Can we have some love for western mechs?
No.
yes
>>11884528
This guy gets it.
>>11884502
You turned fat.
>>11885311
hunchie has always been a bit thickboned
>>11884528
/thread
>>11885311
It makes me so, so very sad that such great redesigns are stuck in such a shitty game.
>>11885370
Dumping Battletech to piss off the weeboos
>>11885558
>>11885558
>pissing off weebs
God's work anon.
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>>11885578
I like this one.
>>11885586
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>>11885591
Its very nice and I wish the Land-Air Mech art was more like that in the official releases. Unfortunately I can't find that fanmade TRO to pull more images
>>11885632
>>11885662
>>11885670
and I'm done for a while. I will return when my people need me most.
Captcha usurper how fitting.
David "Mechazone" White sure one of the few genuinely good mecha designers working on Battletech/Mechwarrior stuff.
>>11886387
David White is my favorite Battletech artist, followed by Matt Plog, though that seems to be an unpopular opinion for some reason.
>>11886387
>Plog
>FlyingDebris
>Shimmy
>Xarbala
Even Chaffee is pretty great if you don't llet him design the mech.
>>11886463
Wow do you know the source? I don't recognize any of the artstyles.
This looks too good to actually be official lol.
>>11886463
>scopedog ripoffs
Can westerners do anything original?
>>11884528
>>11885183
>>11885370
Damn you guys sure stopped the thread in its tracks
If you guys want I could point Shimmering Sword and FD to this thread - they usually are sitting on /tg/ and im sitting on TS with both of them right now.
anyways ill post what I got
>>11886547
I would like that, although I've got no idea who they are.
Art that was a WIP from Shim - ill post the finished next
>>11886562
Finished
I forget who did this - but who I work for did an art contest and this won. ShadowHawk.
aw yeah Battletech up in the /m/. Have some Shimmy.
May I ask the Battletech dumpers if they have any Summoner / Thor art to throw in here, and if so could they post it?
Have a loki as I look through my files
Sorry mate - I actually dont have any Thor pics.
>>11886622
It's cool, I don't know where to search (is there even a mecha booru?) and google doesn't yield a lot of results.
Found this though.
>>11884502
>>11885632
>>11886387
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>>11886572
Man all it takes it some stylin artwork to make me really like Battletech-style mecha. It's a shame that it's always wasted on crappy games.
Best Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars faction reporting in.
>>11886633
muh tabletop, muh novels, muh vidya
>>11886639
>>11886649
Shame they get wiped out.
>>11886654
Fuck forgot to select picture.
Hey guys, can I join?
>>11886660
Of course!
You even selected best Titan
Remember when FO3 was new and everyone thought this was awesome as hell?
>>11886660
Not /m/ according to the devs.
>>11886674
I think he's pretty great, too bad he got rods from godded by the Enclave
>>11886660
your dad told you not to play with us
>>11886682
It may take years, but its stated the Brotherhood does plan to rebuild him.
>>11886508
source is for the new game
>>11886518
hurr
>>11886678
>>11886686
>implying the devs have any weight on what gets posted on here
If its not /m/ the mods would delete it, right?
You do trust /m/'s mods don't you, anon? This isn't like other certain boards you know?
>>11886674
You guys did protect Liberty Prime, right?
>>11886694
all they had to do was put cod level of story just to expand the universe but no they had to fuck it up
>>11886701
Motherfucker didn't need protecting
>>11886702
It DOES have a COD level story, though.
>There are these corporate guys and these scrappy rebels, and they're fighting
>Black guy and Irish guy are old friends on opposite sides of the conflict
>Irish guy blows himself up and convinces black guy to join the scrappy rebels
>THE ADVENTURE CONTINUES
>>11886707
Was honestly hoping for a slight bit of complexity but Respawn literally had files related to the IMC named 'bad guys'.
Did anyone actually like the Mantis?
Wish it'd been bulkier.
What was with devs putting in a token mech in each game for a while
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>>11884502
how could anyone for get the Iron Giant
>>11886688
The fact that the little you can do to help his rebuilding is actually a repeatable fetch quest with no in-game closure at all is sadder than most depressing mecha anime endings.
>>11886632
There's ryuusei, but nobody posts there.
>>11886745
What game is this?
![metal_gear_rex_by_jimmyleg-d5g8u8h[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0CvomHy.jpg "metal_gear_rex_by_jimmyleg-d5g8u8h[1].jpg")
While created by a Japanese, the design, inspiration, function, form, and all else are clearly and thoroughly "western."
Ray, however, like MGS2, is when the weaboo-ness was shifted into maximum overdrive.
>>11886751
Natural Selection 2, a online FPS/RTS hybrid pitting human marines against zerg like aliens.
You guys like power armor too right?
>>11886776
>no one posting a classic
>>11885586
I can almost see the happy merchant face.
Anyone with photoshop abilities wanna give it a try? I've just got mobile so I can't til I get settled in my new place next month.
>>11886725
Useless because it's so high up that anyone can shoot it from across the map, but it's cool at least.
>>11886776
I dunno if I would call the dread power armor, since the guy inside is essentially a torso and head, he can't get out of it in any reasonably normal fashion, he essentially IS the machine. Dread's are more like... cyborgs? lol I dunno maybe I'm reading into it to much, it happens when I'm smoking. They are cool regardless, especially Venerable Dreads due to all dat bling.
They also have some of my favorite voice quotes from the video games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZLlBZry8bs
one thing I don't understand is why do some of them have fists.
some designs have a gun for a hand, some doesn't even have a hand, and then there's mechwarrior designs that have arms that do nothing other than pointing forward.
![55c[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/eOwatp4.jpg "55c[1].jpg")
>>11886874
> then there's mechwarrior designs that have arms that do nothing other than pointing forward
Those arms are supposed to move.
The Mechwarrior franchise is usually pretty great gameplay wise, but as an adaptation it lacking in places.
>>11886874
They just... don't really need them. Hands only really help when you punch, carry stuff, and get up from prone. Or rather, having arms helps when you get up from prone.
>>11886874
In the fluff there is plenty of instances of mechs throwing punches or using melee weapons. I dunno why it's never been in any of the games, sure it's more rare than them shooting, but still... I know I'd like to hit some bitches with my giant axe.
I'm legitimately disappointed in you /m/.
>>11886733
>>11886800
You're alright.
>>11886690
Didn't Titanfall have a homing headshot gun in some of the early promo's that got people upset at the gameplay difficulty?
>>11887354
It's still in the game, but the way it works means that it's an ambush gun against anything other than grunts. You are FUCKED if your prey is a player and sees you, because they will kill you before you can get enough locks to kill 'em.
>>11885558
>to piss off the weeboos
You should post the Nazi Tomahawks that attacked New York during that Secret Wars cape comic event then.
>>11887674
I don't know that one, but I'd be interested to see it. I know the PS2 Hulk game had a destroid lookalike
>>11885558
To piss off the weebos with... what? Shoddy illustrations? Lax production ethics? Expensive porches? Terrible, shapeless blob miniatures? A complete inability to reform or reinvent itself? The yeastiest, groggiest fandom of all mecha? The worst-handled gaming franchise on this side of Sonic the Hedgehog? Throngs of furry players?
C'mon. It's okay to like BattleTech. I play it avidly. But you really shouldn't assume any form of superiority with that track record. You can't afford to be arrogant.
>>11887815
Not to mention they mostly use designs from anime. BattleTech fags can't even come up with their own designs so they have to buy them from japanese designers lol
>>11887777
Case in point. It's not an exact match but the form is there.
>>11887815
While I'm not entirely sure what it was, it sure pissed off
>>11887850
>>11887850
You'll also have to note that BattleTech was largely based on Battle of Kalnock/Stanrey, Japanese board games produced for the anime show Fang of the Sun Dougram. After all that imitation is stripped away, what are we left with?
A fandom perfectly willing to throw rocks in a glass house for one. What else?
Three legs good, two legs bad.
>>11888022
Thumbnail looks like some humanoid mech taking a squat
I miss Jilpoong
>>11888074
Yes, it is a very timid King Crab.
Thought this was pretty cool, there's a Santa Claus Atlas around somewhere too
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>>11888124
I'm honestly glad that the original designs of BT are kind of terrible across the bank. Means that all the fan-redesings usually turn out nicely.
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>>11888136
Best Thor picture I could find
>>11888141
Your king has arrived
>>11888147
>>11885558
Weeb here.
I actually really like the design of this mecha.
It's kind of like a more sensible zeek.
However, I must ask what the fuck is up with the perspective of the rifle.
Does it twist in the middle or some shit?
>>11888151
>>11888157
It might just be the flat coloring that throws it off. The blank line art might look better to you
>>11888164
They may be weeaboo space communists but they're designed by British people making them western.
>>11887354
It's the Smart Pistol and you gotta be pretty damn smart to kill Pilots with it because it'll only one shut the fodder.
>>11888178
>>11888164
That's much better.
>>11888136
I just noticed that the shoulder launchers hover in mid-air.
Shit like this is why making working 3D models from most BT art is a chore.
>>11888178
I wish the Burrock wasn't such a doomed design. Clans and close combat are just... no-no.
>>11884502
I love them
>>11885558
ripped off all of Kawamori's designs.
>>11887815
Got the rest of the Mad Kitty art?
>>11887354
On PC its considered more overpowered, since you can bounce around to avoid being hit by other guns while still keeping the enemy in your lock on sight Mich more easily; you can also aim down sight and pop them if you need.
On console the scene is a bit slower so its not as OP.
It's a literal scrub gun; good for scrubs, to kill scrubs, and not much else, on console anyhoe.
>>11888550
Nope, alas. I wish, but nope.
>>11888499
mah nigga
don't talk shit bout mah catapult
>>11888117
>Third one in the top row is called Cataphract
Not nearly retarded enough. Come back when you can transform into a giant fist.
some pictures here may be unseen
hehe
>>11888777
What
>>11888829
harmony gold forbids use of many battletech mechs cuz they look to much like theirs
forbidden ones are named the unseen
>>11888837
But aren't robotech mechs straight from Macross? How could they look like huge, blocky, amazing cluster fucks like battletech mechs?
>>11888876
>But aren't robotech mechs straight from Macross?
HG owns the rights to the Macross IP worldwide except in Japan.
You gotta remember that the acquired the rights at a point when the US had just accepted that Non-US citizens could theoretically hold IP rights.
>>11887815
>The yeastiest, groggiest fandom of all mecha
This has to be the best turn of a phrase I've seen all month. Thank you.
>>11887815
>yeastiest
>groggiest
where my Protomech bros at?
Bestest Western mech evar
>>11885521
when is the last time you played it?
It's honestly improved greatly over the past year.
>>11885632
Is this suppose to be an Argus? Looks cool.
>>11890208
Yes it did greatly improve. It's no longer a steaming pile of horseshit. It's now a steaming pile of horseshit that's been painted a pretty color and has some daisies stuck in it.
I like the Dark Crow.
>>11890144
That's a legitimately awesome design
I fucking love Dwemer shit.
>>11885595
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>>11886572
Ive always kinda hated ShimeringSwords art when it comes to mechs. Everything in his pictures, except the mechs themselves look great.
He tends to take a good design, and then uglify it by making it be this big mass of straight blocks and hard edges, losing any of the crazy angles or curves a design had.
Like he'll take a mech with "curvy" legs, where they legs are thinner at the joints, and the leg tapers down thinner at the ankles, and make it super beefy and blocky, basically giving all his mechs cankles.
I hate it.
Davide White, PLOG, and Flying Debris are at the top of my list though.
>>11890384
Damn I remember that mod with the power armor made from Centurion components. It was cool.
>>11885521
I think they're pretty dull to be honest. I'll take the 80s originals any day.
>>11890330
That thing always makes me laugh. Clan Snow Raven can't even afford to give it arms after they evacuated the Homeworlds.
>>11890330
>fister roboto
>>11890561
>Clan Snow Raven
I thought they where one of the better off clans though
>>11890569
After being kicked out of the Homeworlds by the Snakes, losing a shit ton of materiel, Warriors and civilians in the process, taking further losses from WoB sabotage in the Inner Sphere, and having to build new industry up nearly from scratch in a Periphery backwater, the Ravens weren't very well off. It took them time to get their shit up and functioning at all.
The Ghost Bears, Diamond Sharks and Jade Falcons all had established industry and infrastructure. The Hells Horses had to start in the IS almost from scratch but they left the Homeworlds in much better order than the Ravens. The Wolves were fucked because all their mech production had been in the Homeworlds and then they were completely cut off from it, so they were as badly off as the Ravens for a time, though the Wolves had a bigger touman.
Mekton
>>11890293
ok so your a moron. good to know.
>>11890693
No, he's right, it's still shit. Balance is fucked, maps are shit, the features are terrible. Shill harder, PGI dev.
>>11890693
>your
I guess I'm the dumb one.
I love this design. Not even ironically.
Goliath online
>>11891581
B-but... it's so bad....
>>11888206
I'm not so much worried about that as I am the arms running right through the missile launch systems. Granted a bit of over engineering could have the reloads pass above or below the arms before entering the launcher
>>11894011
file name
Does Prawnmech count as western?
>>11894092
sure
>inb4 South Africa becomes the third great nexus of mecha with its own unique culture, design aesthetics, and mediums of story telling (clicks)
