also lol at most toxic guy around calling others out on this sh**
(Image removed from quote.)They come in 5 sizes and all of them are short enough to fit in a minimum height chassis (as well as put a control board/battery on top of them). Red thrusters are your standard fare boosters. Press extend to Sanic it up, the usual. Blue thrusters are more powerful and use "base = BurstPiston" instead of "base = ServoPiston". What this means is that you get larger boosts of speed out of warp boosters, at the price of it not being a constant speed boost. I feel boosters can bring a lot to the table. You can use them to simulate floor magnets a la Bite Force, increase speed in a given direction, make a helicopter, or just fling yourself into the air like this is Super Mario or something. Before anyone asks, you can make a robot that entirely uses thrusters for movement, but it'll be a complete pain in the ass to control and aim at your opponent. Here's a roughly 500kg robot getting under Search & Destroy XL, a SHW:(Image removed from quote.)and here's the same robot, but with warp boosters, slamming into the Octagon's invisible ceiling:(Image removed from quote.)You can also make designs that counter existing bot archetypes. What's a popup to do when you use thrusters to just push yourself off it's wedge? Or how about a SnS that gets hopped on by another robot? Or a HS that gets box rushed by a pain train of thrusters and car steering?It should be noted, however, that thrusters are fairly heavy and require a reliable supply of gas. So don't just go and slap one on any old robot and think that it'll be instantly better because of it. Hint: it won't. This isn't like those dumb OP ironforge flamethrowers that autowin DPS fights for you. You have to put some thought into it and decide if you would actually benefit from a thruster or two. Thrusters are also exclusive to Extreme Mode (aka cheatbot2). I'll get you guys to use cheatbot2 one of these days.
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I know a component like this seems like bogus, but in all reality it's just a servo piston that takes advantage of a flaw in the programming. I discovered the glitch whilst building HOJ2- that when the end position for a piston's prismatic is set to a negative number instead of the usual positive, the piston won't move and instead all the force is directed into the bot.Thus to operate the rocket jet, you need some air tanks and need to wire them to 'extend'. (Sadly they can't go in reverse with 'Retract'; it does nothing.)