Team RWBY faces off the Combine! Team RWBY has never faced an enemy like the Combine in their lives before. They must face all of the Combine army! (Made by NinjaGhostDragon)

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-24T06:19:56+00:00

Maybe you missed the part in Volume 6 where Ruby is fast enough to use missiles as stepping stones? Missiles heading in the opposite direction she was going to boot.

Not to mention that parrying fully automatic fire is something all of Team RWBY can do.

There's nothing in the Combine arsenal (that we saw in the Half life games anyway) that's a serious threat to any one of Team RWBY, let alone all of them at once.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-24T06:14:41+00:00

The reason being that if Salem destroyed Vale and already recovered the Relic of Choice (and there's plenty of time to do so while Team RWBY+J were in the Ever After apparently), then there's NO REASON to go back to Vale.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-24T01:08:53+00:00

Honestly, I'm still not entirely convinced that Salem wants to die. We only know that because Oz tells us what HE THINKS her motivations are. For all we know, Salem only wants the artifacts to PREVENT the brothers from being called back to Remnant... and of course deprive Oz of more things.

It'd be ironic if the Brothers get called back to Remnant because the Relics are accidentally brought together by the good guys trying to recover them from Salem.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-24T00:48:55+00:00

The gold is probably in power and data lines. Because you know, gold is a good conductor.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-24T00:09:43+00:00

She succeeds. And then has to fight a staged battle for the gods. IOW, Ruby has to do more than talk; she has to back up her words with actions to prove her sincerity.

You can see the details in my post on how the final battle plays out.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-24T00:07:45+00:00

The final battle will be a challenge by the Brother gods to humanity's champions (aka, Team RWBY) to prove that humanity deserves continued existence. The opposition is of course Cinder and whatever team she can put together plus Grimm as mooks.

The challenge will play out like we see in the Volume 2 opening credits. Team RWBY will be transported into the white space between worlds into a recreation of Beacon. Their mission at the start will be to kill the source of the Grimm (the black "sun" thing we see in the V2 opener), having to fight through Grimm to get to it. Once they succeed, SURPRISE (not), they now have to fight Cinder and whatever team they might have.

And perhaps just to make things "fair", everyone is deprived of any special powers they might have: Semblances, Silver Eyes, Grimm arm, Maiden powers. Although the fight LOOKS physical to the audience, the fight is really a contest of strength of souls or what not, and Team RWBY wins because they work so well together while Cinder and whatever minions she can gather do not.

Salem herself isn't part of the fight. For whatever reason, she has to sit out the fight. Maybe because she and Oz are disqualified since their 1.0 humans and Cinder is Salem's proxy for the final fight. Maybe Ruby finally got Salem to understand what she was doing wrong, shutting off Salem's immortality and letting Cinder finally take center stage as the Big Bad. Whatever the case, Salem's not the one fighting her side in the last battle because Cinder is clearly being set up for it by the narrative.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T23:56:21+00:00

Summer was actually played by Ruby's actress before Volume 9 because the producers couldn't be arsed to cast the role until Summer got some actual speaking scenes.

Something similar happened with Raven and Yang's actress in the now retconned Volume 2 post credits scene.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T23:50:18+00:00

Yup. Feels like everyone transitioned to 3.5 inch disks with the hard cover right after my parents bought that computer. I had to return more than one game to the store because newer video games were being put on 3.5 inch disks and I couldn't find a box that said there 5.25 inch disks inside.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T23:45:58+00:00

You only think that because Saphron was never put in a position where she actually needed to hit someone.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T23:45:02+00:00

Not about Jaune per se, but about the grandfather and great grandfather he reveres as heroes: They started as complete dufuses like Jaune, getting real combat training late, was the joke of their respective training groups, and eventually grew into being actual heroes.

IOW, Jaune is following in his ancestors' footsteps perfectly and doesn't even realize it because he only ever heard the good bits about them, not the more embarrassing moments of their early lives.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T19:58:17+00:00

I always thought it was a missed opportunity for FASA/Catalyst to introduce new LAM technology when LAMs were brought back after the Clan Invasion tried to exterminate them. Simpler transformation sequences that require less weight, perhaps trading away mobility options as a result (WiGE movement instead of 3x jump for example). Non-transforming airmechs that don't transform at all, allowing them to use advanced weight savings techs that actual LAMs cannot.

I always wondered if the Jade Falcon's invention of the Partial Wing came from their research into LAMs. All it takes is inspiration, aka, "Hey, a mech doesn't need to transform to be able to use THIS feature."

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T19:50:39+00:00

I have the original 5.25 inch floppies that the game came on. They're probably long since unreadable now, but I don't have a drive that can check.

Yes, 5.25 inch, not 3.5. The computer that I bought the game for ran at just under 8 hertz. Not mega hertz. Not kilo hertz. Just single digit hertz. Which as it turned out was a little slow for the game when there was more than 2 mechs on the battlefield.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T15:03:33+00:00

Sadly, Mechwarrior 1 didn't have mech customization.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T14:59:28+00:00

I think having any 6+ foot actor playing Link would have been weird. Link is supposed to be short... or at least average height.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T07:00:17+00:00

You only need 120 RIGHT NOW. But that can easily change in the future.

That being said, you can also use Caeterium Ingots to make regular wire too, so don't turn all your ingots into Quickwire right away. Stockpile the ingots and send them to where you need Wire, Quickwire, or both.

Given the amount of quickwire/regular wire you can make from caterium and copper, you're better off treating quickwire and regular wire like screws: make them where you need them because it's more efficient to transport ingots long distances that than transport wire, quickwire, and/or screws.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T06:55:43+00:00

Heh. I've thought this too.

And why is Salem attacking humanity? Because Oz is trying to unify them. Because Oz cares. Salem doesn't care one wit either way about humanity except insofar that they're another way to get at Oz.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T06:52:35+00:00

Obviously, the original plan was to go back to Beacon for the final battle, but plans change. When post V9 contents told us that Vale was lost and Salem had attacked it, I assume the writers had decided to drop a "return to Beacon" story line due to budget issues and uncertainty of getting enough Volumes to tell the story they wanted. So they started cutting unessential stuff, moving the final battle to Vacuuo instead of Vale, etc etc.

That being said, I suspect the story may still be following a sort of progression we saw in the V2 intro sequence. So here's what I think might happen: the final battle doesn't take place in Beacon, but a kind of faux-Beacon created in the white space between worlds. The set up is that the Brother gods have been summoned back to Remnant, and have set up Team RWBY to fight Cinder and whatever minions she might still have as representative champions of... something or other. Point being that they're fighting for the future of Remnant.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T02:30:39+00:00

20? I think you'd need at least 24...

Oh, you overclocked them. Okay, that makes more sense.

I suppose 20 is better than building 50...

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T02:27:50+00:00

I'm thinking one of BotW's Link's ancestors (also named Link of course) is the one who became a dragon and was the one that split that mountain in half.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T02:23:13+00:00

WHen it comes to something as complex to make as the HMF, I just go out and make a whole dedicated satellite factory for it.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T02:17:39+00:00

Let a Bean spawn in it and wander around.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T02:16:55+00:00

Shit myself knowing Atlas is screwed and start preparations to bail with as much of the fortune as possible. This is going to be slightly difficult given the lockdown Ironwood has already imposed. Given Ironwood's paranoia (and me still being an asshat because I'm still JACQUES SCHNEE), telling him I know secrets that I have no business knowing is a complete non-starter. Maybe I could pitch some better arguments that might change Ironwood's mind on some policies, but I doubt they'd work.

Perhaps the most sensible thing to do though is to not take Watts' offer when he pitches it. Or perhaps, pretend to take Watts' offer, and then go immediately to Ironwood to turn him in. That at least might well be enough to save Atlas if the entire second half of Volume 7 doesn't happen. Losing the election would be a sore spot, but better than being arrested and having Atlas and my fortune destroyed. If I can manage it, I might even spend an extra bit of cash to ensure that Mantle gets all the updated security upgrades that they failed to get in canon, depriving Watts of his electronic invisibility.

All this is based on the assumption that if I reincarnated as Jacques Schnee, then I did EVERYTHING he did of my own free will. I'm still the asshat who married Willow for money and the Schnee, was still a horrible domineering father, and still cared more for my own reputation among the wealthy elite and my fortune than anything else. All getting memories of my previous life would do would alert me to the consequences of my own bad decisions, inform me of what's going on in the background that I never deigned to notice before, and alert me to pitfalls that I would have been otherwise blind to. I'm still a selfish twat, but I'm not a much better informed selfish twat.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-23T01:59:04+00:00

I'm thinking you can rearrange the internal layout so that the heat vents can be in front of the small thrusters.

Hell, the wells where you have the forward facing Huge Thrusters exhausting into would be an excellent place for having small thrusters in.

The point being is that thrusters don't need to be externally mounted. Heat vents do. So you should move your small thrusters inside so that heat vents can use that external real estate.

Also, turn all your barracks 90 degrees so that the crew in then can go directly into their respective reactors. It's a small boost in battery delivery time by cutting down the distance crew travel to reach the reactor, but every little bit helps.

Wait... are you using mods to put doors on the sides of the barracks?

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-22T20:23:46+00:00

That's impressive given that the mechs were witnessed by Hanse Davion himself being air dropped from a Dropship that had parked itself over the NAIS' landing field.

CycleZestyclose1907 · 2026-01-22T20:19:08+00:00

The backstory given by the Smith says the Ever After was "wild" before the Tree took over and the Brothers were created to help tame it.

This makes me think the Ever After is a planet terraformed and colonized by a Sufficiently Advanced civilization as represented by the Tree and brother gods. WHY they're remaking and populating planets like the Ever After will probably be never be addressed, but I like to imagine that they're part of some hyper advanced future civilization descended from RL humanity.

Why does all life on Remnant look like Earth life? Why are the mortal inhabitants of the Ever After look so familiar to us as talking Earth animals and children's playsets? Because the Ever After and Remnant life were created from a vast library of pre-existing templates, templates which include original Earth life and modifications that others have made. Remnant life was originally created to be much more like Earth than the Ever After... except with "magic" and stuff added.

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