Things you hate in mecha design

>Robot's face resembles a gas mask
>But it's missing the air filters, making the maskface look ugly and incomplete

>>14737638
>legs with no feet
You talking shit about booster legs punk?

>>14737664
Fuck your faggot ass ballerina robots. If all it does is fly, build a god damn fighter. Don't put legs on something that doesn't fucking walk. Footless legs don't make it look cool. They make it look prissy, dainty, and girly.

>>14737638
>Modern mecha attempts at being weird and unique

Hello some of g-reco's mecha

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>>14737670
Oh you mean something like this then?
Although this one does have feet. They're just inside the boosters.

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>>14737638
>legs with no feet
get out of here

>>14737685
You get out, AIDS-lover.

>>14737638
>arms with no hands
Fuck you
>no head
Fuck yoooooou

>>14737722
I'd tell you to chug raw sewage but that must be a delicacy to you.

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>>14737726
Both of those can be interesting with the proper design. A good old gun arm can always by cool and a sunken in head can also make for an interesting mech. Hell you must hate the Robobot mech design but I love it.

>>14737638
>shoulders that can't rotate freely
>no protection on the joints
That must make for a small list of mecha you don't hate

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>>14737638
>legs with no feet
Yeah, whatever dude.

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Any mecha with wings.
Seed and Wing can burn for popularizing that shit

>>14737743
Galient has some cool winged mecha

>>14737735
That's a suit of power armor and not a GIANT robot. It's so small the lack of a head is irrelevant. Besides, those arms have hands so it doesn't really contradict what I said.

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>>14737757
It has a bunch of different forms dependant on the scanned copy ability. And it's totally a mech, it even goes off into space and pulls a Getter 2.

There is nothing wrong with good old fashioned weapon arms.

>normal mech in the front
>cluster fuck of parts jutting out 50 meters in the back

>>14737638
>tl;dr I hate innovation

>>14737811
>removing things that make sense
>innovation
For real, kill yourself.

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>>14737638
>arms with no hands
Form: fuck you!

>>14737757
>suit of armor
>is piloted, not worn

Hurr, a durr.

>>14737816
>implying mechs even make sense to begin with
I'm so sad that you're so salty that you fail to see all the artists' efforts to make mecha designs more than just tube robots

>>14737638
>immobile head with a glass canopy

>Hating the Soltic.

Eat shit.

>>14737827
>just turn off your brain bro!
Finally, someone else who enjoys the Transformers films!

>>14737848
>strawmaning this hard
Damn anon, you should check out your blood pressure, because all that salt isn't making you any good!

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>>14737844
>That bit in episode two where they just shoot through the glass with a rifle.
Kek, must suck to pilot a soltic.
Iron Foots for life.

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>>14737638
>arms with no hands
>glass canopies
>no head

ITT we hate fun

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>>14737638
>no face
>no eyes
>boobs
>no visible butthole to insert dick into

>>14739089
>boobs
I fucking hate this. I'm looking at you Getter Robo Go 2 and that stupid female mech from code geass.

>it looks like it's made of plastic
>it has bullshit glowing lines that are supposed to *suggest* advanced technology instead of fucking drawing it.

>>14737844
Soltic heads are mobile though, it's mainly Blockheads that have heads that can't move.

Me, I fuckin' hate excessive greeble. I also don't have much love for bowlegs or excessive bowlegs. They can be done right but god damnit there are limits one should adhere to.

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>>14737670
>If all it does is fly, build a god damn fighter. Don't put legs on something that doesn't fucking walk.

The thing about 4chan is that I can't trust it when people agree with my opinion. I can never know if someone actually agrees with me, or if they're ironically using something that I actually think as shitposting bait.

It's a hard life having shit taste.

Seriously, though. I hate this shit. If it spends all of its time hovering and never walks then it's just a glorified helicopter.

>>14738599
>fun
All that shit is boring as fuck and you know it.

Glowing eyes and other pointless LEDs. Especially in relatively low-tech scenarios where they can't be handwaved

>>14737638
>spiky shoes(Katoki gundam Deathscythe, Hydra Gundam)
>spiky knees(S-Gundam, Demonbane kinda)
>boner crotches(ReZEL, Nightingale)

Just some examples, but there's not much I dislike in robot design.

This applies primarily applies to Gundam, but I've seen a few things here & there that do it but mono-eye units with something that blocks vision when the eye is in the center like the Zaku I or the Zeong.

>>14739653
To a lesser extent this, but only if the foot blade goes like Daitarn and it's just a solid blade that runs up the shin.

>>14739145
>Boobs on mecha
No we need more of this

>>14737638
>>arms with no hands
>>no head
>>immobile head
I actually like all of these.

-While not having any kind of manipulator sucks, it would make sense for a dedicated combat machine might want to forgo the extra upkeep and shave off a bit of weight.

-While having your high end sensor suite on an ambulatory mount has its advantages, it also has plenty of disadvantages, such as higher expense and making the sensors an obvious target.
This is why I like the Leo's head; it's very clearly a mass produced military machine with no frills and only enough money spent on Primary Optics to be minimally viable.

>>legs with no feet
>>shoulders that can't rotate freely
>>no protection on the joints
Totally with you on these.

-If they don't have FEET, THEY ARE NOT LEGS!
They are Ambulatory appendages on your arbitrary humanoid machine, and given it's probably not using 2-dimensional aerodynamic lifting flight, it makes that humanoid shape ALL THE MORE ARBITRARY!
A purely micro-gravity vehicle designed to use AMBLAC would look like a fucking Space Squid more than a person

-If you can't use a thoracic-side mounted joint for at least X-axis elevation adjustment, why is there even a joint there in the first place?

-While I can understand the need to keep joints mobile, that doesn't mean protection should be eschewed entirely.
While people harp on the IBO MS designs for their skinny waist, what irks me about their explanation that such a critical joint just being too difficult to armor is that it isn't that difficult AT ALL.
You'd just need to drape it down from the edge of the upper body, and make sure it was flexible enough that it couldn't get jammed up in anything.
Now I don't know if nano-laminate chain mail exist, but at the very least some Kevlar couldn't hurt.

>>glass canopies
This I'm not sure on...
Are we talking giant glass domes like we see on the Guntank and a bunch of Zeon vehicles?
Then yes.

If the "Canopy" has a sufficient structural support lattice...

OP confirmed for gendumbabby

>>14739897
Gundam has all of those things you twat.

>>14737775
>>normal mech in the front
>>cluster fuck of parts jutting out 50 meters in the back
Yeah, I mean, I can handle back greebling, but anything beyond Gundam Seed designs starts being too much...
...Then there are those poor abominations you see pictures of from Gunpla contest...

>>14739653
>>spiky shoes(Katoki gundam Deathscythe, Hydra Gundam)
>>spiky knees(S-Gundam, Demonbane kinda)
Eh, blades and spikes on the knees and toes can be alright, you just have to USE them in melee.
See Gai here as an example on how to use your Drill Knees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYFYZZtnH-E

>>boner crotches(ReZEL, Nightingale)
Indeed, not only do they look unwieldy, but they might actually be detrimental.
ALL the load stress of a bipedal layout is concentrated at the center of its hips, so a huge metal dong sticking out is just begging for a good cockslap to send it right through the most vital part for standing on two legs!

>>14739678
>This applies primarily applies to Gundam, but I've seen a few things here & there that do it but mono-eye units with something that blocks vision when the eye is in the center like the Zaku I or the Zeong.
Oh FUCK YES!
I mean, I can understand a structural piece bridging over a section of an Optics' running track, a small known blindspot is better than a HUGE one created when an armored plate buckles over it, but RIGHT IN THE CENTER WHEN YOU ARE USING A SINGLE OPTIC?!!?
Not, say, one at the 45 and 315 degree marks?!
Yeah, like I said, this still creates a blindspot, but at least now your machine doesn't have to strain itself JUST TO SEE DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF IT!

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>>14737638
>angry anime reaction image
>no head is bad
>immobile head is bad
It must be difficult living with such shit taste and hatred.

>>14740022
>Plebeian Rim fan accusing anyone else of shit taste and mocking anime on the mecha board

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>>14737638
>arms with no hands
>immobile head
Ayo, holup. Is you sayin you hate Getter 2 or sumfin?

>>14740029
>strawmanning this hard
>single greentext reply
>implying implications
>stop liking what I don't like
>typical buzzwords with no argument
>using some dramatic angry anime face to start a thread about angry OPINIONS
>shoving words down people's throat
hint: I am literally trying to get (you)s from this particular angry person

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>>14740043

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>>14740022
>It must be difficult living with such shit taste and hatred.
Hey now, no need to get nasty...

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>>14737638
>>arms with no hands
>>no head
Ur a faget.

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>>14740157
Proto-Monster had pair of nasty claws, Koenig has them in gearwalk and humanoid modes.
Spartan does have hands but it is dedicated close combat design.
Well, alright, proto-Tomahawk in Zero did have had hands but again, production models are purpose built designs with no need of multifunctional manipulators.
Civilian Destroid in Delta has forklift arms based kinda on Aliens powerloader.
>>14739774
>glass canopies
They are not stupid if they serve a purpose. In setting where mark one eye ball is relevant, it makes sense to expose human crew and allow them to actually see. Macross did it for a long time, thou Coffin like interface and canopy shields are also used - but all valks have their cockpit shielded when transformed.
Guntanks design makes sense - in a setting with minovsky particles being able to see is important. Design is retarded, periscopes with stabilized optics would be better but it does have some sense in itself.

>sufficient structural support lattice
A what?
>>14740011
>Gundam Seed designs starts being too much
Yes, wings on a backpack. For what purpose, as MS without reactionless flight system is a flying brick anyway without need for lift surfaces.
Now, boosters on the other hand..

>>14740230
>They are not stupid if they serve a purpose. In setting where mark one eye ball is relevant, it makes sense to expose human crew and allow them to actually see.
Yes, I understand that, BUT...
>Guntanks design makes sense - in a setting with minovsky particles being able to see is important. Design is retarded, periscopes with stabilized optics would be better but it does have some sense in itself.
These are ARMORED FIGHTING VEHICLES!
Macross Valkyries can get a pass for being transforming fighter jets, which need to sacrifice durability for evasiveness anyways.

The RX-75 and Magella Attack Tank on the other hand, HAVE NO GOD DAMN EXCUSE for putting their spotters/gunners in a fucking snow globe!

Look up the RTX-65 Guntank Early Type from Origin.
It, like it's "Successor" also has man stationed in it's "Head," but said head is designed like a bunker-like emplacement with a nice, wide viewing slit.

>>sufficient structural support lattice
>A what?
You know, like the cockpits of an A-10 or a Hind, a good supporting frame for THICK bullet proof glass that can also act as a roll-cage in the event of collision...

>>14740041
Armageddon might be trash, but good god if it's version of Shin 2 isn't dead sexy.

>>14737638
The only important thing in mech design is how good it looks, since if you'd wanted to make something practical you'd make a spidertank/plane. However, everyone's taste is different, so it all matters none. Have a good day

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>>14739897
>OP confirmed for gendumbabby
Anon is confirmed for retard as >>14739919
points out

>>14737670
>Fuck your faggot ass ballerina robots. If all it does is fly, build a god damn fighter. Don't put legs on something that doesn't fucking walk. Footless legs don't make it look cool. They make it look prissy, dainty, and girly.
Nobody here gives a shit about you or your shit opinion /k/uck

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>>14737638
>ITT: My shit taste is better than yours

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>>14740286
>Armageddon might be trash
>He bought into the Armageddon is bad shitposting meme

>>14740402
>he still spreads the Armageddon is good meme
Hi Pablo

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>>14737670
Arms and legs are useful even if you never land. You can pull them in to turn quicker or spread them out for more control and stability. They can can act as a limited, but much more immediate and precise form of gyroscope, very useful for aiming any large weapon.

>>14741656
It's just simple kinematics. Have you ever been on a spinning toy as a kid and tried pulling your arms and legs in?

>>14737638
Honestly there's not much I universally hate, on the right design most features can work.

I'm not a big fan of propellant tanks like on the Hi-Nu and Sinanju, I'll admit. From an in-universe standpoint it makes total sense, but they also add more clutter.

>>14737638
Is this the anti-/k/uck thread? they'd normally be all over 'muh non-humanoid war toys'.

>faceplate turns into brave face

I'm looking at you Dracodeus

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>>14737638
Thin legs and high heels. I can bear anything else, but not these two elements. I do not care whether the robot is piloted by a woman or by a nobleman. I dont care of the design is good. A robot that weighs a lot of tons and has high heels is one thing that really bothers me.

>>14741699
Nigger you don't need to leave the ground ice skaters do the same shit.

Realistically all mechs should be designed after ice skaters.

>>14737638
>>no protection on the joints

This bothers me so much in Gundam after I rewatched Turn A Gundam and read about its design process. The Turn A's arms don't ahve protention, but the double jointed knee with the knee armour on the joint makes so much more sense. Almost every other gundam has that knee part as part of the leg.

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There's so much technical skill and talent and work that goes into custom Gunpla like this but I think it looks so ugly. Plus I can only imagine how fragile it would actually be in battle and space flight. It especially ruins the curviness and bulkiness of Zeon mecha. It's just so overdetailed for my tastes.

Also Gunpla/Mecha with shittons of decials literally on every panel.

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>>14737670
>>14741652

Turn A fag here I forgot to reply this. I love big humanoid robots though even if it doesn't make sense so it doesn't really bother me but I love them on the Turn A because the entire back half are thrusters so it actually makes some sense. I never thought about that logic though.

One thing I really hate though is Katoki proportions.

>>14741943
>Katoki proportions.

Because of the legs?

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>>14741956
Tiny torso and extremely long legs.

Although that's kind of what the Turn A's proportions are. I think my brain wants humanoid things to be humanoid, but in motion the Turn A looks fantastic especially when it does that thing with its legs and I love the Fenice Rinascita. So I dunno I guess it's more of a love hate relationship.

>>14741933
You don't fight with all your panels jacked open.

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>>14741967
>Tiny torso and extremely long legs.

Okey, i'm with you about this, but there are cases in which he manages to do good things, when he wants.

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Giant angel wings on giant robots.

It's kind of dumb.

>>14741999
Truth be told, the only parts of the Strike Freedom I find obnoxious are those golden joints and the pilot.

>>14741776
>A robot that weighs a lot of tons and has high heels is one thing that really bothers me.
Mortar Headds basically float. The legs are for real just for show.

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>>14741933
I actually don't mind your pic because the detail has a style and cohesion to it that works with the military purpose of zakus.

Take your complaint and apply it to this official Mazinkaiser toy or the "darker and grittier" proof-of-concept Gaiking trailer that came out some years ago but thankfully never became anything and I agree, it feels particularly dumb to give that level of detail to that type of detail to old school-style super robots.
>>14740402
I disagree that it's trash, it's worth watching for a bunch of really good scenes. But I don't remember people white-knighting the fuck out of it to the extent they do now either so I assume he's just saying it's trash to rile up the "Armageddon is perfect and a masterpiece" types.

>>14737743
Do you even zeta gundam?

>>14742045
>I assume he's just saying it's trash to rile up the "Armageddon is perfect and a masterpiece" types.
I wasn't. I just thought it was really, -really- bad.

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>>14737743
>Any mecha with wings.
lol c'mon son

>>14742062
Got any reasons? I'm legit curious.
>>14742060
>The whole Armageddon is trash is a new movement, the same as GGG Final is trash
I disagree with GGG Final being shit too but that opinion has been a common since at least 2008, which is nearly a decade ago. I specifically recall watching it while thinking "fuck 4chan, this is fine".

People were also triggered by the bee rape and more sexualized female character designs which I liked lol

Gurren Lagann is being forgotten because it's been replaced by Kill la Kill which is gay as hell because one is a well made show and the other is disappointing as shit and has even more delusional fans than GL

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>>14742090
>Got any reasons?

>>14742104
I more vaguely recall my now-haram opinion about Armageddon being worth watching but not super-special being pretty common then too, but I SPECIFICALLY recall posting about the final GGG episode in 2008 and instantly getting a "ok, now stop and pretend Final doesn't exist" response which was not out of place around that time.

I watched Final while thinking
>It's the same shit for me.
One show is pretty good at being what it wants to be, a reference-filled story inspired by things like the Getter manga and Osamu Dezaki about human advancement and "past and present coming together to drill a path towards the future".

KLK has no fucking idea what it's about. I'm not just saying this to be a smart ass, Nakashima literally admitted he wrote GL with a central theme in mind but made shit up as he wrote KLK. It's really obvious if you watch both.

So retards make shit up about how it's about sex feminism and liking tits is wrong or some shit

>>14742140
*sex negative feminism

*I watched Final while thinking "fuck all those people who hate this"

In fact part of why I enjoyed GGG Final as much as I did may have been my contrarian nature, I pretty much felt like I had to enjoy stuff that a lot of people on /m/ or /a/ mecha threads had a hateboner for.

>>14742158
Nah those looked too boring even then.

To be more specific it was more about claims that a follow-up to something is inferior to the original. See Gunbuster vs. Diebuster.

Backpacks
wings
swords
faces
square bodies

>>14737685
But it does have feet. They fold down when in contact with the ground.

>>14737749
The wingal from the iron crest ova is the greatest winged mecha of all time

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>>14742163
Seed Destiny to be fair is something I didn't bother with because I loathe the character designs. If it got an appealing non-standard character designer like Tomino shows do I'd give it a shot but I can't bring myself to stare at those glass eyed doll like freaks for dozens of episodes.

I used to think I loathed the character DESIGNER but he did fine in Scryed so I'm just gonna blame his attempts to design something particularly "pretty" as failing

>>14741939
Some of the snow mobiles are based on ice skaters/ski riders m8, only with limited maneuverability because they don't have legs.

You, actually don't go out much, don't you?

>>14741725
Are you me?

>>14742151

people dislike Final now?

>>14742283
Some of the snow mobiles are also doubles as military use. Because you know, slog tanking battles aren't just cut it anymore and we need someone who cover our flak.

You must check em more.

>>14742418
As I said they've disliked it since forever for the way they decided to go from normal Braves show to being specifically for older nerdy fans while the show was more for young kids. The story is often called "Shonen Jump bullshit" and there's some complaints about the bee rape (understandable even if I liked it) and the more harmless fanservice (dumb)

>>14742476
Nah, most of them is used for hit-and-run kind of combat and recon. Hell they even have the stealth version of it.

Also, even if they are transport, its still military grade isn't it? And it still prove that there are modern vehicles that based around ice skaters/ski riders.

>>14738599
Independent rotation of weapons in your 'hands' is way faster, so it has a practical purpose.

As for glass, some of the mechs do have cameras but I don't think the tech in the IS invasion is advanced enough for even the clanners to have full camera based mechs. It would be very bad to have them all destroyed and be blind. (We won't talk about the dark ages, it is haram)

They use Ferro-Glass anyways so it's not that big of a structural weak point, it's thick as fuck. You have to remember how big these mechs are, so the glass is going to be 4-6~ inches depending on its weight class.

>>14743663
>Crab canonically has a camera cockpit
[smug comstar noises]

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I have a bunch for combiners
>one of the components doesn't even change at all when combining
>one mech only exists to form the backpack
>the weapons do no combine to form a bigger, better weapon
>combined robot does not have a design on the chest
>steam locomotive is a component but does not become the chest
>it has no long range weapons
>putting the hat/mask or revealing the head isn't the last step

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>>14744583
The train can NEVER be the torso lest we get another Boner-Zord.

>>14744583
>one of the components doesn't even change at all when combining
an armored up base mecha is fine, but when it just sorta....goes inside the rest, it's weird. at least in the SRX, the R1 is the inside of the torso, the head, and the backpack.

>one mech only exists to form the backpack
Only acceptable when it's a power-up mecha like Black Hawk for Final Dancouga.

>the weapons do no combine to form a bigger, better weapon
Dancouga is literally the only mecha I can think of that did this.

>combined robot does not have a design on the chest
You talkin' shit of Getters?

>steam locomotive is a component but does not become the chest
see >>14744688

>it has no long range weapons
THIS one always bugs me, though it's usually acceptable when it's literally the first time they combine, so they don't know HOW to use any of the weapons beside "PUNCH SHIT!"

>>14744706
>Only acceptable when it's a power-up mecha like Black Hawk for Final Dancouga.
And El Dorado from Gun x Sword

>>14744583
>one of the components doesn't even change at all when combining
Liner Gao was pretty bad, actually thinking about it

>>14737638

Shields with integrated weapons

Don't fucking put weapons in the one place deliberately meant to take impacts and enemy fire

All of my hate for shield weapons

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>>14748115
>Shields with integrated weapons
>Don't fucking put weapons in the one place deliberately meant to take impacts and enemy fire
>All of my hate for shield weapons

>>14748188
She only gets a pass because it concerns literal toys and I like her as a person

In all other scenarios: no, don't fill your goddamn shield with EXPLOSIVES. It will BLOW THE FUCK UP

>>14748208
>In all other scenarios: no, don't fill your goddamn shield with EXPLOSIVES. It will BLOW THE FUCK UP
I'd rather have my explosives on the OUTSIDE of an Armored Plate than the other way around...

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>>14748208
> What is reactive armour

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external armor designed in a way that completely nullifies a robot's most prominent feature
Thankfully, it rarely happens

>>14737670

legs are just decorations

>>14748851
gyan shield doesn't work that way

>>14750568
>>14748851
How...fitting.

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>>14750579
Frankly, I never believed that.

>>14740636
>Getting the meme backwards
Spic hates anything newer than Toei shows

>>14748115
Ehh it was cool when Berserk did it

>>14737670
Nah, Orbital frames and Deus machina are still some of the cooler designs from this and the last decade.

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>>14737743
how does this make you feel?

Tiny feet. I'm okay with no feet at all, it usually means there's some gimmick to it or it flies at all times but if you put feet there they'd better look like they could hold up the body.

>>14752650
Not wings. Binders.
If anything, articulated shields.
Come to think of it, Armored from Thunderbolt and Cardigan use both same mounting system for their shields.

>>14753443
If I remember correctly they are storage for the funnel laser systems.

>>14753543
Funnels, two mega beam canons, I-field if I remember right and some decent armor on top.
It actually makes sense for space use more than humanoid shape.

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>>14741776
High heels at least makes sense on a visual level when it comes to FSS designs, because they're all meant to be baroque art pieces.

Where it gets really dumb is when it's used on designs that try to be all serious militaristic ground units. That doesn't make sense in the context of its usage, nor does it look good.

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>>14737638
>Too many of a single design element.
Like how some Valvrave mecha have a shitton of those blade things hanging off of them, or how the Atlas Gundam from Thunderbolt is nearly made entirely of balls.

Asymmetry along the spinal column when it's bisected by the YZ plane (Christ I hope I'm describing this right).

To put it another way, Fafner asymmetry. I love asymmetry, but it fucking peeves me off when it is localized around the central axis. It's at its most tasteful on one side or the other of a design, or if it's on the central axis it should be asymmetric in the way the curvature of a spine should be (XZ plane?).

I have a preference towards a balanced kind of asymmetry, and the text book Fafner spinal column is the antithesis of that.

>>14753681
The only aysemetry that looks good is armor.

>>14737743
If you don't like the Zeta Plus A1 you're literally Hitler

>>14753752
Fap arm syndrome is fine, dare I say pretty awesome.

We need more fiddler crab proportions.

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>>14753657

>>14737743
Organic looking wings are gay
aerodynamic wings are the best

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Western mechas in general just rub me wrong most of the time. I can't even fucking explain properly other than that they generally try to look utilitarian in appearance, but their Japanese counterparts generally just blow them the fuck out of the water. Something about Western mecha limbs and armoring just not flowing together well. I find the Destroid Tomahawk to be completely fine and pretty good for a mech that goes against the general very humanoid appearances most Japanese mechas go for, but as the Warhmmer, it just feels fucking off.

When people fight in fucking half built mechs or prototypes, that really sets me off.

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>>14753916
As FD's designs go, in my opinion there are too many panel lines and beveled shapes. It makes everything appear too similar in a way that if you didn't know what to look for beforehand you wouldn't be able to tell what a particular design was supposed to be.
The limb joints also look like they can't bend or flex much. They don't appear like they have enough range of motion to sit back up after being tripped or knocked over by another mech, let alone being able to kick or punch like they can in the tabletop game.

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>>14737638
I've found Op's least favorite mecha.

>>14753657
That looks absolutely nothing like a UC suit, much less an OYW suit.

Lion chest
Because bird chests are better

>Weapons with a very small ammo capacity or otherwise single shot
The first Zaku bazooka is a joke, and while bullet weapons have their use a robot bigger than a house not having any backup or sub weapons running out of ammo is pretty fucking silly.

Zakus generally only held two rifle mags with one in the gun, and ground Gundams/GMs held three mags with one in the gun, even with a support vehicle that's a criminally short supply of weaponry.

I imagine the mechanics behind a machine fetching an ammo container on its chassis and then loading it into a weapon would be a programming nightmare for robotics.

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>>14753657
>nearly made entirely of balls.
Anon... I

>>14757743
Ground gundams had head vulcans and multi-launchers in the chest as well, plus they went around carrying backpack containers full of spare guns and ammo

>>14758255
>the Gundam is a Ball
Thunderbolt pls

>>14758255
Is that the battle rifle from Halo 4?

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What bugs me the most is when mechs have easily misplaced but entirely important combiner parts they could just take with them. Like Might Gaine is big enough where he could just have some arms and not like need to combine for them.

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>>14741933
I wholeheartedly agree. You don't see F-15s with the entire fucking constitution printed on the top and writing all over any flat surface now, the same principle shoul apply to models that are going for a military look

>>14748115
Why not?

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>>14748115

>>14763903
>You don't see F-15s with the entire fucking constitution printed on the top
Maybe we should.

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>>14737638

>>14737638
>not liking gun arms
>not liking space type suits with booster feet or pointy floaty legs

You have shit taste

>>14764860
>space type suits with booster feet or pointy floaty legs
You mean wimpy fairy suits for wimpy fairy boys who can't stomp and kick.

>>14764862
If the thing has jet boosters on its feet I'm sure it can deliver a steel beams melting kick or something.

>>14765061
>Maneuver legs to deliver a kick
>Get blasted away from your target due to jet thrust
Oops.

>>14765133
>>14765061
>Jet thrust in space.