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DSL TC Showcases / Battle Shots

« on: June 14, 2009, 01:11:27 AM »

The Bucking Bronco

Mount from behind, grab a handfull of hair and a handfull of muff
and whisper... "Your the worst **** I've ever had."

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Tournament Archives / BBEANS5 Brackets and Videos

« on: June 13, 2009, 08:51:01 PM »

Hey guys, is there a trick to watching the videos?
I get a long loading page then WinAmp tries to load but fails.  

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DSL TC Showcases / Lernatix' DSL attempts

« on: June 11, 2009, 09:21:41 AM »

Cheers for the feedback guys,  still learning.    

I got two more done today, started with a smaller, shared chassis.


Golden Retriever
MW 399kg
Titanium 5




Just an attempt at staying within 399kg.  No real offensive weapons but
he's damn fast and very loyal. He also wears a skirt and can self right.


10 Second Car
HW 799kg
Steel 5




Beat most of the "Reincarnated" bots - except "Gammaraze III" (DAMN!)
The wheel/engine combo is pretty zippy for a HW and the "wheelie bar"
makes the twin small burst engines more effective. It is able to self right
and could probably do with a skirt to be successful. Wanna race?

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DSL TC Showcases / Lernatix' DSL attempts

« on: June 10, 2009, 11:21:38 PM »

@taka - yes the front holds up.  The rear battery was the problem, hence the armour.

@trumpet - the inside razors are for catching anything going under the disc, the
                motors and wheels are slightly unprotected. They also help to reflect
                any flipper bot attacks.

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Stock Showcases / Lernatix' Closet

« on: June 10, 2009, 01:09:21 PM »

Woops,  my bad.  :blackeye_smily:

Thanks for the input, my new and improved bot is in the DSL section.

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DSL TC Showcases / Lernatix' DSL attempts

« on: June 10, 2009, 12:57:09 PM »

OK I went and put my other bots in the wrong thread...

MODS:  feel free to merge.  

Anyway I have my latest bot which I'm quite happy with.
I actually won some battles with it, including the RAZOR
which I remember being quite deadly on the TV show.


Steely-Dan
HW 800kg
Titanium 5




A LOT of unused and useless space up front. This was an evolution from
another bot design which had a large gas piston in the front. (Major problem
loading stuff on top of a large piston for some reason.) It then turned into
a chinook helicopter that didn't cheat until it hit something. :D  And then
I decided to go with the home made discs. Finally a bot with attitude!

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Stock Showcases / Lernatix' Closet

« on: June 10, 2009, 08:02:18 AM »

Not a showcase,  I'm a latecomer.  

Seems like some of you guys like to critique bots, here's some more for you.
I will try to self-analyze them, you can tell me if I'm right/wrong/disabled.


My first bots,  well not my first,  let's say they're the first I didn't scrap.  OK.


Mordeth


Too much wasted space, therefore no weight left for more/better weapons.
Overall a very uninspired design, named after "Mordeth13" of YouTube infamy.


Pyramedi-evil


Still some wasted space, weak drive motors and I couldn't get 4 of the burst
motors mounted without an angle on the fourth one.  o_O


Puntosour


Not so much wasted space (I know, still some) and It's probably what you
peeps refer to as "over-powered".  But it does have a working ShRe-mech!


Tankard


Originally designed with tank tracks in mind. (hence the warped chassis)
I soon realized just how bad the tracks were and swapped last minute.
The movement speed is really lacking and the rear spike "cheats" through the
armour plate at the back.  

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Existing Games / Roboforge (PC)

« on: June 10, 2009, 07:29:57 AM »

If you haven't already.  Highly recommended.

http://www.roboforge.net/

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Discussion / Starting to Get the Hang of This :)

« on: June 10, 2009, 06:07:37 AM »

Nice bot!

I've been playing the game a lot over the last few days.
So much so that I was like "WTF?" when my right mouse
button didn't let me rotate your pic! :-D