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« on: July 16, 2018, 08:37:48 PM »
Hmm. I kinda have a bot I'm most proud of, and then a different "favourite" bot that I've built. Bot I'm proudest of would probably be Astra. It just fit together pretty much perfectly and has a pretty unique look to it for a fairly common design of a rear hinged flipper. My favourite bot I've built though is definitely Sabre IV. I love how sleek it came out and even if it's not the most optimal design in the world I like how unique it is and the fact it's actually proven to be somewhat effective in combat is just a bonus. They're both fairly simple designs, though I'd prefer to call them "clean" myself, but I like that about them. I'm not really a fan of the fairly recent trend of covering bots in a million bits and bobs to try to make them more interesting. Less is more in my book (To a point, obviously)
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« on: July 16, 2018, 03:31:36 PM »
Middleweight Mixup Episode 3 yo:
This time actually in the SBV
The lack of a bottom panel on Leviathan makes me wanna commit
Also wahey Apotheosis won a fight I was sure it would lose
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« on: July 15, 2018, 12:51:42 PM »
I meant both configurations, although I don't see the first config getting under much at all.
Added some wedgelets at a shallow angle
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« on: July 15, 2018, 09:54:14 AM »
Looks like it won't be able to get under anything (except spinners of course).
Does pretty well surprisingly. Better than the regular config if anything.
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« on: July 14, 2018, 11:19:30 PM »
I also did a spinner killer version
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« on: July 14, 2018, 10:23:45 PM »
Last I checked finishing as the 4th best team in the world doesn’t mean you suck.
none of the teams we played were even 'good', except maybe belgium who rekt us. Our team isn't good.
None of the teams Germany played in the groups were "good" either, other than maybe Mexico, yet they still lost. Not losing matches is what matters and England didn't lose until they'd reached a stage far further than just about anyone in the nation expected, especially considering this was a largely new squad and the bits that weren't new were pretty much recycled from the Euro 2016 squad which did absolutely awfully.
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« on: July 13, 2018, 06:36:05 PM »
Here's a thing. HW flipper boik. TWMR2s for drive, 2 Med VDMAs for the flipper and a mix of Alu and Steel for armour.
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« on: July 11, 2018, 07:49:25 AM »
Looks pretty good to me, I love the front wedglets. The wheels poking out looks a bit odd to me though, any way you could tuck them in?
I'd originally planned to have doubled up wheels so they were fully exposed, but weight rapidly became an issue with this bot so they had to go unfortunately, leaving the wheels in the state they are now
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« on: July 10, 2018, 08:33:56 PM »
Tonight on extenderspam nightmares: A bot that was intended as an HW but ended up becoming an SHW...Had this design in mind for a flipper and managed to execute it pretty much exactly how I envisioned it, however it's ended up being A: Absolutely ridiculous in terms of number of extenders used and B: 50% heavier than I wanted it to be. Other than those two factors I'm really happy with how it came out. Weapon is powered by 2 medium VDMAs which is almost certainly not enough for an SHW, and the armour is almost all Alu other than a little pit of steel on the front. Drive is 2 NPC fasts along with 2 TWMR drives so it's not fast but not slow either.
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« on: July 10, 2018, 09:41:44 AM »
nice look to it cb
I will agree Ephilates looks pretty cool, especially with the wings, but holy hell does that extender frame look way too fragile for an IRL bot. Might need to find a way to make it look thicker.
it's not irl he's just trying to make something that's cool and can fight
CB hasn't even been around since IRL got popular anyway
The fact that he's got supports either side of the the disc, even if they are stick thin, and he has little reinforcements connecting the front wedgelets to the wheel axles would imply to me that it's trying to be IRL.
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« on: July 10, 2018, 05:15:10 AM »
Having a single extender supporting a huge, exposed dual perm is pretty iffy
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« on: July 08, 2018, 11:47:22 AM »
Knockout stands out as the coolest to me, I like how you didn't use a mecha or typhoon teeth, extra bonus points for that
The 259 flywheel just happened to fit pretty much perfectly in the gap that there was for the disc. It's an underrated component I'd say. One of the cooler looking rep discs and surprisingly effective too.
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« on: July 08, 2018, 08:01:34 AM »
Ey, looking great, personally I'd say Dambuster is the weakest of the lot, due to it's lack of KO'ing capabilities compared to the others, but it's probably one of the better looking ones imo.
Also you got a shot of Cicada firing?
How can it be speed demon if theres no speed? 
In terms of fighting Dambuster and maybe Resolute are probably the weakest yeah.
Here's a sh**ty pic of Cicada firing. The fact it works at all surprises me so I'm willing to overlook how godawful it looks when flipping 
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The Speed Demon name was mostly from the fact that it uses the martini racing colour scheme on the chassis. The fast drive of the old one was part of it, buit it just caused too many issues with the bot flipping itself and sucked up weight that could have been used on features that are actually beneficial like a srimech and better armour.
Ah sweet, didn't realise it uses hexplates for supports.
Yeah the hexplates were the only component thin enough to mount the top burst of the 4 bar that didn't have atrocious APs. Would have used a less ugly component if I could.
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« on: July 08, 2018, 07:59:39 AM »
Pretty solid lineup. I-95 is still your best work to date IMO. Absolutely top drawer
That said, not really a fan of the trifecta of overheads in the lower weightclasses. Could really do with some variety there. The random 45 degree angle spam on the side of Flatline looks pretty odd to me too.
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« on: July 08, 2018, 06:57:05 AM »
Ey, looking great, personally I'd say Dambuster is the weakest of the lot, due to it's lack of KO'ing capabilities compared to the others, but it's probably one of the better looking ones imo.
Also you got a shot of Cicada firing?
How can it be speed demon if theres no speed?
In terms of fighting Dambuster and maybe Resolute are probably the weakest yeah. Here's a sh**ty pic of Cicada firing. The fact it works at all surprises me so I'm willing to overlook how godawful it looks when flipping The Speed Demon name was mostly from the fact that it uses the martini racing colour scheme on the chassis. The fast drive of the old one was part of it, buit it just caused too many issues with the bot flipping itself and sucked up weight that could have been used on features that are actually beneficial like a srimech and better armour.
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« on: July 07, 2018, 06:50:47 PM »
Well since signups are open now I might as well post my Orc's Wars Overclocked lineup here. Not including what events they're in so folks can't enter stuff specifically to counter them They've all been posted in here before but I'll give each bot a quick rundown for those that may have missed them. Sabre IV - My personal favourite bot I've ever built, This one is a minor evolution of Sabre III which shortens the bot to make it more nimble as well as beefing up armour in a few areas.
Resolute - Really happy with the looks of this one. Storm burst powered lifter with 4WD TWMRs
Knockout - S3/Pulverizer vert from a while back. Extenderspam nightmare and probably not the most effective but it looks fairly cool and can maybe do some work against the right opponent. Perm 132 for the disc and TWMRs for drive
Speed Demon IV - This one is a little modified since last seen. Version IV of Speed Demon sacrifices some speed for a dedicated srimech, a tanky steel wedge and a single, perm 132 flywheel instead of dual perm 80 discs.
Catastrophe - SHW wild thing thing with a dual perm disc.
Dambuster - CW that I'm really happy with looks wise. 4 slimbodies for drive and 2 Vsmall VDMAs for the weapon. Probably won't be OOTAing anyone but should be able to bully some bots and maybe win a couple of JDs if it's lucky
Apotheosis -Lil middleweight vert that already lost a fight in middleweight mixup but showed a little bit of promise at least. TWMR drive and a flatmotor for the weapon
Boolean - Super fast lifter/flipper. Probably gonna explode but can push like there's no tomorrow with 4 NPC fast drive and 2 small VDMAs for the flipper
Bocuma III - Rebuilt from scratch since OW2. More efficient building allows the armour to be upped in every aspect (Front has gone from Ti to steel, sides have gone from all Alu to a mix of steel and Alu. Most other stuff is Ti) and I also gave it a less crappy wedge and removed the previous version's ability to split in half with the chassis attached to the non-mobile part.
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« on: July 07, 2018, 12:08:40 PM »
Only weightclass where I feel confident in my first round matchup is the HWs. All others are gonna be tough ones
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« on: July 06, 2018, 11:08:32 AM »
You can’t make an STD in ra2.
You can make an STD in RA2.
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« on: July 06, 2018, 09:19:18 AM »
Okay I know it's been a bit since I last said anything in this thread, but I finally found some time to get to AI'ing the bots. Sorry that I haven't said much, it's been rather busy recently. I'll get the SBV thread maybe by Monday, so if anyone wants to send an update, I suggest sending one soon.
Did you receive the update I sent a while back? Sorry to be a pain but I can't see if you received it in this thread anywhere.
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« on: July 05, 2018, 04:34:27 PM »
So I'd been wanting to build something mental and/or stupid for a bit, and last night I had the idea for a 4 bar flipper where at least 1 of the bursts was a beta. This is the result. It's somewhat ugly, and doesn't hold a candle to a conventional 4 bar like Azimuth, but it works and I'm pretty happy with that. When it actually gets under stuff fully (which is pretty rare due to the fairly steep wedge necessitated by the Beta motor's height) it flips really well. I may up the drive at some point from the dual TYWMR2s I have at the moment to try to assist in getting fully under opponents. I wasn't able to have both bursts be betas unfortunately so the top burst is a wide medium VDMA. This causes 1 other issue as VDMA bursts retract a lot quicker than the beta, which sometimes leads to the bot flipping itself, but after a lot of fine tuning it's now fairly rare. By most standards it's a pretty ugly bot, but for something with a giant ass beta burst crammed into it I don't think it looks TOO bad. My only personal niggle with it is the hexplates which were the only thing both thin enough and with non-awful APs that would work so I was forced to use them. At least I managed to get them symmetrical though.
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