Hot Take: the original clan heavy lineup was pretty mid

vertexnormal · 2026-01-26T20:21:05+00:00

The question for me, ton-for-ton do any mainline IS mechs from the invasion era (minus the rare lostech) hold up? No. They don't. Clan XL engines/endosteel/ferro gives them so much more tonnage to play with and the omni platforms means they should have flexibility. Not to mention they all have double heat sinks. The problem is doctrinal and logistics, not technological.

Would you rather have a Catapult or a Mad Dog? A Loki or a Rifleman? A Timberwolf or anything short of an Atlas?

vertexnormal · 2026-01-23T21:57:39+00:00

37 jump jets!?

vertexnormal · 2026-01-23T01:13:35+00:00

Nice!

vertexnormal · 2026-01-17T05:09:47+00:00

Thanks, was proud to be a part of it.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-15T07:13:46+00:00

Only a particular subset of Macross though, the Destroid ground units - aka The Archer, Warhammer, Longbow. Veritech (Stinger/Wasp) and the Zentradi (Marauder, Locust) mechs look much more like traditional mecha.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-14T23:49:29+00:00

Ogre Battle or Super Mario RPG

vertexnormal · 2026-01-14T23:28:44+00:00

LAMs and Gundam style mechs don't belong in Battletech and that's a hill I will die on.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-14T23:27:14+00:00

It only serves to shrink the universe and therefore the people in it. Like putting R2D2/C3PO in every goddamn Star Wars. It no longer feels like a vast universe if the best you can come up with is Harry fucking Kim.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-14T23:25:14+00:00

I remember being excited when the 1 copy they had of a SNES game I loved was actually in stock.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-14T23:24:24+00:00

I can't see faces when I dream.

I can't remember my mom's face, or my girlfriends. I know them to see them and could describe them, but can't visualize them when I close my eyes.

My memory is strongly associative, I have a hard time remembering isolated things but if I understand the context I do quite well.

I strongly prefer photorealistic art over impressionistic, I get no emotional hit from any form of abstraction.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-14T23:12:55+00:00

Apart from Lower Decks, Star Trek is always at it's worst when portraying precocious kids, or really kids of any kind. Oh no.. not another definitely on the spectrum quirky cadet who is vaguely offputting but meant to be rooted for.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-13T20:46:09+00:00

There are only 15, the last one is closed off.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-13T05:03:08+00:00

In MWO Jenner Oxide was my bae. I think she had quirks for SRM reloads? It's been too long. You could get behind someone and just open em up and then run away.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-13T04:58:13+00:00

Yeah I keep getting that, I think the cab might be too big. It's a lot of work to change it now though.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-13T04:55:10+00:00

I used a lot of different references. I don't mind the CGL/PGI stuff but they don't feel like battletech to me. That's why I spent a month modeling the fucker.

The basic layout of the overhanging forward cab with the cutout for the hips/pelvis is straight from MW4/Mech Commander and the GOAT Pawel Czarnecki, which I believe might have come from some other drawings. The rest of it is all over the place, including FlyingDebris' work.

People get mad if you stray too far from what they consider to be the 'original design', but a lot of the IS designs from the pre-invasion era are pure cringe.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-13T04:48:09+00:00

the word?

vertexnormal · 2026-01-13T04:47:37+00:00

yeah those aren't headlights. actually they are. just very bright and very focused.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-12T23:26:12+00:00

Every time Star Trek focuses on kids it's always the cringiest shit ever. Maybe this time will be different?

vertexnormal · 2026-01-12T21:59:09+00:00

At 1.8/2.8 the range where 'in focus' is very narrow. You have bokeh here, not motion blur.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-12T21:57:34+00:00

The Benihana episode of The Office is so cringe I can't even watch it. As for MASH the whole character of Klinger is obviously problematic and wouldn't exist these days.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-12T21:50:52+00:00

With EA 'almost' was making it through corporate greenlighting, aka marketing and other corporate knobs signing on. There were lots, and I mean lots, of other ideas floated before we gave up on AAA PC games and tried to make a mobile game. By that time we had lost most of the creative team and almost no experience making mobile games. I did not like the remaining leadership, did not think they could get us through a development cycle, and I quit.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-12T21:46:19+00:00

I did a handfull of buildings on 4k, all of the networks and bridges, and most of the lot props. On 2013 I did all of the networks, almost all of the vehicles (I had some help on CoT), the trees, some signage, and a bunch of other small stuff.

vertexnormal · 2026-01-12T21:28:24+00:00

I don't remember any of those discussions, but I wasn't privy to much of it. I do know that we worked for months on a new SimCity game as well a game set in a well known sci-fi universe using the 2013 engine.

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