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Natef · « **Reply #60 on:** April 06, 2010, 07:36:49 PM »

Can you upgrade to rubber wheels?

NFX · « **Reply #61 on:** April 06, 2010, 07:40:27 PM »

I tried that, but two problems came up. The first was that the front wedge prised the robot off the ground, so it was kinda stop-start movement as it bounced around a bit with the small contact patch, and it also put the robot on exactly 800.0 weight, which for some reason isn't allowed. So shinies it was.

NFX · « **Reply #62 on:** May 01, 2010, 08:04:58 AM »

Been busy with the BBEANS AI pack recently, and here's a slightly inproved (hopefully) version of HaleStorm. I tried reskinning a snowplow to cover the side wheels, but it didn't entirely work, so I decided to stick a couple of ramplates on the front for some protection against the HS's. 2 Stacked Blackvolts, 4 Z-Teks, 4 DDT's, 20 Razors, and DSA. Also self-righting.

Pwnator · « **Reply #63 on:** May 01, 2010, 08:08:58 AM »

Nice, though you might want to remove the Snapper2 setup and just add some more razors on the DDTs. With the free weight, try to add ramplates on the extreme sides of the front, because that's were most HSes tend to hit.

G.K. · « **Reply #64 on:** May 01, 2010, 08:10:52 AM »

Your skins are awesome. The Razors look a little messy. Line them all up the same way.

NFX · « **Reply #65 on:** May 01, 2010, 08:14:24 AM »

Quote from: G.K. on May 01, 2010, 08:10:52 AM

Your skins are awesome. The Razors look a little messy. Line them all up the same way.

Thanks. =) I can't get the razors pointing the same way, but I can have them 180 degrees with each other, which seems to work fine. I can still get 2 or 1-hit Knockouts with this setup.

Naryar · « **Reply #66 on:** May 01, 2010, 08:16:28 AM »

While the bot has a few building defects, it looks damn awesome.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #67 on:** May 01, 2010, 08:22:24 AM »

I'm not sure, but if you got rid of a few razors and used Rubber Wheels it would have lower ground clearance.

G.K. · « **Reply #68 on:** May 01, 2010, 08:24:54 AM »

Quote from: NFX on May 01, 2010, 08:14:24 AM

I can't get the razors pointing the same way

Use the eFFe glitch.

Pwnator · « **Reply #69 on:** May 01, 2010, 08:25:39 AM »

There are some cases when lower ground clearance doesn't mean better wedges. My Helix prototype had rubbers before but it couldn't get under RPB.

Gazea2 · « **Reply #70 on:** May 01, 2010, 08:26:30 AM »

Quote from: G.K. on May 01, 2010, 08:24:54 AM

Quote from: NFX on May 01, 2010, 08:14:24 AM
I can't get the razors pointing the same way
Use the eFFe glitch.

I was just about to post that. :P

NFX, you are turning into a very promising builder.

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #71 on:** May 01, 2010, 09:22:46 AM »

Better skinned, less armoured, more weaponed Mercury Monkey anyone?

G.K. · « **Reply #72 on:** May 01, 2010, 09:23:25 AM »

No. Just No.

NFX · « **Reply #73 on:** May 01, 2010, 11:10:55 AM »

Quote from: G.K. on May 01, 2010, 08:24:54 AM

Quote from: NFX on May 01, 2010, 08:14:24 AM
I can't get the razors pointing the same way
Use the eFFe glitch.

Oh, I see what you mean now. Took me a while to figure out how that would work. Fire the DDTs while I'm adding the extenders, I get it. XD

NFX · « **Reply #74 on:** May 01, 2010, 03:51:31 PM »

I haven't seen a robot like this one before, so I'm gonna show you Spiderbait, which has no rotary motors at all. It rests on three sledgehammers on the underside of the robot, and the way it moves is, the Snappers push the sledgehammer feet downwards, and lift the robot off the ground, while the DDT's that the Snappers are directly attached to move the 'feet' backwards, propelling the bot along. When the DDT's retract, the Snappers lift the feet up, so the bot rests on the sledgehammers on the bottom again. It uses an alternate feet movement, that is, the front and back feet on one side, and the middle foot on the other. It scores surprisingly well in combat, given that it doesn't actually have any parts that act solely as weapons, everything is more or less used to move the bot forwards. At the moment it doesn't move backwards at all, and the turning is veeeeeeeeery slow. And I've had to use plastic armour to let me keep the sledgehammers there. Really, it's not been made to win matches, more just to see if the idea would actually work.

So anyway, here is Spiderbait. =)

Badnik96 · « **Reply #75 on:** May 01, 2010, 05:47:35 PM »

Naryar · « **Reply #76 on:** May 01, 2010, 06:30:58 PM »

It's called a walker, and has been done before, but i never saw one with sledgehammers.

It looks quite fun, but 6 legs = NOT a spider, but an insect.

Makes me think i still have to build that DSL SHW black widow style walker that idea is in my head since 1 year at least.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #77 on:** May 02, 2010, 07:54:39 AM »

NFX, you should post that on the bot exchange. That bot is just too f***ing cool.

NFX · « **Reply #78 on:** May 02, 2010, 01:23:35 PM »

Spiderbait? I might tweak it a little bit before I do, maybe I can get the legs working a little better. =)

NFX · « **Reply #79 on:** May 04, 2010, 05:29:34 PM »

Okay, I've been busy with the BBEANS AI Pack again, and I've got another version of HaleStorm done. 2 horizontal Ramplates keep HS's at bay (more or less), and all the razors are pointing the right way now.