Author Topic: I miss my beginning days of RA2. (Read 5416 times)

Dexterhunter · « **on:** May 08, 2008, 09:35:24 PM »

When your robots had nothing but a single spike, etc. When you couldn't beat the evil EMERGENCY. You know stuff like that.

Sage · « **Reply #1 on:** May 08, 2008, 10:21:47 PM »

i remember my first bot

i could probably build it almost exctly the same way again. it had steel armor, the huge box chassis made with the whole grid and default height, 4 redbird drive, fatboys, one DDT with one mace on an angler on it for a weapon. about 6 black batts.

Sorrow · « **Reply #2 on:** May 08, 2008, 10:30:34 PM »

Ahhh...my first combat-capable bot...it was a gigantic box, standard height. It used car steering for four wheels, and was an enormous face-spinner with an HP Z-tek, with only four razors on the disc. I also recall it being lime green...

SpyGuy · « **Reply #3 on:** May 08, 2008, 10:58:40 PM »

My first serious bot was TweakerBeater, a pop-up wedge runnning N-12's, a single black battery, and a bracket wedge flipper. That version had a pair of razor tips mounted off the sides so I could swing the nose back and forth to do damage, and had the mace doubling as a srimech. Most of you saw TweakerBeater in action during the BBEANS competitions, although that version was rebuild number five.

70 CUDA · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2008, 11:13:53 PM »

my first was a round sit-n-spin with 2 HP Z-tes and n12s 2 black batts, 2 base achors with 120 cm black extenders toped with battle axes. but i got the hight right. lol

modder TY · « **Reply #5 on:** May 08, 2008, 11:43:53 PM »

My first bot was a box, almost maxed out width and lenght, just a little shorter then avrage hight, a HP Z-TEK with a tribar connecting more Z-TEKS that held saws, that thing barely beat EMERGENCY.

Cooker · « **Reply #6 on:** May 09, 2008, 01:09:45 AM »

Quote from: The RA2 Wizard;7752

i remember my first bot

i could probably build it almost exctly the same way again. it had steel armor, the huge box chassis made with the whole grid and default height, 4 redbird drive, fatboys, one DDT with one mace on an angler on it for a weapon. about 6 black batts.

That sounds like a copy of my first bot only mine had also some weights in it. For the stability, you know.:grin:

ACAMS · « **Reply #7 on:** May 09, 2008, 01:04:04 PM »

I had RA 1 and had the game on order before it came out. I was one of the first to have RA2 and here is my first bot.......I thought I was gonna rule, WRONG, as soon as I got online I found I was dominated, but it was not long till I was the one feared with my overloaded HS bots.

My first RA2 bot.

LOL
Here is my 2nd bot, I actually thought I had to make slots in the chassis for the hammers to clear.

Naryar · « **Reply #8 on:** May 09, 2008, 01:52:33 PM »

A genius since the beggining, eh?

I'd just like to see Starcore's first bot !

I just cant remember my first bot.

kill343gs · « **Reply #9 on:** May 09, 2008, 02:13:10 PM »

My first bot was actually a middleweight. It had 4 wheel car steering and Yellow Buzzard wheels. For weapons it had linear actuaters with blades that slid out the side.

R0B0SH4RK · « **Reply #10 on:** May 09, 2008, 06:07:36 PM »

I'm sure I've posted this somwhere before, but here is my first bot:

It was an S&S that started out backwards, so I had to turn it at the start of every match (this was before I figured out the forward heading thing). It could beat EMERGENCY, but after that, I never really could easily beat EMERGENCY with any other bot I built until I joined the forums. Ah, the good 'ol days...

70 CUDA · « **Reply #11 on:** May 09, 2008, 06:36:37 PM »

thats just like mine but i the battle axes on the end.

SpyGuy · « **Reply #12 on:** May 09, 2008, 10:48:56 PM »

I did the battle ax thing too. There was a S&S bot named Gold Digger that used a pickaxe on one end - I modified it so there were axes on both ends. Worked pretty well, too.

70 CUDA · « **Reply #13 on:** May 09, 2008, 11:21:21 PM »

ya it did. and i loved gold digger that thing was cool to watch and was the idea for mine as well.

Cooker · « **Reply #14 on:** May 09, 2008, 11:24:03 PM »

Later I tried to built a bot that had a bit of everything. Some sort of flipper-spinner-hammer-popup-pusher bot. I thought this would beat all, whatever kind it might be. What a waist of time! Only, when I dicovered the forum, the bots I made began to make sense.

Flying_Chao · « **Reply #15 on:** May 11, 2008, 08:48:19 AM »

My first bot was an edited Bot-Choy with steel armor, a couple more spikes, and a dark paintjob. My first original bot was a 4 HP drive rammer with a lava paintjob. I also made a bot that designed to be like raptor, with a large box chassis, and a DDT with two iron spikes and a razor strip on it. It also had two iron spikes in the front, two razor strips in the back, and two razor strips on each side to protect the slipperbottom wheels; it had 4 hp drive and had only one black battery. The reason I like DSL is because the bots don't have to use glitches to be powerful (although it still helps), so you can still build bots that look more realistic and simple....

Venko · « **Reply #16 on:** May 11, 2008, 03:13:07 PM »

well... since i have this game from only 1 month :) i still have my very first bot...

This is the first thing i did after i install the game,not even read the building instructions...

:lol:

Its all good to remember from where we start sometimes...

:-)

Sage · « **Reply #17 on:** May 11, 2008, 03:35:50 PM »

i remade my first bot as well as i could remember. this was the v3. the first one didnt have the back ddt (the one with the battleaxe) and didnt have Co2 tanks. i came up with the back ddt for srimech against EMERGENCY.

Naryar · « **Reply #18 on:** May 11, 2008, 03:51:22 PM »

Hey, nice baseplate coloring Sage. Its true than the default one is not very clear. I'll think about modifying the colors too.

ACAMS · « **Reply #19 on:** May 11, 2008, 04:23:37 PM »

Looks like we all overdid it with the batteries at first!