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[Wingbreaker]

Dat sum Rondra Snord's Highlander.

[Ozric]

Looks like a lack of finishing touches to me, but it may just be the low res.

[Mechkilla]

Mechkilla, on 22 March 2013 - 05:09 AM, said:

I have to agree. It sure looks not bad in game, but the misslelauncher tubes are kind of awkward. Looks like 6 massive ones and besides that 10 small ones in the right left torso and 3 thick in the right left arm (I don't believe that are ballistics). The concept has 20 in the torso and 6 in the arm. I hope that it is just because of the obvious hero variant.

Oh, watched the video again. In the last few seconds it fires with 3 medium lasers out of that right left arm.

Edit: left/right missmatch ... thx DirePhoenix

Edited by Mechkilla, 22 March 2013 - 06:26 AM.

[Booran]

mike29tw, on 22 March 2013 - 04:57 AM, said:

I don't know...the Highlander concept art sure looks great, but the one in the trailer looks kinda wierd......
Is it the low res texture? Or is the polygon counts too low? Doesn't look as menacing as the concept art.

It looks a bit "blocky to be sure, but it might be an unfinished mesh, the camo giving off the impression or something with the trailer itself that sells the highlander a bit short. I'd love if it stayed close to the concept art, though it still looks quite intimidating

[Tennex]

DirePhoenix, on 22 March 2013 - 04:32 AM, said:

Note that there appears to be loudspeakers mounted above and on the sides of the cockpit...

"Rhonda Snord piloted a Highlander battlemech for most of her career, and was known to play Elvis Presley music over its external speakers."

[Booran]

Now we should all wait for the MC music packs to buy for that thing

[Galen Shannow]

I Thought Piranha wasnt going to Pax East? (Outside of Bullock on a panel) If they are where are they? I'm going on Sunday..

[Ramrod]

We've come a long way from the buttrock in the original trailer. This music is great (as is everything else in it, of course).

[JuiceKeeper]

i dont know i like more concept it looks like it got balls. This one seems like it lost them in PR department or they dropped from assembly line . Lets see if its finished model or it will be different on release.

[zverofaust]

That's actually not a very good trailer tbqh. Gahd dahm son, have some scripted camera movements, that footage is so obviously captured by some dude spectating in ghost mode it's painful!

[Esplodin]

Booran, on 22 March 2013 - 05:23 AM, said:

Now we should all wait for the MC music packs to buy for that thing

I would pay 5000 MC for THIS. For real.

[Booran]

zverofaust, on 22 March 2013 - 05:27 AM, said:

That's actually not a very good trailer tbqh. Gahd dahm son, have some scripted camera movements, that footage is so obviously captured by some dude spectating in ghost mode it's painful!

Thats gives an old-school vibe to it, I don't really mind. But it would probably be more appealing to the masses if it was more "cinematic".

[DirePhoenix]

Mechkilla, on 22 March 2013 - 05:12 AM, said:

Oh, watched the video again. In the last few seconds it fires with 3 medium lasers out of that right arm.

That's 3 medium lasers in the left arm. The right arm fires what sounds like a Gauss Rifle at the end of the clip. So from what we can tell, it has 1 Gauss Rifle, 3 Medium Lasers, 1 LRM 10, and 1 SRM 6 with a kickin' loudspeaker system to boot...

[zverofaust]

Booran, on 22 March 2013 - 05:28 AM, said:

Thats gives an old-school vibe to it, I don't really mind. But it would probably be more appealing to the masses if it was more "cinematic".

No, I've seen trailers that give "old-school" nostalgic vibes of footage being taken from a shaky mouse-controlled camera in-game (Natural Selection 2's trailers are great examples). This one is just kinda meh.

[ssm]

JuiceKeeper, on 22 March 2013 - 05:27 AM, said:

i dont know i like more concept it looks like it got balls. (...)

Atlas looks as if it has diaper, so consider it a step forward.

Also, if alternate vison modes will look like this in actual game, congrats to devs.

[Thorqemada]

Is that AMS on the "Hips" ?

Imho the Feeling of giant metal robot war machines is a bit lost in the Trailer as there is no refenrencepoint for the watching People to become impressed.

Edited by Thorqemada, 22 March 2013 - 05:40 AM.

[The Cheese]

Yeah... Seeing new stuff is nice, but really guys, gotta work on your method of capturing footage.

[N0ni]

That Highlander... April is too far away, want now.

[MrPenguin]

DirePhoenix, on 22 March 2013 - 04:32 AM, said:

Note that there appears to be loudspeakers mounted above and on the sides of the cockpit...

Those are for bagpipes.

Edited by MrPenguin, 22 March 2013 - 05:45 AM.

[Ralgas]

have to point out it's also @ 1:17 greyed out wading through a snowstorm....