Author Topic: Scorpions Totally EEEEVIL Showcase  (Read 87151 times)

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #320 on: December 12, 2010, 10:25:28 AM »
Well good news first, turns out I had more space than I thought I did so was able to add rubbers while keeping sin with a grin VERY much legal  :evilsmile:

Bad news, the bot's drive's still rather unstable, it's drivable now yes, but while it's spinning up the chassis itself still rotates  :mad:

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #321 on: December 12, 2010, 10:25:52 AM »
chances are now that peopl will try to create RA2 legal RS.
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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #322 on: December 12, 2010, 06:35:29 PM »
I was trying to make a Ring Spinner component for Backlash but 3DSM crapped out on me again :P


encase anyone stil wonders, though not a ring spinner that is how I did my original AW

as for the chassis spinning on your robot its simply the torque from the dual perm.. it happens a lot with small chassis shell spinners.. its why I sometimes favor the large circle chassis on a HW (like DSL 2.1 Grog for example)

It was a common issue in CC2 with the SHW shell spinners with tiny cube chassis'

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #323 on: December 13, 2010, 02:14:14 PM »
Aah, didn't see that post JB, thus the belated reply.
So basically my bot's got problems because the chasis is so awesonely super tight  :p
Ah well, have to use a bigger chasis on the next one then.
If it helps, it hasn't been beaten by the 4/5 shell spiners i've faced it against, even with the drive problems  :mrgreen:

And I hope a ring spinner component gets madde at some point, it'd be cool to be able to make "legal" ring spinners.

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #324 on: December 14, 2010, 02:56:34 PM »
O.k, 2 bots using the same internal set up for CC4.
I think I already know the awnser, but which one do you think is better?


The first one's got steel 1 armour and the second one has plastic 3.

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #325 on: December 14, 2010, 03:03:50 PM »
Personally, I think the second one looks cooler. First one needs a few more weapons, though, but it's probably better.
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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #326 on: December 14, 2010, 03:07:05 PM »
lol, that's exactly what I thought about them.
It was trying to give the first bot better weapons that spawned the second bot oddly enough.

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #327 on: December 14, 2010, 10:14:08 PM »
you can downgrade the weapon motor on the first to a single then add more beater bars

the second has lack of any defense

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #328 on: December 15, 2010, 09:55:37 AM »
Techno wheels on LWs = instant fail

The first looks better cause the second one would probably be manhandled to death, but you can get a less powerful motor, protect it and more weapon weight.

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #329 on: December 19, 2010, 05:41:59 PM »
Hehe, opened up an older RA2 DSL and look what I found:


I honestly can't really remeber making this bot  :confused:
I did make the chasis though, I can remember doing that (and it's saved in my robot designs folder) So I guess I chucked this together to utilise the gimmicky chassis  :bigsmile:
It didn't have a name, so I called it In the flesh?, a suitable name I think.
It doesn't seem to bad either for a bot I can't remember...

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #330 on: December 19, 2010, 06:02:52 PM »
At one moment I believed you managed to make the chassis transparent and that the grey visible chassis side was the color of the floor.

But nope :P

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #331 on: December 19, 2010, 06:10:12 PM »
Flail hammers suck, apparently. But I like the design, it's like if Tornado was moar cool.
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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #332 on: December 20, 2010, 04:01:36 AM »
No Nar, I ain't that awesome ;P

And you say flail hammers suck, but it seems to be surprisingly good so far...

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #333 on: December 20, 2010, 04:05:08 AM »
And you say flail hammers suck, but it seems to be surprisingly good so far...

Flail hammers fail against flail razors, static hammers and static razors. RA2 hates logic. :P
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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #334 on: December 20, 2010, 04:22:22 AM »
What!?!
I was just going to export into my Nar AI to prove you wrong ;P
But when I try to export it from that game,, it just doesn't apear in the robot designs folder  :confused:

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #335 on: December 20, 2010, 04:24:00 AM »
Whats the name of the bot?
I've tried to export bots with question marks in the name and they just don't appear either

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #336 on: December 20, 2010, 04:33:49 AM »
I was just going to export into my Nar AI to prove you wrong ;P

And I can prove you wrong with this:



I was expecting this to be a counter for flail razors, but I couldn't even take a single razor off.
Clash Cubes 1 - Grey Matter (Runner-Up)
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Rust In Pieces - Paper Cut 3 (Grand Champion, Most Dangerous Bot)
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UK vs USA - Dark Striker (Grand Champion)
Rust In Pieces 2 - Claymore (Runner-Up, Favourite Bot)
BBEANS 6 - Infection 4 (Runner-Up)
RA2 Team Championships - Serious Business, Skeksis (Runner-Up, along with Scrappy, S_M, and Badnik)
RA2 Team Championships 2 - The Other Stig (Runner-Up, along with Scrappy, S_M, Badnik, 090901, and R1885)
Replica Wars 3 - Abaddon (Runner-Up, Luckiest Bot)
BroBots - wheebot & yaybot (Runner-Up)
Robo Zone 2 - Dipper (4th place, Survival Champion, & Best Axle Bot)
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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #337 on: December 20, 2010, 04:45:10 AM »
Yeah, I got rid of the question mark, although that means I can't make another version simply called in the flesh (because both are pink floyd songs).

Oh, and pwn, I think you may have bee right, although I filled up my screeenshots folder so I don't have the picture  :vista:
I just got beat by about 600 points by clockwork centurion 3  :(

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #338 on: December 20, 2010, 05:23:02 AM »
flails theoretically would lower concussion and as a concussion only weapon I can see why Flail sledges would fail

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Re: Scorpions Showcase
« Reply #339 on: December 20, 2010, 05:26:33 AM »
As I can only send 20 PM's in an hour, and scorp was unlucky #21, here you go:

Hi guys, I'm sure you know that on saturday, the deadline for BTTB 3 is up. This is just a heads up.

Sorry if you were perfectly aware, I'm just making good practice sending it to all.
My above post explains everything about everything.

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Clash Cubes IV: 5th place (Fretless)
BBEANS 6: Rumble Winner & 6th Place (Minifridge 4)