The Stock Showcase of The Ounce

[The Ounce]

Late reply, but:

We could use your popup as the replacement for BackSlash and perhaps your hybrid for REVENGE.

You really think they're worthy of Re-Stocked?  I feel honored

Anyway, here's something I built not too long ago, but have been meaning to build for some time:


HPZ Drive, 1 Supervolt, DSA.

It's hard to tell from this angle, but the weapon motors are flush with the weapon rack.  I still need to find a way to shave 1 more kg off so I can swap the side razors for iron spikes and get it up to the weight limit.  Before you say anything, I've tried finding ways to swap one of the T-connectors for a couple regular extenders, but I haven't succeeded.

[Pwnator]

Now THAT's a nice replacement for REVENGE. :P

[Scrap Daddy]

I LIKE IT

[The Ounce]

Posting here because I feel like it.

DSA, 2 stacked Supervolts, 24 maces, and just about everything else is visible.

I've always wanted to build something like this, but somehow I didn't get around to it until last month.  At first I wanted to make it a FS, but while building I decided to angle the weapon motors so it juggles its opponents like a VS, and to give the weapons more reach.  The maces have perfectly aligned collision meshes and its wedges are pretty good as well, able to get under R4 and sometimes Seism 13.  Yes, I know it bears a resemblance to Conraaa's Ironbot entry, but that was unintentional.

[Scrap Daddy]

I like it, though I wish it was a bit wider.

[Naryar]

o hai Disaster Transport

[The Ounce]

I like it, though I wish it was a bit wider.

I couldn't help but think this as well, which is why I went and made a wider version.  The problem with it is that its wedges and gut-ripping capabilities are now worse, and no matter how many times I rotate the tires, it always veers to the left.  So I guess I'll stick with this version for now.

[The Ounce]

3 years and 4 months since a bot was last showcased here... I wonder if that's a forum record.

Anyway, just felt like posting something in one of my showcases before the year ended.  Coincidentally, this robot happens to be a rebuild of the last robot I posted here:

DSA, 2 Supervolts, 120cm wedges.

This was one of several designs that I considered entering into Robots in Space, but ultimately didn't for several reasons.  The main one being that, under AI control, it doesn't drive well at all in the Starcore Arena.  Not only this, but despite my attempts at making it even more HS-proof than previous versions, it manages to perform even worse against HSs.  Unstable and only average wedges as well.

Despite all this, I don't want to give up on this design because I know it has potential, but since I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a decent setup I wouldn't mind if anyone gave me some input on how to improve it.

[Lemonism]

Looks interesting, and actually not unlike something I was trying to build for Robots in Space. Your design got further than mine, though.
I'm afraid I don't build stock enough to offer you much advice, however I think this weapon design would work better if angled. Maybe use blue snappers to achieve this? Also you could get a little more weight by using the 140cm square extenders rather than black extenders, since the 140 square extenders only weigh 5kg.

[Virus Bomb]

angling the weapons would make it more unstable due to the agod that the maces will likely suffer from. you could give the bot a wider stance to make it more stable and try placing the snowplows in the front. dont know what you could do about improving wedginess tho

[kill343gs]

then you should switch from maces to something else, and put more weapons on the face of the discs

[The Ounce]

Went and updated it:

Definitely performs better than the last one, but it still tips over on a head-on collision with anything, and it can't self-right, obviously.  The only thing I can do to fix this (that I know of) would be to extend the chassis wedge farther forward, but I'm strapped for weight as it is.  I could either get rid of 4 of the razors on the discs or swap the DDTs for Snapper2s to get me the weight I need, but I'm not sure which of those two changes would be better.

[kill343gs]

with some tuning snapper wedges should be better than ddt wedges anyways