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Stock Showcases / E://System32/showcase

« on: September 15, 2008, 01:16:38 PM »

Me and FB made a few omnidirectional bots back in the day, and the main problem I've seen is that the sideways-facing wheels slow the bot down too much.  You need to put a lot more weight into the drive, and you don't even go any faster for it--you go slower.  The only kind of bot I've seen that's real effective with that drive setup is sit and spinners.

You could do this:

The fatboy wheels have exactly the right curvature. Also, the Mecanums could probably be done under the weight limit but I bet that the bot would have zero weaponry.

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Discussion / My robot and arena ideas

« on: September 12, 2008, 06:39:40 PM »

Yes you could. Build a bot that can BREAK THE SOUND BARRIER OMGWTF !!!!!11one. Though considering most of the disk parts for DSL are ever so slightly off balance this could be dificult.

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Chatterbox / funny quotes

« on: September 06, 2008, 07:40:40 AM »

5/4 people don't understand fractions.

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Discussion / Your hilarious RA2 experiences

« on: August 20, 2008, 07:33:27 AM »

MASSIVE BUMP!

Anyway, some of my weird experiences include:
1. Having a DSL ant disk get thrown off a bot and land on vertically and not fall over for the rest of the match.
2. Havoking INTO the floor half way. Lost me a perfectly good tournament.
3.You no the antimatter neutron piece and how it makes your bot fly around uncontrollably? I put FOUR of those bots in the hamsterball arena and managed to eject it from its pit!
4.Critical Emergency's srimech was working perfectly fine but all it could do was walk itself slowly towards the hammers.

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Discussion / Pardon me for the stupid question, but

« on: August 20, 2008, 07:20:05 AM »

Where are you getting those big, square, blue snapper motors? I can't find them in the stock game.

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DSL TC Showcases / Urjaks Showcase

« on: August 19, 2008, 07:55:14 PM »

This makes me want to build a multibot. However, on the spinner, use ant wheels or DSL 1s. They are both more efficient, the ant ones for weight and the DSL 1s for grip.

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DSL TC Showcases / Condor's showcase

« on: August 18, 2008, 08:52:36 AM »

Scoop people and then throw them. I'll rebuild it soon, the current one is really weak.

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DSL TC Showcases / Condor's showcase

« on: August 18, 2008, 07:07:28 AM »

It can, but you have to be careful not to crash the bot or turn to violently because then it will explode. An explosion like this usually causes unusual things to happen, most often this:

EDIT: Did his horizontal spinner use the 100 CM, 150 CM, 200 CM, 250 CM discs? They are actually all slightly off balance.

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Online Battles / Online Multiplayer Battles

« on: August 17, 2008, 07:56:11 PM »

I'd like too but whenever I try to talk to people on Hamachi the message doesn't seem to get through.

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DSL TC Showcases / Condor's showcase

« on: August 17, 2008, 04:52:41 PM »

You are very good at building, especially because when alot of people come here at first (System32) they are bad builders (and when they don't listen to our advice they stay like that).

Thanks! I learn quick, I can pick up a game and be decent at it within three days. The downside of this is I could probably never be quite as good as say, infiniteinertia, ACAMS, or Apple.

That done, here is today's bot update:

Bot in Sheep's Clothing: I went through three different weapon setups here, before deciding on some large beater bar mechanisms.




I managed to get Wiideload on his front, pin him on a wall, and then destroy his drum by tearing off his motors with these. The other two were failures.


KILLough: This robot is a Killough omniderectional platform, hence the name. Basically, it can go any direction without turning, though it can do that as well. It's just a prototype, though it can kill middleweights fairly well.



Wallop: I know, I misspelled the name. This is actually pretty effective, I've taken pictures of where the computer ended up after a test hit as an example. It is especially good at de-wheeling other bots.




Jaws of Life: This started out as a Dead Metal clone, but I realized that that was impossible, so I just focused on the jaws and ended up with this. It's not great but it can tear up almost any bot without a flipper.

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DSL TC Showcases / Condor's showcase

« on: August 16, 2008, 11:02:06 AM »

TOO MANY BATTERIES!!!

For some reason, a spinner weapon does not need to be full powered to work for three minutes. Haunt 2 is lasting on abouit 78 amps and it lasts 3 minutes easily.

Oh. I'll tone down the batteries in the future.

Fire Mouse: If you hold the flame on with an analog control, and don't let it off, it will stay at full flame forever, even when you have no air power left

Another new discovery

TOO MANY BATTERIES!!!
Blendhead: Very good first bot

All bots: You need to cut down on extra space in the chassis, because extra space=extra armor=extra weight

Thanks! I'll try to cut down the weight too, but not using grid mode is such a pain:frown:
I built a quick experimental weapon earlier, called a rotary wedge.

It doesn't work all that well in combat, though I have gotten several construction techniques out of it, which you can expect to see in later bots.

Punt::shock:

Well then you'll like this. I upgraded it, with STACKED DUAL PERMS. It now takes a full minute to get to speed.

This is what the original did, on average




This is what the new one does.



Both it AND the target go airborne and often OOTA. This is no good, so I'm rebuilding it. Don't worry, I'll go back to normal bots soon, but I really want to have a robot capable of throwing people so hard they KO on impact. Actually, I'm starting to consider this: What about a trinity hammer?

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DSL TC Showcases / Condor's showcase

« on: August 16, 2008, 08:54:27 AM »

Actually, they aren't my first. more like my 12th. Because I have so many, I'll just post screens of the team screens and put more detailed info up about one if anyone wants it.

BlendHead: THIS is my first robot. It's a dual-perm powered Hazard clone.I'll post pictures of it in a fight against Critical Emergency later.

Meat Grinder: A very very sucky shell spinner. I stopped using it a while ago.

Punt: An improved version of a bot of Clickbeetle's I really liked. I haven't thrown Sir Killalot a quarter mile with this, but I've OOTAd people on the Battlebox of all places.

Grasshopper: Mag-snapper powered semirupting flipper. Can flip ANYTHING in it's calss, even some lightweights.

EnterBotName: Yes, I called it that. Kinda an improved version of BlendHead, partially inspired by a real bot that I just forgot the name of. REALLY good on the Claw Top and Lumazone.

Bass Drum: What do you get when you put a ton of firepower into a chassis that an antweight can flip? This. Design failure.


Gravity Wave: A much better Meat Grinder, but it's still flipped to easily.

Wedgie:An experiment, can you fit a couple of really huge motors in a bw? Yes, apparently, and the result is ridiculously fast. I was going for Eteks, but instead decided on those brown L shaped ones that I forgot the name of.

One Man Gauntlet: This was inspired my Haunt. It does pretty well, but it's slow. NEVER use thinbodies for drive :roll:

Micro Mill: A very, very bad lightweight saw. Design failure.

Bot Eater: this one is pretty self explanatory. Can tear up anything and everything (besides Pon2n) that it touches. However, it takes like thirty seconds for it to turn 360 degrees, so it's pretty slow.

cheatbot2: This was NOT cheatbot2. This was originally "Vulcan's Hammer" but it could bearly beat UnDeadBeat, so I just experimented on it.


You've seen Conundrum and Switchblade. Thirty points to whoever gets the refrence in the name and slogan here.

Crash Test: Basic super-rammer. It has very complex controls, with only two wheels moving normally and a seperate key to charge.

Fire Mouse: A friend made this. It's a flamethrowing lw that runs out of fuel in about a minute.

Super Ripblade: Ripblade upgrade. I was trying to use Switchblade's disk to my advantage, because it was so all powerful, but this is actually not great. Can pwn Ripblade II though, so it must be better.

Slammenstien: First bot able to throw the car around. Basically a bulldozer, though the blow is on a piston so it can throw bots under hazards without endangering itself.

What a long list! Anyway, here are inside pix of Switchblade, Conundrum, and BlendHead.

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Oh and if the pictures are showing up as links, not pictures, please tell me why.

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DSL TC Showcases / Condor's showcase

« on: August 15, 2008, 06:51:13 PM »

I've had RA2 for about three weeks now, and I am hooked. I've tried both stock and DSL, and I quite frankly prefer the latter, so here is my showcase! :grin:

First up, ConunDrum:

This bot is pretty good, though I mainly made it because I wanted a RedruM clone to play around with. It's fairly powerful, though easy to flip :pissd: However, this one is much better



This is Switchblade. I don't quite know how I did this, but it will utterly slaughter almost every stock DSL bot, except Pon2n, which it can't get to. For proof, see this

I ripped his drum off and then stood him on his front end. I think that's pretty good. This is obvious, but criticism is appreciated.