Kossokei's DSL Showcase: "Dustiest IRL Builder"

[Gauche Suede]

Do you know how to use alternative attachment points? When you click an item in the botlab, look in the preview window and you should see, on certain components, some 'screws'. Clicking one will let you attach the component using that point.
You can use this to raise your perm in 2 ways. Using the other points, as GS suggested, or like I do on my VS (vertical spinners) using a multi-extender and flipper segment - check my VS in THIS PHOTO. :3

Figured that out seconds before that post was made, but nice SnS/SS bot and nice VS!

Anyway, dusting off this old thread to show the changes I've made to The Power.

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Aww man datz bootiful. Rebuilt the chassis according to Clickbeetle's tutorial on the Beetlebros' site. The sides go inward so it shed some weight, and I chopped off a little bit from the ends of the front. The wheels are snug as a bug in a rug with a smug face fugging a pug. Yes, fugging. Made the drums smaller and the beaters bigger (because of the chassis changes, I had to switch out Tazbots for these kawaii little DSL wheels. They get the job done.) Made a new booty protector, to protect mah booty (it's made of Hexes and DSL bars, it's sexeh) and the new Srimech..

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is one big Flipper segment. 5 or 6 ants, two 27 watt batteries for the Magmotor (that thing takes like 40 watts to use, holy crap it better be good) Swapped out the Perm 160 for 2 little Piglets mounted on a hex, they spin like mad and do a ton of damage, and thanks to the hex I can add DSL bars to protect my piggies.

Comment? Quest-shun? Concerto?

dude, use the normal NPC fasts (not the left or right ones) with Tornados so that your bot can be invertible so that you can ditch the srimech and add moar weapons!

[Kossokei]

I learned building better bots from Naryar. Just listen to him and you will become a better builder someday.

and I learned building better bots from NFX(mostly). And here's the best showcase for newbs to read at:
https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,2349.0.html

Nonsense, 123 was good since he started. Newbies should ideally see a showcase from someone who was average, then went into a good builder.

I just looked at 123's DSL showcase from about page 1 to 40. I'm regretting not doing so much earlier, his bot-building is more inspirational than I thought possible. The next bot I was thinking of showcasing was either The Strength or Battalion (The remake of my flagship, Grand Warrior) but now I have the strongest urge to go make something no-one else has made. Except, I can't think of anything that no-one else has made.

Also, I took a peek at your showcase a while back, Naryar, to see if I could pick up any ideas. Prolly gonna look back again today to see if I can pick up more ideas.

[Kossokei]

Evil double post is evil but it's a bump so it's more like Dr. Breen evil and not really Joker evil.

So I'm thinking of this awesome wheel design that won't actually use wheels, it'll be a little bit like the WBC wheels but more menacing.. and I'm hoping it'll be more destructive.

And, on the subject of WBC, thinking about finding out if the spikes actually give it some kind of fighting ability. Until then~

[Gauche Suede]

Evil double post is evil but it's a bump so it's more like Dr. Breen evil and not really Joker evil.

So I'm thinking of this awesome wheel design that won't actually use wheels, it'll be a little bit like the WBC wheels but more menacing.. and I'm hoping it'll be more destructive.

And, on the subject of WBC, thinking about finding out if the spikes actually give it some kind of fighting ability. Until then~

like a crawler, but with less gap between the spikes?

[Kossokei]

Evil double post is evil but it's a bump so it's more like Dr. Breen evil and not really Joker evil.

So I'm thinking of this awesome wheel design that won't actually use wheels, it'll be a little bit like the WBC wheels but more menacing.. and I'm hoping it'll be more destructive.

And, on the subject of WBC, thinking about finding out if the spikes actually give it some kind of fighting ability. Until then~

like a crawler, but with less gap between the spikes?

Right, and I'm trying different types of spikes for different results. I used Single ice-picks the first time, it looked awesome when it started going from a stop because it would kick up the front for a second, like a horse would. Hard to get it to turn though, and it'll stay a work in progress until I can get it to move around well and then I'll continue from there.

On the other hand, and I'm not surprised, but the WBC wheels don't do any damage, but they do have a kind of sucking propulsion that I might look into later on.

[Gauche Suede]

Evil double post is evil but it's a bump so it's more like Dr. Breen evil and not really Joker evil.

So I'm thinking of this awesome wheel design that won't actually use wheels, it'll be a little bit like the WBC wheels but more menacing.. and I'm hoping it'll be more destructive.

And, on the subject of WBC, thinking about finding out if the spikes actually give it some kind of fighting ability. Until then~

like a crawler, but with less gap between the spikes?

Right, and I'm trying different types of spikes for different results. I used Single ice-picks the first time, it looked awesome when it started going from a stop because it would kick up the front for a second, like a horse would. Hard to get it to turn though, and it'll stay a work in progress until I can get it to move around well and then I'll continue from there.

On the other hand, and I'm not surprised, but the WBC wheels don't do any damage, but they do have a kind of sucking propulsion that I might look into later on.

yeah.... if you use non wheels for drive prepare for super-slow movement, and the best Weapons for this is Beater bars with fists on them.... please read 123's Showcase from page 51-90.

[Mr. AS]

So I'm thinking of this awesome wheel design that won't actually use wheels, it'll be a little bit like the WBC wheels but more menacing.. and I'm hoping it'll be more destructive.

a crawler
its been done
take a look at team faggot in nar ai

[Naryar]

god damn it Gauche Suede if you don't NEED to post, don't post. Your post brought nothing to the conversation, and it was just whacking another poster who is more experienced than you.

3 bad posts in the showcases from you. If you get to ten I'll make sure you won't post anywhere else than in your own showcase in the Showcase boards.

I'm not saying you shouldn't post, I'm just saying you should post well if you are giving advice.

So I'm thinking of this awesome wheel design that won't actually use wheels, it'll be a little bit like the WBC wheels but more menacing.. and I'm hoping it'll be more destructive.

a crawler
its been done
take a look at team faggot in nar ai

...yeah seriously crawlers are easily 8 years old.

[Gauche Suede]

a crawler he knows
its been done he knows too( i think)
take a look at team faggot in nar ai the crawler team in 123AI.

123ai might not be the best at the moment. and you don't have to mention it everywhere

??????? nary said that the difference between NARAI and 123AI is like starcore and InfAI, because in stock InfAI is better, so 123AI is better in DSL.

[ty4er]

a crawler he knows
its been done he knows too( i think)
take a look at team faggot in nar ai the crawler team in 123AI.

123ai might not be the best at the moment. and you don't have to mention it everywhere

??????? nary said that the difference between NARAI and 123AI is like starcore and InfAI, because in stock InfAI is better, so 123AI is better in DSL.

i mean it's not the best for him at the moment.

[Mr. AS]

So I'm thinking of this awesome wheel design that won't actually use wheels, it'll be a little bit like the WBC wheels but more menacing.. and I'm hoping it'll be more destructive.

a crawler
its been done
take a look at team faggot in nar ai

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...yeah seriously crawlers are easily 8 years old.

well it was the first dsl crawlers i could think of, the first crawler ever was stock i believe in 2003

[Gauche Suede]

a crawler he knows
its been done he knows too( i think)
take a look at team faggot in nar ai the crawler team in 123AI.

123ai might not be the best at the moment. and you don't have to mention it everywhere

??????? nary said that the difference between NARAI and 123AI is like starcore and InfAI, because in stock InfAI is better, so 123AI is better in DSL.

i mean it's not the best for him at the moment.

oh, ok, but he'll become on 123AI level eventually,(like me, i managed to go from total noob to 123AIer in 5 months)

[SKBT]

Playing "tougher" AI packs doesn't equal better bots. I still play good old DSL 2.1 and my stuff is reasonably 'good'.

[Naryar]

Playing "tougher" AI packs doesn't equal better bots. I still play good old DSL 2.1 and my stuff is reasonably 'good'.

That's because you're primarily an IRL builder ?

[ty4er]

it's best if you play both nar ai and 123ai really

[Kossokei]

god damn it Gauche Suede if you don't NEED to post, don't post. Your post brought nothing to the conversation, and it was just whacking another poster who is more experienced than you.

3 bad posts in the showcases from you. If you get to ten I'll make sure you won't post anywhere else than in your own showcase in the Showcase boards.

I'm not saying you shouldn't post, I'm just saying you should post well if you are giving advice.

So I'm thinking of this awesome wheel design that won't actually use wheels, it'll be a little bit like the WBC wheels but more menacing.. and I'm hoping it'll be more destructive.

a crawler
its been done
take a look at team faggot in nar ai

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...yeah seriously crawlers are easily 8 years old.

Well yeah, but the only more agile Crawler design I've seen was a smaller one with a cross shaped chassis that was sort of an SnS/Crawler mix. Mine (I have a working design but it still needs some tweaking) will be more of a drum, and for now I have bike wheels in the back and the anti-wheels in the front. I want to make it turn as if it were a 4 wheeled bot that had normal wheels, but it won't have them.

[Kossokei]

So I scrapped the crawler idea a long time ago and I had some pretty bad builders block since then.

Crawler wasn't working anything like I imagined it would, so yeah. Meanwhile, I've been experimenting with wedges, seeing what works well and what doesn't work as well. Planning on building a gut ripper or pop-up or something in the future.

No images to show for at the moment, but I'm finally satisfied with The Power (The 4wd drumbot) Not only does it look good, but it's well armored, fast, damaging and pretty effective, although it hates SnSbots with long weapons attached to flails (Yep, I've been playing NARAI recently), it was really effective against the NARAI Grizzly Bear, the NARAI Velociripper or something like that, and the NARAI Deadblow. It can also drive inverted (I didn't say drive well inverted) and outweapons most other drum bots. 7 ants, 6 for each spinning motor and 1 for good measure. That's about it really. Half-sheet titanium slabs and DSL bars as outer armor, Tite 3 or 5 for armor armor.

Also, I'm going to completely redo The Damage. It's design was effective against the DSL ai, but gets fiercely outweaponed by NARAI and I just wasn't satisfied with the look of it anymore.

[Kossokei]

So, here's my stab on an IRL bot.




Laying Siege, 1/6ths of my Legion themed team. Ti5. Not all that fast, grippy, maneuverable etc but fun to drive and pretty sexy.



Glorious guts of Glorious Glorified Glory. It's a pretty strong poker, the storm piston doesn't always hit, but when the bottom piston comes out of play, the top one jumps right into its place. All machinery are fully powered, so it's pretty tryhard-IRL



More guts. 4 ants, 2 medium sized tanks and 2 small tanks. Lasts pretty long, and if the C02 runs out, it's still an alright rammer.

Kommence? Kwestshuns? Konserns?

[Enigm@]

it's actually not that bad for an irl bot

[Mr. AS]

Kommence? Kwestshuns? Konserns?

KKK

and is there any way to fill up that weight ? like more spikes around the side or something ? maybe a srimech ?