable without banning defense) damage. Additionally, throwing around words like "idiocy" is not particularly conducive to the sort of atmosphere required for productive discourse.

Edit: It just occurred to me that I might be mis-parsing your response if you intended that as an example of receiving a penalty while not playing "like battlebots." It's really rather unclear; the sentence directly after indicates you think the reffing against overly-aggressive robots is insufficiently strict, not vice-versa.
Here's an example from this weekend of getting away without a penalty. The event occurs with 90 seconds left:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4rf-6eP4dc
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