What is the best head shape for a mech?
>>14200242
No head, it's just a target that cripples you if you lose it.
>>14200242
The visor is actually a faceplate over the sensor head which is a cover for the Gundam head which was secretly a protected Brave head which is destroyed to reveal a monoeye.
![e63888bff2c638db14abe636b8dbe577[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/SgQK3Ft.jpg "e63888bff2c638db14abe636b8dbe577[1].jpg")
>>14200242
Sensor Mask head that has a main camera behind it.
>>14200242
If they were a team:
>Gundam Head is the main protagonist
>Twin Eye Head is the side kick who's slightly more serious
>Brave Head is the muscle
>Visor Head is the smart guy
>Mono Eye head is the robot mascot
>Sensor Mask head is "the girl"
Mask
>>14200266
This is obviously a little exaggerated but seriously, heads that are concealing other heads are the shit.
![rdragonarth1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rkt3aQ0.jpg "rdragonarth1[1].jpg")
>>14200242
Best: The one I like that most
Worst: The one you like the most
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>>14200250
This, but without the Mechawarrior bullshit.
>>14200242
monoeye with a visor over it then add the twin eyes, attach brave face and cover mouth with gundam face plate then cover is all with the sensor mask
>>14200546
You mean, this, but with machinegun jubblies presumably.
>>14200559
no, I mean without the retarded chicken leg rubbish that amerifats like you are so enthralled with
>>14200562
I'm neither American, nor a Mechwarrior fan.
>>14200297
power ranger?
>>14200242
Camera heads.
>>14200242
Brave, Mono, and Visor.
They're all best
>>14200562
Projecting like an iMax
Mazinger head. Looks badass and is used for at least 2 or 3 of your robot's special attacks.
>>14200298
> no one care who i was until i put on my mask
>>14200266
>>14200555
I like these ideas
>>14200562
You got a problem with reverse joints? Some of the better legs you can get in Chromehounds. If you had a sniper and it ain't a reverse joint leg then you were running a six shooter and likely base sniping using ML-Thawr legs
Standard Legs just didn't do enough to make them viable as most of the time you just threw the body on a Meade tank chassis and you get all the speed, load capacity and armor of even the heaviest standard legs but MORE!
Also Do not mock the King Crab. It's a 100 ton Spheroid trying to give some variety to the weight class which ain't the fugly Stalker or the overused as fuck Atlas.
>>14200242
I want to see a mech with compound eyes in all directions, like a dragonfly.
>but you have radar for that
Then you don't need a head at all.
>>14200562
No need to be a cunt. We all like mecha and mecha heads here.
>>14201003
Shhh anon, it's funny when autists flare up about the legs on a fictional vehicle that wouldn't really work in reality in the first place.
Bonus points if they're an insecure European like them.
![ve-1-battroid[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/FqhFLtM.gif "ve-1-battroid[1].gif")
>>14200945
Then you put the radar on the head.
SENSOR PODS
the less human and cuter the betterinb4 not mecha
>>14201111
I think I prefer the Ogre to Atlas
>>14201111
>>14201125
>Titanfall
>Mechs
>>14200273
What's the point of this?
>>14201125
It was always kinda cute when the lil camera pod would turn to look at you when you were crawling over the canopy
I love the flat-stacked exhaust pipes on the back
>>14201135
The mecha design for that series was pretty on-point. I liked the detail on the weapons feed systems in particular.
>>14200242
I disagree with >>14200250
you can call it a target, but it's also a decoy
better shooting your mech in the head than in the cockpit or reactor core
>>14201149
yeah
it was a good balance between rugged frontier utility machines and futuristic
>>14200250
Wrong, faggot: they just improve your target acquisition fidelity: Almost all modern tanks and attack helicopters use them, as do modern ships and infantry fighting vehicles.
They allow a vehicle to detect targets and fire earlier with less movement - turning their optics cluster instead of their entire machine and having a better dedicated optics system than a more generalized system with a wide aperture which would be more computationally intensive, fragile and complex.
https://youtu.be/k3QBq-owwZ8?t=242
https://youtu.be/DKyb_0GojTE?t=181
You do know the rifle on a robot would also have a wired scope? The head designates a target. Arm aligns, targets using the scope. Before firing, the head is already searching for the next target.
Realistically, there would be more than one head, to prevent target fixation and for better overall coverage. Probably one main, one sub-detection system in each shoulder and then a dedicated specialized optics system in the gun itself for primary secondary and tertiary detection and acquisition.
The head would be for getting a sense of terrain and object locations, probably with a second cluster between the legs. The shoulders zero targets in. The rifle sensors would be doing ballistic computation for accurate striking, identical to a battleship or tank turret.
For all your "muh realism", you don't know your shit, do you? Fucking MW fags, obsessed with the aesthetic of what they think is realism but having no idea about vehicular combat, technology or physics.
>>14200242
all of them
Never Brave, that's for fucking sure, gb2 transmorphers
>>14201305
>he doesn't like his robots with faces to intimidate his foes AND to create a more empathetic machine.
How can one man have such poor taste?
Personally I think that every head AND headless are all viable and cool. Especially good, in my view, are unusual layouts and in-betweens. For example, a humanoid face on an utterly inhuman machine can create a very uncanny and intimidating robot.
And where the FUCK are the monoeyes?
That list is garbage.
>>14201339
> where the FUCK are the monoeyes?
Are you blind?
>>14201351
Apparently.
>>14200695
Lets just go with Armored Core as the ideal mecha asethetic.
> crest head pieces are so sexy
>>14201305
>Never Brave
I like it. It gives the mech an Eyes Wide Shut/Venetian mask feel that makes it look pretty.
>>14200562
Calm down anon, you're full of mad.
Why the damage?
>>14201388
He's kinda right I think. I don't think yelling was very productive, but I do think he's right.I don't like BT either but there's no need to be unhappy in the end.
>>14201398
now THIS opinion I can respect.
That's cool though. I like my Japanese mecha and Western mecha for their differences. Its nice to compare the two but sometimes I prefer the stuff that looks more robotic than humanoid and vice versa.
>>14201127
Is there something in the lore that doesn't make them mechs?
Really, can you elaborate on why you're implying they aren't?
>>14201411
Not him, but Titanfall's colossal blunder has entered a meme status which it will never recover from.
Nobody will ever forget this page right here. And why should they? Additional consensus on the game being mediocre and the robots being gimped doesn't help either. It just comes off as something so obnoxious and embarassing that for a well-rounded memer there is absolutely no reason (in meme terms) to ever let Titanfail live it down.
Is it actually helpful? Productive or able to support discussion that isn't mostly bashing? Usually, no. But nevertheless it's left a permanent scar.
>>14201425
Wow... I'm kinda butthurt now that I read that.
Thanks for the share
What do cockpits fall under?
>>14201425
This is what happens when you ask the artist to apply his art school training to writing a description of something.
They revert back to "talk out of ass" mode and say stupid shit like this.
>>14201425
Wow, now I'm doubly glad I passed that shit up.
Is this really the face of western /m/ videogames? What a fucking joke.
>>14201425
>It's not a mech because some major faggot said it's not a mech
whatever
Sensor Mask or visor
>>14201425
>The titans are really an extension of the player
Because they control exactly like the pilots, down to having the same models and rigging but upscaled
ho ho ho ho ho ho ho
>>14201446
The funny thing is, when the game came out people struggled to think of any mechs that were slower or clunkier than the Titans. Most mechs, even mechs just released or originating in the West make them look like "your grandpas walker".
>>14200270
I've just started watching Dougram and the design of the Soltic has really grown on me. Despite that, I have to wonder: is that like some sort of super glass? Was there a good reason it was thought putting the pilot in an incredibly exposed fishbowl at the top of the mech was a clever idea?
Is it to do with the X-Nebula fucking computers to the extent that you couldn't have a camera and screens in the cockpit?
What's this called? Tons of independently-tracking cameras in a bar?
>>14201003
Not when several of those head designs are objectively boring and shit we don't.
>>14201651
Visor.
>>14201651
Multi-sensor bar?
>>14200242
Personally, I love them all stylistically, but a bigger sensor mask for sniping, dog-fighting, and missiles (giving and taking) are what I like to design.
>>14201800
Me again! I will always build for these types.
>>14200242
Brave Face and Twin Eye are the best of those six
But truth be told we all know that the best kind of head is one in the same vein of Walker Gallier.
>>14201425
Good lord, the level of ignorance on one page is staggering.
>>14201487
This. A Gundam could dance circles around that thing, let alone a VF.
>>14201692
>objectively
>>14200242
Visor and brave are the way to go
>>14201487
>when the game came out people struggled to think of any mechs that were slower or clunkier than the Titans.
AT-ATs
>>14200298
>GM thruster tits custom
>>14201634
The army has already made superglass
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-navy-invents-bulletproof-glass-clay-that-could-revolutionise-screens-lenses-1498595
>Spinel would also work well as a transparent armour for military vehicles
>>14200945
Pretty sure AC has that.
>>14200242
I'll take a seventh option and say "All of them" because holy shit they all look amazing.
>>14201454
I love how Jehuty has sensor,twin eye and visor all in one, Shinkawa is truly something else
>>14200242
Sensor mask breaks to reveal twin-eye or Gundam which breaks in the final battle revealing the Brave head just in time for one final shout.
In the ending it's revealed the mecha was actually a robot controlled by a spirit guardian of the Earth and now he's going to sleep until he's needed again and he gives one final farewell to the MC and co.
>>14200242
>Sensor mask initally
>After some tough battles, it breaks and repairs as the visor head because not enough materials to rebuild mask
>Then after some more tough battles, it gets repaired as the gundam head.as the series upgrade for the main mech
>>14202158
Gay
>>14200242
Brave with deployable mouthplate and sunglasses visor
>>14201449
I mentioned already that it's mainly the blunder of the statement itself that creates the meme. Is Titanfall -technically- /m/? Yes. But after that debacle? It'd be a disgrace to let it keep that status.
That's what I mean by meme status. We know it to be /m/ in the sense that the machines involved are giant robots, but that single page is such a colossal singular fuckup that nobody has any real reason to let the game ever live it down, and the other factors mentioned in my original post also add to this. It was a big claim from someone who may not have even been related to the staff but as it's still related to the game itself it only serves to make the game and everything related look more stupid.
The fact that it's taken such root is testament to this. The majority believes it to have been a stupid ass blunder on the part of the developers and I agree with them, because it really is that fucking stupid.
>>14201634
The stuff is effectively bulletproof in series IIRC. Anything that'd break the glass usually has to be on the level where there'd be no reason not to kill the rest of the CA too.
The X-Nebula doesn't even mess with computers that much, it only really hampers long-distance communication. It's barely brought up most of the time, and by the time the Blockhead T10C (the tan version of the T10B Blockheads) comes, it's irrelevant. You'll see why.
>>14203451
Oh, so that makes sense then.
As I said, I do like the Soltic design. The bubble canopy reminds me of a Little Bird or Cobra.
>>14202111
>those trips
>that comment expressing nothing but happiness and love of mecha
This guy, right here, gets it.
>>14203451
>we never approve
>that scowly face
kek
>>14203798
It's on near every Dougram EF box.
Dougram gets "Fight! Dougram to save independency of the Deloyer".
>>14201257
you don't need a big ass head for a sensors package/IR camera on a gimbal.
Scopedog
>>14201651
There's just something about Armored Core's mech design that turns me on more than other mech design.
>>14201257
We seem to think along similar lines, and you've put much more thought into this than I have, I'll ask you about this and push your idea a little further. I mean woke the system sounds like it would quirk well,a mech can't just be made of sensors, right? Say I wanted a more economical system of sensors suite. Which parts of your system could we cut or combine or work around? Could we just keep the head, and move the shoulder cameras to the lower back and put them on a swiveling mount, with each of them covering 270 degrees horizontally?
sensor mask that breaks open to revealHORRIFYING MONSTER FACEcue typically heroic mech going into rip/tear/bite mode
>>14206183
pretty noice, wish this feature isn't limited to organic mech though
>>14206268
It's not
>>14203880
Gundam type heads pack communication systems and a CIWS. Also, they look cool, so.
If humanity had the technology to pull it off I'm sure we'd made giant robots in our own image. Vanity is deep in our history.
>>14206268
See: both Gaikings
LODM Gaiking has Face Open affect the torso head too.
>>14206268
Daikengo's doesn't break open, but does have a game face.
>>14201425
Titanfall was actually pretty decent, especially for a CoD clone(enjoyed more than I have any actual ones in years in fact), and hopefully Titanfall 2 will be even better
>>14201425
Ok, I have to give them credit for trying to break away from the mecha scene.
>>14206500
Why? It makes no sense and just makes them come off as morons.
>>14206506
Basically, they were trying to make mecha appealing for the general masses. Backfired and now look like losers. I personally would want a mecha game that i made not be niche.
I bet you guys would have hated the outcome of having losers talking about how they loved the "Titan" genre. Groaning and shitposting about how Titans arent as good as when they were called mechas.
>>14206396
>>14206364
Does gaiking actually count? I haven't seen the old nor the remake and have no idea if the mouths are for pure decoration or can perform actual biting attacks
My first thought with mech heads that has usable mouth is Eva, King J-Der pops up in my mind next but the mouth is basically just a elaborated crack.
>>14206544
You make no sense.
>>14206688
Jushin Liger and Jaki-Oh are some others.
>>14200242
Brave=Gundam>TwinEye=Visor>Monoeye>Sensor Mask
>>14200250
Why would you limit what you can see to the direction that you're facing?
Just include a couple of auxilury sensors/video feeds if your head gets blown off.
>>14201132
For precise measurements sources say tho we all know it's bullshit
Visor head, sensor mask head and monoeye
Sensor mask always comes off as fragile and unpractical.
>gundam hiding a brave
>>14213146
Have to go deeper than that.
You need a sensor mask hiding a visor hiding a Gundam head hiding a brave face hiding a monoeye.
>>14213155
>It's a Gundam>Brave>Zaku in that particular order!!!!
>GAHHHH TAICHO!!!!!!
