Author Topic: ROBOCRAFT (Read 176949 times)

Domanating · « **Reply #220 on:** May 15, 2014, 10:10:38 AM »

Quote from: TBD Devastator on May 15, 2014, 05:29:46 AM

So I cobbled this thing together from a bunch of parts I had in my inventory. It's very much a hit-and-miss vehicle.

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Either I do awesome and demolish half the enemy team or I get jumped by a guy with a L3 SMG one minute in and get ravaged.

(Btw, the bot's name in English is "Hell's Traffic Accident")

Interesting, I had a similar idea

TBD Devastator · « **Reply #221 on:** May 16, 2014, 04:35:27 AM »

Well, pretty nice update came in - all armor prices have been slashed by 30-50 percent. Does help with the new metagame of massively armored bricks.

Domanating · « **Reply #222 on:** May 18, 2014, 12:59:11 PM »

If I didn't already know Naryar's account name, I would probably mistake him with this guy

Natster-104 · « **Reply #223 on:** May 18, 2014, 01:04:32 PM »

I lolled

Naryar · « **Reply #224 on:** May 18, 2014, 02:21:36 PM »

i like having 2000 RP per day

Domanating · « **Reply #225 on:** May 21, 2014, 01:04:34 PM »

Quote from: Naryar on May 18, 2014, 02:21:36 PM

i like having 2000 RP per day

Apparently they dropped it to 1500 now...

Here's my Ironclad now with a runny nose

Meeko011 · « **Reply #226 on:** May 23, 2014, 05:44:22 PM »

Protip: If you aren't moving then the lines around the cursor will get closer together and if they are all as close as possible then you hit directly on target with railguns.

This is my current railgun bot, it works pretty well. I have been able to tank several plasma shots and accurate hits on my weaponry is hard to get. The pilot seat is surrounded in green armor.

I'm a little too proud of it.

Naryar · « **Reply #227 on:** May 24, 2014, 06:41:59 AM »

Railguns... if it was just me i'll use a flying railgun gunship since it seems railgun would benefit moar from mobility and positioning, which flight has.

Meeko011 · « **Reply #228 on:** May 24, 2014, 07:08:28 AM »

The railguns sucked. I hit people and appeared to do no damage even though I got the indicator. It took like 16 shots it seemed to destroy one guy.

Kossokei · « **Reply #229 on:** May 24, 2014, 10:50:00 AM »

You need to be in higher tiers with higher railguns for them to /really/ be effective.

I downgraded my rocket sled vindicare down to a tier 1 10-component sled with like 5 rockets for mobility and gave it a tier 2 or 3 railgun, and that works as intended. However, as soon as someone with enough SMG's find me, I'm toast. Sniping from afar and castrating other bots is the best way to use what I'm using.

I wouldn't go for something big and armory when using railguns. Make it small, hard to hit, extremely fast and make sure it has as much of a radar system as you can throw on it, so that you can snipe concealed and you won't be subject to getting sneaked up on. Armor should be your last thought, and in such a set up it should be about bringing the armor blocks themselves up to tier, not adding layers.

123savethewhales · « **Reply #230 on:** May 24, 2014, 12:36:22 PM »

Sniper needs multiple layers of frontal armor. Too often I end up out sniping Railguns with single shot SMG because they are such glass cannon.

Also railgun is GARBAGE against anyone who knows how to build a proper tank. How do you guys even tolerate it's pathetic damage output and bad accuracy?

TBD Devastator · « **Reply #231 on:** May 24, 2014, 04:43:48 PM »

Then of course there's me, with this monstrous railgun bot...

It does fairly well, but the guns are prone to getting taken off.

Naryar · « **Reply #232 on:** May 25, 2014, 07:25:34 AM »

Quote from: Kossokei on May 24, 2014, 10:50:00 AM

I downgraded my rocket sled vindicare down to a tier 1 10-component sled with like 5 rockets for mobility and gave it a tier 2 or 3 railgun, and that works as intended. However, as soon as someone with enough SMG's find me, I'm toast. Sniping from afar and castrating other bots is the best way to use what I'm using.

rocket sleds BLOOP yeah

123savethewhales · « **Reply #233 on:** May 25, 2014, 08:25:38 AM »

1x L2s on a T1, but 1128 damage output still stinks in practice. Can kill a few n00bs per game but that's about it.

Meeko011 · « **Reply #234 on:** May 25, 2014, 10:56:48 AM »

Well you have to sit still for like 5 seconds for the reticle to shrink, then it is exactly accurate at all distances. But that makes speed completely useless, and these robots don't have a park mode so whenever I'm aiming at someone all of a sudden they disappear from view and I'm aiming at a rock.

What statistics do you suggest for each weapon? Plasma with armor, lasers with speed, etc. I haven't done much grinding yet.

Meeko011 · « **Reply #235 on:** May 25, 2014, 11:44:05 AM »

Here's the flyer I have been working on for the past 20-30 minutes. It's mighty damn stable. If you let go of the controls it will stay perfectly still. I haven't taken it out for a spin in battle yet, but I've been able to rack up kills in practice.

cephalopod · « **Reply #236 on:** May 25, 2014, 12:41:28 PM »

Quote from: Naryar on May 25, 2014, 07:25:34 AM

Quote from: Kossokei on May 24, 2014, 10:50:00 AM
I downgraded my rocket sled vindicare down to a tier 1 10-component sled with like 5 rockets for mobility and gave it a tier 2 or 3 railgun, and that works as intended. However, as soon as someone with enough SMG's find me, I'm toast. Sniping from afar and castrating other bots is the best way to use what I'm using.

rocket sleds BLOOP yeah

Come on Nary, being Mod doesn't let you swear in main forum (Yes I've edited it out).
Again and I may have to warn. Stupid as it sounds.

123savethewhales · « **Reply #237 on:** May 25, 2014, 01:56:37 PM »

Quote from: Meeko011 on May 25, 2014, 10:56:48 AM

Well you have to sit still for like 5 seconds for the reticle to shrink, then it is exactly accurate at all distances. But that makes speed completely useless, and these robots don't have a park mode so whenever I'm aiming at someone all of a sudden they disappear from view and I'm aiming at a rock.

What statistics do you suggest for each weapon? Plasma with armor, lasers with speed, etc. I haven't done much grinding yet.

It is inaccurate because it can't properly aim down, and any movement from natural slope royally mess up the shot. I should consider building a sniper with tilt so I can properly shoot down from hills.

Since the Robot Ranking patch, I have not seen a single viable "speed" build. Everything is about having crap tons of armor at the right color. I am level 100 now and I am stuck at Tier 5 because I can't afford 800 pieces of blue armor.

Meeko011 · « **Reply #238 on:** May 25, 2014, 02:13:00 PM »

Plasma's on my flyer sucked so I replaced them with railguns, added some helium as railguns are heavier. In battle I fly high up and forward a bit then I have a clear and stable shot on anyone in the main part of the map. I replaced the railguns with plasmas on my tank and added a bunch of extra green armor in the front and got 1-4 kills per game. The railguns still suck, but I enjoy sniping so I use them anyway.

TBD Devastator · « **Reply #239 on:** May 29, 2014, 05:08:27 AM »

hay guise i made another robawt

Cleans up tier 1 fairly nicely, also attracts ALL THE PLASMA.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: this is your disadvantage when you put armor on your wheels.

This bot is completely stuck - recoil doesn't move it at all and none of the wheels are making contact with the ground. It sucks :c