Author Topic: A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series (Read 15159 times)

Badger · « **Reply #40 on:** June 12, 2016, 04:28:25 PM »

We're giving you advice bro. Don't cry about how bad your bot is, go and improve it!

botomatic1000 · « **Reply #41 on:** June 14, 2016, 03:44:11 PM »

Ready for more god awfulness? My first 2.2 lightweight The Fire The Flood (named after one of my favourite bands.

FOTEPX · « **Reply #42 on:** June 14, 2016, 04:18:27 PM »

Fun fact: If you go to the Chassis Paint Job tab, you will see two buttons underneath the Robot preview, called Export Paint Template and Import Custom Paint. With this, you can give your bot a much better looking skin than anything you can pull off in-game. (I should make a tutorial on that sometime...)

Anyways, onto the bot. Are you going for a realistic build style, or an efficient one? If you're going for realism, you've already got it nailed - if you're going for efficiency however, make the chassis smaller, add more Iron Spikes, drop the ram plate entirely, and remove that ant battery. Either way, build to the weight limit! There's a lot more armour options in DSL 2.2, so it's a lot easier to build to the weight limit in DSL than it is in stock.

Overall, not bad for a rookie. Keep it up, you're getting there! We'll squeeze a good bot out of you yet!

botomatic1000 · « **Reply #43 on:** June 15, 2016, 10:36:06 AM »

Added more spikes and better armour.

FOTEPX · « **Reply #44 on:** June 15, 2016, 01:28:01 PM »

Alright, we're getting there! Doesn't need the spikes on the back - the amount of times they'll come into play is limited at best, so you're best off dropping them and using the weight to put more spikes on the front. In RA2, it's very much about making the core basics as strong as possible, and leaving all the extra's and "what if"'s by the wayside.

You could also make the chassis smaller still, by building a chassis designed to fit your components in and nothing else. Still, it's better than your first attempt, and you're learning, so keep it up! It took me 14 attempts with my first bot to make something which was accepted by the community, so you've got a long way to go yet - if you're willing to put the time and effort in, however, you'll be awarded with some acclaim, and some really cool looking designs. Keep striving and pushing for greater, more efficient designs with every bot, and eventually you'll come out with some gold.

If you keep up with your chassis optimization and general building skills, you should eventually be able to have 10 Iron Spikes on a practical LW setup.

botomatic1000 · « **Reply #45 on:** June 15, 2016, 02:22:53 PM »

V3...

09090901 · « **Reply #46 on:** June 15, 2016, 02:25:23 PM »

what armor?

botomatic1000 · « **Reply #47 on:** June 15, 2016, 02:35:07 PM »

Plastic 10 the heaviest I could get.

FOTEPX · « **Reply #48 on:** June 15, 2016, 04:39:47 PM »

Alright, we're getting to it! It's looking good - same advice as before, keep going down that path and see how many irons you can pack in there! You don't need armour that thick - really you don't need anything thicker than Titanium 5. I think you might be able to get 8 irons on there if you downgrade the wheels and armour somewhat, but you'll very soon have a bot that will be viably competitive!

botomatic1000 · « **Reply #49 on:** June 16, 2016, 01:40:57 PM »

I honestly cant fit anymore in there lol its compact enough. Any ideas for my next one im thinking heavyweight.

botomatic1000 · « **Reply #50 on:** June 19, 2016, 01:59:02 PM »

I was bored...

FOTEPX · « **Reply #51 on:** June 19, 2016, 02:52:37 PM »

Dat's a loooooootta spikes. Considering how close you are to being a MW, I recommend you drop the armour or something to fit into the MW weight class. The chassis is pretty compact already - could be smaller, but for a builder of your calibre, I don't expect air-tightness just yet - but yeah, drop the armour or remove a spike or two to fit into the MW weight class, and you'll have a pretty potent rammer!

Thrackerzod · « **Reply #52 on:** June 19, 2016, 10:45:31 PM »

I'm not sure with the new anchors - would it be lighter to use a bunch of extenders rather than one anchor per spike?

Naryar · « **Reply #53 on:** June 20, 2016, 03:34:37 AM »

They're 1kg each, so it should be around the same weight with less vulnerabilities

This chassis is heavy - just make a simple rectangular chassis.

Otherwise yeah. Maybe use 2WD Etek drive on a MW rammer, 4WD is unefficient on middleweights really.

botomatic1000 · « **Reply #54 on:** June 20, 2016, 10:45:14 AM »

This one wasn't supposed to be competitive just something ridiculous I was very bored.

botomatic1000 · « **Reply #55 on:** June 20, 2016, 01:27:53 PM »

Lil fang one of my favourites on 2.2

Naryar · « **Reply #56 on:** June 21, 2016, 06:32:29 AM »

eh, it's not too bad, but you can improve it quite a bit.

use only one large airtank. much better than two airtanks.

it needs more weapons. probably just use the lighest piston.

you would do OK with a single battlepack, I feel.

try to make a tight chassis. LW pokers are naturally tight on weight, so you need to squeeze every unneeded kg out of it to make the bot better.

unsure how the wedge is.

Jet-speed · « **Reply #57 on:** June 21, 2016, 07:57:44 AM »

I'd imagine those skirts could probably be downgraded a tad too (either in size or in material), in favour of more weapons. They might be a bit overkill on a LW, especially seeing as you only have one iron. Unless DSL 2.2 massively changed something, in that case completely ignore me, not had a chance to load it up and play yet. :P

Naryar · « **Reply #58 on:** June 21, 2016, 08:18:21 AM »

The sheets are just fine, I feel.

Yes he can downgrade to alu for more weight, but they are very necessary to the bot and it's better to keep them at higher HP.

botomatic1000 · « **Reply #59 on:** June 21, 2016, 12:04:55 PM »

Planning on building a vertical spinner but I don't know what motors are compact but affective