Robot Wars 2013 AI Pack

[GoldenFox93]

The only other buffs I can think of at the moment are to improve Dominator 2 and Behemoth's batteries, and to make Behemoth's scoop more powerful. At the moment, it can barely lift opponents.
 
 
Also, is it possible to make spinners stop again when they're immobilised or destroyed? At the moment, they keep on spinning even after the control board goes.

[helloface]

Updated lists:
Nerfs:

Tornado (lower disc damage) - I already nerfed it. It's still very powerful, but more competitive and does about half damage.
Terrorhurtz & X-Terminator 2 (a little lower axe power) - Too havoky.
Hypno-Disc (lower disc damage)
Manta (slightly less speed)
The Revolutionist (less damage)
Dantomkia (more shell HP)

Buffs:

Typhoon 2 (Always stops on contact, not powerful at all)
All flippers (only slightly)
Stinger (higher wheel HP)
259 (higher disc damage) - It would be great if someone could make the normals/hitboxes better
Dominator 2 (higher armour)
Diotoir (higher pushing power, higher scoop HP)
Panic Attack (Much higher lifting power) - maybe make a hidden/cheatbot lifter motor?
Hypno-Disc (Much higher armour)
Behemoth (Higher scoop power)
Chaos 2 (higher armour)
Razer (improve wedge)
Dominator 2 & Behemoth (increase battery length)

New additions are in italics

[GoldenFox93]

Although regarding HypnoDisc- the teeth have the same potency as they did in DSL 2.1, but it's the much better motor (A Tornado Mer Gearbox rather than a Flatmotor), along with how much bigger and more durable they are that makes them that much more powerful.

[helloface]

Although regarding HypnoDisc- the teeth have the same potency as they did in DSL 2.1, but it's the much better motor (A Tornado Mer Gearbox rather than a Flatmotor), along with how much bigger and more durable they are that makes them that much more powerful.

Then that proves with a decent motor, the teeth are WAY too OP.

[GoldenFox93]

Yeah. I guess at the time, the power must have been to compensate for their low HP and speed of the disc. Glass Cannons, if you will.

[GoldenFox93]

I also stripped down the spinner on Typhoon 2, and it's powered by a 6 mag- more than I'd expected behind it, but it's not really powerful enough. It will fit a Dual Perm in if that'll improve the power, but it does require the batteries to be shifted around a bit.

[helloface]

Upgrade to Dual Perm, lower the weight of the shell.

[GoldenFox93]

Exactly what I have in mind.   


I also had a look into rendering Chaos 2's internals a bit as well-

I used the ones from the old DSL Chaos 2 here, which had aspects from the real machine, such as the wiring and batteries under the flipper, which I thought looked good. Battery position's a little bit wonky at the moment, but it's not a bad start. For some reason though, the paintjob doesn't show up in the Bot Lab, but it does when you're actually driving it.

[playzooki]

give the revolutionist a stronger shell

[Virus Bomb]

wbc's smartzone should be moved back a bit imo.

[cephalopod]

Stinger could do with a higher dp on the tail, I had difficulty causing damage.

[GoldenFox93]

Firestorm's wedge could also be improved a bit. Currently, the top part doesn't even touch the ground, so it's very hard to get under opponents effectively.

[playzooki]

This^^

Cant get under much

[Badnik96]

Firestorm's wedge could also be improved a bit. Currently, the top part doesn't even touch the ground, so it's very hard to get under opponents effectively.

Same with Wheely Big Cheese, IMO. Really hard to get under things.

Also can someone put up a download of just the new RW arena?

[Probably Rob]

What Cheese have you been playing with? I've been able to get under nearly everything. If you're talking about getting underneath a wedge head to head, of course you're not bloody certain to win 100% of the time.

[Badnik96]

No, the flipper's start position is off for me, so it can barely get under anything. Dunno what Cheese you're playing with...

[RpJk]

I'm playing with Mature Cheddar Cheese and Hard Cheese.

[Merrick]

Talking of Firestorm, the smart zone seems a bit too far forward.

[jackster96]

Is there any chance you could get all the robots working for multiplayer as only a small amount of them actually work as it comes up with can only use robots with robot arena 2 stock ect?

[helloface]

I'm not going to add this to the list just yet, but for Suicidal Tendencies put normals on top of the claw so it doesn't do loads of damage when upside-down.