Clickbeetle's DSL bots

[Jonzu95]

Awesome.

[Pwnator]

HAHAHAHA I made one somewhat like that but with burst wedges (aka fail wedges since i suck at 'em in dsl).

KLONE TIME!

[Doomkiller]

Wow, I actually inspired click? Madness

The bot looks pretty cool to :D

[Naryar]

Much better than I can do in VS's, but I do believe your extender work can be better...

And yeah, angled skirts are wedgier in general.

[Badnik96]

Awesome.

[MassimoV]

I  it. It reminds me of a better version of Up, ,Up ,and Away.

[Somebody]

:D

[Clickbeetle]

Guess what tournament this bot is for?




Those are NPC fasts and the armor is 5mm aluminum.  (Originally, it had 3mm Ti and another ant battery, but then I realized it had 21 components.)  Still runs fine with 1 PC525 and 1 ant though, and the extra armor is a big help against VS's and SnS's (even if it is not very weight-efficient).

Beats most HS's and VS's by surviving until one of the opponent's hammers breaks, then finishing it off with the hammer, and beats most rammers with the hammer.  SnS's are tougher, but they can be beat, as The Remover is good at taking hits repeatedly and waiting for an opening.  It can even beat some wedges, though it wasn't designed to do that.

Oh, and it also has a cool red chassis shine, in case you can't tell from the pictures.

Also, cookie for anyone who knows where the name is from.

[Pwnator]

BEST. NAME. EVER.

It sounds familiar. I think it has something to do with Tad Williams.

And I'm quite surprised it can beat SnSes. o_O

[123savethewhales]

Not the first time I said this, but Vlad is probably better than Robot X.

[Pwnator]

He probably needs the weapon length.

[Clickbeetle]

BEST. NAME. EVER.

It sounds familiar. I think it has something to do with Tad Williams.

And I'm quite surprised it can beat SnSes. o_O

http://www.cookiemadness.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/giant-cookie.jpg

The Remover of Inconvenient Obstacles is a character in The War of the Flowers to be specific.

@123: Hmm... a Vlad spike would certainly help against rammers, but I fear the normals would hurt against VS's.  It relies quite a bit on the hammer for de-weaponing VS's.  Must do some testing.

[MassimoV]

That's cool. I love the wheel guards.

[NFX]

Looks like an excellent prototype, Click. I also like the wheelguards. I assume it self-rights fine as well. Great work, as always. =]

[Clickbeetle]

Looks like an excellent prototype, Click.

Who said anything about a prototype?     Unless you count the fact that it now has a Vlad spike.  I decided that it is indeed better with a Vlad spike.  There were a few rammers it couldn't beat with the sai due to the short reach, but now there's not, and performance against VS's is about the same.

I also like the wheelguards.

Not really wheelguards so much as stabilizers.  I had to add them to keep it from tipping over so much.  Protecting the wheels is just a cool bonus.

I assume it self-rights fine as well.

Yep.

[Clickbeetle]

Look out, treasure trove of bots here!


First of all, I was looking through the beginning of Naryar's showcase for weirdly-named bots I could use in my latest GTM land comic, and I stumbled across this:


https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,702.msg34157.html#msg34157


And I thought, why hasn't anyone built more of these types of bots?  It's brilliant!


So I had to modernize the design and see if it's as good as I expected.  The result:





Yes, it's as good as I expected.  Absolutely wrecks any sort of gut ripper, though shell spinners and other bots with tons of weapons can easily outweapon it.  Kind of an anti-gut-ripper specialist bot.  Also, it's not so good in low wall arenas because it relies quite heavy on bumbling around to beat wedges.


1mm Ti armor.  Sometimes self rights quickly and sometimes rolls on its side for a while.

Oh, and Anathema 2 was basically the same bot but with a 2 mag weapon motor.  In testing it wasn't powerful enough to spin the chassis when the weapon jams so I upgraded to a Perm 132.




Remember this?

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And this is probably my entry.  That's all you're seeing of it for now.


It's a great counter to both flippers and VS's, so I'm confident it can do well.  And that's all I'm saying about it for now. 

It's Thwack³!





I've made a few changes since I posted that teaser though.  I also changed the name to Whipscorpion because I realized how much this bot looks like one, and it's also a 'whipper'... get it?  Har har...





The tail is designed to flex up when it hits the sloped walls of the arena, rather than fling the whole bot up and destabilize it.  In testing it works reasonably well... but I still expect to go OOTA a few times.  (Certainly more often than the tail extenders break.  They look fragile but actually rarely get hit.)


NPC fasts, 3 ants, 3mm Ti, 3 light beaters + 3 light teeth on the tail.  Oh, and that tail does huge damage when it connects. 






And one last bot... an upgrade to Irony:





Basically just made it look cooler and more Nightmare-esque.  Plus I saved a couple kgs so I could protect the motor a bit better, and as an extra bonus, it self rights better too!


It will need a custom .py to AI it though because all it does is troll dance with VertSpinner.py.

[Pwnator]

My MW for 123AI looked almost exactly like Anathema 3 (but armor's attached to a halfsheet instead of a disc), but I used a tribar instead because I'm not quite satisfied with 2 spikes. :O

AND WHIPSCORPION LOOKS LIKE THE PERFECT FOIL FOR MY VS >:E

[123savethewhales]

Lol Whipscorpion uses the same mechanism that Sting Ray uses to stay in the arena.

[Scorpion]

Whipscorpion looks great especially the name 

Anathema 3 also seems cool, so does irony, but I do question it's stability, especially against a fast gut ripper.

[Somebody]

I like the new Irony.