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[Toothless]

I remember when I was a kid, and saw the War Dog's CCG picture and being like "Wow, that looks terrible."

Well, here I am at 31 and to this day occassionally the goofiness of this drawing that probably took half an hour has stuck with me, and I want to see the MWO-ified. Plus the hardpoints arent that bad (blah blah blah they are all the same at this point).

So make it happen, go forth.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/War_Dog

But this time, lets have the intestinal fortitude to NOT give it the Nova torso treatment. Lets keep these stilt shoulders and run with it.

Or just play more clan mechs, whatevs.

• 1x Gauss Rifle
  
• 2x Streak SRM-2s
  
• 1x Large Pulse Laser
  
• 2x Medium Pulse Lasers
  
• 1x Small Pulse Laser
  
• 1x Anti-Missile System
  
• 1x Guardian ECM Suite

[Lukoi Banacek]

Arms so low that would be worse than a CTF to play. Would need some serious quirks imo.

[Spheroid]

Well firstly the mech would need a twistable waist, which would alter the look considerably.

Secondly I am not sure that it would be a better ECM heavy than the Cataphract-0XP or the Thanatos. Because of inherent weight limitations you are unlikely to effectively use energy, missile and ballistic hardpoints on a single design.

When converting this design to MWO you would need to both move the leg streak launchers into the torso and convert them to standard vs. one shot variants. Their genesis as leg weapon should have either the height and or tube count quite low. In that respect you are better off with the Thanatos.

Edited by Spheroid, 04 August 2018 - 12:09 PM.

[Toothless]

Spheroid, on 04 August 2018 - 12:07 PM, said:

Well firstly the mech would need a twistable waist, which would alter the look considerably.

Secondly I am not sure that it would be a better ECM heavy than the Cataphract-0XP or the Thanatos. Because of inherent weight limitations you are unlikely to effectively use energy, missile and ballistic hardpoints on a single design.

When converting this design to MWO you would need to both move the leg streak launchers into the torso and convert them to standard vs. one shot variants. Their genesis as leg weapon should have either the height and or tube count quite low. In that respect you are better off with the Thanatos.

Yea Im gonna need you to stop using logic and reason and just go with it.

[El Bandito]

IS mechs are boring to look at? WHAT?

[Toothless]

Is it humanoid and blocky? you might be an IS mech if...

[KoalaBrownie]

Don't think the War Dog would come out looking the way you want. Most of the IS mechs end up looking pretty much the same as they lose their most distinguishing features in the conversion to the game. Look at the Victor and the Highlander! wtf happened? Even the Mauler, which I've always thought of as a tall mech, is as squat as an Awesome.

Some mechs come out looking pretty good, but the silhouettes are certainly indistinct in a lot of cases.

[Toothless]

KoalaBrownie, on 04 August 2018 - 02:29 PM, said:

Don't think the War Dog would come out looking the way you want. Most of the IS mechs end up looking pretty much the same as they lose their most distinguishing features in the conversion to the game. Look at the Victor and the Highlander! wtf happened? Even the Mauler, which I've always thought of as a tall mech, is as squat as an Awesome.

Some mechs come out looking pretty good, but the silhouettes are certainly indistinct in a lot of cases.

You're preaching to the choir, if the choir was a group of great grandchildren of several generations of choirs, who have sung for those generations about the generic and compacted appearance of iconic designs in MWO and passed those songs down to the current choir, to whom you are now preaching.

[Jackal Noble]

I'd take the Defiance over that tbh. Just a cooler looking Whammy tho.

Edited by Jackal Noble, 04 August 2018 - 02:46 PM.

[El Bandito]

Toothless, on 04 August 2018 - 01:01 PM, said:

Is it humanoid and blocky? you might be an IS mech if...

Is it skinny and chicken walking? You might be a Clan mech if... See? It is all about personal preferences.

Besides, the latest releases such as Champion, Vulcan, Flea, Fafnir... don't fit your description, so look forward to em.

Edited by El Bandito, 04 August 2018 - 02:50 PM.

[KoalaBrownie]

Toothless, on 04 August 2018 - 02:33 PM, said:

You're preaching to the choir, if the choir was a group of great grandchildren of several generations of choirs, who have sung for those generations about the generic and compacted appearance of iconic designs in MWO and passed those songs down to the current choir, to whom you are now preaching.

What I found most amusing, is that for mechs that actually have a distinct silhouette features like shoulders of the Fafnir, PGI pre-emptively created a mech with very similar features from a distance, the Sunspider. It's like they're actively trying to not make things distinctive sometimes.

[Viking Yelling]

honestly like seeing more mech to play for flavor and not just Cbill collecting.
but Im still hoping for a Hollander!