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« on: January 07, 2017, 03:01:14 PM »
I have to admit that as crude, unbalanced, and generally impractical as Baconus' hammer spinners are, they're very entertaining to watch. Especially when Roders 2 havoked out of the arena, bounced off the outer wall, and rebounded back into the arena again. That was brilliant.
Eruption Evo's various havoks were pretty spectacular too.
Note to self: redesign Vertigo to use a dual E-Tek like Cyber Hawk. So glad Fork Flip 2 made it through as well, it's a beautiful machine.
I was gonna ask why Deep Blue was driving around backwards but you already answered that
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« on: January 06, 2017, 01:50:51 AM »
Yay, what a birthday present! Took me longer than it should have done to realize that only Arachnida's fights were re-run and the rest were all the same as before. Which is fair enough.
That was very tight indeed, commiserations to Badger, but I'm glad to be going through after all.
How can you have so many pieces on the floor and not have the game crash?
The Shell spinner vs Megiddo was insane!
For me the best part of that fight was how I was still kicking Megiddo's ass even with half my shell missing. Tough ol' machine, Dentophobia.
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« on: January 05, 2017, 04:47:02 PM »
Oh man I would love to see this happen. Since I still haven't learned to AI yet, I test all my robots through manual driving, and I dare say I'm fairly good at it.
It would be very interesting to see how the metagame would change, going from AI battles to human battles. One thing I can think of that I don't think anyone's mentioned yet is attack timing: the AI will just fire an axe or a flipper willy-nilly, whereas a human can time the blows for maximum impact, and also gauge how much battery/gas they have left and adapt their tactics. So you could definitely have more strategic battles in that way. There's also the matter of melee battles: you can decide which opponents to take on and which to avoid rather than the AI driving around attacking things at random. Arena hazards would come into play more, pushing power would come into play more... it would definitely be fun to do, and fun to watch.
Sadly, I have no idea how to netcode.
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« on: January 04, 2017, 06:15:42 AM »
New year, new bots? lolnope Firstly, I've given Defcon a major overhaul: - The front wedgelets are now mounted on extenders rather than hinges. This doesn't seem to have increased their effectiveness much, but the higher mounting means a) they look nicer, and b)...
- The wheels are now smaller, reducing Defcon's overall ground clearance.
- The armour has been redesigned, with greater coverage on the sides, and rounded bits on the back to stop it getting stranded there (which happened annoyingly often before).
- The central flipper panel has been made wider to create the illusion of it all being one big panel (which is immediately broken when it flips and they go out of alignment, but still...), and I added a fake ram on the underside.
Now weighs 795.0kg. The next step will be giving it a paintjob that doesn't suck. I'm thinking blue-and-yellow like the original RWRA2 version. I've also given Disquiet an overhaul. Instead of a DSL disc that hovered two feet above the extender frame and looked stupid, it now has a drum with cutting teeth that fills the space much more nicely. I also BFE'd the chassis height down to make it look neater, as I did with Torquish Delight. Now weighs 244.0kg. Again, next step is to give it a proper skin.
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« on: January 04, 2017, 02:51:35 AM »
It's not that bad. The front wedges don't look too well-aligned though. If you use RA2CF you can get rid of the restriction on how many pieces you can link together, and you might be able to make the flipper look neater rather than having that sticky-outy bit in the middle.
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« on: January 01, 2017, 05:54:40 PM »
Best BOTM Winner
CHAIR
THE PEOPLE'S CHAMP
how....
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« on: January 01, 2017, 12:37:17 PM »
Wow, that's amazing! Fantastic job, Sonny!
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« on: December 31, 2016, 02:41:10 PM »
I'm still not sure whether I regret not entering this but it looks like the craziest sh**
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« on: December 31, 2016, 01:39:24 PM »
Did you get my entry i sent yesterday?
unless you got a pm telling you they were illegal, then they were fine
Plus, you can always just look in the OP and look for your name.
That would be helpful except that Badnik hasn't updated the OP in three weeks.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 05:16:49 PM »
Not Tornado looks pretty cool.
Agreed, I love it. Is it a HW or SHW? I can't tell.
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« on: December 30, 2016, 02:58:29 PM »
I still need to fix my entry because it won't drive straight but I do have one coming, trust me
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« on: December 30, 2016, 07:05:09 AM »
Whoo, that was close. Dentophobia did pretty well there, I think. And I don't think any of those were clutch victories for a change.
uh... thats not the right version of my bot...
Sorry, but I can't resist... 
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« on: December 30, 2016, 01:39:48 AM »
Also what's up with all the bots exept freaking Dee using all the same wheels? has there been some kind of restrictment? All bots had to be 2 WD with the same wheels and the same motors?
There might have been, just to save everyone time, money, and effort. I noticed they were all using T64s and had exposed wheels (though I think the second one is more for spectacle). Appart from those rants I'm glad Ellis finally made a reliable spinning robot :P Good work on that machine. I don't think we will ever see them again
Maybe not, but perhaps that means he's also got the kinks in Pulsar worked out? I hope so. It'd be good to see what it's capable of when it's not stopping every five seconds.
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« on: December 29, 2016, 01:15:53 AM »
TBH I kinda liked Chomp's Season 1 appearance, even if it did crap. The Season 2 version is way too unstable - it needs to be flatter and wider - but it's amusing in a dumb kind of way to watch it fling itself all over the arena like a mad thing. It may not have deserved its win over Disc-O-Inferno (for which I think we should hate the judging criteria rather than Chomp), but it deserved its win against Bite Force after that precision hit.
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« on: December 28, 2016, 04:05:26 PM »
I was doing so well and then my wedges decided to suck donkey dick... still a good performance though, got in a hell of a flip on Prepare For Trouble (And Make It Double) and I beat CarboniZe! That's revenge for Death Battle  And let's be honest here, did anyone see Spiky doing better than John the Robbut
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« on: December 28, 2016, 12:21:02 PM »
I think he meant anarcho-capitalism (I'll post a picture to illustrate when I get home but your bot vaguely resembles the anarcho-capitalist flag)
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« on: December 27, 2016, 05:04:28 PM »
Pretty good heat. The next one should be great, plenty of very good bots... and also Terminal Velocity 
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« on: December 25, 2016, 10:25:48 AM »
What is it with my bots and sh**ty rumble performances
Great tournament, Thracker! Are we going awards, or...?
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« on: December 25, 2016, 08:09:07 AM »
Things faster than Pretty Tit:
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« on: December 25, 2016, 06:13:33 AM »
I updated Chernobyl's wedges, but that's a minor update not really worth showing off. I do, however, have two other builds to show off for Christmas! Firstly, I rebuilt Bluebird (again). It's still powerful and well-armoured but hopefully now looks even better.  Secondly, inspired by all the thwackbots in Sword of Glory, I decided to try building a DSL version of my semi-infamous RA3 axlebot Torquish Delight. Unlike the original, this one's a pure SnS, with a big-ass hammer. I BFE'd the chassis height so the wedges at the back would line up properly, and RA2CF helped with the thwacking arm (though it's still not perfect).  I'm also gonna try making an extenderbot version of my hammer/pusher hybrid Valkyrie, though I don't know how well it'll end up going. I'll keep you posted. Merry Christmas!
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