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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Drakelock Engineering DSL Showcase

« on: July 23, 2020, 06:20:54 AM »

One thing you should know though is that if you're planning on entering tournaments, the majority of IRL build style tournaments place limitations on the use of cheatbot2 parts, so you may have to swap out your weapon bar to something else instead of the hworf blades. Additionally, most realistic tournaments are using the  2.4 version of DSL now, rather than 2.2. The link to it is available on the front page.

The batteries would also need switching out as they're cheatpacks.

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Tournament Archives / Re: Eternal Inferno (Discussion)

« on: July 23, 2020, 05:49:14 AM »

A tournament being unique doesn't make it good. Some ideas aren't done because they're terrible ideas

Can confirm from experience.  Personally I see this as a good opportunity to build a turret flamethrower bot but its not gonna attract many bots.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Team Slaystation: DSL edition

« on: July 22, 2020, 01:24:13 PM »

Sry if the bots in this month's update feel like they didn't have as much care put into them as some of the bots in last month's, I was kinda rushing at some points to get them ready to be showcased before taking a (almost) 6 week break from RA2.

First up, Infestation, a SHW clusterbot based off ants.
 

 

The only other bot in this month's update is Schweinehund, a CW IL style flipper that is in pathfinder 2's IRL division.  After seeing its first battle in that, I've decided I'll be switching it to 2wd so its power lasts longer and so I have the weight to make some other changes.  No idea why those black lines are on the skinned panels, they're not in the texture bmp files.
 

Any ideas for improvements to these bots would be appreciated.

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Tournament Archives / Re: Eternal Inferno (Discussion)

« on: July 22, 2020, 01:17:51 PM »

Interesting idea, I might give it a go if it happens.  Are the flamethrowers from cb2 allowed and are we allowed to put the flamethrowers on turrets?

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Tournament Archives / Re: Human BBQ 3: The Third BBQ (In Discussion)

« on: July 20, 2020, 10:25:51 AM »

Are bots that were made underweight by the crash patch that are yet to be built back up to the limit allowed?

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Tournament Archives / Re: Pathfinder II (SBV)

« on: July 20, 2020, 06:44:07 AM »

How I made it to the end w/o running out of battery idk.

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Tournament Archives / Re: Chassis Swap-Up: IRL Edition SBV

« on: July 17, 2020, 05:57:21 AM »

That's it, the pandemic's over, time to return to our normal lives.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: SR/Sickle's mostly dead DSL showcase

« on: July 13, 2020, 03:17:10 PM »

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Aside from the NPCs sticking out of its ass, prolly the best crusher I've seen in DSL.

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Tournament Archives / Re: Replica Mayhem, A Stock Replica Tournament (Bracket & Splash Available!)

« on: July 08, 2020, 03:29:56 PM »

Got caught slacking. here

I got the first KO.  Neat.

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Tournament Archives / Re: Extreme Build Rules - NEW EPISODES WEDNESDAYS 9PM BST

« on: July 08, 2020, 03:01:24 PM »

This tournament is now completed.

Another tournament from me may come in a few months.

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Modifications / Re: Koi's custom component packs

« on: July 06, 2020, 05:53:07 AM »

Going on a break from RA2, but I'll leave this poll here for you to decide what coloured component pack I should make next after the second coloured hammer pack.
https://www.strawpoll.me/20520769

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Tournament Archives / Re: Extreme Build Rules - NEW EPISODES WEDNESDAYS 9PM BST

« on: July 02, 2020, 08:24:48 AM »

Here we are, the grand final.

I am no longer taking requests for exhibition matches.

A little bit upset with that first JD, but I’ll take 4th place. Buttered Popcorn still exceeded my expectations.

I'm looking forward to seeing how it'll perform in other tournaments.

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Tournament Archives / Re: Extreme Build Rules - NEW EPISODES WEDNESDAYS 9PM BST

« on: July 01, 2020, 03:00:07 PM »

Here we are, the grand final.

I am no longer taking requests for exhibition matches.

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Tournament Archives / Re: Pathfinder II (Discussion)

« on: July 01, 2020, 10:14:04 AM »

Are we allowed skinned components on our entries for stock?

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Tournament Archives / Re: Extreme Build Rules - NEW EPISODES WEDNESDAYS 9PM BST

« on: June 30, 2020, 11:00:25 AM »

I will stop taking requests for exhibitions tomorrow when the grand final releases.

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Tournament Archives / Re: Battlebots Simulator - BB pack replica tournament

« on: June 30, 2020, 10:57:16 AM »

Why not just use transparent pics of the reps?

I made the image for the fight card before I made the reps.

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: bloodys loud house showcase

« on: June 29, 2020, 01:00:20 PM »

I am back

No you're not back, you're bloodys.

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Tournament Archives / Re: Extreme Build Rules - NEW EPISODES WEDNESDAYS 9PM BST

« on: June 28, 2020, 02:18:24 PM »

Three days away from the grand final, and I have a couple of ideas for my next open signups tournament.  Opinions on which one is better and any ideas you have for how I could improve these ideas would be appreciated.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/19c16u3aYFX4h-EM6n-VfakxhJ1lafWqzNI8UipbZA18/edit?usp=sharing
https://www.strawpoll.me/20458769

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Modifications / Re: Koi's custom component packs

« on: June 26, 2020, 02:53:43 PM »

When I've finished working on bots for my BB rep tournament, I'll be making the second half of the coloured hammers, containing meat tenderisers, MOE blades and all four DSL hammer heads in 23 colours.

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Tournament Archives / Battlebots Simulator - new eps available

« on: June 25, 2020, 03:27:33 PM »

I came up w/ this idea when BB filming was postponed, and last week decided to go ahead w/ it.

The rules I set myself:
- The external appearance must be IRL, internal clipping doesn't matter as the reps in the pack itself have such clipping.
- Reps in the 2019 BB pack will be used, and if the bot isn't in that pack, I will port it over from the 2018 pack.  Any yet to appear on the discovery seasons or the reps of in the pack break the external IRL appearance I will build a rep of myself.
- Due to the reps in the pack don't seem to follow a hard weight limit, neither will my reps to even the playing field.
- cheatbot2 use is prevalent in the reps in the pack, so I haven't banned any components outright, but will use non-cb2 parts where I can get a reasonable degree of accuracy both aesthetically and functionally.
- I will only customise components for my reps where needed for aesthetic accuracy.

Match rules:
- 3 minute fights.
- in the event of a JD, the points will be the same as in proper BB; 3 for damage, 2 each for aggression and control.  Any form of aggression will count.
- If a bot is KOd by a havok, broken physics cause other weird stuff or the game crashes, the fight will be restarted rounded to the nearest minute.  Second time such a thing happens will be a JD.
- The arena used will be the robogames arena reskinned to the battlebox which is in the pack.

Bots which will be represented by a replica, 48 bots which have had their participation in the 2020 season publicly confirmed:

Bite Force
Witch Doctor
Tombstone
Death Roll
Whiplash
Sawblaze
Lockjaw
Hydra
Black Dragon
HUGE
Quantum
Cobalt
Skorpios
Hypershock
Bloodsport
Icewave
RotatoR
DUCK!
Copperhead
Valkyrie
Chomp
Beta
Ghost Raptor
Gigabyte
End Game
WAR Hawk
Mammoth
Deep Six
Shatter!
Petunia
Monsoon
Red Devil
Overhaul
Captain Shrederator
Kraken
Nelly The Ellybot
Sharkoprion
Gamma 9
Fusion
Ripper
Orion
Blade V3
Spitfire
SMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Jager
Gloomweaver
The Krusty Grab
Malice

Ep 1 fight card:
 

I'm currently working on the reps of bots that will be in ep 1.

UPDATE 10 SEPTEMBER: I am putting this tournament on hold until further notice.  This is due to me struggling for motivation to build the reps that are not already in the pack, and also w/ BB filming being announced for octomer, some bots that were originally planned to take part are no longer competing.  This might result in the competition only being w/ bots whose reps are already in the pack and are taking part in this years competition.