Tank Boss Battle 2

[@Zum1UDontNo]

I love what the boss did at 6:40. It unleashed the bullet storm at red, and most bullets flew past. Then red activated a shield, so instead of trying to shoot it, the boss charged into it so red would be knocked back and get hit by the rest of the bullet storm sooner. It's a shame it lost to blue immediately after, but that was such a cool move.

[@SeanMirrsen]

Excellent battle! The mini tank drones were a great addition. I feel like they could have unlocked a little earlier, and the behavior selector for the boss would primarily work for them, rather than the boss itself. Also there's a little oversight in weapon collision logic I think. Projectiles seem to respect friend/foe when it comes to colliding with wrecks. Which means player tanks can shoot at the boss over friendly tank wrecks, but can't shoot over mini tank wrecks. Same with the boss and mini-tanks shooting at players, just the other way around. Since it's hard to tell player wrecks from minitank wrecks, projectiles passing over some wrecks but not others is a bit confusing - so maybe make wrecks 'neutral', and either stop or let through all projectiles regardless?

[@lostmarbles2d]

Excellent feedback as always. I'll probably make the wrecks "neutral", which adds some battle dynamics by them blocking shots.

[@SeanMirrsen]

@@lostmarbles2d Here's another fun idea. Give 'spawn tank' an upgrade by using the 'load' feature. Instead of spawning multiple tanks, make it spawn a single bigger tank, with appropriately multiplied HP and different weapons based on what load level it's used at. I.e., L1 makes a small gun drone, L2 makes a slightly bigger drone with dual gun, L3 makes a tank drone the size of player tanks armed with area-effect cannon, then L4 has a shotgun, L5 has a minigun, and L6 has swarmer missiles. The size caps out at L6, the only thing increasing past that would be HP. The spawned tanks really make it feel like a boss battle, with adds and stuff. And the bigger adds would make the field even more chaotic. :)

[@Леха_Картоха]

@@lostmarbles2d HOW YOU ARE DOING THIS?? You should have 500k subscribers, that's cost a lot of pain and skill to do,

[@JustAnotherCommenter]

Extension of SeanMirrsen's comment: Making mini tank drones for the boss appear earlier can also be useful for the boss to survive longer. "TARGET LOWEST" is what can bait the players to target the mini tank drones. "TARGET HIGHEST" being added can be beneficial for both sides. For players, they can ignore the mini tank drones. For the boss, it can target the fully healed player.

[@lostmarbles2d]

Great idea, thank you!

[@finaltheory778]

The target lowest also makes the boss to prioritise to kill rather than to drain only, sometimes useful when there are too many enemy players trying to overwhelm the boss

[@JustAnotherCommenter]

@@finaltheory778 You mean target highest?

[@finaltheory778]

@@JustAnotherCommenter no

[@JustAnotherCommenter]

@@finaltheory778 Target lowest would actually drain a player's health and actually kill them, which contradicts your own explanation. Maybe target random could do it.

[@marblesofraven]

Great battle! (Red sacrifised? for Purple to attack the boss at the end! It's amazing)

[@finaltheory778]

Rip Red, your sacrifice will not be in vain - Purple

[@monterrang1]

mad marb: fury road

[@S2468YT]

Now, this is more epic! You should make a GIGANTIC ‘Base’ tank boss, like in shmups, with his own theme that is intense and evil, and have his own name shown!

[@Dark_Slayer3000]

Finally, after a draw there was a revenge to show the real winner! As last time, it's perfectly balanced :D And just as last time, red tank carried most of the match lol!

[@mairder6773]

The concept with the tanks battling is very well though. Always enjoyable to watch. And my personal favourite between all the other great videos you make. I'd like to see you taking it to the next level. Maybe put some abilities, make every tank unique (I know it might be hard but I'm just saying). You sure have fantasy and you already showed ud you can use it.

[@lostmarbles2d]

Thank you! Eventually I would like to add that level of depth to the format, when I get time!

[@IvanSensei88]

Gosh how I wish we had more sandbox games like this, where you can just spawn units around and watch them fight

[@LAMCHAKFUNG]

The same 8 rainbow tanks [team players] (red,orange,yellow,green,cyan,blue,purple,magenta) vs the boss (white), who will win this time? (+ team tank battle mechanics)

[@LAMCHAKFUNG]

… team players wins! (survivor: purple)

[@sc946]

I like how purple was the last tank rolling

[@chivescat1231]

music kinda sounds like Ludwig's theme from bloodborne but i might be crazy

[@KalijahAnderson]

Favorite color survived.

[@nyanSynxPHOENIX]

And did tons of damage the whole time. Purple usually disappoints me, so I am glad they did so well for once.

[@lostmarbles2d]

That reminds me, I need to add stats

[@nyanSynxPHOENIX]

@@lostmarbles2d Yeah, that would be cool!

[@mollytaylor6089]

I think there should be a mechanic where after 20 minutes every one heals 40% health

[@NinjaKatzKool]

The game lasted 7 minutes

[@alexufa2]

Wow! Another boss battle! Thanks! Wait next!

[@box8205]

Wow, you now switched to NCS musics. Cool game!

[@lostmarbles2d]

Yes, giving it a shot since there have sometimes been comments requesting it. Interested to know what most viewers think!

[@ayasegoingmeow]

@@lostmarbles2d it is nice, ncs10 releases are also a good option

[@ayasegoingmeow]

@@slimeadventure722A breh. Don't give a s***

[@witoldkopaczewski3954]

Damn purple is last twice and cyan dies with a big load again

[@giornoleganaatodos7841]

Estos vídeos me encantan

[@someaccount5200]

I feel like the camera should focus the mini-tanks too

[@lostmarbles2d]

It sort of does. I didn't make any changes to the camera system from the team tank battle (previous video), and that camera system simply ensures that all tanks are on the camera. Because the mini tanks use the same tank script they are included in that.

[@ehx3419]

I love how the team has a target option (near/low) even though there's only one enemy. Also funny how KZbin randomly recognizes this as Nuclear Throne. Edit: With the spawnable tank drones, the target option actually makes sense. Another thing I just noticed, Chase and Flee behaviors seem reversed.

[@UltimaDoombotMK1]

bruh cyan didn't even last 2 minutes smh my head

[@afarpacik]

The videos are very interesting, I subscribed immediately, but I wonder what is the source of these videos and what is the purpose of this channel? Good luck

[@lostmarbles2d]

Thanks! As I understand it, the source of this niche is carykh's "amazing marble race" videos from many years ago. Their popularity inspired many other creators to make marble races, and over time people started making marble races with complex rules and "games" attached, the most successful of which is MIKAN, the channel that inspired my own. So I'd say the purpose of this channel is to just make entertaining battle videos that are controlled randomly by marbles :)

[@Extramrdo]

They're short videos intentionally designed that you don't have to pay attention. You can take any particular timestamp, pause it, and using just what's on the screen at that exact moment know which side is winning. The stakes are minimal: it's all just RNG playing out, just slightly more engaging than a screensaver. And yet, the setup is visually interesting and unpredictable; you can't tell from the start what's exactly going to happen. Maybe you could make a guess, "oh the players have Heal and the boss does not, the last tank is gonna be basically invincible," but you'd have to watch to be sure. And then there's the dev. This video isn't in a vacuum. Everything onscreen reeks of "just approachable enough that anyone can make a suggestion." People don't understand deep machine learning. People do understand falling balls and tanks and stuff. "More of the pegs should spin" is something anyone can see, suggest, and the dev can heart the comment and say "Thanks, good feedback!" So while it seems like the dev can reuse the same program and put out an infinite number of identical videos, even throw up a 24/7 stream, that'd get stale quickly. Half the dev's job is the programming, the other half is in the comment section, fostering the community, making us feel heard and appreciated, like we have a stake in this channel itself. Now we're not just caring about individual videos, we're caring about a long-term viewership. And as a bonus: the other people in the comments actually form a community, so it's not like it's smoke and mirrors. The dev has fooled us into thinking they care about this marble project by, surprise, actually caring about this marble project. And the third key to success, the deep psychological hack to foster engagement: humans love to personify things. Balls falling down a plinko board, that's boring. But give them a target to hit, call it a "race," now you're invested in watching a scrappy underdog pry his way away from his streak of slamming into the left wall. Even though there's no "progress" to be made (they all restart at the top at the same board, keeping maybe only a tiny bit of random momentum from the previous run), the human mind is wired to *give* these colored balls a story. And what's more, give the balls different colors and humans will imprint their existing "favorite color" preference and even choose to root for one ball over another. Just for falling down a physics simulation! Put a few tanks on the screen, give the ball targets the context of "issuing orders," and you've got a full-blown theatrical event generated from just some initial starting conditions. oh and the music's cool

[@lostmarbles2d]

@@Extramrdo I think you've very accurately described the niche, and also given me some insight. I really appreciate the comment, thanks and thanks for watching! It's a great reminder for me to focus on actually making videos instead of just rerunning simulations all the time (I have done that once or twice)

[@afarpacik]

@@Extramrdo really nice explanation thank you for your reply :)

[@afarpacik]

@@lostmarbles2d Thank you for your reply, good luck with your channel, I'll keep watching :)

[@tomoyukisaito5275]

I would.of suggested instead of giving them another load perhaps you could of instead aay given them a short dash ability instead since more often then not The reason they end up getting killed so quickly is they move the same.speed of the big tank and just get demolished by the mini gun at point blank rangw

[@randomcommenter1433]

The boss tank reminds me of Megatron from Transformers.

[@emmettemmett4307]

Man I was rooting for the boss :(

[@ДаниельКузьмин-й5л]

Pls 3chapter ❤

[@lexlim7816]

epic!

[@レーザーショット]

Tank boss battle 3 新作を作ってください

[@victorcardenas7372]

Alguien me dice el nombre del juego

[@857462289v]

6:39

[@ShakeyBox]

😀

[@jiqci]

Second

[@potatoking5628]

:] E :D