Author Topic: Clickbeetle's bots (Read 81724 times)

roboman2444 · « **Reply #180 on:** September 12, 2009, 10:14:25 AM »

awesome!!!!!

Natef · « **Reply #181 on:** September 12, 2009, 10:45:52 AM »

Quote from: JoeBlo;65533

100% agreed

another one of my clickbeetle favorites, and the first ever BOTM entry I voted for, its a great example of originality and effectiveness combined

I like his popups the most, because love popups! :-D

Madiaba · « **Reply #182 on:** September 12, 2009, 04:37:54 PM »

Nice, CB. I'm trying to picture everything working in actual combat.
Maybe a vid, if you can fit it in, would be real nice...

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #183 on:** September 19, 2009, 07:10:35 PM »

Quote from: R0B0SH4RK;65460

Still the coolest hammer bot ever IMO.

That may change after this month's BOTM :evil:

Anyways.

After redoing the AI on all the BBEANS1 bots for the BBEANS AI pack, I realized that Event Horizon 2 isn't as good as it used to be. So I rebuilt the design from the ground up, and this is what came out.

DSA, 3 small batteries, 12 razors. Invertible.

A decent, although not spectacular bot. Still better than Event Horizon 2 though. The main issue is with the wedge--I can't get it to be really good, even if I use ballasts or if I straighten the Snappers. Also, it sometimes doesn't drive straight in reverse. But it's good against any bot it can get under, and some HS's.

I have the body of the Snappers facing forward like that to improve weight distribution, if you're curious. I also had some extra weight, so I threw a random baseplate anchor with nothing on it in the wedge to act as a bit of ballast. If I took that out and also went with 2 batteries (which I think would be possible) I could have some considerable extra weight to work with, BUT, I don't know what to do with it.

Reier · « **Reply #184 on:** September 19, 2009, 07:13:31 PM »

Nice looking bot, reminds me of a racecar or a jet or something streamlined. IDK about the pinks, but it's neat how you flattened the chassis with them.

Jack Daniels · « **Reply #185 on:** September 19, 2009, 07:39:34 PM »

I've never been able to get angled wedges to be effective ever. 3 pinks seems a tad thin on the power side... I take it the bot shoots for the 1 hit KO and it is not made to endure a full match? Looks cool. I recommend rotating the HPZ's to see if you can hit a "sweet" flat spot to correct the drive problem.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #186 on:** September 19, 2009, 07:53:54 PM »

The pinks don't give it enough power to fire the Snappers, but it is enough to power the drive for a 3 minute match. The Snappers don't need to be fired anyway.

Sage · « **Reply #187 on:** September 19, 2009, 08:20:31 PM »

You know what, pinks would look SO much better painted black. I'll get on that in the skin pack :D

Natef · « **Reply #188 on:** September 19, 2009, 08:23:06 PM »

Looks nice. I <3 Event Horizon!

Naryar · « **Reply #189 on:** September 19, 2009, 08:25:02 PM »

It looks cool, but would look cooler if you skinned the HP's and the snappers blue and black to fit the thing.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #190 on:** November 27, 2009, 04:58:48 PM »

Whoa, EH3 was the most recent stock bot I posted? I guess all the bots I made after that have been for BOTM...

Here's a new type of rammer that I made.

DSA, 8 razors (4 per Snapper), 1 Supervolt, 4WD.

Popups beat rammers right? Well not this rammer. The idea was to make a fast rammer with all of its weapons focused into as small an area as possible, so if you hit that one area, you always take the maximum damage possible. And since I used Snappers to overlap the razors, Longbow also has the ability to fire its weapons to hit bots that are under it or on top of it, although this is more of a last-ditch desperation move than a viable tactic (although it has come in handy on a few occasions).

Obviously, a rammer with 8 razors is no good against other rammers or HS (unless I can get a miracle OHKO, which has happened). But wedges, and any bot with any exposed chassis in the middle is fair game. In fact Longbow can consistently 2-second-one-hit KO most bots with a flat chassis exposed in the middle, like TC9 or Averst. Wedges are more difficult to OHKO, but it can consistently bring them to critical HP with a single hit and then finish them off with a few more. Even armored popups aren't safe. Longbow can take off ram plates in one hit, and once the chassis is exposed it's anyone's game.

All the battleshots in the splash are AI battles, except the ones with damage points shown. And that damage? No rammer-on-rammer foolery here, that's from a pure chassis hit

Virus Bomb · « **Reply #191 on:** November 27, 2009, 05:02:39 PM »

Great bot.

System32 · « **Reply #192 on:** November 27, 2009, 05:34:17 PM »

I question the burst at the bottom, I mean it feels to me it may slow the bot down and not deliver any BIG hits.

Also, that splash makes me wanna have your bot's babies. It looks so non violent and such. :P

Naryar · « **Reply #193 on:** November 27, 2009, 05:38:57 PM »

Quote from: System32;81186

I question the burst at the bottom, I mean it feels to me it may slow the bot down and not deliver any BIG hits.

I am feeling the same way.

System32 · « **Reply #194 on:** November 27, 2009, 05:43:21 PM »

What I forgot to say is that perhaps making it Side hammer-ish or even Chaining Pistons may be a nice alternative?

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #195 on:** November 27, 2009, 06:02:24 PM »

Not sure what you mean.

The Snappers only fire when a bot gets under Longbow, so it doesn't slow it down, it's just a way for it to hit bots that are under it. The main purpose of the Snappers is to get all the razors in one small area.

As for not delivering big hits, that much is true, it's not anything like a popup weapon. But it's better than being totally helpless when a bot is under you.

I thought about pistons, but didn't use them for several reasons: a) They can't hit bots that are underneath. b) They are bigger and require an air tank, and Longbow is already at 399.0 kgs.

And a side hammer setup would be useless except for stacking. A possibility, to just ditch the popup defense, but that's something for a totally different bot.

Naryar · « **Reply #196 on:** November 27, 2009, 06:08:16 PM »

Wait a sec... So the razors are normally horizontal like a normal rammer, and if you fire them, one set goes upwards and one set downwards ?

I totally didn't thought about this :P

System32 · « **Reply #197 on:** November 27, 2009, 06:22:39 PM »

I thought it was in reverse!

Reier · « **Reply #198 on:** November 27, 2009, 06:28:45 PM »

You guys are so naive. :P

Naryar · « **Reply #199 on:** November 27, 2009, 06:38:06 PM »

^^ TYPO ALERT

Edit: Now that i can see how the thing works, it looks damn good !