07-01-2015, 06:06 PM
(07-01-2015, 05:47 PM)OdinYggd Wrote:(07-01-2015, 05:41 PM)Surge Wrote: I love bots like yours because they're so structurally flimsy. You could be immobilized in seconds and lose half your firepower at the same time.
That hull is solid cube isn't it. It shows a complete lack of understanding of the game's damage handling- a rather counterintuitive system I think.
One plasma volley aimed at the single gun behind the front axle, and the resulting damage spread-out would break it in half.
Solid masses are actually really really bad- they're easy targets, and any damage they take is spread until one shot rips huge chunks out of it. It took me quite a while to realize that.
I feel like I've shot you repeatedly already if that's a T7/T8 and you've been on a losing streak. You wouldn't even notice me operating at very nearly my chopper's altitude ceiling, and suddenly you'd get hosed with a 6 shot salvo of plasma right on that weak spot.
Embarrassingly, it's not solid, mostly hallow with the pilot block surrounded by the lattest available armor due to lack of CPU and credits for the armored blocks, although defensively a mess, I play aggressive and sometimes sneaky using path players least likely to use or hide behind a corner just to pop out in the corner tearing poor bots who's unprepared.
Earlier models had helium block that somehow helped me to climb up verticle walls aswell.