Author Topic: Rolo's Robot Showcase (Read 11710 times)

Rolo · « **on:** February 11, 2010, 02:03:28 PM »

Been years before I built a bot, so yea, I probably missed out on years of innovation.
Please leave a comment.

Any ideas on what to do with the remaining weight?

G.K. · « **Reply #1 on:** February 11, 2010, 02:06:40 PM »

Perhaps stack in a black battery to each current one?

Rolo · « **Reply #2 on:** February 11, 2010, 02:08:32 PM »

Oh yeah, forgot to tell you guys. I'm not a stacking batteries person.
Why, I hear you ask?
Because it takes patience.
EDIT: That gives me an idea. How about making a pre-stacked battery component? Just a regular Supervolt, but with double power and double weight?
Or has it been thought of and done in my abcense?

Flying_Chao · « **Reply #3 on:** February 11, 2010, 02:20:47 PM »

ClickBeetle made one.

lloopp D lloopp · « **Reply #4 on:** February 11, 2010, 02:36:44 PM »

See if you can get castor armor on the bottom for the extra weight.

Rolo · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2010, 02:41:09 PM »

tried it, but it cleared my wheels off the floor..Would it work with bigger wheels?

G.K. · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2010, 02:45:12 PM »

Probably if you upgraded to grannies.

Somebody · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2010, 04:04:11 PM »

I would put something up to guard those horribly exposed HPZs.

40757 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 11, 2010, 04:49:55 PM »

Four wheel drive, flip the snappers for wedges. If still underweight, then switch to rubbers. Also, widen your drive. Might wanna remove the top snowplow for weight if you need it.

And don't put castors on the bottom like LDL said. It's bad for the wedges.

Clickbeetle · « **Reply #9 on:** February 13, 2010, 12:39:15 AM »

Quote from: Rolo on February 11, 2010, 02:08:32 PM

EDIT: That gives me an idea. How about making a pre-stacked battery component? Just a regular Supervolt, but with double power and double weight?
Or has it been thought of and done in my abcense?

[shameless plug]That battery you describe is in the BBEANS AI Pack. Also, you can win it as a prize in BBEANS6 and then it will be tournament-legal for all future BBEANS.[/shameless plug]

The VS looks good, interesting use of the plow to keep bots from flying over and behind it. I don't see that much on VS's. With the extra weight, I would try to get 4WD and/or extra armor.

Rolo · « **Reply #10 on:** February 13, 2010, 06:57:07 AM »

WANT

Yea, the bot was first tested without that plow (even more underweight yep) but I found that when I got under a good-wedged bot like Waterbug, it would sometimes throw it over its top before killing the chassis, giving NW time to turn and give me another hard time getting under it (Because I suck at wedges).

G.K. · « **Reply #11 on:** February 13, 2010, 06:57:51 AM »

Quote from: Rolo on February 13, 2010, 06:57:07 AM

WANT

What, BBEANS AI?

Rolo · « **Reply #12 on:** February 13, 2010, 07:00:21 AM »

the battery

G.K. · « **Reply #13 on:** February 13, 2010, 07:02:28 AM »

Well, it's in the BBEANS pack, that also has Nobody Nose in it. http://beetlebros.gametechmods.com/files/bbeans_ai.rar

If you just want the batt, give me a few mins and I'll get it to you.

Rolo · « **Reply #14 on:** February 13, 2010, 07:05:19 AM »

Wow, Nobody Nose is featured in an AI pack? Oh sweet memories

G.K. · « **Reply #15 on:** February 13, 2010, 07:06:45 AM »

Yep. It has every BBEANS 1, 3 and 5 bot, as well as 25 other withdrawn/illegal/too late/updated bots

Rolo · « **Reply #16 on:** February 13, 2010, 07:12:20 AM »

Is there an explanation somewhere on why the bots were refused?

G.K. · « **Reply #17 on:** February 13, 2010, 07:16:12 AM »

Yes, for some of them, one moment: https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,2467.msg65421.html

Down near the bottom of Click's first post, from Team Wild Animals downwards.

Rolo · « **Reply #18 on:** February 13, 2010, 09:36:07 AM »

HOT DAMN IT

Also, new bot, probably been done before, but never seen it.
Thought of it when I went fuuuu because I couldn't manage to stack black batteries within 2 minutes once again, a powerless bot!

It's called Mutant:

Forgot to arm 1 of the top 4 servo's at all, that's why it magically remains within weight restriction, might make an SHW verson of it with heckuvalotmore servo's and probably iron spikes

It actually does a lot better in combat than I expected (just not in tournament low wall arena's because it just walks over the walls when given the slightest push([small]actually I just tried this when I didn't rig the controls to be able to spin both ways, might try it again sometime)[/small]).
One of the few robots that actually likes being on top and getting smacked into arena walls, because it helps getting on top of the opponent and start chewing its upside

My tactic of waiting for AI to run into it and commit suicide stops working when the opponent gets partially immobile, so this was kind of a boring match, waiting for the timer to run out and win by points.

It is far from invincible though:

Can't find Mutant? It's on that pic!
Took tommy gun some time to finish me off though, most of the times he approached me after some servo's got kicked off, either one of us started flinging around at will due to a Havok explosion.

It's a real pain in the ass to control though. I sometimes have to switch between holding space and holding z when one of its noodly appendages get stuck or when I'm flipped over.

Doomkiller · « **Reply #19 on:** February 13, 2010, 04:01:17 PM »

That looks quite chaotic. I like it ( go razor tips)