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DSL TC Showcases / Re: Jets' DSL showcase
« on: January 09, 2014, 11:57:45 AM »
My god, 3 years. It warms my heart to see that everyone is still loving and playing the game, keeping the forums alive and kicking. :'D
Second time I've disappeared, but logged in or not, I've never forgotten the game since I picked it up what was probably a good eight or so years back; occasionally busting out the RA2 again and tinkering about. Then I caught wind of DSL 3 via a youtube video by Thyrus and decided to revisit the forums for the first time in too long; once again. xD
It feels like an almighty necro of a thread, but policy is policy, and my old showcase still exists; all 5 pages of it. :P Been fiddling around with DSL3 for the past two days since seeing it, and am having a blast, albeit I'm way out of touch. Thought I'd stick these up whilst having a break from building, still have some questions regarding DSL3. These aren't exactly 100% optimised for combat efficiency, mainly just me seeing what can be done with the new extenders/parts.
Plastic 3
Dual Astro drive
2 Battlepacks and an Ant
Still not entirely sure of the best way to go about making a flipper wedge without the good old black one that I've known for so long. This is the best I've managed thus far, but if there's any alternative that I'd obviously have missed out on, hook a guy up.
Plastic 1 (lol)
Dual NPC Drive
2 Battlepacks
Sort of a Bigger Brother-esque inspired build, not exceptionally effective but not exceptionally ineffective either. Second of the two builds involving me testing out the new burst-piston things, and I must admit I love them, however good they may or may not be in comparison to their alternatives. Again, any information regarding it would be appreciated. It's a bit underweaponed as a result of me having too much fun with the new extenders/armour pieces; it has a nice reach and sort of works until the battery drains to the point where the retraction can't flip the axle back enough, at which point it just becomes a rather crappy poker.
Tite 3
Dual NPC Drive
2 Battlepacks and an Ant (overpowered, sort of a lazy, have space-will fill solution, a chassis redesign was unlikely to help.
2 Large CO2 Tanks
Eh. Fail. An attempted different take on the standard juggler/gut ripper which fails partly due to the slow speed (dat extender work tho), and partly due to the fact I'd forgotten just how strong Storm Burst pistons are, much less two of them. This thing throws itself vertically when firing, and whoever's on top with it, meaning it gets no more than one hit on the target consistently and is just meh. This was primarily a chance to have fun with exo-skeletal designs. I'd been looking around showcases and fell in love with Thyrus' style of RL building (other showcases are available :P he's just the first one I saw coming back), and decided to take a stab at it, failing horribly in the process. Oh well, any feed back is appreciated and I might rebuild it if there's anything worth salvaging. As I stated earlier in the thread (years agololol), heavyweights were never my strong point, and I always find myself ending up with excess weight which inevitably goes into stupid crap like extenders. :P
Edit: These are png/Jpg and not BMP right? I'm a bit technologically retarded, apologies if they're bmp.
Second time I've disappeared, but logged in or not, I've never forgotten the game since I picked it up what was probably a good eight or so years back; occasionally busting out the RA2 again and tinkering about. Then I caught wind of DSL 3 via a youtube video by Thyrus and decided to revisit the forums for the first time in too long; once again. xD
It feels like an almighty necro of a thread, but policy is policy, and my old showcase still exists; all 5 pages of it. :P Been fiddling around with DSL3 for the past two days since seeing it, and am having a blast, albeit I'm way out of touch. Thought I'd stick these up whilst having a break from building, still have some questions regarding DSL3. These aren't exactly 100% optimised for combat efficiency, mainly just me seeing what can be done with the new extenders/parts.
Plastic 3
Dual Astro drive
2 Battlepacks and an Ant
Still not entirely sure of the best way to go about making a flipper wedge without the good old black one that I've known for so long. This is the best I've managed thus far, but if there's any alternative that I'd obviously have missed out on, hook a guy up.
Plastic 1 (lol)
Dual NPC Drive
2 Battlepacks
Sort of a Bigger Brother-esque inspired build, not exceptionally effective but not exceptionally ineffective either. Second of the two builds involving me testing out the new burst-piston things, and I must admit I love them, however good they may or may not be in comparison to their alternatives. Again, any information regarding it would be appreciated. It's a bit underweaponed as a result of me having too much fun with the new extenders/armour pieces; it has a nice reach and sort of works until the battery drains to the point where the retraction can't flip the axle back enough, at which point it just becomes a rather crappy poker.
Tite 3
Dual NPC Drive
2 Battlepacks and an Ant (overpowered, sort of a lazy, have space-will fill solution, a chassis redesign was unlikely to help.
2 Large CO2 Tanks
Eh. Fail. An attempted different take on the standard juggler/gut ripper which fails partly due to the slow speed (dat extender work tho), and partly due to the fact I'd forgotten just how strong Storm Burst pistons are, much less two of them. This thing throws itself vertically when firing, and whoever's on top with it, meaning it gets no more than one hit on the target consistently and is just meh. This was primarily a chance to have fun with exo-skeletal designs. I'd been looking around showcases and fell in love with Thyrus' style of RL building (other showcases are available :P he's just the first one I saw coming back), and decided to take a stab at it, failing horribly in the process. Oh well, any feed back is appreciated and I might rebuild it if there's anything worth salvaging. As I stated earlier in the thread (years agololol), heavyweights were never my strong point, and I always find myself ending up with excess weight which inevitably goes into stupid crap like extenders. :P
Edit: These are png/Jpg and not BMP right? I'm a bit technologically retarded, apologies if they're bmp.
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