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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #20 on: July 25, 2015, 01:46:47 PM »
Those are some fine bots bro. Giant Piston Dong Thing is funny and awesome as well.
then you'll love these


steel 5, those are the 30 kg hammers, 2nd biggest piston (so the LW piston is still bigger lol)
spikes in the front for a burst of damage on the initial ram, hopefully knocking important components off quickly. i need to play with it a bit to get the best setup.
ballasts are there because otherwise the thing tends to ascend to the ionosphere with the treads. flies all over the place. may switch to wheels but 10000 vs 1500 hp is a tough call.


thought i'd lose for sure against the HW poker (so many hammers whoaaaaaah) but HE USES THE 15 KG ONES WHAT A WUSS


MW version, can't decide between 2nd or third largest piston. I'm thinking the smaller one, because I can get more hits in and get more armor/batts with the weight (one on right with big piston only has 2 duracels which do NOT last long, and less armor). it's like a 25kg difference ;o
left one's like steel 5, right is like tite 3? idk

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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #21 on: July 25, 2015, 02:28:40 PM »
Your names are on point.
My above post explains everything about everything.

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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #22 on: July 25, 2015, 02:41:12 PM »
;p i have a whole text document of dumb names, i'll never run out
stay tuned for nun slayer or taco kahuna in the future
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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #23 on: July 25, 2015, 02:44:33 PM »
;p i have a whole text document of dumb names, i'll never run out

I do the same thing, except with an index card taped to my desk.

Make a team of bots of all different weightclasses with obscenely long pistons.

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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #24 on: July 25, 2015, 03:14:29 PM »
Make a team of bots of all different weightclasses with obscenely long pistons.


lolololol
steel 5, 1 airtank 1 duracel 100% the bomb
only 120 cm piston because the 160 one weighs 2/3 of an AW haha

it actually is in fact not gay like S_M's AWs/BWs/all of his 1wd bots because it actually controls pretty good! ;o piston firing makes it go forwards in a very straight line, wheel for turning.
too bad no IF AWs in the pack though so I can't test it :(
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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #25 on: July 25, 2015, 03:46:48 PM »


THIS LW SUCKS
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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #26 on: July 25, 2015, 04:17:13 PM »
lol
My above post explains everything about everything.

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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #27 on: July 25, 2015, 10:06:10 PM »
on a roll on a roll
some LWs


postapocalyptic doorstop. the best one, pl 10
may edit the chassis a bit smaller, it's this size because it uses the same chassis as the ones below which have med zteks instead of small, will help protect the wheels a bit if i bring them in because they always get taken off it seems

once rotor is stopped on a big hit can still do damage with THE POWER OF SPAZZING

sort of unstable but self rights great



these 2 were ok but not as good imo. weapon got stopped real easy even though both these have a purple ztek. couldn't selfright as good either.
armor varies, not very strong on either though. bfe chassis height a tiny bit down, doesn't clip anything though. I needed it to save .2 kg to get under 125 on an older weapon setup.



lw flipper which is boring because its a lw flipper. had betas originally but was really bad and now has ddts and is slightly less really bad. lacks the drive to really shove things especially with the ballasts.
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these imgs might be a bit big because i play ra2 in 16:9 fullscreen
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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #28 on: July 25, 2015, 10:18:04 PM »
Spinner looks good, I agree with taking the chassis in.

Do you need the ballast on the flipper?
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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #29 on: July 25, 2015, 10:18:33 PM »
idk the flipper puts me to sleep whenever i open it

edit:

steel 5
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Re: The Mighty Reier's "Hey look it's crap" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #30 on: July 26, 2015, 05:06:15 AM »
I love the idea of the tread trapper. Bit of cheap armour plates over them for extra hp and that's a damn solid idea I think.
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yeah I think it has promise but I need to play with it. treads are just so bouncy though for some reason so its hard to get stability.

ok ok so i know I've posted this robot like 50 times already but I'm so pumped at this version because I've been working on this robot for like 4 days for ra2t5 and i looooove this one.



I'm not bragging here, this thing is like a tank now. Plastic 10, armor on all sides but the back. The main glaring weakness on the old one was that the motors could get taken off easy if the opponent knocked off the 4 layers of armor protecting them (which happens more than you think). So I was like danggg do i gotta put a perm in there instead? Then i realized i was an idiot and i just put the zteks inside the chassis, and added 8 more teeth in the process lol. The drum basically never gets taken off now. weapon total HP is 56700, which is effectively more because the weapon spins, evening the damage taken out across all the teeth. crushing teeth are so brutal in this mod.

like seriously, look at this.


i lost what, less than half of my teeth out of 32? I have no idea why they stay on so long, but I'm not complaining :P



the like one bot it can't beat is that VS on the Conjuring team with the ninja stars. It's just the exact right width with the blades and plows to chop off the front armor and hit the chassis. Also has trouble with the undercutter one. It can never knock off plows, the fracture is too high. Crushing teeth last forever, but don't pack much of a punch other than knocking weapons off. it needs to rely on attrition, in short matches it has a much harder time because it doesn't do much damage.

i wish i entered this version but whatever. The other one's not bad, but this one is quite a bit better. Kind of like Chaos 2 vs Chaos 1. Or Ulysses S Grant vs Nathaniel Banks.


comments make me giddy as a giddy person

[moveslow]good robbot[/moveslow]
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Nice splash.

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Such a great mix of looks and effectiveness, and bang on the w/l too.

also r0b0 smiley yay
My above post explains everything about everything.

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Looks beast
im just waiting for meganerdbomb to come along and kick things into gear.

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now i just gotta do a sick custom paintjob :B

edit: also switched zteks out for firebirds and it has better reach now.
« Last Edit: July 27, 2015, 01:41:09 AM by Reier »
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this showcase is dope

and by dope i indeed mean on drugs but on a good way. Need more 3WD bots.

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Re: The Mighty Reier's "What the heck am I doing" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #38 on: August 14, 2015, 11:00:56 PM »
beep beep crap bots coming up

ok so on my endless quest to make a MW aneurysm that doesn't completely suck i pulled this thing out of my butt


(spoiler alert: it sucks)
the main problem with a MW version of aneurysm is the drum diameter. i'm never going to be able to use crushing teeth which is what gave the thing most of its punch, so i guess ninja stars are the next best thing.
TOO BAD THEY BLOW since the mesh is a circle instead of following the model, it just doesn't have any updraft which makes it pretty weak.
It's also a lot harder to make invertible with the larger proportion drum so i have to add wedges and stuff which i don't like. you also run into the problem with the first versions of aneurysm with having to have external motors which is just a disaster. the drive is also a problem because with this design you need the wheels sticking out the back a bit (helps invertibility), However for MWs RCs are too weak and slims are the right speed but too big so the wheel doesn't stick out the back so it has a super hard time running upside down.
it's just a mess as a MW and while it could possibly be done, I think a design like this will always be way more effective as a HW in ironforge at least.

so i was thinking of ways to make this thing not the most crappy machine on the planet and I was like "so i want more updraft, screw invertibility on a MW with this, protected motors"...
IN OTHER WORDS A VS

so

version 1, version 1 second version

i'll be the first to admit they're not the most awesome things ever, but they sure are a heck of a lot better than the piece of junk before.
steel 3, 4 ballasts for stability, slim drive (on second one), 1 black and 1 pink
updraft is decent. I kinda want help on this one more than anything. I think it could be really good if I mess with it.
Its main weakness is its still kind of unstable, mainly tipping forward. And if those wedges go its all over. I'll probably just make a bigger chassis to make the center of gravity further back but I wanted your guys' advice on this one. I really hate wedges in general but I think it's probably a necessary evil for this one if I want it to uppercut stuff or else you get into Beer Goggles territory and that thing is just a crawler.
I want to make something original but I feel like the small component selection in IF is making this difficult. I really love the mod overall but I think this will hurt it in the long run.

anyway feedback would be peachy
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Re: The Mighty Reier's "What the heck am I doing" Ironforge extravaganza
« Reply #39 on: August 14, 2015, 11:35:14 PM »
I don't play IronForge, so I won't give feedback. However, i can say this:
[moveslow]good robutt[/moveslow]
[moverightslow][moveright]cool[/moveright][/moverightslow]