ofp mech talk, gundam fans welcome

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I looked at those sites on Gundam. I remember. I saw a few episodes of those back in the 80's. Still rubbish compared to TransFormers IMO.

And I'm talking Generation 1 season 1 to 4. Not the stuff Japan made afterwards (they killed Optimus, but the American-written episodes in-between revived him because the whole world loved him so much). Yay  

Optimus died in the movie. That was the last good Transformers thing made, IMHO everything that came after it sucked real bad. But Gundam puts Transfomers to shame a bit, I must agree... although of course I'll always have a guaranteed top spot left for Transformers... DECEPTICONS FOREVER!!!

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I had a dream that i was on a hoverbike or something and i was in a desert oasis with little desert houses and gas stations and markets and very wide highway like dirt roads and this military faction started chasing me. i could hear them over the radio n stuff. They had these really low flying planes that would just fly at like 30 mph and sometimes hover over a position trying to trap me. No they weren't helicopters lol. They also had these like... big hemmt trucks full of soldiers waiting to get out and get me but i was too fast. Then they had these mechs. They were like zakus and they would friggin cruise down the streets from the other side of me and try to fire at me and chase me down from behind me. It was awesome. The scariest part were those hover c130s though. I guess it was a gundam dream. anyhow maybe i was a gundam pilot who was captured and escaped.

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BUZZARD @ June 25 2004,22:26)]Optimus died in the movie. That was the last good Transformers thing made, IMHO everything that came after it sucked real bad.

Season 3 continues where the movie stopped. Episode 29 & 30 are called The return of Optimus Prime pt 1 & 2

A Quintessan brought him back to life (the creator of the Autobots, who also tried to kill them on many a ocassion).

[stevevcb 3]

It's nice to see Transformers bringing mods and ordinary members together

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BUZZARD @ June 25 2004,22:26)]Optimus died in the movie. That was the last good Transformers thing made, IMHO everything that came after it sucked real bad.

Season 3 continues where the movie stopped. Episode 29 & 30 are called The return of Optimus Prime pt 1 & 2  

A Quintessan brought him back to life (the creator of the Autobots, who also tried to kill them on many a ocassion).

I know that episode, but supposedly he didn't come back from the dead the way he was before. He also had been reactivated once before that, in the Episode "Dark Awakening" that preceeded the "Return of Optimus Prime".

Damn shame was that Megatron had such a wimpy follow-up with Galvatron... oh well, a good thing StarScream kept creeping up once in a while...

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Hehe Starscream as a ghost "obsessing" other Decepticons was funny

In "Dark Awakening" Prime was revived as a "zombie" by the Quintessons.

Agree on Galvatron/Megatron. Megatron was way cooler.

Shame Omega Supreme was only in season 1 and 2. What happened to him?

So anyone going to work on a TF-mod? Should be doable

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Heck, I remember someone wanting to do a Bumblebee, but I haven't even seen a Volkswagen Bug... I'd vote for that one to be made first... well, we've already got Hound in vehicle mode (Jeep w/MG), Starscream, ThunderCracker and SkyWarp (F-15s just begging for Decepticon textures), Powerglide (A-10), Warpath (M-60 tank) almost all of the Aerialbots (save for Silverbolt, no Concorde around that I know of), all the Combaticons save for Onslaught...

But OFP definitely needs a Bumblebee-textured Volkswagen Bug and an Optimus Prime and/or MotorMaster-textured power-rig!

Edit: come to think back on those good old times (heh! I still have some episodes in DivX), I never really liked those Combaticons... I dunno why but I always liked Thundercracker.

And talk about rare characters, what about Skyfire? Or even rarer, Defcon, who only showed up in the episode "The Gambler"... that was one cool Autobot...

[pajama 0]

I want my transforming mule!!!

ala Beast Wars

[shadow 6]

Oh please no Beast wars characters

Need all the Constructicons and a way to merge them into Devastator

Same with Aerialbots/Superion.

And what's TF without Grimlock?

...and his creations the Technobots/Computron.

But the first characters I would like to see in OFP are ofcourse Optimus and Omega.

[stevevcb 3]

What was the grumpy red van called in the "original" seasons? Tinhead or something like that?

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the major problem with the mech from battle over hokkaido is that it keeps on shaking. its hard to get a clear friggin shot. that one robotech soldier mech is pretty good though, it doesn't shake that much at all but in exchange for a steady shot you get lighter armor which makes no sense. You'd expect the heavier mech to shake less.

[shadow 6]

What was the grumpy red van called in the "original" seasons? Tinhead or something like that?

Ironhide.

Cool character with that Texan accent

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Lol, you know when I liked Ironhide best? In the episode "The Search for Alpha Trion"...

[Thunnder Bunny 0]

Heh heh GO-BOTS Rulez! ......... Ok, there is no way in hell I can say that with a straight face

Gundam is cool but I always had trouble with Japanese mecha being able to stop on a dime and defy

gravity. Where mechs from battletech seem to be more lumbering and methodical, somewhat true to

the laws of physics.

Personally I'd like to see a complete mechwarrior mod myself.

The HEAVY GEAR mod is some of the best bot mods we got for ofp so far. Franze has done a

great job. I've seen other mechs on a few sites like Command and Conquers walking tanks, and

plenty of my favorite mechs from mech warrior/ battletech. Although I still want more..... maybe a

locust

I'm still hoping the robotech battloid could be turned into a phoenix or wasp for a battletech mod.

But in the end I hope we all get more mech/bots/gears/gundams because it adds so much to ofp.

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yeah. some day someone could jumble all the sci fi material into one thing and come up with some very cool military mission.

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Actually as mech-stuff I always thought that Earthsiege 2 & 3 were much more creative in terms of the mechs they provided than the Battletech stuff (Ok, Battletech does have 4-legged mechs but few of'em), since they went beyond the 2-legged-mech complex, providing for much more stability. Most unfortunately they never were as popular as the Battletech series...

As for a MechWarrior, since IMHO Mechwarrior 3 Gold was the best one made so far, I'd like its Shadow Cat to be made for OFP... it's much meaner-looking than anything else in its class I've seen in the Battletech world...

[Thunnder Bunny 0]

Shadowcat 4 ofp

This shadow cat was made awhile back by (nobody), so no animations were ever made as far as I know.   It's an early mech and there are more out there somewhere by diffrent people.

As for Earth/Starseige I loved those games and look forward to Starseige being reborn.  It will be a first person mech game with the fun of getting out of your mech and kicking butt with a gun to.  nobody site

The new starseige

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I know that Shadow Cat, but it is based on MW4, not MW3, and MW3's Shadow Cat looks MUCH better IMHO...

Wow, didn't know a new Mech Starsiege was in the works...

On a side note, Starsiege Tribes, the first Tribes game is out for free... I never played it in its time, but I downloaded it now and it reminded me of a great game which I played the demo from, an ancient beauty called TERRA NOVA, made by Looking Glass, anybody remember it?

Edit: P.S.: What mech is your avatar, Thunderbunny? Looks like a Marauder assault mech...

[Thunnder Bunny 0]

Yep it is a marauder, thanks to the guys at MekTek we got that one and a bunch of others for MW4MERCS.

MEKTEK

Just like ofp sometimes mod makers make better goodies than the company that builds the game

Check em out ,the extra mechs have been around for awhile.

Hehe kinda weird but I got terranova years ago, but I never played it. It sits at the bottom of my game rack. Guess I'll have to check it out. G-lock was another mech game I think that had mechs an men to.

[BoweryBaker 0]

"ladies and gentlemen japan has come up with a new weapon. Meet the mech "XX" or "Wanzer 2" as its sometimes called. It's japans premier ground combat weapon and the successor to the Wanzer. A massive beast of about 8 meters high, almost 24 feet, she has rockets for tanks, rockets for aircraft, a cannon for bunkers and soldiers, and a machine gun for troops. Her armor can stop a tank round. Her weakness? She can't shoot straight and move at the same time.....and that brings me to our American secret weapon...."

[pajama 0]

Ya know speaking of "redundent" mech designs...I always thought that it was somewhat pointless in having fingers and faces on mechs. I mean do you really need the darn camera/senser to look like a head? For the hand, I can understand the point of universaly being able to carry the diffrent types of weapons, but still...

Ofcourse only that of Patlabor, Macross (Ahhh the singing!!!), and MS 08th well always have a special place in my hearth.

Woo I need to hunt down a copy of Heavy Gear 1

Love the FMV

Is Heavy Gear 2 any good?

hhhmmm I want my Metal Gear Rex!!!

With nuke launcing abilities pleas

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I had heavy gear two and i didn't like the gameplay. Not that it was hard, the challenge i could see past, it was the maneuvering of the mech. you could use a joystick of course and calibrations were there but with mouse and keyboard it wasn't like normal shooters. moving the mouse moves your target reticule, then moving the 8 and 2 keysmove you forward and back but hitting the right and left keys make you look left and right instead of strafing. strafing is actually a two key combo of eith and nine or eight and seven i believe. its just weird like that, but i tried going into the options to change it and had problems or something i don't remember. maybe i put it down because i felt it was too hard. i can't remember. i even tried shogo, im really into anime and mecha.

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Ya know speaking of "redundent" mech designs...I always thought that it was somewhat pointless in having fingers and faces on mechs.  I mean do you really need the darn camera/senser to look like a head? For the hand, I can understand the point of universaly being able to carry the diffrent types of weapons, but still...  

Ofcourse only that of Patlabor, Macross (Ahhh the singing!!!), and MS 08th well always have a special place in my hearth.

Woo I need to hunt down a copy of Heavy Gear 1

Love the FMV

Is Heavy Gear 2 any good?

hhhmmm I want my Metal Gear Rex!!!

With nuke launcing abilities pleas

Heh, I've got a copy of Heavy Gear 1 but can only play it in software mode cos 3dfx cards were all the rage back then but their tech is unknown to the current graphics cards... still love the FMV & musics though. It was the last game based on the MechWarrior 2 engine from Activision... first it was used on MW2, then on MW2 Mercs (also got that one), then Interstate'76 & Nitro Riders (got both), then that excellent remake of a game called Battlezone... man I love that game! And finally Heavy Gear 1...

P.S.: Only with Heavy Gear 1 did I understand the usefulness of having hands on a mech. I mean, there's nothing as useless as carrying a weapon around when it is outta ammo and you're being chased around by enemies, amongs a battlefield filled with fallen enemy mech's weapons...

[pajama 0]

BUZZARD @ June 28 2004,12:02)]Only with Heavy Gear 1 did I understand the usefulness of having hands on a mech. I mean,

Hmm I remember doing that a few times...of course whats more fun then having your Gear's leg get shot off and limping with just 1 leg or none!!!

Yes Battlezone was very fun. But I never seemed to finish the game cus it was hard as hell!!! BZ2 was just well...not as good. TAG gun/cannon forever!!!

[BoweryBaker 0]

im about to make this mission in Afghanistan where you're chasing down a mech going away without leave orders (AWOL). There's going to be music. You're a Delta Force Operative in charge of chasing him down on either a dirt bike with satchels, or a hummer with a grenade launcher on top, i haven't decided yet. Maybe just an F18 pilot chasing him down from the air, but that'd be over quick so no. I think it'd be more challenging to chase him down on a dirtbike and try using satchels. You'd have to get ahead of him and then boobytrap him and keep on doing it at least three times. Either way if he has ammo he'll waste you so I'll take that out. Now if you were on a star wars speederbike i'd let him keep his ammo because i don't think that thing can hit a speederbike unless he uses his guided rockets but i dont know how to take those out so i just won't have any ammo inside of the mech. But during the high speed chase ill run the player through a gauntlet of trouble in order to catch the mech.

Edit: or maybe i could do the F18 thing and have the mech fire at you.