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[White Bear 84]

Arman Abounourinejad, on 13 January 2016 - 10:13 AM, said:

On that note i would like to apologize for how the original retrofit turned out as it was actually my first one that i completed when i first started at piranha and didn't realize how important certain aspects of a mech were perceived by the community. back then the changes that we completed made sense but as i worked on more retro-fits during the past 2 years it has become pretty evident that the changes made on the catapult were a miss-step.

May your newfound experience and knowledge lead you on the path to forgiveness.

Be heartened that you may soon become the most popular individual in the galaxy if you do this right

[JaxRiot]

Arman Abounourinejad, on 13 January 2016 - 10:13 AM, said:

So the visual upgrade will stay close to the original model and add a few things here or there, i wouldn't get to worried about it completely changing. it more of a slight evolution of the original design than a total re-imagining.

also regarding the animation seeing as how we re-scaled the mech it should be fairly plausible to re-use the original animation ( no promises as im not in charge of animation ) so the original animation should stay if there are no crazy complications during the mech building process.

Regarding the missile boxes i have yet to dive in too deep with the variant models but we will be going to one box for each arm and making sure we do not have a vcr situation.

On that note i would like to apologize for how the original retrofit turned out as it was actually my first one that i completed when i first started at piranha and didn't realize how important certain aspects of a mech were perceived by the community. back then the changes that we completed made sense but as i worked on more retro-fits during the past 2 years it has become pretty evident that the changes made on the catapult were a miss-step.

with that being said i hope to make it up to you guys with a updated and re-scaled catapult that the fans deserve.

Wow. Its not every day we see a post like this, so thanks for being so open to the community

And dont worry, we still wub joo!

[Degalus]

I realy hope they give us the iconic big PPC barrels back.... and not only for The K2 and Jester ... i also talk about the Awesome .... they look like nipples now ....

[Triordinant]

[CDLord HHGD]

Triordinant, on 03 February 2016 - 09:09 AM, said:

#NEVERFORGET

[MeiSooHaityu]

Now that the weapon geometry pass is done on the Stalker...Time for Catapult Re-do? Pretty please

[MoonUnitBeta]

MeiSooHaityu, on 17 February 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:

Now that the weapon geometry pass is done on the Stalker...Time for Catapult Re-do? Pretty please

It's been in progress for... almost a month? a few weeks? Not 100% sure, but Russ says we're going to like it. We're going to have the old PPC barrels back!

Saucy: https://twitter.com/...149474045431808

Edited by MoonUnitBeta, 17 February 2016 - 08:05 AM.

[Navid A1]

MeiSooHaityu, on 17 February 2016 - 07:59 AM, said:

Now that the weapon geometry pass is done on the Stalker...Time for Catapult Re-do? Pretty please

Be careful... be very careful

[Juodas Varnas]

Navid A1, on 17 February 2016 - 08:04 AM, said:

Be careful... be very careful

Oh wow, it actually hurt for me to see this.

I'm not even kidding. My head actually hurts now.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Navid A1, on 17 February 2016 - 08:04 AM, said:

Be careful... be very careful

Remember what they are fixing lol.





Even the Stalker's changes look AMAZING by comparison.

P.S. Still, that Stalker Laser/PPC arm placements

Edited by MeiSooHaityu, 17 February 2016 - 08:08 AM.

[MoonUnitBeta]

MeiSooHaityu, on 17 February 2016 - 08:07 AM, said:

Remember what they are fixing lol.

Looool,
That. Right. Missile. Pod. With. Two. F!#%^ING. Missiles. In. It. LMAO!

[Funky Bacon]

I'm gonna assume they made the bare minimum work on the Stalker to spend more time and resources on the Catapult.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Well, when the new Catapult redesign does go live, I hope I can finally retire this signature.

[Juodas Varnas]

MeiSooHaityu, on 17 February 2016 - 08:29 AM, said:

Well, when the new Catapult redesign does go live, I hope I can finally retire this signature.

I doubt it. They're probably going to make it even worse, so you'll probably gonna have to change the date.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Juodas Varnas, on 17 February 2016 - 08:35 AM, said:

I doubt it. They're probably going to make it even worse...

Seriously though, there will probably be a couple things I'm not crazy about (maybe the PPC barrels won't be much of an improvement), but look at those launchers...look! It can't get worse than that.

[Juodas Varnas]

MeiSooHaityu, on 17 February 2016 - 08:52 AM, said:

It can't get worse than that.

Of course it can.
It's PGI we're talking about.

[CDLord HHGD]

Now guys, we've already had a dev response in regards to the Catapult redesign. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. No reason to get the pitchforks out on it based on the Stalker (wtf btw, hope they fix that PPC overlay).

[Aramoro999]

Navid A1, on 17 February 2016 - 08:04 AM, said:

Be careful... be very careful

They rushed it out, think its wrong textures. They gonna need to fix it in next patch.

Otherwise it looks ok to me...maybe bigger ppc barrels but ok.

Edited by Aramoro999, 17 February 2016 - 09:29 AM.

[SgtMagor]

[Bloodweaver]

Navid A1, on 17 February 2016 - 08:04 AM, said:

Be careful... be very careful

They changed the Stalker's Tartan pattern, too. Looks dumb AF now

Edited by Bloodweaver, 17 February 2016 - 11:47 AM.