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[Strykewolf]

Whichever one that happens to come around the corner and backs me up.

[Odanan]

Joseph Mallan, on 27 January 2015 - 04:23 AM, said:

[Hellslinger]
I call it Wild Knight.

I'm probably the only person here to think this is one of the ugliest paintings in the game. :/

[TripleEhBeef]

No love for the Vindicator?

[Bishop Steiner]

Alistair Winter, on 27 January 2015 - 04:21 AM, said:

To some of us, aesthetics is extremely important when it comes to choosing a mech. Maybe you'd play the Thunderbolt even if it was a Tier 6 mech, or maybe you would never touch the Trebuchet even if it was a Tier 1 mech.

Here's what I want to know:

• What's the most beautiful Inner Sphere mech in-game (not counting concept art, fan art, etc)
  
• What's the most beautiful Clan mech in-game (not counting concept art, fan art, etc)

For me, CPLT-C1(F) is the prettiest IS mech. Used to be prettier (Never Forget™). The prettiest Clan mech is the Hellbringer PRIME (I). It's an ugly kind of pretty, like an A-10 or AH-64.

For me?

I absolutely LOVE the Founder Hunchback's looks.

It's brutal, like an A10, like you say for the Catpult. But it's such a detailed and ingenious reinterpretation of the source material. The non Founders ...the head just doesn't do it for me. But I love love love the HBK-4G(F)

(I once would have voted for the K2..... before the Itty Bitty PPC Barrel Scandal)



For Clan Mechs?

Hands down, the Summoner Prime. I was leery of the concept art, being to stout, too bubble headed..... but the Modelers hit a home run for me. But it has to be the stock prime. ANy other weapon load just looks wrong.


would still like it a little skinnier, but overall....

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 27 January 2015 - 12:34 PM.

[Brody319]

Just remember, This was the old catapult back in MW4

[terrycloth]

For IS, either the Catapult (K2 w/ UAC5s) or the Raven (4X w/ AC20).

For clan... Stormcrows are actually really neat looking. But no, it's the Maddog, hands down.

[Hit the Deck]

TripleEhBeef, on 27 January 2015 - 12:25 PM, said:

No love for the Vindicator?

How could I forget the Vindicator? It's actually my first mastered mech just because I love the look. I guess it was forgotten after being so long sitting in the closet unused....

[Aiden Skye]

On a side note, "Beautiful" isn't a word I'd use to describe such awesome, destructive machines of war.

[CDLord HHGD]

W A R K H A N, on 27 January 2015 - 01:38 PM, said:

On a side note, "Beautiful" isn't a word I'd use to describe such awesome, destructive machines of war.

I would.

[Vandul]

Protector, hands down.

[Tordin]

IS: Raven, Clan: Summoner

[kapusta11]

Catapult K2 pre barrel normalization.

[Alistair Winter]

A lot of people are saying the Commando. IMO, the Commando looks fabulous when it's standing still, and it looks great in concept art. But the running animation for the Commando is, hands down, the worst running animation for any mech in the game. It looks like a wooden puppet being pulled by invisible strings. It's a tiny mech with wide hips and it doesn't place its feet under its center of gravity, so it just looks ridiculous.

The Commando is perhaps the only mech in MWO that I chose not to play because it looked too ugly (entirely due to animations)

Odanan, on 27 January 2015 - 11:58 AM, said:

I'm probably the only person here to think this is one of the ugliest paintings in the game. :/

Not at all. I didn't want to bring Joe down, but to me that Monster Truck style has no place in MWO. Every time I see one on the battlefield, I feel like it looks out of place.

cdlord, on 27 January 2015 - 11:33 AM, said:

Is it fair to say that I think PGI did a helluva job on all of the mechs? There isn't a single one that I don't appreciate in it's own way and they managed to sell me some designs I absolutely hated from TT (Kintaro anyone?).
For me, PGI has perfectly executed what I always liked about Mechwarrior. It's not anime, it's gritty and dirty in machines made for war and not the catwalk.

Well, there seems to be two dominant styles in robots if you look at sci-fi art after 2010 or so. One style is the Transformers style. Very complex shapes, just a lot of angles, very menacing, like a Lamborghini Veneno. The other style is the Elysium robot style, very low tech and functional, pragmatic designs that don't look too humanoid.

MWO has sort of found its own style, which looks modern without falling into either of the two camps above. But you can see it sometimes borrows from them, especially if you look at all the hydraulics on the King Crab, the simple mechanical shape of the Raven's legs, and the rather Transformer-esque hipjoints on the Highlander.

The only MWO mechs that were a disappointment to me, were the Dire Wolf (they made the cockpit comically big, like a Boeing 747 cockpit) and the Gargoyle Invasion variant (aka fat chinese kid).

Edited by Alistair Winter, 27 January 2015 - 10:48 PM.

[DaZur]

I don't care how I look at it, the Commando looks like Twicki from Buck Rodgers...

[Bishop Steiner]

bow down and weep for what once was....

[LordKnightFandragon]

Brody319, on 27 January 2015 - 12:31 PM, said:

Just remember, This was the old catapult back in MW4

Yeah, just 1 of the many, many...maaaany horrid artworks from MW4.

[Brody319]

LordKnightFandragon, on 27 January 2015 - 11:03 PM, said:

Yeah, just 1 of the many, many...maaaany horrid artworks from MW4.

I don't care how Ugly the VCR ears are, At least its not MW4 catapult ugly.

[Karl Marlow]

Urbanmech

[Aethon]

Most beautiful Clan mech in the game? Nova, IMHO.

Most beautiful IS mech? That depends; before or after PGI ruined the appearance of half of them?

Edited by Aethon, 27 January 2015 - 11:32 PM.

[Alistair Winter]

ThomasMarik, on 27 January 2015 - 11:14 PM, said:

Urbanmech

Which one?

Version 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5?