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[Narcissistic Martyr]

I kept telling people they didn't want PGI to touch the Stalker....

[wanderer]

Sigilum Sanctum, on 17 February 2016 - 12:33 AM, said:

/end nerd rage.

This could be a slogan right here.

END NERD RAGE! QUALITY PATCHES!

(Catapult owners feel your pain, robot cancer is always hard on an owner.)

[Yosharian]

Haha wow that's pathetic

[Alistair Winter]

[STEF_]

Troutmonkey, on 17 February 2016 - 12:43 AM, said:

Wow I just checked and that's really lazy. The PPC's don't go all the way back and have this odd gaping hole behind them where you can still see the laser mount... Have to tweet russ about this

I don't know if I'm going to ROLF...or writing a rage post.....

Probably both.....

[Lily from animove]

Stefka Kerensky, on 17 February 2016 - 05:45 AM, said:

I don't know if I'm going to ROLF...or writing a rage post.....

Probably both.....

to ROFL MWO edition:
Raging on the Floor Laughing.

[Malleus011]

It's not as bad as some of the previous victims, but it's still worse than the original model in most cases. The idea of 'first, do no harm' should apply to geometry updates.

I believe they've got some of their newer guys doing geo passes. I get that folks gotta learn, but for the guys working on these 'mech models - the players care. About every polygon and pixel and blocked missile tube. If we got what we wanted, the updated dynamic geometry on these 'mechs would make them look better, every time.

[Burke IV]

Stalker was the best IS missile boat because it could exploit the nose tubes. I suspect this is why the stalker has been mutilated. Honestly it should have just been left alone, it was one of those things that shouldnt have been in the game but somehow worked anyway. A very long time ago i reported the hunchback sp for its 6 tubes and soon after PGI replaced them with 10s. I knew then that they had no idea so i kept very quiet about the stalker... dreading that this day would come. This is a sad day

Edited by Burke IV, 17 February 2016 - 06:24 AM.

[Lily from animove]

Malleus011, on 17 February 2016 - 06:12 AM, said:

It's not as bad as some of the previous victims, but it's still worse than the original model in most cases. The idea of 'first, do no harm' should apply to geometry updates.

I believe they've got some of their newer guys doing geo passes. I get that folks gotta learn, but for the guys working on these 'mech models - the players care. About every polygon and pixel and blocked missile tube. If we got what we wanted, the updated dynamic geometry on these 'mechs would make them look better, every time.

Russ said one day someone is starting to work on the NVA rescale.
Another day he said on twiterr such rescales take a day.

Yet we have not seen any results, so either PGI days tke a lot longer (are they above arctic cyycle?).

But all of this makes me fear the result of what the NVA will look like after the rescale.

[Alistair Winter]

By the way... they're going to fix those Stalker missile bay doors soon, right?

Right?

[Wattila]

Sigilum Sanctum, on 17 February 2016 - 12:33 AM, said:

Are you ******** me? Why are there energy hardpoints duct tapped over the old ones. Why wasn't the old laser lens textures just removed?

Looks like the artist fixed the diffuse texture, but left the old normal map in place. Dunno why, could've probably just edited the normal map in Photoshop (generally a bad idea, but in this case should work out) instead of baking the normal map again.

[Navid A1]

Sigilum Sanctum, on 17 February 2016 - 12:33 AM, said:

Also why is there an SRM6 tumor on top?

Tumor you say?

Hello:



They could easily do something like this:

Spoiler

Or:

The models and animations since 2014 all seem very sloppy and rushed.

Edited by Navid A1, 17 February 2016 - 07:56 AM.

[Not A Real RAbbi]

My expectations aren't that high, but I expected better. Especially on the month-long patch cycle. BOO.

[Pardo Kerensky]

[Variant1]

Totally agree with you OP stalker should have been untouched. It was good before why break it?

[MeiSooHaityu]

Variant1, on 17 February 2016 - 08:25 AM, said:

Totally agree with you OP stalker should have been untouched. It was good before why break it?

Dynamic Weapon Geometry.

Nothing wrong with that, well, more so had it been accomished a bit better in dome spots.

[Appogee]

I'm sure the intern who did it was trying their hardest

[Lily from animove]

Navid A1, on 17 February 2016 - 07:54 AM, said:

Tumor you say?

Hello:



They could easily do something like this:

Spoiler

Or:

The models and animations since 2014 all seem very sloppy and rushed.

no they would add the large racks on the SCR

Edited by Lily from animove, 17 February 2016 - 09:50 AM.

[cSand]

how is anyone surprised, every single mech that has been bad-touched by the geometry pass looks like sh*t.
Which is a shame cause the mechs ultimately look pretty awesome in this game. But they are systematically screwing this over, 1 mech at a time

PAR FOR THE COURSE

[sycocys]

Next cockpit item is supposed to be a salt shaker.