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[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

Personally, I like the way that GUNDAM handles it. [and battletech explains some of it] The central comuter handles the typical movements, standing, turning, all of that are controlled via input from a joystick/throttle. The controls are interperted by the computer to instruct the mecha to "do the thing."

Usually via computer learning of the human body, allowing these bipedal humanoid robots to move, essentially, like humans.

[PobbestGob]

pretty sure that trashcan the guy is wearing is a cooling suit, not the neural interface.

[LT. HARDCASE]

The mechs control themselves, and the human pilots interrupt when necessary. That's really how it works..

Read up on the Diagnostic Interpretation Computer.

Edited by LT. HARDCASE, 06 August 2018 - 02:58 PM.

[evilauthor]

Old MW4 Ranger, on 01 August 2018 - 08:22 PM, said:

control the Mech with Body Movement is a bad idea ..its the Body energy down or the Pilot wounded ist the Strong of the mechanic deleted trough the weak of a Human Body.
Thats like firecontrol from Weapons with arms like one of the worst Babylon 5 Movies ...The pilot is quickly exhausted, the movements with arms and legs take much longer to focus on the target and are inaccurate and the pilot is wounded the weapon system is useless ...a wounded pilot can push a Button without movement ... the mech is to compensate for the problems of the human body, not be hampered by it ,

Very much this. A mech should be driven like a vehicle, with the mech doing all the hard work like deciding where to put its feet and where the limbs go. In that regard, "piloting" a mech should be less like wearing a giant suit of armor and more like riding an animal, albeit an artificial one that can be programmed for fine control.

[Ensaine]

In lore, these controls were left analog for a reason.......just look at most of today's tech.. PC's stilll crash/lock up, cell phones the same, DVD players stop / have issues reading disks.. so, yeah.... analog.....

Give me a military grade version of this :
https://www.amazon.c...k/dp/B01N2PE8CZ

... along with a floating, gyro'd armor reinforced cockpit, and I'd be set.......

[Tetatae Squawkins]

Kill2Blit, on 06 August 2018 - 01:08 PM, said:

pretty sure that trashcan the guy is wearing is a cooling suit, not the neural interface.

Nope. That's what some of the early neurohelmet art looked like.

[Mystere]

Ensaine, on 07 August 2018 - 12:44 AM, said:

In lore, these controls were left analog for a reason.......just look at most of today's tech.. PC's stilll crash/lock up, cell phones the same, DVD players stop / have issues reading disks.. so, yeah.... analog.....

Give me a military grade version of this :
https://www.amazon.c...k/dp/B01N2PE8CZ

... along with a floating, gyro'd armor reinforced cockpit, and I'd be set.......

Here you go: