Author Topic: Screw it, it's on - RFS (Dracophile) AI Pack V1.7 (Read 11850 times)

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #40 on:** January 26, 2010, 06:57:30 PM »

it's an easy fix

Badnik96 · « **Reply #41 on:** January 27, 2010, 03:36:25 PM »

RFS, you should start a showcase.

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 27, 2010, 03:40:33 PM »

he said he does'nt want to deal with

sledges are ghey
axes suck
USE THE EFFE GLITCH
ballasts are teh ghey, put more stuff in
it's 4 kg underweight, rebuild it to fix it
to much chassi space, REBUILD IT
LISTEN
I don't blame him, I build tons of "classic" bots like the ones '03-'06 that only he has seen.......... and you may never will.......

RFS · « **Reply #43 on:** January 27, 2010, 04:59:20 PM »

Quote from: Badnik96 on January 27, 2010, 03:36:25 PM

RFS, you should start a showcase.

I posted one a while ago in the Stock forum. I don't have anything new to add to it save for what I am putting together for this AI pack. The pictures I have left of all of my robots are ones that I've posted and reposted many times in the past, there's nothing new. =/

edit: It seems all of the pictures I posted in my gallery thread were hosted on GatorAIDS and have been deleted. I'll re-upload them later or something.

The kinds of stuff I put together are largely unappreciated these days anyways, I have no desire to post a showcase because I know in doing so SOMEONE is eventually going to come around and red-line my designs, which I do not appreciate.

System32 · « **Reply #44 on:** January 27, 2010, 05:22:10 PM »

*Witty remark about Sage or Naryar*

Sparkey98 · « **Reply #45 on:** January 27, 2010, 05:28:35 PM »

I APRECIATE THEM

I love you're bots, there creative, and bad*ss, and funny, and fun to fight. I just faught bit rot and loled the whole time

RFS · « **Reply #46 on:** January 31, 2010, 05:06:38 PM »

Don't really have a teaser post for ya'll, I have a question though, perhaps for someone experienced in the realm of glitches and physics mishaps of the game.

I've got a Middleweight robot (Excelsior Stretch) that... well it has 3 pistons stacked as one to give its weapon an insane reach. It has two of these setups, actually. The robot works fine in the Garage, but when it's put into a fight as a human controlled robot it just vanishes at the start of the fight and is counted out. Any reason why? Or should I scrap the overly bizarre weaponry in favor or something else? Thanks.

System32 · « **Reply #47 on:** January 31, 2010, 05:36:47 PM »

Quote from: RadioFSoftware on January 31, 2010, 05:06:38 PM

Don't really have a teaser post for ya'll, I have a question though, perhaps for someone experienced in the realm of glitches and physics mishaps of the game.

I've got a Middleweight robot (Excelsior Stretch) that... well it has 3 pistons stacked as one to give its weapon an insane reach. It has two of these setups, actually. The robot works fine in the Garage, but when it's put into a fight as a human controlled robot it just vanishes at the start of the fight and is counted out. Any reason why? Or should I scrap the overly bizarre weaponry in favor or something else? Thanks.

Try a different connection.

russian roulette · « **Reply #48 on:** January 31, 2010, 06:53:10 PM »

Quote from: Sparkey98 on January 31, 2010, 05:39:56 PM

I know a cool glitch bot you could turn it into
attatch a T conector on the side to a piston, then attatch another piston to it, if the conection point diaspeers, you did it right. And hopefully, it will havoc around the arena when you fire it. It worked for me, at least.

He DOESN'T WANT A HAVOK EXPLOSION, READ THE GOD DAMN POST!!!!

RFS · « **Reply #49 on:** January 31, 2010, 06:58:07 PM »

Quote from: Sparkey98 on January 31, 2010, 05:39:56 PM

I know a cool glitch bot you could turn it into
attatch a T conector on the side to a piston, then attatch another piston to it, if the conection point diaspeers, you did it right. And hopefully, it will havoc around the arena when you fire it. It worked for me, at least.

That's not the effect I want. I wanted it to be a pneumatic weapon with a crazy long reach to it.

Quote from: System32 on January 31, 2010, 05:36:47 PM

Quote from: RadioFSoftware on January 31, 2010, 05:06:38 PM
Don'treally have a teaser post for ya'll, I have a question though, perhapsfor someone experienced in the realm of glitches and physics mishaps ofthe game.

I've got a Middleweight robot (Excelsior Stretch)that... well it has 3 pistons stacked as one to give its weapon aninsane reach. It has two of these setups, actually. The robot worksfine in the Garage, but when it's put into a fight as a humancontrolled robot it just vanishes at the start of the fight and iscounted out. Any reason why? Or should I scrap the overly bizarreweaponry in favor or something else? Thanks.

Try a different connection.

Do you mean attaching the set of pistons elsewhere on the robot? The current way I have it set up is with a 90o Baseplate Anchor, one vertical 20cm Black Extender, then the first piston and two others with an Iron Spike on the end. It's setup like this so the pistons hang under the robot and the spikes are pointing out the front.

System32 · « **Reply #50 on:** January 31, 2010, 06:59:43 PM »

yes.

I think that may work...

RFS · « **Reply #51 on:** January 31, 2010, 07:12:35 PM »

Quote from: System32 on January 31, 2010, 06:59:43 PM

yes.

I think that may work...

Alright, I'll try that out the next time I work on some designs and rebuilds. Thanks! :)

Naryar · « **Reply #52 on:** February 01, 2010, 04:52:11 AM »

Chaining pistons is tempting the gods of havok.

Although it never happened for my DSL HW chained poker - Patriot 2...

RFS · « **Reply #53 on:** February 01, 2010, 08:44:37 PM »

Quote from: Naryar on February 01, 2010, 04:52:11 AM

Chaining pistons is tempting the gods of havok.

Although it never happened for my DSL HW chained poker - Patriot 2...

Hehe, I tempted the Havok Overlord with that one HW I built, Centrifuge of Pain - it was basically the Project Trinity glitch. :P

RFS · « **Reply #54 on:** February 02, 2010, 11:05:16 PM »

RFS AI Pack V1.7 will be launching with "DLC" (Downloadable Content) - a popular classic multiplayer MW design of mine called "The Distracting Machine" will be included in the pack as a PG-13 version, I'll release a separate smaller download to turn it into its original NSFW design... and just for the

of it I'm thinking about a "Special Dracophile NSFW Edition" patch as well. :P Same bot, just with a different paintjob.

Naryar · « **Reply #55 on:** February 03, 2010, 04:23:46 AM »

Not the only one that puts NSFW content on his bots... *looks at ACAMS*

RFS · « **Reply #56 on:** February 03, 2010, 04:55:52 PM »

Quote from: Naryar on February 03, 2010, 04:23:46 AM

Not the only one that puts NSFW content on his bots... *looks at ACAMS*

I think I may have seen the robot you are making a reference to, but it's all a blur. :P The original "Distracting Machine" was just the standard "Dracophile Edition" and was used quite often whenever I played MP with some folks from RFSHQ but I figured I should PROBABLY tone it down for the AI Pack (and move the paintjob to target a much broader audience - haha "broad" get it) and let the players have the option to unlock "topless mode" or whatever if that's what they want. :P

I've built a lot of bots since my last teaser, they just don't have any skins or anything nice on them yet. I'd like to post some but I feel like they just look kinda ugly (most of them just have the default armor skin for the armor they have, or they are white). I was gonna do skinning LAST because designs were more important to me, and there's a lot of new designs, both wacky and formidable (and some that lay somewhere in the middle). After having AI'd a flamethrower bot for the DSL pack I've included one in here ("Toasty" from the RoboWarriors team), I've also gone through and made a better "stomper" bot that REALLY gets around with minimal damage to itself ("Creep" from Team MegaSparkRiotStorm), I fixed the crazy reach pneumatic weapons of Excelsior Stretch (also from MegaSparkRiotStorm I believe), and I've also made an obligatory "saw blades for wheels" rammer ala Ginsu ("Blade Runner" from MegaSparkRiotStorm and "Super Blade Runner" from the Cutlery Corner team).

My plan with this pack is to just build and build until I'm completely out of everything I've ever wanted to do in RA2, to be a super "catch-all" kind of pack to tie everything up. There's still a LOT of Robot Arena 2 players, which is surprising because I'm amazed this game has this much staying power - which means that there will always be new players. My original packs kind of set the standard for new players who were tired of the Stock AI and wanted some new challenges, but nothing too hard, and I really like that. People like battlebotsboy on YouTube and others who email me at random asking about my pack make me smile because I feel like I'm at least remembered. So, yeah. No official word on the number of new teams and bots, just "Lots" for now.

edit: Ahahaha, "Lots & Lots (& Lots & Lots & Lots & Lots) of Bots".

kill343gs · « **Reply #57 on:** February 03, 2010, 05:20:28 PM »

Excelsior Stretch, that's a reference to Vigilante 8 2nd offense, right?

RFS · « **Reply #58 on:** February 03, 2010, 05:27:49 PM »

Quote from: kill343gs on February 03, 2010, 05:20:28 PM

Excelsior Stretch, that's a reference to Vigilante 8 2nd offense, right?

Why yes, yes it is. :P It's named after Lord Clyde's electricity-toting limousine. Good eye.

There is another 6-wheeled robot named Moon Trekker lurking about as well. It has a gimmicky satellite dish for show and some arms for lashing out at other robots with.

V8 is one of my favorite games of all time. The day it came out for Xbox Live Arcade I was all over it and nailed every single achievement (except the multilayer one since I don't have Live Gold) that night.

ACAMS · « **Reply #59 on:** February 03, 2010, 05:31:13 PM »

Quote from: Naryar on February 03, 2010, 04:23:46 AM

Not the only one that puts NSFW content on his bots... *looks at ACAMS*

I only have one little bot that might be topless.