my next tournament

[JoeBlo]

RA2: Where the laws of physics go to die

The hover engine coding just makes the robot bob up and down in the air as opposed to sitting on the ground, thats it, they arnt really flying :P

[SKBT]

Stupid Question Time ^TM

1. Is it possible to invert a hoverbot? Does RA2's coding allow it?

2. What happens if you do? Does it float upside down or faceplant into the ground?

3. How do I make the hover engine work? (Yes I've been here for this long and never bothered to figure it out)

[Conraaa]

Stupid Question Time ^TM

1. Is it possible to invert a hoverbot? Does RA2's coding allow it?

2. What happens if you do? Does it float upside down or faceplant into the ground?

3. How do I make the hover engine work? (Yes I've been here for this long and never bothered to figure it out)

1) Never tried/managed it.
2)See above
3)Air tanks and wire it to an analog.

[JoeBlo]

1. No, if something goes under it it just raises up higher
2. Refer to the first answer :P

[yoda9726]

I'm pretty sure it's impossible to invert a hoverbot.  I've never managed to do it at least.  So, that makes question 2 moot. 
 
question 3, i'm assuming you know the cheatbot2 part of it, after that, attach it to the baseplate, give it some airtanks and wire it.  it does wire a bit different. (forward, backward, left and right as opposed to spin clockwise/couterclockwise) but other than that, it's pretty much teh same

[Thyrus]

what will be the weightclass in the hoovertourney?

[yoda9726]

I'm keeping it simple and making all of them be HW

[SKBT]

question 3, i'm assuming you know the cheatbot2 part of it, after that, attach it to the baseplate, give it some airtanks and wire it.  it does wire a bit different. (forward, backward, left and right as opposed to spin clockwise/couterclockwise) but other than that, it's pretty much teh same

I was missing the air tank. I though that it looks like a giant fan so I assumed that it would be battery powered. :P

[yoda9726]

With five days left to go, we appear to be locked in a tie.  Now's the time to show support for your choice if you're gonna.  I haven't cast a vote as of yet, but I will if it comes to needing a tie breaker. 

[Badnik96]

Tie Broken, Hoverbots FTW

Wafflez actually made a hoverbot, it sucks though (DSL bar HS with a Dual Perm powering it

[Naryar]

Voted for hoverbot.

Going to be awesome. Just hoping everyone won't be spamming flail shell spinners.

You might want to power up the hover engine though, cause it's quite slow.

[123savethewhales]

Am I the only one who see how awesome Brawl Bots are?

Flail SnS, Crawlers, Dreidel, all with 100kg bonus weight, and brain must drive toward them?  Brains don't stand a chance.

Problem with hovercraft is the enormous size and indestructible nature.  I can scale the current hover-pad down to 1/2 it's radius and perhaps remove it's base F connection so they will break off.

[Hard Bot]

Voted for hoverbot.

Going to be awesome. Just hoping everyone won't be spamming flail shell spinners.

You might want to power up the hover engine though, cause it's quite slow.

Sorry, Nary. There will be.

[123savethewhales]

Well, if hoverpad break the game crashes, so I was unable to remove Base_F.  However I did reduce it's radius by half so it provide far less invulnerability than the previous version.

Also included thrusters so bot moves forward fast.  Do consider using this set instead of the standard cheatbot2 hoverpad.

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,3216.msg385237.html#msg385237

[yoda9726]

Well, if hoverpad break the game crashes, so I was unable to remove Base_F.  However I did reduce it's radius by half so it provide far less invulnerability than the previous version.

Also included thrusters so bot moves forward fast.  Do consider using this set instead of the standard cheatbot2 hoverpad.

https://gametechmods.com/forums/index.php/topic,3216.msg385237.html#msg385237

Downloading now.  That was my one big concern with it, the overwhelming size and invulnerability ot them.  I'll check these out and more than likely will use them.  Also, glad someone at least liked Brains vs Brawn.  That was the one I was hoping would win the vote, but also knew it was probably the least likely.

[Clickbeetle]

Y U No like Behemoth Battle??
 
Well hoverbots should still be fairly interesting... I'm thinking hammers might be a good design for that, with no wedges to worry about and no risk of tipping over.  With the hover engines protecting the bottom the top will be the best spot to hit anyway.  Sheck spinner fest this will not be.