Author Topic: RammingSpeed's Showcase-age (stock) (Read 8477 times)

RammingSpeed · « **on:** February 20, 2012, 03:58:59 PM »

Fortune.
Armour: DSA

Not too happy with this. The wedges work and the weaponry is effective, but it's quite the glass cannon. Good spinners can make short work of it.

Sage · « **Reply #1 on:** February 20, 2012, 04:16:14 PM »

angle connectors are fairly useless- try having weapon setups with only 20 cms. get rid of the pink batteries and change your drive to hpzteks. This will help against spinners. A little frontal armor never hurts, either. All in all though, pretty decent for a first bot!

Mr. AS · « **Reply #2 on:** February 20, 2012, 04:17:42 PM »

front armor will help against "good spinners"

R0B0SH4RK · « **Reply #3 on:** February 20, 2012, 04:30:50 PM »

Popups are usually glass cannons in sub-HW classes, but HPZ drive helps immensely. Oh, and angle connectors are terrible so never use them.

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #4 on:** February 20, 2012, 04:45:57 PM »

Any better?
I kept the pinks, I'm not sure if it could run properly without them.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 20, 2012, 04:58:21 PM »

Try not to use 40cm extenders, they have the same HP as the 20cm ones.

also are you on the Robot Wars Wiki? I remember someone from there. IIRC you also did a couple of edits on my Wild Robots Wiki.

Mr. AS · « **Reply #6 on:** February 20, 2012, 05:50:43 PM »

is that one or two blacks

Sage · « **Reply #7 on:** February 20, 2012, 07:01:31 PM »

Badnik, he didnt use 40cms on the weapons and the wedges dont matter because they're inside the chassis.

R0B0SH4RK · « **Reply #8 on:** February 20, 2012, 07:36:02 PM »

Quote from: RammingSpeed on February 20, 2012, 04:45:57 PM

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Any better?
I kept the pinks, I'm not sure if it could run properly without them.

Much better. If you don't already know how, you should learn how to use the eFFe glitch, it will make your extender work onyour weapons much cleaner. Sage has a few tutorials on useful glitches in this thread:

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,4512.0.html

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #9 on:** February 21, 2012, 01:37:10 AM »

Mr. Awsumsauce: There's only 1 black.
Badnik: Yep.

NFX · « **Reply #10 on:** February 21, 2012, 03:39:26 AM »

Pretty good for a first bot, I'll agree. What I might do is try to get the chassis height lower, you need it five "clicks" tall, on the slider where you set the height, for an HPZ to fit. You need a steady hand and a good eye to get it right. That should save you quite a bit of weight, which you could use on frontal defense such as ramplates or casters. You can raise casters to have them sticking out of the front corners, and because they're attached to the baseplate, they're invincible. Take a look at PitA 8 on the RA2Wiki for a good example of Caster Armour, though I don't think you need as much as PitA 8 has.

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #11 on:** February 22, 2012, 04:41:56 PM »

Tough Meat

Armour: Steel (a mistake)

This one... doesn't perform too well. For some reason it seems to do better against popups. Maybe cause I'm using Starcore v3.
Other spinners often take off its weapons before it has a chance to finish them off.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 22, 2012, 04:58:15 PM »

cuz you only have 3 razors. 3 Razors ain't a lot even on a LW.

Rearrange it so you can get a black in there.

Reier · « **Reply #13 on:** February 22, 2012, 04:59:54 PM »

Haha it's not very good, but something about it I just like.

Mr. AS · « **Reply #14 on:** February 22, 2012, 05:04:23 PM »

reduce empty space and use dsa

a nifty is ok for this

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #15 on:** February 23, 2012, 02:03:15 AM »

I can't put DSA on it now, I already clicked the armour tab by mistake.

Quote from: Mr. AwesumSauce on February 22, 2012, 05:04:23 PM

reduce empty space and use dsa

R0B0SH4RK · « **Reply #16 on:** February 23, 2012, 03:45:40 AM »

Then you're going to have to rebuild it xD

Naryar · « **Reply #17 on:** February 23, 2012, 04:19:53 AM »

yep. Pretty damn sure a good stock builder spends at least 30% of the time spent building on rebuilding the chassis a Nth time.

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #18 on:** February 23, 2012, 04:10:53 PM »

I rebuilt the bot, giving me DSA and I doubled the amount of razors.

Sadly, now whenever it hits something or turns left, it flips itself and goes insane.

And don't even get me started on what happens when the razors break off!

J · « **Reply #19 on:** February 23, 2012, 04:45:28 PM »

Chassis can be a lot thinner.
Also, you might want to put the Z-Tek behind the plow, just for added protection.