[img]http://puu.sh/h8h5Z/b4ec44ff7f.jpg[/img]

[img]http://puu.sh/h8jlO/aa6ec4fb04.jpg[/img]

[img]http://puu.sh/h8jTt/d339bb34dd.jpg[/img]

that's it today

I am not good at concept art... but I could try with a dropship maybe. I'd likely end up mixing aspects of the crucifier and the malleus

Slot the malleus into the open area of the crucifier at a 45degree angle, chop off some bits of them and open up parts of the back end and call it the 'spirit'.

Please do not expect these assets or gauge them as a simple paintbrush job; its been months since they where previewed and for all you know they could have been left in incomplete states having not even left the paper they where drawn on. Some of these designs may not be fitting current game design decisions as well. The Minmatar LAV for example has superiority of its design in-comparison to the other two lavs we have while the minmatar tank is a mold breaker in terms of how it would work.

Vehicles of a new model takes immense amount of work to implement in as they require new physics rules for each one of them that requires it, sound models, light models, light maps, animations, all sorts of things that go beyond the work that you can do in a hotfix. The effort used in this can be used elsewhere; the solution offered here is an immediate low cost effort high return to which other kinds of important work can be put into pace such as balancing the existence of new havs and other vehicles.

Those are RDV models godin, not dropship.

I rather work effort go elsewhere to more immediate concerns.

Those that have followed the discussions here, know that

1) of course it would be better to have original assets - there are both memory issues and asset issues
2) the community was asked whether they wanted this intermediate and it was overwhelmingly approved

Like using our 3D artists to create virtual skanks for our quarters? or war barges? What could possibly be more immediate of a concern for the art team?

How long do you think it will take to create Minmatar and Amarr small and large turrets, LAV's, HAV's, Dropships, and Heavy weapons with the existing size of the Art team? A year? 2?

How long can DUST survive without migrating platforms? A year? 2? Can't you see why they need to make this a priority?

We made new skins for each, so that we can create new types, add those skins to those types and edit those types however we want.

The Minmatar Blaster could have 2x the ROF etc, not sure that's what I want to do but it's possible.

The only way to measure that is through crowd testing (as in just deploy it), it's a much better UX for the player anyway and lets us customize our proto suits as well, without breaking the game with proto BPO's.

Yeah, it's working so far. Dev Blog maybe.


Vehicles do not have SKINs (yet)

Give me parameters of how you want them to work and DPS ranges to their weak tank and I'll ***** myself out to offer submissions on mechanics.

Like the amarr "missile turret" might work best as a dual-beam laser effect That starts low and slow but escalates over time like a plasma cutter Slicing through tank plates.

Hijack the mass driver explosion and make it the autocannon shell sound.

Why in gods name would I contribute to a project that won't ever get bigger than it is lmfao?

I got into DUST because it was supposed to be a sprawling experience that tied directly to New Eden, not some low FPS laggy lobby shooter hahahah. Skins look nice, but I mean...they're skins hahaha. Oh man this game

A front turret slapped onto an old model doesn't really count as much, and LMFAO can you imagine this game with no ADS? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA oh god that's rich, if we only had standard dropships lmfao

They STILL haven't been able to program in a proper first person cam for the thing yet

Also, HAVs HAD a specialist hull before ADS ever existed, but were "temporarily" removed for "balancing" purposes. Same for LAVs, which had two.

I took another look at the amarr HAV today and it looked black and blue... wtf?

We told you and everyone about our hopes and dreams, and vision. That's not lying and I take being called a liar, very seriously.

Yes I can read. And just because someone chose to write "DROPSHIP" next to it doesn't mean it's accurate, I mean who says whoever cobbled together that image is a ccp member or even actually correct? It looks more to me like they made some assumptions for things. Look at the actual models, where's the side doors for people to get in? There aren't any, but if you actually look at the bottom of them there's giant magnetic clamps so that they can carry vehicles.

Yeah the cal and gal are correct there, because people went 'oh those are in game' so they got that right. But the min and amarr 'dropships' there are clearly RDV's, despite what's written next to them.

Nobody wants to see that.

Ok maybe Ripley.

But No One Else!

More to the point, until Militia HAVs can be reliably killed with militia AV, we will never see a sica or soma BPO.

until the STD Gunnlogi/Madrugar can be reliably killed with STD AV we will never see STD HAV BPOs.

It's give/take. But until sicas and somas don't require proto AV to paste we won't see it.

That's the odd thing though..... when it comes to AV it's not that I doubt STD tanks can be killed with STD AV but..... people simply don't need STD AV when they can just field Wyrkomi's (both SL and Grenades).....which everyone does.