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[Sheb]

Using only dual drive wheels seomhow made my bot flip over really easily.

[motorbitch]

yep. turning arce is great, but it will be very instable. so i used 2 dual 2 motor wheels in the end.
maybe 4+2 work better, but that makes for large tanks

[Elephant Parade]

Has anybody else ran into fellow Bay12ers yet? I spotted LeoLeonardoIII a few times while I was trying out my siege tower.

Edit:

GHOST TANK GO!

This happened when I switched out of fullscreen.

[LoSboccacc]

Spoiler: death from above! (click to show/hide)

except, not really, you go in for a couple shoot and get out. if I lose a wing I spin madly and generally get downed easily.
but its fuuuun

top shots are not good at killing but slicing bots for team mates to kill is useful as hell.

unseen under the wing: 4 l3s lasers

[motorbitch]

id like to share my hoverblade design with i think is quite clever. im pretty sure others had the idea too, but maby this still is helpful to someone:

instead of connecting the blades to an inner row of cubes, i conect them to the outer hull.
the outer hull has to be realy heavy armoured for any hover tank anyhow (it get hit a lot, and losing blades suck).
by connecting the blades to this armor, one saves an inner row of cubes, with had to be of high quality amor.  as a single lost cube here would kill two blades. this is something that cant happen if connected to the outside.

so, one gets a slimer tank, saves expensive cubes and increases survivability. win win win!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ah, it has a minor downside: the tank will become sligtly unsymmetric, as the seat cant be placed on the middle row.

[LoSboccacc]

Son't blades have more armor than the cube they sit on?

Same for wheels it seem the cube they sit on get shooten way before the wheel fail

[motorbitch]

dunno. i lost wheels way les often then blades. these i lose very quickly even if the connected cube is still  alive.
the stats of the items are wrong at times.... one l5s thruster has WAY more power then 5 1s as an example.

[EagleV]

I used to have 6 dual wheels. The front 4 turned the way I wanted to go, the last 2 the other way. Which worked perfectly. Until my back wheels got shot off, then I'm stuck with 4 wheels that always turn the same way, and I can only crab-walk, not turn. So I changed it to 2 dual, 2 motor, 2 dual.

[LoSboccacc]

I use similar conf but

Wheels - powered - powered - wheels.

No duals at the end or the bot just wheelie with high levels

[Sheb]

I actually do something similar to your overblade on my wheel design, with my middle 4 powered wheels inside the tank.

[motorbitch]

i have no live.

wait, that wasnt what i wanted to say.
 
im tier10, what i wanted.

[LoSboccacc]

i have no live.

I wish I hadn't to work to pay for stuff I like.
You grow up and then you have 1/24 of day to spend on leisure

Edit: small update released. Matchmaking now favors many small vs few large battles, and while is more interesting I wish people had the common sense to disarm and pass to the next threat when fighting biger tanks, instead they weer off, going for the kill or heavily armored targets ignoring the higer threat from still operational tanks teice their size

[motorbitch]

game = broken

[Aklyon]

game = broken

That tends to hapen to alphas.

[Sheb]

I can't seem to join since the last update. Anyone else has problems?

Managed to join, and had a probably stupid idea: did anyone tried to armor itself in wheels? Tier 1 steering wheels have an armor rating of 60: same as two orange blocks or 3 green ones, and for the low, low cost of 130 RP.