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Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« on: February 17, 2020, 11:48:13 AM »
So I have some bots to show off, starting with a couple of 36HS. The first one is Ripper IV which seems more fragile but it beats the other one I have.
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I don't know how well it faces in tournaments with other bots I just know that it kills some of my personal AI bots and loses to armored popups a lot. My other bot is Zephyr, which is the first 36HS I made and it works probably just as well as Ripper IV.
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Both have DSA and run on two blacks and 4 bursted HPZ for the weapons. I tried to make a third one but the left drive motor always got AGOD'd  :vista: after making it twice so I think I'm done with 36HS and will probably waste my time with many lightweights.
« Last Edit: February 17, 2020, 01:11:48 PM by Herabitix »
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2020, 06:46:22 PM »
Sorry for reply This is just a video because Discord won't let me upload them. Please ignore this.
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2020, 09:11:13 PM »
Welcome! Your 36hs's look pretty solid imo although I don't know as much about them as some vets here so they may be able to provide more input than me
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2020, 09:44:10 PM »
They're pretty generic, but that's probably a good thing, it shows you have the fundamentals down, and it looks like you actually might have built them using glitches which is a plus. I think the way you have the first one built is indeed better, esspecially for tying to take on wide popups.
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2020, 03:08:32 PM »
They're pretty generic, but that's probably a good thing, it shows you have the fundamentals down, and it looks like you actually might have built them using glitches which is a plus. I think the way you have the first one built is indeed better, esspecially for tying to take on wide popups.
Thanks for the feedback, and speaking of glitches, I made this havok bomb of a LW:
 
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It has DSA and everything but the nifty and the CB are on a single Snapper II. Once it goes spikeball, it doesn't stop until either it dies, its opponent dies, or the match ends. I'm not sure if I should replace the irons with maces but it ends up being pretty deadly against any bot that isn't an anti-HS (which is probably expected out of a HS). Any feedback helps with making a better version of this would be greatly appreciated! For anyone wondering, its name is Coma.
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2020, 09:01:14 AM »
How are the RADs attached?
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2020, 10:53:43 AM »
The RADs are attached by a sideways extender attached to the snapper II
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2020, 11:08:33 AM »
I would have a go at making it invertible. Should be fairly straightforward.
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2020, 12:41:45 PM »
the trick these days with 36HS is to find something clever to do with the extra weight you have. if you used the single extender weapons setup you'd have 36kg to mess around with - what can you do with it?
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2020, 01:36:31 PM »
For Coma, I'm going to make the extender holding the HPZ a 20cm one and with the extra 4kg I could probably do some extender work to make it invertible.
For the 36HS, I was thinking of using the weight to add 3 maces to a spinner somehow or put some armor on it. I have a ton of homework and an essay to write for English so it'll probably be a couple days before I can work on them.
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2020, 07:56:13 PM »
Hey! Sorry for the long wait, I kinda forgot about it but I did get Coma to be invertible:
 
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However, when it does become invertible most of the time it just havoks into spikeball mode, which is probably better, but I don't know, I just got my account about a month ago. I changed the 40cm extender holding the drive and HPZ to a 20cm one and on the second side AP I put a 90 degree angle connector (had to get the RADs lower with only 4kg to use) and put the two extenders holding the drive on it, and the HPZ is still on the end AP. With the 40cm extender swapped out for the 20cm extender, it helps protect the motor and drive more which I should have figured out the first time I made it. The only glaring problem is that it is highly susceptible to hammers but otherwise it seems pretty good, an I'm wondering if there's been another bot like this, although I won't be surprised if there are many. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2020, 08:31:42 PM »
it's gonna havok a lot because it's a lw hs with a hpz powered weapon all built on a snapper in a tiny chassis. you should put the drive motors on the baseplate to reduce havok.

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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2020, 11:56:26 AM »
Sorry for another really long wait but as per Virus Bomb's advice the drive RADs are on the baseplate.
it's gonna havok a lot because it's a lw hs with a hpz powered weapon all built on a snapper in a tiny chassis. you should put the drive motors on the baseplate to reduce havok.
Not much to say otherwise, except for now it has plastic armor and bear claws instead of the razors.
 
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Any feedback would be much appreciated. Thanks!
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2020, 04:21:08 PM »
So chassis weight is calculated by surface area. If you make more of a square chassis with the drive motors on either side of the battery and snapper you should gain a bit more weight to play with.
You can maybe attach the HPZ without an extender using the back attachment point.
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2020, 09:08:26 AM »
So chassis weight is calculated by surface area. If you make more of a square chassis with the drive motors on either side of the battery and snapper you should gain a bit more weight to play with.
You can maybe attach the HPZ without an extender using the back attachment point.
Try this amd see if you can get DSA again.
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #15 on: April 09, 2020, 11:48:18 AM »
Sadly it seems as if simply changing the chassis shape will not save enough weight to keep DSA. Below I have an image of what the product is (the extra RAD is to replace the Nifty in terms of weight) and so I think I would somehow have to use other methods to save weight (i.e. plastic, or using claws instead of the front mace).
 
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I understand that it is not a perfect chassis but I don't think a perfect chassis would save the kilos needed. Any feedback or other suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Edit: On a side note, should I make a showcase for my brother's (who is 10) DSL and Ironforge bots? He generally just makes whatever either using CF or going way overweight but he seems to have a ton of fun, and he's actually using axle wedges on a couple bots. Lemme know what you guys think.
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2020, 01:41:42 PM »
I'm pretty sure 90kg of weapons with plastic or 81kg with DSA has been done before. You need to not use an extender to mount the HPZ I think.
Might be misremembering though. I'll do some digging.

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Something like this should do it. You'll have to so some sneaky snapper loading though.
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #17 on: April 11, 2020, 01:14:55 PM »
So instead of working more on Coma I decided to make my first AW, which is a 1WD HS with DSA. I will probably make a version with a nifty and plastic armor to go along with this but overall I think it is pretty decent for my first AW, but I'm no expert here.
 
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I wasn't sure whether the wheel would be better on the outside or inside, so I have another version with the wheel on the outside.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2020, 08:47:23 PM »
Inside should be better because the wheel won't get knocked off as easily.
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Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
« Reply #19 on: July 07, 2020, 02:31:17 PM »
So I got my Pathfinders II entry here, a 33HS called Chaotic Outcry.
DSA (Obviously)
33 maces
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7 casters (3 bottom 2 front 2 bottom + front)
The three missing maces are on the inside right hpz.
 
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Any feedback and/or criticism is greatly appreciated.
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