LordKnightFandragon, on 13 March 2015 - 06:34 PM, said:
Well, based on what ive seen of it, its mostly a curse. Warhawks with stubbies, Mad Dogs with stubbies, centurions with w/e the hell you call those...things... on their arms. Catapults with VCRs. its gunna be absolutely hilariously horrible when a Mauler or a Zeus equips lasers on its arms and the arm goes from a big menacing looking weapon to a little pencil looking stubby thing.
What else has dynamic weaponry destroyed? Hellbringers get stubbies to?
It'd destroyed the Mist Lynx as a viable chassis thanks to how big it makes the arms. I wouldn't be so mad, but
this image clearly shows that the excuse we were given about the weapon sizes needing to be consistent is bunk; the lasers are much smaller on the Adder, which not only looks better, it makes the mech better. Those lasers on the Adder are LPLs, by the way.
It's also made the Hunchbacks ugly, especially the 4P and 4J, and it cost the 4H its cool inverted hunch. The 4G looks pretty hilariously bad with an extra weapon barrel sticking out of that monstrous AC20 slot when whatever the replacement was could clearly have fired from there without adding on barrel length.
The Ravens came out better than just about any other mech, but they still lost their cool laser arm tubes to the blocky monstrosity that's being used now. The Jager is about the only other mech that looks better with dynamic hardpoints than without. There are some mechs too, like the Victor and Highlander, where you can tell that the mech's model looks bad because they had to build it with enough room to stick a bunch of weapons on there, making them look blocky and leaving them with big blank spots too.
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