Jess Hazen, on 14 September 2015 - 09:59 PM, said:
You are not alone, I don't like it either. I like the Marauder design with a dorsal gun. I'm not a fan of clever angling of the concept model to give the impression it's has a dorsal gun... I feel like we are being lied to, not everyone is observant enough to realize that the cannon they are showing is on the right torso and not the center torso. Perhaps PGI realizes they are incapable of being creative enough to make the dorsal gun design work so they have given us a new design and that is fine, there are plenty of other well done designs to choose from if a few people don't like it. That's not to say that the mech they are going to create won't be good or that I won't buy it. I just don't like that it bears the Marauder name because I don't see it being the same Marauder I know. I would prefer they name it something else.
Of course we could tell the ballistic is in the RT. It also looks like a Marauder. The original dorsal design (despite it also being the Macross look), could even be possible unless there was enough room in the CT to even mount the ballistic, and there wouldn't be, because no matter how you look at it, there just wouldn't be enough room for a large ballistic in the head or CT due to lack of critical space. Now in theory to that, the weapon could of course be in the side torso but the barrel offset to be over the center line. However, this design makes way more sense structurally, especially when it comes to ammo feed. In addition, two more things I'd like to add:
1.) In all redesign attempts of the MAD I've seen, the artist put the ballistic in the RT.
2.) The original design was made in the 80s, and let's face it, a lot of the old concepts suck, even worse for this one cause it was taken from an already used design in Macross, meaning, that original looked like crap. Also, in anime, anything and everything can work if you say it does, and crappy looks can kind of look good, which is why it was able to get away with using a dorsal gun on such a small space (and I think it was a turret too) and those long stupid looking legs and the very thin arms, they just wouldn't be structurally ideal and would have balance and control issues. So basically, what you feel fits the look of a Marauder, is anime influenced, since it looks like the one from Macross.
You know, now that I think about it, I think most of the BT 80s concept models had anime mecha influence (even the Cataphract shared the arm and I think the leg designs from the Marauder). If those designs were built for real, they just wouldn't work right. Now the Marauder, like most of the Alex redesigns, looks bad@$$.
EDIT: I also forgot that Mektek added the Marauder in a pack for MW4:Mercs, and while it did have the dorsal gun (and better looking legs and arms than the orginal), the gun was also a COMPLETELY SEPARATE section that could be destroyed, just like the ears on a Mad Cat, because Microsoft threw critical slots out the windows and was programmed in that way. Since MWO is using the critical slots from the TT, it wouldn't work. And the ballistic weapon was still mounted in the RT regardless.
Edited by Sevronis, 15 September 2015 - 03:13 PM.
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