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[Koniving]

Morang, on 09 September 2013 - 08:26 PM, said:

Why do you think that "fewer polygons required to make the same shape in a human-scaled version"? (if we maintain the relation of 1:20 between the mech height and the pillar height, be it 10 and 200 or 1 and 20 meters).

To have textures appear appropriately, you can only do a polygon so large. Especially when you're trying to create something bumpy and to have it look good under lighting.

Example: You could make a building out of a 6 polygons (4 walls, top and bottom). But when you shine light on it, it looks awful. Times that by 8, creating the same building out of 48 polygons but having the exact same shape, and shadows look much better, lighting looks better, and even though it's the exact same shape there's a lot more visual quality to it. And the bigger something is, the more noticeable this is, requiring more and more polygons to do exactly the same cube.

Otherwise the lighting and shadows on it just look atrocious. But truth be told.. they kind of look atrocious on those pillars anyway.

[C E Dwyer]

Ganjhitsu, on 07 September 2013 - 08:34 PM, said:

Do people actually like the Urbanmech?

Just when I thought there might be hope for humanity, this question gets asked..

"back to the drawing room boys "

[Nikguy]

Wait wait wait.... Did someone diss the UrbanMech in this thread!
I have also just lost a little faith in the human race...

I am sorry Ganjhitsu, you just dont know what beauty is

[Hastur Azargo]

If I ever go mad, I wanna end up like this kitteh!

[990Dreams]

Avatar of Woe, on 26 September 2012 - 09:01 AM, said:

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!! Y-E-S!!! YES.

Now Fire Ant plz

*Urbanmech

[DArk 3MO]

PGI? Can you Tell the Community whats with the Flea it´s mech 16 of your mechs and you never released sry but Locust is cool but not a Flea!

Do you want to say to us that the Flea never comes PGI cause you need the money from the Phönix mechs?

Or do we become an answer when the Flea commes allright in the next months?

[Jarl Dane]

Flea Coming Soon™!

2012.. 13, 14?

No? Er..

The Flea coming in the year 20SOON!

[Craetheus Maximus]

I think I read from the Ask the Devs section that the reason for putting the Flea on hold was due to a CryEngine 3 limitation, something about hitting errors when a Mech, i.e. Flea, moves faster than 150kph.

So, yeah, don't hold your breath for this Mech while they work to resolve it and MASC (doubles your kph) as well.

[Mordynak]

Pretty certain that the limitation was due to network performance. Which isnt something that can be resolved. Only improved. Pretty sure theyve made it better now too. Since the commando can now run upto 171kph.

My guessing is that they will release the Flea after the phoenic variants are released.

Also, I don't see how MASC doubles your kph, The only mech it seems to be used on is the flea and it takes it from 97 to 119 kph.

[Adridos]

Flea goes 200+kp/h with MASC and top engine...

[stjobe]

MASC allows a 'mech to run at double its walking speed, not double its running speed.

Running speed is normally 1.5 times walking speed, so simple math example: A walking speed of 40kph means a running speed of 60kph. MASC increases that running speed to (40*2), or 80kph (and risks locking the legs up for the remainder of the match).

Also:



Give it to us, PGI, you know you want to!

[Demos]

But as BT (TT) and MWO calculates running speed differently, it would be more precise for MWO to increase the max speed (w/o MASC) by 33.3%.
In case of Flea (stock version):
top speed with 120 engine (stock): 97.2 km/h
top speed w/ MASC: 97.2 *(1+0.333) = 129.6 (= same top speed w/ MASC in TT).

[Macbrea]

Masc is supposed to be double walking speed, which is 66% of running speed. Assuming that a 20ton Flea cannot have more engine then a Locus. This is what the chart would look like:

Engine	Mech	Run	Walk	Masc
100	20	81.0	53.5	106.9
105	20	85.1	56.1	112.3
110	20	89.1	58.8	117.6
115	20	93.2	61.5	123.0
120	20	97.2	64.2	128.3
125	20	101.3	66.8	133.7
130	20	105.3	69.5	139.0
135	20	109.4	72.2	144.3
140	20	113.4	74.8	149.7
145	20	117.5	77.5	155.0
150	20	121.5	80.2	160.4
155	20	125.6	82.9	165.7
160	20	129.6	85.5	171.1
165	20	133.7	88.2	176.4
170	20	137.7	90.9	181.8
175	20	141.8	93.6	187.1
180	20	145.8	96.2	192.5
185	20	149.9	98.9	197.8
190	20	153.9	101.6	203.1

Edited by Macbrea, 23 October 2013 - 04:01 AM.

[Colby Boucher]

That's a lovely table you got there.

[Macbrea]

Give me a sec.. I will get it to work.

[Macbrea]

There, My guess is they will say 170XL or 175XL is max for Flea's Masc speed.

[CPL Madison]

i hope its not going to be god awful like the locust

[Swordlord]

I just hope this one isn't the hit-box nightmare the Spider turned out to be.

[Thunder Lips Express]

Morang, on 08 September 2013 - 03:11 AM, said:

But it have vertically traverseable "arms" in the TRO art. And it have shoulder and upper arm actuators in the Record Sheet.

very similar to star wars but with a battletech feel to it. i dig it!

[Koniving]

stjobe, on 07 September 2013 - 11:54 PM, said:

The Flea, folks. Focus.

Liked for your new signature.