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[FRYBOTH]

I know it's a small gripe and obviously things can and will change. But, I don't like anything about the way missiles of all types look and fire. Pretty much all of the older MW's had cooler missile animations. I don't like how they all fire in one big clump. I liked how the old games missiles fired one after the other and had contrails behind them. There was just something so powerful about launching big salvo of LRM 20's. It was like my favorite weapon and one I always used my ammo for way too soon! lol

But, other than that I'm drooling while watching the gameplay trailer. The mechs all look amazing. Tell Mr. Alexander Iglesias that he's a bad *** and that you should probably pay him more.

[Bluey]

How about let them finish building alpha first <.<

[Dirk Le Daring]

We'll have to wait and see. Have faith though, looking real good so far.

[mockingfox]

Bluey, on 20 March 2012 - 04:40 PM, said:

How about let them finish building alpha first <.<

[HighlandWolf]

im not worried about any animations, its way to early and since we've only seen the one real video of actual gameplay footage..way to early to say

[FRYBOTH]

Like I said, I'm fully aware that things can and will change. They have the suggestions section for a reason, and I'm just throwing one out there. I'm sure they read this section as they work on the game. It's not like i'm boycotting the game because of the missile animation.

[pcunite]

The video was really to prove the game was not vaporware. There are several aspects that are pretty rough. It was very alpha art wise. Things can move quickly though so its all very exciting.

[Dlardrageth]

FRYBOTH, on 20 March 2012 - 04:36 PM, said:

I know it's a small gripe and obviously things can and will change. But, I don't like anything about the way missiles of all types look and fire. Pretty much all of the older MW's had cooler missile animations.[...]

Yep, I so agree, please bring back the missile animations from MW1. Who needs fancy graphics anyway? Or... on a second thought... maybe not?

[Victor Morson]

A lot of people see negative things in games and try to defend it with "It's just an alpha." I've worked around enough alphas to get a feel for things that change, and things that probably won't.. alphas are never exact representations but do give a pretty good idea of how things are going.

Things like missile animations are positively on the list of things that are likely to change. That's something the artists might be tweaking right up until the zero hour and maybe even in patches. They're fairly tweakable so artists are very likely to go in and play around with how they look.

Long story short, I wouldn't worry about little visual things. They're likely to change 5 times before the next footage we see. Honestly everything looked great in the MWO alpha footage so I'm not worried in the slightest!

[Oppi]

Firing all missiles in one big pack minimizes the time between launch and impact for all of them. Firing one after another increases the chance of the later ones missing.
So ... it all makes sense from a "realism is good" point of view

[Gremlich Johns]

I have actually fired missiles myself, out of an M60A2, and the animations are fine.

[FRYBOTH]

Gremlich Johns, on 21 March 2012 - 05:57 AM, said:

I have actually fired missiles myself, out of an M60A2, and the animations are fine.

While I'm sure there's a lot of people out there that have seen many many missiles fired in real life, no one is looking for true to life realistic graphics. I'm just saying I don't like how it is right now, that's all.

Generally when you reach the Beta version of a game (which they said they are shooting for summer) art and graphical changes (unless they are bugged or broken) don't get changed. Usually all that is finalized at that point. Beta is bug and numbers tweak time.

[Naduk]

i agree with the OP individually fired missiles are so much better than cluster missiles
and now is the time to put out such wants, well before the code gets locked down to much

also firing missile(s) from this guy

would be drastically different to launching 20+ missiles from this guy

Edited by Naduk, 22 March 2012 - 07:13 PM.

[Black Mamba]

I like how the Vulture in the MW3 intro fires its LRM volley. @ 1.49 min

Edited by Black Mamba, 22 March 2012 - 09:10 PM.

[Scanlon]

"Die Clanner"

[infinite xaer0]

I think the missiles look fine for the most part, though, i feel like their velocity could be increased a bit.