Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.
Veef
Posts: 2065 Joined: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:52 am
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by Veef Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:16 pm
a lot people seemed to do that
i only played story mode in AC FA which is the same engine
people used to try that even back in AC1. the tradeoff was you couldn't launch with a lot of weight and thus few heavy weapons
of course, most people just beat AC1 to get the launch overweight perk that you could carry through to the two expansions
Veef
Posts: 2065 Joined: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:52 am
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by Veef Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:11 am
jeez our MWO thread was the most active on G&C in a while
F.J. Prefect, Esq
Posts: 731 Joined: Sat Feb 11, 2012 9:40 pm
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by F.J. Prefect, Esq Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:34 am
uraniun235 wrote: i played 1v1 ac4 the other day at a friend's house and he had his robots set up to basically be airborne ~99% of the time
There were a couple of regulations (ie. different sets of game balance rules) which really favoured infinite flying. For a while rifles were like the total winner all the time and they were best used if you were just constantly flying, but other regulations favoured different designs. Infinite flight was less useful when blading was king, it was pretty useful when missiles were etc
Generally speaking AC4/FA's mechanics heavily favoured guys who could regularly and repeatedly quick-boost, and basically the best set ups for those are those can also generally fly forever. My robot was too fast to effectively fly forever and I didn't have enough memory to counter it with tuning, so I stayed on the ground. It supported way less variety than ACV in style, though it wasn't quite as bad as Stark might suggest (though it's pretty close
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starku
UNPROVOKED CYNICISM
Posts: 2043 Joined: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:32 pm
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by starku Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:38 am
imagine making a tank in ac4
starku
UNPROVOKED CYNICISM
Posts: 2043 Joined: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:32 pm
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by starku Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:11 pm
I was going to say that from the waist down hatchetman is an ok composition
Oxymoron
Posts: 4167 Joined: Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:18 pm
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by Oxymoron Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:21 pm
Gawd, these are some fuck-ugly robot designs. I mean, not only do they look bad from an aesthetic point of view, they don't even seem functional.
Done well, an appearance of functionality could excuse an ugly design, and vice-versa ; but to be ugly and look impractical at the same time ?
Well, that's what you get when your worldbuilding is shit and you can't hire competent artists, I guess ?
No.
starku
UNPROVOKED CYNICISM
Posts: 2043 Joined: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:32 pm
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by starku Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:37 pm
I just had no idea one guy could get paid for so many drawings and not improve
Veef
Posts: 2065 Joined: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:52 am
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by Veef Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:38 pm
http://www.alphazedstudios.com/alphaZED_studios/
he's got a website and still does stuff
but yeah some of the robots like the Hatchetman are ok
and I love the Dervish for some reason but most renderings of it outside the original artwork are terrible
gotta love how the best artwork is just the stuff he TRACED OVER from Japanese artwork
Oxymoron
Posts: 4167 Joined: Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:18 pm
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by Oxymoron Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:47 pm
About these sketches :
No.
Veef
Posts: 2065 Joined: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:52 am
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by Veef Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:54 pm
I don't think there was much oversight over what got into the books
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Crab
considering that they kept this thing relatively unchanged for decades, I don't think anyone cared what was going on
I look at my books and wonder just how many of them have the same 30 pages of rules reprinted each time
Manus Dei
Posts: 292 Joined: Sun Oct 09, 2011 9:56 amLocation: a few seconds of arrhythmic thrusting
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by Manus Dei Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:21 pm
if your vehicle resembles an mc escher painting something has probably gone horribly wrong
Ralin wrote: Finally I realized that when Walker fights the Satanic ponies I need to mention how his 'lower horn' is glowing and sparkling as it draws in and focuses Equestria's ambient magic.
Veef
Posts: 2065 Joined: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:52 am
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by Veef Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:32 pm
The engineering vehicle ironically can not be engineered to work in real life
Zod
perkele
Posts: 2272 Joined: Mon Sep 26, 2011 5:04 am
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by Zod Mon May 07, 2012 8:04 pm
A Thinking Person's Shooter
ROFL
Veef
Posts: 2065 Joined: Mon Sep 26, 2011 4:52 am
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by Veef Mon May 07, 2012 8:06 pm
I think I will laser boat todayand forever
starku
UNPROVOKED CYNICISM
Posts: 2043 Joined: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:32 pm
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by starku Tue May 08, 2012 8:10 am
dont worry they'll all miss
Darksi4190
Not a Brony (Probably lol)
Posts: 1733 Joined: Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:17 am
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by Darksi4190 Tue May 08, 2012 10:52 am
I like the giant pipe.
