Robocraft: Fly, Forest, Fly!
Since the previous post on Robocraft, I have built a few plasma bombers :) But boy, it was so troublesome.
So many things could go wrong: inclined too much upward, nose-dived too much, not fast enough, not agile enough, too agile, too fragile, can't fly after 1 or 2 hits etc.
Initially, I tried to copy Lathland's "Mittens" (the plane featured in the video link in my first post) but I couldn't make it stable until Ban stacked the aeroils together (the longer wing). Since then, I figured out one crucial step to substantially stabilise the plane: align the aerofoils with the pilot. Even after that, I still needed to adjust a little here and there, mainly using thrusters.
Here are the results:
As you can see, they are basically the same design. All of them, except for the T10 bomber (the last one), have stacked redundant aerofoils and rudders i.e. 2 on each side. Forest Elder (the T10 bomber) has 2 pairs of 3-stacked rudders and 2 pairs of 2-stacked aerofoils and 1 rudder underneath that stack (idea from Lathland). Yes, redundant wings are important because it's important to still able to fly despite losing a wing or two.
So besides SMG tank and plasma bomber, I've also tried railgun walker but despite playing it about 10 times, I couldn't do well with it. This is Ban's favourite and he's good at it :) I love plasma bomber the best but SMG tank is easier to play.
As at now, I've scrapped the T9 bomber to build Rosefall's Juggernaut i.e. a SMG hovercraft. My main problem is controlling its movement. Played maybe 3 times with it and twice I did well despite my dodgy skill at manouvering a hovercraft lol. I attributed its success to the design. I'm still giving myself sometime to practise with it before deciding whether to keep or discard it.
I still keep the lower tier crafts as the meta is a little different from the higher tiers. Also, in higher tiers, especially T10, there are a few elitist players and I just can't stand rude players. Thank goodness I found out that there is a ignore list, which I made use of it diligently :)
So many things could go wrong: inclined too much upward, nose-dived too much, not fast enough, not agile enough, too agile, too fragile, can't fly after 1 or 2 hits etc.
Initially, I tried to copy Lathland's "Mittens" (the plane featured in the video link in my first post) but I couldn't make it stable until Ban stacked the aeroils together (the longer wing). Since then, I figured out one crucial step to substantially stabilise the plane: align the aerofoils with the pilot. Even after that, I still needed to adjust a little here and there, mainly using thrusters.
Here are the results:
As you can see, they are basically the same design. All of them, except for the T10 bomber (the last one), have stacked redundant aerofoils and rudders i.e. 2 on each side. Forest Elder (the T10 bomber) has 2 pairs of 3-stacked rudders and 2 pairs of 2-stacked aerofoils and 1 rudder underneath that stack (idea from Lathland). Yes, redundant wings are important because it's important to still able to fly despite losing a wing or two.
So besides SMG tank and plasma bomber, I've also tried railgun walker but despite playing it about 10 times, I couldn't do well with it. This is Ban's favourite and he's good at it :) I love plasma bomber the best but SMG tank is easier to play.
As at now, I've scrapped the T9 bomber to build Rosefall's Juggernaut i.e. a SMG hovercraft. My main problem is controlling its movement. Played maybe 3 times with it and twice I did well despite my dodgy skill at manouvering a hovercraft lol. I attributed its success to the design. I'm still giving myself sometime to practise with it before deciding whether to keep or discard it.
I still keep the lower tier crafts as the meta is a little different from the higher tiers. Also, in higher tiers, especially T10, there are a few elitist players and I just can't stand rude players. Thank goodness I found out that there is a ignore list, which I made use of it diligently :)
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Just wanted to say that I'm glad to see you're posting and hopefully well. I used to watch your robocraft videos in middle school and remember your youtube account falling off the face of the earth. I'm glad i could find this page and really enjoyed your content growing up.
Much appreciation,
Kaiko