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[cazidin]

Greetings Mechwarriors. Today I have a simple question. When will we see a remodel on the abomination that is to the Ice Ferret? This Gargoyle head that grew arms and legs is the stuff of nightmares that haunts many in their sleep. Its ugliness has turned many pilots to stone for merely gazing in its general direction. Its horrific visage makes C'thulu himself look in the closet before bed to make sure that no Ice Ferret lurks within. The few pilots who aren't petrified by its terrible gaze quickly put it out of its presumed misery. Poor Ice Ferret.

[Kuritaclan]

Woot you wanna remodel my fridge. Never gonna happen.

[cazidin]

Kuritaclan, on 25 February 2016 - 11:09 AM, said:

Woot you wanna remodel my fridge. Never gonna happen.

Yes, please. I've seen better fridges on sale at Sears!

[Durant Carlyle]

Look at the artwork on Sarna. It was never a pretty 'Mech. It might be scaled if they ever get around to it, but the look won't change.

[Mole]

There is no reason to remodel the Ice Ferret. It looks almost exactly like its tabletop figurine. As for calling it a Gargoyle head with arms and legs, I don't see where on earth you are getting that idea from. I don't see it at all. The Ice Ferret looks like it's supposed to, and I actually never thought it was ugly.

[cazidin]

Mole, on 25 February 2016 - 11:22 AM, said:

There is no reason to remodel the Ice Ferret. It looks almost exactly like its tabletop figurine. As for calling it a Gargoyle head with arms and legs, I don't see where on earth you are getting that idea from. I don't see it at all. The Ice Ferret looks like it's supposed to, and I actually never thought it was ugly.

I think the joke about the Ice Ferrets ugliness was a bit too subtle. It doesn't look exactly like a Gargoyle head, no but both have modelling problems. (Personally, Idm the Gargoyles head too much but I have read others who disagree.)

[TELEFORCE]

I think the Ice Ferret looks fine, almost like it walked out of the TRO.

Edited by TELEFORCE, 25 February 2016 - 12:08 PM.

[Sigilum Sanctum]

Maybe a resize, but not a remodel.

It actually has very good hiboxes.

[Tarogato]

Why? Except for the child-bearing hips, the model is perfectly fine.

Nope. Just went and looked at the source material again and compared it to the MWO model. I forgot how good the Ice Ferret looked before PGI got their hands on it.




Wha'happened, eh?

[ChapeL]

I find the minis FAR better looking than what we got for some reason. It's too wide at the hips and it lost the V shape the CT has on certain drawings.

[Pariah Devalis]

Sigilum Sanctum, on 25 February 2016 - 12:05 PM, said:

Maybe a resize, but not a remodel.

It actually has very good hiboxes.

THIS. The IFR has incredible hitboxes. The thing is stupidly survivable because of it - the structure quirks are just frosting on top.

[PurpleNinja]

cazidin, on 25 February 2016 - 11:08 AM, said:

Its ugliness has turned many pilots to stone for merely gazing in its general direction.

Yet, they can still blow off it's arms.

[Davegt27]

Yeah the Ice Ferret looks like the north in of a south bound mule

I would love if it got a face lift

[Lupis Volk]

I want one of those but man they are big. that turns me off on them. They sound like Clan Cicadas but are oversized.

[Cyborne Elemental]

If they want to remodel the arm pods down a bit, I'd be cool with that, otherwise Fenris looks like Fenris to me..

[Windscape]

IMO the mwo one looks a bit derpy, but i like the tabletop one.

[Alistair Winter]

It certainly is ugly. But it's... it's almost a good kind of ugly. And it's one of the few mechs that have a little bit of dieselpunk realism to it. It doesn't look like a Japanese Gundam Mecha-warrior 9000, like the Arctic Cheetah or Firestarter.

So yeah, I get where you're coming from. It's definitely not sexy. It kind of looks like one of those ugly Hawken mechs. But I wouldn't want them to change it.

[Jack Booted Thug]

Oh dear lord please no. I love my fridge just the way it is.

All it needs is a cape.

[Kuritaclan]

Jack Booted Thug, on 25 February 2016 - 06:07 PM, said:

All it needs is a cape.

Now it is getting strange. Call the police. I get a creepy picture of exhibitionism in my head.

[MoonUnitBeta]

I refuse to pilot the ice ferret because it's ugly.

What I hate most about it, is the over all "low-poly" look it has. The dominant shapes are just blah.
And, this might a little thing, but I cannot stand how this part points upwards (see below) and isn't flat. I'd probably like it better if it were pointing down. But I really don't like how it tilts up.


And this nose piece should just go away / be remodeled so it's not a flat brick.

Edited by MoonUnitBeta, 25 February 2016 - 11:20 PM.