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❌ Unofficial leaks and inside information is prohibited Beware that until the end of the weekend (Monday 12am PT), all new threads discussing the most recent episode need to be appropriately spoiler-flaired and have a non-revealing title. ✔️ Open discussion of aired episodes is encouraged. This can include robot combat, bot building, current TV Shows and anything else of interest to the community. Submissions can be anything from the world of competitive robotics. Websites and Social Media - (Team news, build updates, battle & damage reports) Submissions r/battlebots robot combat wiki Official Team Links This has led to several image macro memes mocking the ads, particularly on /r/okbuddyretard (examples shown below).List of Robot Combat events around the world
On October 11th, YouTuber Foekoe posted a video parodying how ads for the game were all over YouTube, gaining over 385,000 views (shown below). For example, it appeared in a May 18th, 2019 video about League of Legends streamers by Hi Im Coconut (shown below, left) and a JonTron video posted April 15th, 2019 (shown below, right). Online, the game has been a sponsor of many popular YouTube videos, leading viewers to get irritated at the ubiquity of its ads. Pocket Gamer also praised the game's graphic quality.
Gamezebo wrote that the game's art-style of dark fantasy instead of anime style typical of gacha games. Each of the 300 collectible characters features unique motion-capture animations produced exclusively in Plarium’s in-house studio to create distinctive character traits and personas." According to Venture Beat, the game, "(offers) one of the most unified game experiences in the collection RPG genre. A trailer for the game released a month prior (shown below). The game was released on August 2nd, 2018.