I'm sure it's on the forum somewhere but to save time, what's the best combo for astrobot? I have all the others until I get science so figure might as well try for it
There doesn't appear to be a best combo that increases your chances of getting one, if that's what you mean. At the moment it seems that any two hybrids gives you that small chance of breeding an Astro. Safety/Welder + Safety/Welder is your best choice at the moment as the fails are 1 or 2 hours and worth the most Robux. When you can make Science hybrids, Grav/Magnet + Grav/Magnet will give you slightly longer breed times but the bots sell for 500% more.
Only just worked this out, so figure others might be in the same boat.
New Avatar system: When you go to gift crystals or visit other Outposts there is a new Tab for Avatars on the left hand side between Friends and Invite. Clicking on that Tab shows the Avatars that are available to use and the ones that can be unlocked. Clicking on an unlocked Avatar makes it your Avatar. Clicking on a locked avatar gives you the instructions on how to unlock it.
All the hybrid bot avatars are unlocked by deploying one of those bots. There is also a Snowman avatar (although, it might not be a snowman, maybe that's just us putting the Christmas/Winter vibe on to it). Then there are a selection of other avatars that can be gained by completing the following challenges.
Upgrade 10 Buildings (assuming Snack Joints and Zones ... can anything else be upraded?) Win 50 Fights Gift 60 Crystals Find 5 Gizmos (assuming this means when clearing and not winning them in the Arena or buying them) Breed 75 Bots Lose 25 Fights (nice consolation prize I guess) Receive 100 Crystals from friends Clear 50 items from your park (find it funny that people with hacked accounts at Level 50 won't be able to do this one) Expand you Outpost 10 times (as above) Feed 5 Bots to Max Level Move 150 Buildings or Decorations (sounds like this one should be easily done)
I noticed the background animated asteroids and space junk/debris, and even animated bots, are masking bot icons too, and the GC list for gifting and visiting seems to be fixed for me.
Have battled astrobot (+ion drive or pulsar, not tried plasma, wish there was an astro battle gizmo) against lvl 13 and 14 opponents (the usual suspects caterpillar and science) about 5 times and only just won each time. Got a tip on the loading screen about some bots being better at ranged fighting as support bots (don't remember exact wording) so I presume now to win you need to use a good support bot with grinder + red disc as lead. Will try out a few different support bots with grinder once I finish boosting my Astros.
Post by technofanatic on Dec 8, 2012 4:46:16 GMT -6
I was taking one of each type of bot to star status, filling a habitat, and taking a picture. I thought this was pretty cool as that no one else would think to do it. The newest update appears to have removed the star rating at 60%. Of all the stuff needing to be done..... how did that make their priority list? Some of the funnest parts of the game are the little idiosyncracies...
I was taking one of each type of bot to star status, filling a habitat, and taking a picture. I thought this was pretty cool as that no one else would think to do it. The newest update appears to have removed the star rating at 60%. Of all the stuff needing to be done..... how did that make their priority list? Some of the funnest parts of the game are the little idiosyncracies...
Post the pictures you have, sir.
I don't think it was removed with the last update. It's always been a bit patchy.
They seemed to have also fixed the battle system. I've fought my grinder w/ red disk + random against caterpillar + carrier twice and lost pretty handily. I even tried two grinders with red disk and same result. Seems they added the rock, paper, siccors system. Also my lvl 10 bouncer has a gold star with his level number in it. Does anyone know what the star is for? All my other bots just have the normal circle.
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Level 15 Astro with plasma made short work of my opponents (Level 13 Floodlight/Level 14 Rock) in the arena but my level 15 Grinder/level 15 Floodlight lost to the Caterpillar/Laser combo last time.
They seemed to have also fixed the battle system. I've fought my grinder w/ red disk + random against caterpillar + carrier twice and lost pretty handily. I even tried two grinders with red disk and same result. Seems they added the rock, paper, siccors system. Also my lvl 10 bouncer has a gold star with his level number in it. Does anyone know what the star is for? All my other bots just have the normal circle.
Does he still have it! All of the stars with my bots are gone!
They seemed to have also fixed the battle system. I've fought my grinder w/ red disk + random against caterpillar + carrier twice and lost pretty handily. I even tried two grinders with red disk and same result. Seems they added the rock, paper, siccors system. Also my lvl 10 bouncer has a gold star with his level number in it. Does anyone know what the star is for? All my other bots just have the normal circle.
Does he still have it! All of the stars with my bots are gone!
U get them when your bot hits the 60% update mark from battle. It has to be from battle so does not include the gizmo update. So if you have the 10% gizmo it stars @ 70%. If he is starred and u fight another battle and win...the star disappears forever....
I have been collecting them but after the new software upgrade they all disappeared
Level 15 Astro with plasma made short work of my opponents (Level 13 Floodlight/Level 14 Rock) in the arena but my level 15 Grinder/level 15 Floodlight lost to the Caterpillar/Laser combo last time.
My lvl 15 Grinder + red disc & Mining w spike drill (charge damage +++) lost to Caterpillare/Laser at a cost of $245K. I'm not real happy right now. Had gotten very accustomed to winning every battle . I guess I'm going to have to actually think about the battles now & not rely on them as a sure source of income, food, & XP.
I've had some bad luck with the crystal goals today - got gift a crystal four times in a row, even though I have available expansions. Oddness. On the battle front, trying to boost my Astros but as others have noted it's very close whether or not he can pull off the win.
I've had some bad luck with the crystal goals today - got gift a crystal four times in a row, even though I have available expansions. Oddness. On the battle front, trying to boost my Astros but as others have noted it's very close whether or not he can pull off the win.
My Astro lvl 15 just lost to a Caterpillar lvl 15 + Laser lvl 13.
Post by lotusthreads on Dec 8, 2012 16:54:20 GMT -6
Darian, I had the same yesterday, four gift crystal goals in a row So far my astro has been winning his battles, but it is very close, i think it helps that mostly the laser opponent hasn't had his battle gizmo attached. By the way, thanks for speeding up my Astros. I now have both of them in the baby bot station. I took a screenshot as it is probably the only time I will see two at once there
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Darian, I had the same yesterday, four gift crystal goals in a row So far my astro has been winning his battles, but it is very close, i think it helps that mostly the laser opponent hasn't had his battle gizmo attached. By the way, thanks for speeding up my Astros. I now have both of them in the baby bot station. I took a screenshot as it is probably the only time I will see two at once there
Only if you left one on the baby station while waiting for another to make an appearance - which could be weeks/months. Best that you got the shot while you can. Those twins could win a baby beauty contest any day.
Level 15 Astro with plasma made short work of my opponents (Level 13 Floodlight/Level 14 Rock) in the arena but my level 15 Grinder/level 15 Floodlight lost to the Caterpillar/Laser combo last time.
My lvl 15 Grinder + red disc & Mining w spike drill (charge damage +++) lost to Caterpillare/Laser at a cost of $245K. I'm not real happy right now. Had gotten very accustomed to winning every battle . I guess I'm going to have to actually think about the battles now & not rely on them as a sure source of income, food, & XP.
The grinder is taking more hit damage now or he can withstand less. This is making the fights very close he needs strong support....I have also been winning with the bouncer / carrier.
I suspect they might have fixed whatever was causing the grinder to always take "glance" blows from his opponents. That was the thing that was most overpowered for him. Glad to hear the Bouncer (with knuckles, I presume) has made a comeback!
edit: In unrelated news, I think I'll be testing out whether the cost goes up when you don't do all of your expansions for a given level before leveling again. Current cost: 2,725,000 (level 34), and I still need two more expansions with just a sliver of xp left for my level.
So far i have been successful with grinder plus either bouncer or rock bot and beat bot, of course with their battle gizmos. I may try one of these as lead bot sometimes.
I suspect they might have fixed whatever was causing the grinder to always take "glance" blows from his opponents. That was the thing that was most overpowered for him. Glad to hear the Bouncer (with knuckles, I presume) has made a comeback!
edit: In unrelated news, I think I'll be testing out whether the cost goes up when you don't do all of your expansions for a given level before leveling again. Current cost: 2,725,000 (level 34), and I still need two more expansions with just a sliver of xp left for my level.
It doesn't or it didn't. My daughter didn't expand her outpost for a couple of levels and the price was set according to the segment number.
So far i have been successful with grinder plus either bouncer or rock bot and beat bot, of course with their battle gizmos. I may try one of these as lead bot sometimes.
Mine elements do the most damage and nature element has the highest number of Hit Points so can take the most hits. Mole was a good lead bot for this reason, so I'll be trying that one again, with the cheese grater, of course.
Darian, I had the same yesterday, four gift crystal goals in a row So far my astro has been winning his battles, but it is very close, i think it helps that mostly the laser opponent hasn't had his battle gizmo attached. By the way, thanks for speeding up my Astros. I now have both of them in the baby bot station. I took a screenshot as it is probably the only time I will see two at once there
You're right-- that's got to be almost a once in a lifetime picture!
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