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Existing Games / Rocket League

« on: June 02, 2016, 05:52:25 PM »

Was kinda surprised to not see a thread for this. I hope it's alright if I make this thread...

Anyways, This is a place to discuss the football game that isn't quite football that also has cars in it.



Picked up the game when it was available via PS Plus on PS4. Despite not liking football games at all, I loved it. I'm hoping to get it on PC too so I can play with people on GTM easier.

That is, if anyone here owns the game / has played the game? Most of my friends lost interest in it a short while after it's release, so I'm kinda on my own in a team based game (help) and with the big June update on the horizon, there doesn't seem like a better time than now to make a thread for this.

So then. Who here plays some SocCar?

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DSL TC Showcases / Rainbow Impreza Tries To Do DSL But Fails Miserably

« on: May 04, 2016, 07:30:02 AM »

AND HERRRRRRRRE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE GO!   

I'm finally starting to get into DSL again. I'm already loving the different extenders in the game; they're FAR better than stock's extenders.
To start off, how about my BOTM entry?

I personally thought this would've been easy to guess who made it. Kinda 'meh' design, massive amounts of text, repetition of one colour being used; these are things in my other splashes that shown up in this one too.
Personally, I'm happy with both the splash and the design, although I can see why other people didn't like it as much.

That's not the only thing I have to share.

This is a DSL recreation of my first Stock heavyweight, "Wings of Fire". I think this could count as IRL if I put on 1 disc instead of 2 because none of the components intersect each other and it's built believably (not built well, but believably) however as long as there's 2 massive discs on the robot, I think this would be classed as DSL-Standard.

I'll probably edit this post later; I'm at school at the moment and I'm pressed for time so there's not much more I can share. I do have more to share, though, so I'll be updating this showcase later.

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Stock Showcases / Rainbow Impreza Tries To Do Stock But Fails Miserably

« on: February 23, 2016, 03:19:20 PM »

Right, BEFORE WE START;

This is my first time playing stock RA2. The first time I got this game (a year ago, roughly) I went straight onto DSL because I had heard it was just better than the original. Only recently have I decided to try out the Stock game just to see what kinds of robots you can create. I also favor creativity and uniqueness over something that works.

With this in mind, the robots I upload here are probably going to look like they are in need of medical attention (this does not mean a thrashing from EMERGENCY) so I do apologize for not being good at building stuff. After all, I'm still essentially a noob to RA2.


With that out of the way, here's my first robot; the texture is half-arsed and took 5 minutes, the weapon is largely ineffective and despite having steel armor, it still gets ripped apart in seconds. And I love it.



It's name is Protogen, if you couldn't tell. It started its life after I asked myself "What's the closest I can get to making Barberous?" without asking "Is it going to even work?"
I've built lots of robots like this; low chassis, largest wheels the game allows. These kind of robots were all joke robots though; this was the first robot that I made that actually had any means of attack.
It used to look a lot better, but I kept on switching, adding and deleting components after realizing it wasn't winning anything. I tried to make a vertical flywheel weapon but a) it did nothing to harm the other robot and b) I couldn't try anything else as it simply didn't work without being a 60cm disc with 2 pole spikes. The only other thing that would actually spin and hit other robots was a 100mm circular saw. I just kinda chose the lesser of the two evils. Plus, the saw could overturn some robots, so that was a bonus.

My in-game team is Carbon R200 Club, by the way.

This is probably gonna end up being the new "Spinner From The West".