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[Escaflowne Z]

I love the Centurion; I'm ecstatic to see it will be included in MWO. Personally, I very much liked the traditional look of it, so I find myself struggling a bit with the new one. I think the arms are the parts that give me pause. The gun looks nice, but I think it tapers too aggressively down the barrel. On the other side, there's some cool, mean-looking claws, instead of a big Romanesque gauntlet. Still an excellent design, but it doesn't quite scream "Centurion" to me.

[Trogusaur]

Hey look! The Centurion has reasonable hitboxes now!

Awesome work!! This will certainly be my ride of choice.

Edited by Lord Trogus, 25 January 2012 - 01:25 PM.

[Paul Stern]

the new design of the centurion and the other mechs is perfect. its realy revamp the appearance of bt!

[Morashtak]

Yes! Ah gots me mah fiffy now! Hell will be a comin' fer ya' boys!

[mekabuser]

thank god it doesnt look like the old design... THank God.
Just like thank god women dont look like they did 100k years ago too.
I hope most every mech in game doesnt look like the garbage tro art.

Heres to hoping that shield works like the black knights in mw4. A seperate external with its own armor on top of the standard arm armor .
Even though its slim, its a large target I think. Here is to also hoping its a nimble mech as evidenced by those splayed toes on its feet.
Mechs need to be unique, have character, in look and functionality on the battlefield even within the same weight class.
Great Job FD>

I just dont understand some peoples nostaglia for things. Thank goodness this game isnt being made 2o years from now. Half the board would sound like grumpy old farts"argh.. its not the way it used to be.....ARGHHH"
Whats better, ? the original transformers cartoon art? or the way they look on transformers prime now?

Embrace the future, its quickly the past.

[Media]

I've never been a fan of the appearance of most of the older humanoid BattleMechs(Wasp, Stinger, Valkyrie, Commando, Centurion, etc.) and was very curious about how they would turn out.

Suddenly a large number of potential 'Mechs I might pilot just opened up.

This is absolutely great. Beautiful design.

[Warbeast]

It's very different from the original, but I think I like it. can't wait to see how some of the others are going to be up dated too.

[Cuth]

Hey, I haven't been around in a while, so I dunno if this was already announced or answered.. Is every mech in MWO going to look completely different from CBT, or just this one?

[armitage]

I like everything about it....from the knees up. Oddly enough I never liked the TRO centurion's feet and plank like legs. The head being set into the torso makes better sense than placing an important and obvious target out in the open like the original head. It will also greatly help when making the hit location box on the unit more balanced and believable. The other option being, "hey lets make the head look and stick out more like the TRO art but now you have to hit it directly in the eye to damage the head to keep people from headshotting it every time"

[MausGMR]

Nice work FD, looks really neat there mate. Glad you managed to make it look functional, threatening, and sexy, whilst keeping hold of a decent amount of the initial vision of the mech.

Feel free to ignore Amarus, if someone typo'd 'quiaff' in one of the novels he'd probably set it on fire and post its ashes back to the studio that wrote it, with a lengthy note calling them to trial on their obvious incompetence as members of the labour caste.

[Skwisgaar Skwigelf]

armitage, on 25 January 2012 - 01:34 PM, said:

I like everything about it....from the knees up. Oddly enough I never liked the TRO centurion's feet and plank like legs. The head being set into the torso makes better sense than placing an important and obvious target out in the open like the original head. It will also greatly help when making the hit location box on the unit more balanced and believable. The other option being, "hey lets make the head look and stick out more like the TRO art but now you have to hit it directly in the eye to damage the head to keep people from headshotting it every time"

The deal with the head plays directly into what flyingdebris said he tries to do with his designs: make them functional and believable. A "head" sticking up over the torso makes an easy target while the cockpit being built in the torso is better armored and protected. You wouldn't want the driver seat of a tank sticking up in a bubble turret would you?

[Ullr]

I just died a little when the page loaded. I was like "that's a Centurion". Love it!

[Atlas3060]

mekabuser, on 25 January 2012 - 01:30 PM, said:

I just dont understand some peoples nostaglia for things. ...

Because if we didn't have nostalgia then marketing wouldn't have another tool for advertising

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Whats better, ? the original transformers cartoon art? or the way they look on transformers prime now?

Older Optimus looks better than recent one, but newer Megatron is better in looks compared to the older.
The original voice for Optimus is still the voice for the newer one, so I guess that's also another good reason for nostalgia.

[God of War]

All the Artworks till now = Great!
The Centurion = Sorry Alex, scrap it and go back to the drawing board!

[SquareSphere]

I... I... I'm really not to sure about this design... Since when did battlemechs carry shields? The feet ... err... no, just... the whole design is nice for a sci fi mech, but if you told me it was a Centurion I wouldn't have believed you.

[Felicitatem Parco]

Does the centurion's arm-cannon look heavier and more powerful than the Dragon's? It's an AC/10, and should be beefier than the Dragon's AC/5. It mean, it is chunkier, but it's shorter and mounted to a well-articulated arm. Maybe the Dragon's arm is meant for accuracy over manuverability, and the Centurion's articulated arm is meant for flailing about madly while an angry flock of Jenners are circling.

Edited by Prosperity Park, 25 January 2012 - 02:20 PM.

[osito]

i like it. it looks slimmer and meaner then ever. i am glad mwo is giving the mechs their own looks and touches. The legs look a little weak though.

I almost got kicked out of training right now. i just checked real quick to see if new mech uploaded. when i saw a fedsuns mech i literally stood up and said loudly yes a centurion, during someones speech..... oops.

[BarHaid]

Prosperity Park, on 25 January 2012 - 01:11 PM, said:

It's not so much the weapons, it's the base design. I thought medium Mechs should act like screening forces to sweep the forward field, kill their scouts, and then return to the main line when an engagement takes place. So far the mediums at our disposal aren't meant to "go find the action," they're meant to let the action find them.

The MWO facebook page recently posted a complaint about how long it takes for an assault mech to cross the map, well, the same will probably go for the Hunchie, Catapult, and Centurion because they're all on the slow-end of 65kph, just 10kph "faster" than an Atlas. The Dragon is lightning-quick compared to the Centurion.

Yeah, its weird that the Dragon is the scout hunter of the group so far.

[Odin]

FD never fails to amaze me. And here he did it again.
Not the Mech of old.
I see and understand, how old school BT fans, and lovers of the old original Centurion must feel a bit disappointed.
FD took some liberties again, with the looks, we are so used to. But he didn't miss placed the shapes. I think we're approaching a display of details, we really want to see useful. How about that left shield and hand? Can I use it? What I try to says is, feels, looks too good to be left over for sheer eye candy, cosmetics.



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[Patrio Sioux Daltum]

Hmm. I have never really liked many human-shaped mechs - They just look dumb, typically - But this looks like it'll be worthwhile.
But trashcans are lulzy.