A brief history and showcase of Team Amphib and the Newt series

[botomatic1000]

So this is a brief summary of the history of my favourite and most successful robot series from the DSL mod on robot arena 2. So it all started When I started playing it and built my first horizontal spinner Leviathan.


 
A slow heavy beast with a temper. It was slow and useless losing most its fights and sucking overall. Then I made my first Middleweight which would eventually become the concept for the firs of the Newt series called Real Nasty. 


 
 It had an immensely quick spinner powered by the same motor the in game Tornado Mer has (not the 6 way one the one with 4) it however was incredibly slow and never won much. So I was fed up of my previous awful attempts (plus many more) and I decided to make a lightweight and so started the Newt series with the first and most successful of team Amphib's robots Angry Newt!!!
 

 
It was successful fast and powerful with tough armour an overall great lightweight. I later decided to make a heavyweight version of it that was my only successful heavyweight (at the time) P***** Off Salamander.

 
 
 It was a beast with tough armour and strength an ok weapon and average speed but no where near the success rate of the Angry newt. I also decided to make a beetleweight version called Miffed Off Tadpole Newt. 



 It was ok but nothing special. Unfortunately something went wrong with my computer and it deleted my DSL folder. I was gutted and upset all my robots where gone and I had to download a new DSL game where I made a recreation of Angry Newt fittingly called Angry Newt Recreation. 


 
It was a real downgrade and a lot worse than the original but it was ok. Whilst scouting through old folders I remember I had a file that contained a bunch of old robots I downloaded and my own (for if I wanted to post my own to the bot exchange this was long before I made this profile) and too my joy I found them all and was so happy. A robot that's worth a mention that was originally going to be a middleweight version of angry newt but was quickly changed for a more original design was a bot called Soda.

 
It was ok and very destructive but also very fragile. And so ends this awful showcase its poorly made I know but its a first attempt at one which I hope you enjoyed :) .

[Naryar]

post inside shots. so we can judge your bots fairly.

also is that really a picture taken from a camera ? you know you can do screenshots in RA2 (it's F10 or printscreen => put it in paint)

also they don't look too bad for starting bots. although you seem like a horizontal spinner builder.

[Badnik96]

Insides are definitely needed, yes.

Also, Naryar the screenshot key is F11. Still it's better than using a camera.

Some quick things (assuming you're going for IRL and not standard):
-Razors and tribars ae both pretty fragile, especially if that's a heavyweight. You really need stronger weapons on it.
-your first LW seems to be unrealistic, I think the teeth are cutting through the wheels?
-The last robot is actually pretty nice looking from an aesthetic standpoint. I like it.

[botomatic1000]

Glad to see another wiki member on here and im happy you like Soda. To answer a few questions.
1. I didn't know you could take screen shots
2. there rubbish and old anyways so what is the point of inside shots for these
3. I do semi realism but for angry newt I wasn't bothered

[cephalopod]

The point of inside shots is to help you with the internals.
And yeah please please screenshot I can barely look at these :P

[botomatic1000]

As its the only one I still use here is Angry newts I may also do one for Soda as I still use that too.
 

[Badnik96]

okay yeah you have your disc cutting through the belt of the perm on that one as well, which is unrealistic. You need to fix that for it to be considered a tournament legal robot.

[botomatic1000]

Practically all of them are what would be considered tournament illegal but that does not matter there all god awful I would only be able to win at noob wars and even then they would suck. May I ask how tournaments are done?

[botomatic1000]

Real Nasty as you can see its terrible (like everything else I build)

[09090901]

are you using DSL 2.1 or 2.2?

[botomatic1000]

2.1

[Badger]

Alright, they're not too bad for first bots, but of course there's a lot you can improve.

First, in DSL we use a building style called DSL-S. This means the bot basically can't break the laws of physics, i.e. no parts intersecting each other. The except if when a spike is going through an armour plate, for example. If we could cut a slot in that plate to let that spike through, it's cool. For example, this bot:

is DSL-S, even though those spike strips go through that front armour plate. Hopefully I didn't just confuse the hell out of you.

Next, the weight of your chassis is decided by it's surface area, so smaller chassis are usually better in DSL, where chassis armour is pretty crap. Sometimes for popups or other wedges bots we have U shaped chassis to maximise footprint (therefore stability) while minimising surface area, but you're building HS (horizontal spinners), so that's not really applicable. Often DSL HS' chassis are a tiny, armoured box which only holds the chassis and a couple baseplate anchors, and on those anchors are long extenders to which the drive motors and weapon motor is place. A good example would be this bot (not built by me):

Even though this bot isn't a HS, note the wide wheelbase, which makes it stable, and that the weapon motor is decent way outside the chassis, allowing the weapon to spin without intersecting anything inside the chassis.


I would also recommend you change to DSL2.2, since that is what basically everyone is building in these days.

[botomatic1000]

Where can I download it? Also I suck at everything so don't expect me to be good at this game anytime im the worst player an builder on this whole forum!

[Badger]

Where can I download it? Also I suck at everything so don't expect me to be good at this game anytime im the worst player an builder on this whole forum!

Don't worry bro, we're not expecting you to be good, that's why we're here giving you advice.


https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=262

[botomatic1000]

Thanks for the link. Oh god time to start all over again with more crappy robots built by me. I really cant do that minimal body mass thing I suck at it (like everything).

[Badnik96]

well that's why you showcase your robots, to improve as a builder. No one ever got better by whining about how bad they were.

[botomatic1000]

my first 2.2 design Prick Stick. I tried to make a middleweight but I couldn't so I just gave it steel 10 armour and called it a day.

[doot]

If you're going for the IRL-look, then I would suggest adding supports on the belts and giving it some better wheels for grip.
If it is DSL-S, it could benefit with some more weaponry and you should really build to the weight limit. Minimising the amount of leftover weight is a crucial part in creating any 'bot in general.

[botomatic1000]

I said before I do a semi realistic look but in the end I just try to make something that works.

[Badger]

I said before I do a semi realistic look but in the end I just try to make something that works.

What you just described is literally DSL-S :P