UN_MARINE

you gotta get the INTENSIFY option part in AC3 to compensate for the heat

it kinda makes all the difference in heat & energy drain

although i'm not sure how i got it

spammer guns ! true, but mostly in VS mode. yeah... had me a lot of kills with 'em

it's actually the comfort of having the ammo & firepower when you need it. especially on those extended missions & firefights. i used to be able to carry up to 900 rounds of solids in a mission & they were dependable.

now, you'd still be able to carry 900, but they go "click" after every 20, which meant bye bye dependable.... it's like they're prone to jamming now

nothing worse than losing the ability to shoot at the most inconvenient time

not to mention they're totally useless in "chase" missions now, most of the big targets need more than 20 rounds to go boom. "1,2,3,4... 20-click!" wastes a lot of time & gets your ass kicked by another AC

actually, the 1 thing that put me off the rest of AC was the reload thing.

having finished every game up to SL with my "staple" setup, & it fails me in NEXUS

exactly why does a chaingun need to reload every 20 rounds ???? or every other gun that's got a solid ammo magazine capacity higher than 20 !

maybe they were playing too many gundam games

and up to the point i stopped playing nexus, i still couldn't find anything that could even compensate for it.

never woulda minded the higher heat, slower movement, & heavier parts, but when they took the chaingun's firepower, i was done with the game

well, you have to consider that these are super hero movies too

and these are "super villains"

it's the outrageous or non-sensical act of villainy which defines the super villain

i mean, a guy wouldn't be much of a super villain if he just bombed a city in the usual way, it'd just make him your average criminal. and it wouldn't be much fun if, say, magneto just did a regular drive-by shooting wouldn't it ?

although... if he USED his powers...

SDF 1 for me.

it's all that's really missing from my "ooh... i want that" list

and it'll probably be the last macross toy i'd be buying...

a new line of VF's would just fuel my "unhealthy" collecting impulses

you gotta repair the machines each time you go out for a mission.

it actually prompts you before you launch for a mission.

sumthin like "are you sure you want to go out with XXXX armor left?"

the repair option's the 3rd one at the bottom in the unit select menu

most of the missions are straightforward "kill 'em all" sometimes, i think there's a kill quota on the priority targets, but they're pretty easy & i haven't had a game over from one of those yet

the other ones are "protect the VIP" like ships & buildings. and a couple of annoying ones, like "protect the VIP, but the VIP doesn't have IFF" so you might actually kill the VIP yourself, & it's game over.

EDIT:

PS:

here's a little more info on when you get the VF 1's....

mission 32 or 33, you get a taste of flying the VF1, then they take 'em away 'til mission 48 or 49. and... there's 70 missions.

i'm just waitin for the right set of parts to show up, then i'm goin on a "mad parts shopping spree"

i was a big AC fan a couple of years ago, my last great accomplishments were in AC3SL

too bad things went bad with ACNEXUS & the rest...

i suppose that's my take on how to apply those rivets

i'm usually all for drilling & cutting, but not on something as expensive as these things...

hmm... maybe if i had a couple more of 'em, i could... *evil laugh*

hmm... the rivets look like decals to me

i suppose it's a "less painful" operation if they were decals

and the thought of drilling individual holes is kinda nerve-racking

PICS !!!

DVD case & 1/48 VF 1 for scale

i finally got one !!!

it's a poseable paperweight of DOOM !!!

here's another review:

http://tamabase.3.pro.tok2.com/toy43.html

lots of pics!

looks like i'm being left behind in shameless plugging

so here goes...

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Radd,

your stuff's pretty cool ! it suits your art style, THAT's a well-balanced mech design

Industrial design's pretty cool you get to design & build stuff. it's a lot of work, but it's worth it

back to topic...

yeah, what makes a good mech design is pretty subjective. depends on who's judging the design.

but most of the time, people just base it on how it looks. which, i'm sorry to say, usually comes from western designers. ie: Mechwarrior

take for example, the Madcat from Mechwarrior. looks imtimidating, but is it a good design ? no. but people love it. honorable mention to the "turkey" gundam, too

then, we have the mech designed for how it works. not necessarilly pretty, but you can believe it can be built.

but not because it's functional, doesn't mean it's "all that". ie: Transformers.

...and that's our "crayon factory vs folding plane"

Hey... this old thread ! i thought it was dead

striderhiryu,

maybe you can find a downloadable installer for the camera.

i found one for an old office printer one time

I agree.

i believe in more practical mech designs, that's why i don't like the new gundams, they're too flashy

one good reason why i prefer Macross is the mechanical feasability in the designs.

i'd take the folding plane over a robot with feathers any day

besides Radd, UN Marine and Sithlord, do any of you guys have illustrations on a website we can all check-out?

hm.... ok

i hope that's not too horifying

I only need somebody to hire me

http://armamentfactory.deviantart.com/

maybe not 50...

i may have confused the numbers betwen "missions completed" & "unit count"

but still, more than half way through the game

i suppose that changes depending on what storyline you'll follow, but i don't plan on figuring THAT out

on the bright side, once you finish it, you get to use anything you picked up on the 1st run. well, after the mandatory training mission

i just finished it, and it's pretty much a macross game now. from here to 2nd finish

i see... excellent...

yeah, i agree, the Nu is quite tough, but the invincibility thing happened on more than a couple of missions, even after getting kicked around by a "boss" unit

it kinda started after i got the Nu, then the VF1's also became immortal in a couple of missions. even the G gundam too

I'm going through the game right now

the VF1's become available around mission 50 or so...

so far, i got 4 of 'em. i'm still waiting on the FAST packs...

this is probably the 1 version of the VF1 where gerwalk's been VERY useful, more useful than fighter mode.

it's a big improvement over the 1st one, although the target lock-on is kinda stupid, it'll just lock on to anything close by. kinda annoying when you're after mission-specific targets

EDIT:

my copy's got some kind of bug where depending on a mission, & what machine you're flying, you stay invincible until you use a "super weapon".

for example: at a certain mission, the Nu gundam will stay 9999 armor for the entire mission unless i use the funnels wierd...

whoa... I completely missed that message

thanks, Mr March

scroll saw & rotary tool ?

THAT's what i need !!!

the last time I used MDF, i was just using a cutter & some needle files

thanks for the help