The Ole' Days When You Were A Noob

[Virus Bomb]

lmao

[Scrap Daddy]

Lol resetti my first bot EVER was also an axle driven bot with an achor powered pick axe.

[Jonzu95]

I remember the time when I started playing RA2. Back in 2008, in the beginning of December I built my very first bot, Spyro. Of course I had no idea that Sawblades sucked in it, I also didn't know how the drive worked, so I kinda used CRUSH very often, and learned later from it how the wiring works. My Second bot was Radiation, HW Flipper which was already very good against Stock AI bots. Then I noticed that My bot needs to have damaging weapons to prevent I would win, so I made Radiation 2 with Ice Pick VS. In the beginning of 2009, I discovered DSL parts, and used them in stock... Joined to GTM in May, and Started Playing DSL in the summer/fall...

[HurricaneAndrew]

You bitches didn't even know what RA2 was yet, and I had a bot with 10 pistons that was totally amazing because it could beat EMERGENCY every time.

Hmm... The similarities are uncanny...





This was my go-to design every time. Ever since it came out way back in 2003, before some of you were able to read. One-hit KOed EMERGENCY on several occasions... Beat the living sh** out of any other bot, easily.

>inb4klone

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[Clickbeetle]

Back before I joined the official forums, I had a standard test to determine if a bot was good or not.
 
It was this:  If a bot can beat Tornado at least 1 out of 3 fights or so, it's a pretty good fighter.
 
I'd go to FB and say, "I made a really cool bot, you have to come see it!  It can even sometimes beat Tornado!" 
 
Oddly, EMERGENCY was always more of an annoyance than a serious threat.  I'd get tossed around of course but usually ended up winning.

[Tweedy]

even though i'm probably considered a n00b by most but my worst moments so ar have been a flipper that used the biggest chassis possible, mud tires and 1 motor on a heavyweight flipper with  2wd npc's.
i think my worst mistake though was using custom components and thinking that they were legal for the first 2 months and using a similar test that click used but instead it was against razer because i overestimated the realistic-ness of the game

[Mecha]

well, my first bot was R.A.M:
Insides:
https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/62167R.A.M%20insides.PNG
Outsides:
https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/18878R.A.M%20outsides.PNG

and i thought it was so good cause it could beat EMERGENCY. :P

even though R.A.M could beat EMERGENCY he was still the hardest stock matchup for me.

[cephalopod]

https://gametechmods.com/RA2wiki/index.php?title=25x_Post_of_sh**

Enough said.

[Philippa]

I bought the game so I had to install and stuff but it didn't install right so all the bars in the top looked like 6 big pixels. I had to figure out myself what the Continue, Forfeit and Come back later ones were in tournaments.
I didn't know anything about how to put the components on so I found that if I double clicked the item it would come up, which was a pain in the arse trying to get the HP Z-Tek. I didn't know how to raise/spin components either and found that out by fiddling around with my keyboard. I didn't know how to wire motors so I just thought that it went automatically, but then I looked at C.R.U.S.H. and worked it out. My first bot that I can remember kept flipping itself upside down and wouldn't get back up.

[Gauche Suede]

Okay....... here we go:
before i've had DSL, i've tried 30 minutes of stock(because it's the trial version). Back then, i can't even rotate stuff(at first i thought that
by holding shift, it'll rotate by itself, but no, it didn't do that). so, i took Barbershop Chop and then turned it into a sawbot. After that i held a 4 way rumble with some of the stock AI bots( i don't remember who were them but i remembered that Grog was with one of them). After i killed 2 bots, i took on Grog, pinned him into the wall, and then grind him to his death.And then after that the purchase now button come up, and then the 30 minutes of stock was up.

DSL
after i found DSL a few days later, i've become immensely inspired by Hypno-Disc, so i tried to built a Hypno Wheel HS. The bot was so bad that Nary could fly from France to Indonesia, come to my house, and then eat me before killing me(the bot had Long black batts, and piglets for drive, and a whole lot of empty space). So, after i found out how to play as the AI, i took Hypno-Disc and then played as it. Then i held a challenge fight with my friend(whom i have told him 'bout DSL and then played it), so i've lurked through the forums, and then created Le Vertical Disc(pics will be up in my showcase sometime this week).Then, after a few days later, i've decided to join the forums.

[martymidget]

My first ever bot was a pusher called Ralph. Steel armour, 4WD redbird, 3 ants, fatboys, and a snowplough on a bsg with an iron spike at the back. MW, of course.

[wakkydude]

I know I technically still AM, but...

why do i even need to say it

[HurricaneAndrew]

I know I technically still AM, but...


why do i even need to say it

 

Said for you.

[courthousedoc]

Built with insanely overpowered cheat parts, Built a treaded bot without locking motors and did at least one instance of unnecessary flaming. My n00b showcase is somewhere out there on the GTM fourms the content on this page pretty much tells the tale of most of my n00b days.
Oh i also ripped off other people's designs and made a few tweaks (1 or 2) to make em my own.

[12yearOldPwner]

Didn't know where to put the 'cheatbot2'.

[RammingSpeed]

Didn't know how to stack batteries.

[12yearOldPwner]

and yeah some attachment points are not in my memory till I found out a tut on YouTube

[Gropaga]

i built a piston flipper with many empty space and bad drive and bad battery selection and biohazzard arm as flipper.

[Thyrus]

remember when I joind and I build those IRL looking robots that weren`t combatefficient?