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[Sader325]

[FupDup]

I'm still not a fan of the fact that Alex's Whammer has its PPC barrels below the elbows...it looks weird. Having the barrels perfectly in-line with the elbow fits the design much better, and it even already exists in the game if you use the variants with 2 energy hardpoints per arm.

[Bishop Steiner]

FupDup, on 01 February 2016 - 11:33 AM, said:

I'm still not a fan of the fact that Alex's Whammer has its PPC barrels below the elbows...it looks weird. Having the barrels perfectly in-line with the elbow fits the design much better, and it even already exists in the game if you use the variants with 2 energy hardpoints per arm.

since practically no one puts the PPCs in the arms anyhow, why should people care?

Especially funny to see compies comment on aesthetics.

[FupDup]

Bishop Steiner, on 01 February 2016 - 11:46 AM, said:

since practically no one puts the PPCs in the arms anyhow, why should people care?

Especially funny to see compies comment on aesthetics.

Maybe like 2 or 3 more people would put them there if they looked a little bit better.

But seriously, I really do think that putting the barrels under the elbow joint gives the arm a "droopy" sort of look compared to most artwork of the mech.

The funny thing is that it's already in the game...and you even made a screenshot of it.



That is what I think the DEFAULT PPC position should be, even on variants with just 1 energy per arm.

Edited by FupDup, 01 February 2016 - 12:02 PM.

[Scout Derek]

Bishop Steiner, on 01 February 2016 - 11:46 AM, said:

since practically no one puts the PPCs in the arms anyhow-

Only Whammer purists do....

I'm an offender for 3 builds...

the 4th I'm not, I put the pewpew into my whammy!

[Bishop Steiner]

Scout Derek, on 01 February 2016 - 11:58 AM, said:

Only Whammer purists do....

I'm an offender for 3 builds...

the 4th I'm not, I put the pewpew into my whammy!

and you have to wonder why we annihilate your Clan?

[Cyborne Elemental]

Why purposefully handicap yourself by using the ARM hardpoints?

On the 6D, the top arm slot is more appropriate for using PPC if you want quicker aiming, but even that still clips into the terrain more than it should.

If you can convince Russ to get all single HP variants to use the top hardpoint, I'd love it, but I'm not going to fight too hard for a weapon I rarely use because I don't trust PPC's.

[Mead]

FupDup, on 01 February 2016 - 11:33 AM, said:

I'm still not a fan of the fact that Alex's Whammer has its PPC barrels below the elbows...it looks weird. Having the barrels perfectly in-line with the elbow fits the design much better, and it even already exists in the game if you use the variants with 2 energy hardpoints per arm.

It might have been one of the 'points of similarity' that they had to alter from the original artwork.

[0bsidion]

Well I have to admit, I'm not sure why they got it right with the Mauler but the Whammy got the nub treatment. Granted of the two the Mauler is my favorite so I'm not as irritated about it as I would be were it the other way around. Still baffled though.

[DAYLEET]

If you are going to put ppcs in the arms at least have both on the same arm so when you hit a light both hits. Then your placement problem goes away.

[Aethon]

Bishop Steiner, on 01 February 2016 - 12:06 PM, said:

and you have to wonder why we annihilate your Clan?

Is he actually a Smoke Jaguar, though? Hard to say, unless you know by some other means. I most certainly am not. Sadly, PGI has completely neglected all but the most famous factions when it comes to in-game representation, even in such a simple form as forum avatars.

[Bishop Steiner]

DAYLEET, on 01 February 2016 - 12:41 PM, said:

If you are going to put ppcs in the arms at least have both on the same arm so when you hit a light both hits. Then your placement problem goes away.

Nope.

[Alistair Winter]

Imagine if it looked like this.

With the recoil when you fired the PPC.

[Juodas Varnas]

Alistair Winter, on 01 February 2016 - 01:53 PM, said:

Imagine if it looked like this.

With the recoil when you fired the PPC.

Oh man, recoil-animations for ACs and PPCs would be so awesome!

[Sader325]

Bishop Steiner, on 01 February 2016 - 11:46 AM, said:

since practically no one puts the PPCs in the arms anyhow, why should people care?

Especially funny to see compies comment on aesthetics.

Because it's not the PPC's that make that gun arm cool. Lasers OR PPC's look great in that gun arm, and thats what the warhammer lacks.

The PPC barrels are the warhammer look terrible, however it looks just as bad with laser arms.

The entire Warhammer looks great, except the arms, the arms look terrible no matter whats in them. The arms with the double energy hardpoints don't look AS bad, but they still aren't that good either.

[Funky Bacon]

Juodas Varnas, on 01 February 2016 - 02:04 PM, said:

Oh man, recoil-animations for ACs and PPCs would be so awesome!

I think some AC's on some mechs do have recoil (jagermech does). There's just too much flash, smoke and explosions to notice them I guess. Plus many people are zoomed in when shooting so they won't see it anyway.