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Title: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix 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.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix 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.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: 8bean 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
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Meganerdbomb 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.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on February 24, 2020, 03:08:32 PM: Quote from: Meganerdbomb 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.
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.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Meganerdbomb on February 25, 2020, 09:01:14 AM: How are the RADs attached?
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix 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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Post by: Squirrel_Monkey on February 25, 2020, 11:08:33 AM: I would have a go at making it invertible. Should be fairly straightforward.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Sage 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?
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix 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.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix 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!
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Virus Bomb 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.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix 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.
Quote from: Virus Bomb 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.
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!
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Squirrel_Monkey 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.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Meganerdbomb on April 09, 2020, 09:08:26 AM: Quote from: Squirrel_Monkey 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.
Try this amd see if you can get DSA again.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix 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.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Squirrel_Monkey 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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Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix 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!
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Meganerdbomb on May 01, 2020, 08:47:23 PM: Inside should be better because the wheel won't get knocked off as easily.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix 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
Grannies
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.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 07, 2020, 03:02:57 PM: Sorry for double post but I just saw SqurrielMonkey's edit and I already had a bot like that but I never showcased it.
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Plastic with 90 kilos of weapons.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Squirrel_Monkey on July 07, 2020, 03:46:46 PM: There you go. I knew you could do it. :)
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 07, 2020, 04:04:16 PM: Yay I got my AW to have a nifty!
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Edit: it still has DSA
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Reier on July 20, 2020, 06:34:54 PM: i like your style kiddo. keep up the good builds.
i dig the AW design.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 20, 2020, 07:55:06 PM: Quote from: Reier on July 20, 2020, 06:34:54 PM
i like your style kiddo. keep up the good builds.
i dig the AW design.
Well thank you! In other news I made another AW HS. Its plastic with 2 irons on an HPZ with 1WD. Any comments?
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Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Reier on July 20, 2020, 08:59:17 PM: looks about as good as you can make it boss :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 22, 2020, 08:28:50 PM: Keeping up with the AWs (I guess I like building them) my first non HS on my showcase. Its a basic rammer with DSA and 3 razors. If I give it plastic I can upgrade to 3 irons. Any Comments? I'm not sure what I can do with the 4 extra kilos but that's the least of my worries currently.
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Edit: that first AW I showed (The DSA one) is quite good at taking out plastic armor bots heck
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 27, 2020, 01:15:30 AM: I finally decided to make a MW 18HS, it's the standard with 15 bears and 3 maces. Any comments?
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Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 27, 2020, 01:14:57 PM: I made this AW thwacker for fun lol. It probably sucks but it was fun to make and watch it do volatile partisan stuff. It's quite stable actually and with the right inputs it can spin pretty fast for an AW. It's got plastic armor btw. Any comments?
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Edit: it works since the drive is more on the left, meaning it spins when you drive forward or back, and turning is the same as a usual bot with drive on an axle.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Reier on July 27, 2020, 04:41:20 PM: i really like the creative engineering even if it isn't super competitive. you don't see unique designs on the AW level too often

that wheel exploit is really fun to mess around with if you can think of designs for it

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which i have not.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 27, 2020, 10:42:23 PM: Here's Costco, a 36HS that's ready to out-save the opponent by getting the better deals! I'll skin it when I get home but the setup required a decent bit of effeing and snapper loading, and I hope the setup works well. Any comments?
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Edit: it's also invertible
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 28, 2020, 12:56:18 AM: Sorry for double post but reier the first thing I think of with that design is maybe a flail SnS. I'll have to do some testing but with an uneven drive distribution you can get it to SnS decently fast compared to normal. It probably won't work but it doesn't hurt to try! I'll come back later with maybe a couple designs.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Reier on July 28, 2020, 01:48:58 AM: Quote from: Herabitix on July 28, 2020, 12:56:18 AM
Sorry for double post but reier the first thing I think of with that design is maybe a flail SnS. I'll have to do some testing but with an uneven drive distribution you can get it to SnS decently fast compared to normal. It probably won't work but it doesn't hurt to try! I'll come back later with maybe a couple designs.
yea you probably could. I'm not sure how much faster it would turn than a traditional setup but that's the challenge. looking forward to what you come up with. the most creative design I did with that glitch is this (https://gametechmods.com/forums/ironforge-tc-showcases/the-mighty-reier's-'we-are-the-chumpions'-ironforge-extravaganza/msg747656/#msg747656) but i'm sure there's way more that can be done
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 28, 2020, 02:04:21 AM: So you're not sure how much faster it goes eh? So I made a MW one with 4 HPZs on it and without the casters it moves so fast it immediately launches itself... which might not be the best... However it is more controllable with casters. I drove forward and it launched lol. And that was with only 2 wheels driving... If you turn with all 4 wheels it immediately spikeballs which is cool, casters or not. It's effectiveness is probably limited but it looks cool chaotically spikeballing about.
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Edit: The weapons are attached to axles which are o the baseplate and second it's funny watching it launch up and divebomb it's opponents
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Reier on July 28, 2020, 02:17:10 AM: yea having axles like that usually makes a havok bomb. I may be misunderstanding it, I'm sure it would make more sense if I saw it in action. keep playing with it man i'm sure you'll come up with something. i still dig it whether it works or not.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 28, 2020, 02:32:03 AM: Here's the bot file to mess around with. X is to launch (I do this by moving all of the motors clockwise) Space moves forward at full power. It was fun to watch it divebomb my 6yo brother's bot for the first time.
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EDIT: I made a HW version that has 8 hpzs for maximum spikeballing. 21 maces with stacked blacks, and when it spikeballs the maces spin quite fast. It was a fun project to work on today and I hope you enjoy! For anyone confused, it's primary offense is to havok/spikeball up and land on its opponent with great force.
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I'm sorry Sage
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on August 02, 2020, 05:49:43 PM: I made a basic LW 9HS but I wanted to show it off since I stacked the Nifty in the HPZ. DSA with 9 maces.
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Any comments?
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Pwnator on August 02, 2020, 09:00:44 PM: can you stack the cb further into the nifty if you load out the hpz axle or nah
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on August 02, 2020, 09:04:46 PM: I already loaded the hpz to get the cb in but i didn't feel like stacking the cb with the hpz as well since it would only save 0.6 kg.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on August 07, 2020, 04:02:57 PM: I have improved the second AW I have made (the one with the HPZ) by downgrading to a regular ztek but changing it to have 3 razors on a tribar. Still plastic. No CF was used as always.
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EDIT: I made a LW 9HS with DSA and 90 Kilos. If I was able to stack a snapper and nifty itd look better with the smaller chassis but otherwise im happy with how it turned out.
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Any comments or advice?

EDIT: Just realized what I did to get the RADs how they were was probably just me activating hax mode without knowing it (I used PauseBreak and spun it enough and when it went to the left side of the chassis in certain rotations collision just broke) so these probably aren't tournament legal. rip me ig
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on August 21, 2020, 06:12:35 PM: I made a LW VS I guess. DSA. Any comments or concerns?
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When I get back from vacation I'll try to find a way to get the weapon lower since iirc if I use a 90 degree ba facing forwards it's too wide for the chassis. I know I have .1 to spare but I'm not sure if I can make the chassis wide enough.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Squirrel_Monkey on August 21, 2020, 06:20:27 PM: I quite like it. If it can hit a normal height chassis then the weapon isn't too high.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on August 21, 2020, 06:51:51 PM: It can hit Le\/eL III so it should work fine, but I'll still see if I can lower it
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Reier on August 21, 2020, 08:30:43 PM: i'm a little concerned it's actually not wide enough. you can probably do some creative setup with the 140cms to make it wider if you don't attach them 90 degrees to each other.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Pwnator on August 22, 2020, 12:27:07 AM: How much can you free if you drop to plastic?

You can do a 90-degree BA facing to the side then pop a 20cm across it to hold the HPZ which should give you better control of its reach.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on August 23, 2020, 05:20:31 PM: I have upgraded my LW VS! I have made it wider and lower, and Pwn if I swap to plastic I save a little more than 5 kilos. Otherwise it's still DSA and it should work better than the last. Any comments or concerns?
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The way I saved weight is swapping the angle connectors to 20cm extenders btw, and those extenders are way more protected by the plows now.
EDIT: I can make it even wider if needed, so width and weapon height should no longer be an issue.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Reier on August 24, 2020, 12:37:57 AM: very nice.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on September 01, 2020, 09:10:27 PM: I made a (probably terrible) rupt flipper to pass the time. 397.x and DSA. I will say I did CF the batts in since I didn't wanna take forever stacking for a bot I'm probably not gonna use but if something does come up I'll properly stack it.
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I'll take any advice I can get.
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on October 05, 2020, 06:00:43 PM: Here is Decimator, a 6HS with bursted ztek weapons and plastic armor. 247.4 kilos and a nifty for batteries. Any advice?
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Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Herabitix on July 21, 2021, 04:50:46 PM: Well it's been a while, and I figured I might as well make a bot, complete with an awful skin. Here's yet another HS, 396.8 with 12 maces, 1 plow, 1 black, and HPZ drive. I don't think it's too bad, but what do I know. Any comments?
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Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: kill343gs on August 24, 2021, 08:42:50 PM: this brings me back ngl
Title: Re: Herabitix's Stock Showcase
Post by: Sage on August 31, 2021, 11:36:40 AM: MW setup pretty clean not gonna lie. Chassis could be tighter but you won't be able to do anything with the extra weight anyway (probably better cause more health!).