Thrackerzod is bad at Ironforge

[Sircreepalot2]

high quality bot for a high quality game. good job friend

[Badger]

So uh...

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Guess what game I've been playing.

RA2?

[090901]

So uh...

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Guess what game I've been playing.

god no

[Meganerdbomb]

So uh...

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Guess what game I've been playing.

Fallout New Vegas?

[Thrackerzod]

high quality bot for a high quality game. good job friend

Thanks!

RA2?

Yep, that's the one.

god no

sorry

Fallout New Vegas?
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Yep, that's also the one.

[Thrackerzod]

So I made this thing:



(There's one of the biggest and one of the smallest batteries in there.)

It's pretty good, until it decides to become a havok bomb and fly all over the arena.  Is this just a case of "using a too powerful motor and RA2 gives up" or is there something I can do to fix it?

[Reier]

I think your main problem is your weapon is just way too big for your small wheelbase. When your weapon gets hit and stopped (which is very easy to do with tribars, especially huge ones), your chassis is likely to spin instead of your weapon which makes it fly all over the place. Yeah, this can also contribute to your havok problems too. a tiny chassis with its own axles spinning very fast can be a havok bomb.
imo your best bet is make a bigger base (chassis and/or supports) and smaller diameter weapon. you might want to try knives instead of picks potentially too, they have slightly higher dp

[Thrackerzod]

Behold!



So, there's a story to this.  The story is that it was one day before the deadline and I still hadn't built anything.  Luckily, Throwback Throwdown was going on, and Not Bushido was making a great razor guy run.  Since I needed an easy bot to build anyway, I figured I might as well do a tribute to my favorite razor guy of the tournament.  The fridge thing came about because, much like a small child does makes some kind of crummy artwork and puts it up on the fridge, I had made some kind of crummy robot and put it up on the fridge.

With the amount of effort put into the splash vs the clear lack of effort in building the bot, I'm wondering if 6 is supposed to be a sort of meta-joke about splash of the month.

Ha, nope, nothing so meta.  In fact, I'm probably one of the biggest causes of splash-of-the-month, what with Mr. Bones and all.

[Meganerdbomb]

So did you actually print out pictures of your bot and tape them to your fridge? That's so creative, it probably would have won if the bot itself wasn't the least creative thing possible.

[Thrackerzod]

I feel like the joke wouldn't have worked if the bot had been good though.

[Meganerdbomb]

I feel like the joke wouldn't have worked if the bot had been good though.

I wouldn't have to be good per-se, just more original.

[Thrackerzod]

I feel like the joke wouldn't have worked if the bot had been good though.

I wouldn't have to be good per-se, just more original.

Oh, well it's not original because I ran out of time.  Glad you liked the concept though!

[Thrackerzod]

Bot from me vs Badger:



I built this thing specifically to counter U-shaped popups since I hate them.  The spikes are on like that so I can hit the chassis, rather than the air in the center.  Also, I spent like, two hours trying to hone the wedges.

It didn't even work.

[Naryar]

that skin is hurting my eyes. The bot is pretty good though.

[Reier]

i just thought actually it might counter U shapes a bit better if you make it wider and use a sideways weapon setup so like the arms go out instead of forward. it would make it much more generous in your window to hit the enemy and you wouldnt have to make your weapons the exact width of your opponent.

[Thrackerzod]

I think I had something like that, and I couldn't quite get everything to fit right or something?  It does sound a good idea, though.  Maybe I should try something like that for 2rios of 2error.

[Gauche Suede]

What's the deal with U-shaped chassis in Ironforge anyway ? They're way more common there than in Stock/DSL for some reason.

[Mr. AS]

What's the deal with U-shaped chassis in Ironforge anyway ? They're way more common there than in Stock/DSL for some reason.

U shaped chassis gives robots all the stability of a giant 10x10 chassis wedge with a lot less of a weight investment. Why wouldn't you use a U shaped chassis?

[Gauche Suede]

What's the deal with U-shaped chassis in Ironforge anyway ? They're way more common there than in Stock/DSL for some reason.

U shaped chassis gives robots all the stability of a giant 10x10 chassis wedge with a lot less of a weight investment. Why wouldn't you use a U shaped chassis?

Because it's unfair to bots with single wedges ?

[Reier]

just gotta make counters man, there's nothing inherently illegal about the design