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Mobile Command Base Is A Converted Tanker Transport?


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#1 Asakara

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Posted 22 January 2014 - 09:45 AM

When I first saw a picture of the mobile command base it seemed like I had seen it before somewhere:

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Oh yeah.. This looks sorta familiar:

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Notice they both have the elevated drivers box at the front?

They removed the storage tanks from the transport, chopped it in half, added a small dish and some shacks + extra bits, and viola! A Mobile Command Base!

Personally I would have hoped you would have made something based on existing BT lore like:

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Now there is nothing wrong with having a tracked or even hover command base, besides the wheeled ones pictured above. We have tracked MCB vehicles now:

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But that converted transport just doesn't seem right to me.

Does a giant, slow, fragile vehicle which requires crew to go outside to get from station to station seem like a the kind of thing you would lead a battle from? "Quick! We are being shelled! Go outside, run up the stairs in the open into that tin shack and drive us away!"

You certainly would have a hard time hiding it. In addition being somewhat top-heavy it would need to go very slow making it quite vulnerable once spotted.

In my opinion you might consider asking the art team to give it another go please.

#2 Roadkill

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Posted 22 January 2014 - 10:51 AM

I don't think it's meant to be a mobile command base, so much as a deployable command base, despite what they called it in the patch notes.

#3 Ambuscade

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Posted 22 January 2014 - 11:00 AM

I'd like to call it target practice :)

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#4 Bront

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Posted 22 January 2014 - 11:24 AM

It's mobile in that it can be moved, not that it's supposed to be moving right now.

That said, a fully armored vehicle somewhere would have made some sense.

#5 Bernard Matthaios

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Posted 22 January 2014 - 12:34 PM

Its better than the previous option IMO. However it would be cool to see a armored vehicle with some weapons for defense.

#6 Rhaythe

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Posted 22 January 2014 - 12:37 PM

I like allusions to real-world objects in my sci-fi. I believe that's what this is:

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Edit: Maor Piktur

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Edited by Rhaythe, 22 January 2014 - 12:39 PM.






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