Author Topic: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)  (Read 9941 times)

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Re: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)
« Reply #80 on: June 29, 2017, 06:25:57 PM »
Not bad, I suggest getting more drive, batteries and some powerful bursts, also what armor?
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Re: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)
« Reply #81 on: June 30, 2017, 02:46:30 AM »
Not bad, I suggest getting more drive, batteries and some powerful bursts, also what armor?
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Re: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)
« Reply #82 on: July 08, 2017, 05:49:43 AM »
As Promised, a rebuild of my previous bot for GTM Live. Following some feedback. I took the liberty to add a few new additions  to the bot itself include four wheel drive, more battery power and a little more power behind the flipper by using medium burst pistons to the smaller ones seen in the previous model. You may not see them in the first picture, but they should be under the flipper itself. One thing that needs to be noted, The Armour is Plastic 10 and weighs 794kgs all together, and I don't really have a clue to play around with the remaining weight apart from wasting it on an ant battery or something. As always, please do have a say or two. 



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Re: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)
« Reply #83 on: July 08, 2017, 06:37:19 AM »
Quite alot of empty space even for an IRL bot. Why are you using so many extenders ?

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Re: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)
« Reply #84 on: July 08, 2017, 07:04:57 AM »
Quite alot of empty space even for an IRL bot. Why are you using so many extenders ?
Well, this mostly for the placement of the anti-axe armor plates that you saw on the top of Grimelock. You could say that I should of used multiple anchors for the armor plates, but at the time I had an idea of only building from the two anchor plates at a time for the reason of not wasting time and the hassle in placing multiple anchors around my bot. Yes, you may say I'm a bit of a lazy builder, but I should of realize soon of later with all the weight I was using up.

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Re: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)
« Reply #85 on: July 08, 2017, 09:14:27 PM »
4 TWM3Rs are not enough drive for a heavyweight wedge, even an IRL one. i would make a serious attempt to get at least regular NPCs on it.

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Re: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)
« Reply #86 on: July 08, 2017, 09:57:51 PM »
Chassis is super oversized. Why is it so large?
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Re: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)
« Reply #87 on: August 19, 2017, 12:35:04 PM »
Time for another DSL-S build For Badger's Tournament. I'm aware that this bot isn't finished and it's been put together in about 10-15 mins, but I really don't know where I go with this bot in making this better or throwing it in the bin and starting over.. So in a nutshell, I need advice on finishing this bot:


Has Titanium 3 Armour, has Three long black batteries and before you lamb-blast me on it won't move and such, this one does and won't destabilize.

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Re: Dark-Al doesn't have patience for DSL or AL's DSL showcase
« Reply #88 on: March 03, 2018, 10:57:14 AM »
Boy this showcase does need a bit of dusting, I think I can see the cobwebs on some old shame. So for some of who looked over the discord, I was making a SHW for Doot's Robogames tournament and now I've finished the job. I still believe it's still not good enough so I need some verdicts on what you think about it.
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Re: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)
« Reply #89 on: March 03, 2018, 04:08:24 PM »
Looks pretty good visually. You still have some weight left, upgrade the armor or batteries maybe?

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Re: Dark-Al's DSL showcase (Definitely Something Lengthy)
« Reply #90 on: March 03, 2018, 04:21:54 PM »
Looks pretty good visually. You still have some weight left, upgrade the armor or batteries maybe?
It's nice to know that someone does appreciate the visuals. But I'm afraid that I had to ditch the weapon set up on Doot's recommendation, due to the weapon set-up causing some problems with the end piston gears causing to move the weapon arms seriously out of place and causing some Havok issues, but I'm still keeping the chassis though. Currently, I'm working on a new weapon set-up based on a flipper set-up and hopefully I'll finish it soon.