Arx Ardashir
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Posted - 2013.07.22 19:47:00 -
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Provolonee wrote:I saw the portfolio of the guy who modeled the ammar heavy suit. (will try to dig up the link). It is pretty hardcore, I'm sure this is where the bottle neck is. If it is just one artist modeling this you will understand why it is taking so long. It looks like months of work to create, revise, create, revise, approve, finalize just the art asset alone. I'm sure the slot layout is done, and once the artwork is done you will have them. edit: http://tonywork.cghub.com/images/ found a bunch of dust stuff done by this guy, Some really good stuff on there by a talented artist.
Hmm, you have the opposite theory as I. I always figured it was the slot layout that had them stymied, because of the fact that the Amarr rolled out first.
The Amarr suits, as a general rule, have fewer slots than any suit of the same class because of the whole "more base hp through dual tanking" thing they have.
Whereas the proto basic Amarr heavy frame has a 3/3 slot layout, the Caldari would likely be a 5/2 or possibly a 4/3 (with 5/2 being the Minnie heavy, as they seem to love lots of highs). Gallente would be something like 3/4 maybe. All those slots give the possibility of being even tankier than the Amarr one, and they might be worried about that (though a single flux would likely kill the Minnie heavy, and possibly the Caldari if they aren't also plated.)
The proto Amarr sentinel is a 2/4 slot layout. That's very unkeeping with the rest of the Amarr suits. What would the Caldari variant look like? 3/4? Would the Minmatar one be 4/3? Gallente 2/5?
Then we get into the Commando suit with it's 0 slots at basic level. Does that mean all the variants would have 0, or would the Minmatar and Caldari have 1 high while the Gallente had 1 low? They were very careful with the Cmmando's implementation, making it on the UP side, so trying to figure out the racial variants probably has them rather stuck.
I do wish they'd just take a chance, however.
I mean, it would be great to get more feedback and to hear what the hold up is, but this has always been my theory of what's holding the other heavies up. |