Author Topic: DSL 2.0 Sneak Peeks! (Read 82261 times)

Mr. Weedy · « **Reply #100 on:** November 05, 2005, 04:25:53 AM »

Well originals were also very simple. Do you remember the real snow job? It was just a box with plow and 4 wheels on it.

house_Fly · « **Reply #101 on:** November 05, 2005, 10:58:55 AM »

yeah i thought that one was really cool but it was the other 2 i liked how the old ones klinda looked like glaciers dont take it as if im trying to take away from the patch im sure their ballteing is good but they arent visually appealing

Vincent · « **Reply #102 on:** November 05, 2005, 07:58:54 PM »

Quote from: house_Fly

im sure their ballteing is good but they arent visually appealing

I'm sure watching them tearing your bot up is visually appealing enough, :twisted:

Starcore · « **Reply #103 on:** November 08, 2005, 03:20:08 PM »

Quote from: Firebeetle

Nope. Darkrat hasn't visited this forum for a month, I think his last visit was before the forum went down (edit: I was talking to Goose and he told me that Darkrat did leave), and Starcore has been gone for a long time.

The DSL development team is now Goose, ACAMS, Clickbeetle, and me. There are also the beta testers.

Rooting for you guys! Greetings from the void and happy holidays!

Starcore

WRXSTI · « **Reply #104 on:** November 08, 2005, 06:50:25 PM »

yay starcore's still around now what about darkrat.....

house_Fly · « **Reply #105 on:** November 08, 2005, 08:43:51 PM »

doesnt look like hes staying i thihnk he might just be droping in to say hi

WRXSTI · « **Reply #106 on:** November 09, 2005, 07:14:16 PM »

i hope the sneek peak this week is a good one speeking of the sneek peak, its friday and still no sneek peak....

house_Fly · « **Reply #107 on:** November 09, 2005, 10:35:25 PM »

what its thursday lolz

Vincent · « **Reply #108 on:** November 10, 2005, 12:33:11 AM »

Quote from: house_Fly

what its thursday lolz

That was Wednesday... Now it is Thursday. *sighs*

WRXSTI · « **Reply #109 on:** November 10, 2005, 06:20:08 PM »

Quote from: Vincent

Quote from: house_Fly
what its thursday lolz

That was Wednesday... Now it is Thursday. *sighs*

oops the 3 days off off school really screwed me up lol

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #110 on:** November 11, 2005, 12:46:44 PM »

These replica bots aren't new, but they have never before been AI opponents. In DSL 2.0, though, they will be!

From upper left going clockwise: Buster Blade (BW, Darkrat), That Darn Dustpan! (LW, Clickbeetle), Hworf (MW, Clickbeetle), The Judge (HW, Clickbeetle).

These bots have all been DSL'd and AI'd and make some nice tough additions to the replicas. Especially That Darn Dustpan, which will scoop you up, pin you against a wall, lower the saw arm, and slice up your helpless bot just like the real thing (courtesy of some custom AI code).

house_Fly · « **Reply #111 on:** November 11, 2005, 04:31:00 PM »

omfg i love hworf and the judge great job this make the anticipation of dsl even greater with ever post you make

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #112 on:** November 18, 2005, 01:08:33 PM »

HIGH VOLTAGE

LW - FlipJack: Arguably the most powerful lightweight flipper bot, FlipJack is also a well armored wedge that will prove to be an annoying opponent at the very least.

MW - SlashBack: A REALISTIC popup wedge? That's right, SlashBack has the damaging and flipping qualities of a popup wedge in a realistic package. This one is a major threat to spinners.

HW - WIIDE LOAD: Since there weren't any in the stock AI, we decided to turn WIDE LOAD into a drum bot to increase the variety of designs. And what a drum bot! My personal favorite design in the pack, it fights almost as good as it looks.

Notice the Little Drummer Boy-style drum on WIIDE LOAD - those beater bars on it are new components in DSL 2.0, and they have many more uses than just drums too :) The shine on the drum is just a cool reflection map effect that I did that will also be part of DSL 2.0.

WRXSTI · « **Reply #113 on:** November 18, 2005, 11:24:11 PM »

Quote from: ewan

When will this pack be out do you think? I can't wait! :)

welcome to the fourum ewan, as for dsl 2.0, it will be out out when when its out

Vincent · « **Reply #114 on:** November 19, 2005, 01:12:32 AM »

Quote from: WRXSTI

Quote from: ewan
When will this pack be out do you think? I can't wait! :)
welcome to the fourum ewan, as for dsl 2.0, it will be out out when when its out

and that WHEN is NEVER!

:twisted: MUAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH! :twisted:

.......ok, it'll come soon before new year, most likely.

if not... then we're screwed. lol

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #115 on:** November 25, 2005, 11:13:11 AM »

I'm taking kind of a risk posting this for this week's sneak peek since I'm still not 100% sure it will work out :oops: But I'm sure enough!

Tired of having to load down your chassis with extra components to avoid getting killed in 1 hit? Just apply some of the new 10 mm steel armor - almost 7 times stronger than the default steel in stock RA2! Or how about that antweight or beetleweight that's overweight even with the stock plastic armor? Just do a slight downgrade to 1 mm aluminum.

And, so you won't have to redesign all your bots to accomodate the new armor, we've made the 3 mm varieties the same weight as the stock armor. But they're still twice as strong as they were so they can stand up to the more powerful weapons in DSL. You'll only need to reapply your armor to get the extra strength.

There are 4 thicknesses - 1 mm, 3 mm, 5 mm, and 10 mm - of each armor type. Since these are old armor types, just different thicknesses, you don't need to worry about unchecking "Apply default chassis appearance" to avoid a crash. You can leave it checked if you like.

Mr. Weedy · « **Reply #116 on:** November 25, 2005, 01:38:20 PM »

Nice now I can use my old strategy.

No extra armoring at all and robot has as much weapons as possible. :D

Or weapons can be now much more complicated and still armoring will remain as quite good as it would be with extra armoring.

WRXSTI · « **Reply #117 on:** November 25, 2005, 01:48:07 PM »

YES!!! now my rambots stand a chance! I love RAMBOTS!

house_Fly · « **Reply #118 on:** November 25, 2005, 03:18:47 PM »

OMFG wow *jaw drops 20 feet and 10mm great job i really hope it works and we get to use it thanks guys for making the the best mod in RA2 history this is going to pwn

Vincent · « **Reply #119 on:** November 26, 2005, 02:01:39 AM »

ok fellas, I decided to show a TINY bit of a preview on DSL2's new interface graphic. Some of you might know what it is... or maybe not. :wink:

You might never know, cause the interface is 100% changed from the first version and more.
(well ok... I'm still working on it, but it will be completely whole new interface by the time I'm done)