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[Stardancer01]

Arms with different movement characteristics.

Not all battle mechs have arms with the same range of movement and some have a third ‘arm’ in the way of a ball turret in their torso, which can move or less than the other arms.

Recommend multi arm targeting radicles

[Adridos]

Stardancer01, on 17 July 2013 - 02:40 AM, said:

...and some have a third ‘arm’ in the way of a ball turret in their torso, which can move or less than the other arms.

Could you provide any examples? I'm not aware of any.

[Stardancer01]

Adridos, on 17 July 2013 - 03:04 AM, said:

Could you provide any examples? I'm not aware of any.

The vulture/mad dog has a turret and the Locust might have one too

Edited by Stardancer01, 17 July 2013 - 08:17 AM.

[Padic]

Stardancer01, on 17 July 2013 - 08:13 AM, said:

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The vulture/mad dog has a turret and the Locust might have one too

Eh. Only in how it's depicted in MW4. In other Battletech games, it's had those weapons in its arms.

[MoonUnitBeta]

3 reticles, two hands?
It’s bad enough spectating new players with 1 reticle and arm lock enabled lol.

Anyways, I personally don’t think a third reticle is nessicary.
However. I’m certainly not against something like an Oculus Rift enabled reticle that follows head tracking and gives a new reticle that looks like a T (where the joining at the top of the T is the center of the crosshair). Such as the vulture’s chin mounted gun. And without the oculus rift it’s just tied to the arm’s reticle. Anything other than that though, 3 reticles for one aiming device is just getting too much.

[Gaan Cathal]

Stardancer01, on 17 July 2013 - 02:40 AM, said:

Arms with different movement characteristics.

Not all battle mechs have arms with the same range of movement and some have a third ‘arm’ in the way of a ball turret in their torso, which can move or less than the other arms.

Recommend multi arm targeting radicles

That's a slightly different visual representation of Torso mounted weaponry, all of which is capable of more traversal than gross torso motion. WOG from Catalyst devs.

[Adridos]

Stardancer01, on 17 July 2013 - 08:13 AM, said:

The vulture/mad dog has a turret and the Locust might have one too

Actually, no. As Padic already mentioned, Vulture doesn't have it that way at all. Here's teh real Vulture's look:



And Locust has that turret because it tries to be as close as possible to it's Crusher Joe granny as far as lore and gameplay is concerned, I'm really not aware of any instance of it actually serving a purpose aside from teh rule of cool.