Why does Rex need legs again?

>>383842921
because it's cool

to walk lol

because something something born on the battlefield

It made a lot more sense why it was so fearsome back in the late 80s when kojima thought it up

so its mobile?

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>>383842921
Rule of cool

>>383843086
>>383843938
What's so cool about leg?

>>383842921
Legless mecha don't work in gravity.
t. Char

Would metal gears/mechs ever be viable in real combat?

The closest I can think of would be man sized mechs you step in to.

>>383842921
If it didn't have legs, how would it move, anon?

>>383842921
B I P E D AL

Why does it need to roar?

>>383844632
no, not ever, not even then or under that circumstance

power armor (your man-sized mech) is viable and actually being researched but any larger than that and bipedal locomotion just becomes stupid

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>>383844883
Wheels? Submarine?

>>383845092
Might become useful in certain terrain, it could follow soldiers through anything

>>383844153
because the alternative, treads, aren't cool

>>383844972
T-that's just its sonar, anon.

because anime mechs have legs and they're cool

rex is just trying to be like all the cool kids, with their legs and roaring and glaring flaws and stuff

>>383845234
Specialization > Versatility. It's a general rule in warfare. A good example is one of the newer helicopters or jets that was created to be very versatile but it sacrificed a lot to achieve it and is just an expensive piece of shit.

>>383845234
I'm sorry to say but large mechs will never be useful
it'd simply offer virtually no advantages despite being vastly more expensive and difficult to produce

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>>383845237
>treads, aren't cool

What?

>>383845212
Silly, Wheels are for pushing. Wheels can't move unless legs are pushing it.

>>383844153
sex leg

>Granin: Sokolov! It's him you're looking for, isn't it? Because of him, I have
been stripped of my authority. My research has come to nothing. Look! (pulls
out some schematics and hands them to Snake) It is a revolutionary mobile
nuclear missile system, a bipedal tank.

>Snake: A bipedal tank?

>Granin: Yes, a walking tank - a robot! Are you familiar with the theory of the
missing link between apes and humans? Well, this technology will be the
missing link between infantry and artillery. A kind of metal gear, if you
well. And this magnificent metal gear will make a revolutionary step forward
in weapons development.

>Snake: Metal Gear...

>Granin: But I won't be used so easily. No, no crying myself to sleep. For you
see, I'm going to send these documents to my friend in the United States. (we
see a picture of this person who looks a lot like Otacon from MGS1)

>Snake: What!?

>Granin: These bastards will live to regret this. And when they themselves
become the targets of my creation, they will know my true greatness. Yes!
Sokolov's pathetic Shagohod pales in comparison to my work! What are you going
to do with a rocket engine on a tank?

>Snake: About Sokolov...

>Granin: A tank does not need a rocket! It needs something else. Look at these
(motions to his legs).

>Snake: Nice shoes.

>Granin: No. Legs!! Legs that allow it to go anywhere!! Just as when humans
learned to walk upright! THAT is the real evolution in weaponry! Don't you
agree? But... the fools in charge choose Sokolov.

>>383842921
>>383845212
>wheels
Need a road.
>submarine
Can't launch proper ICBMs from a sub.

>>383845619
if the ICBM launcher can fit on a metal gear it can fit on a submarine mate

also legs that large and heavy need roads

>>383845212
>Wanting your death machine to be stopped by a 6-foot high wall

To cross the road.

>>383845360
Agreed. That's why armies exclusively use submachineguns for close quarters, and battle rifles for anything past that range.

Imagine combine the two for versitality and calling it an assault rifle or something, ha. Ludicrous.

>>383845912
Why did the Metal Gear cross the road?

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>>383845540
>Well, this technology will be the missing link between infantry and artillery. A kind of metal gear, if you will.

>>383845723
It's a railgun with a large range of motion...

>>383846060
>video games are an art form

>>383845723
No, you can't launch a proper ICBM from a submarine. It's not a matter of size. SLBMs are close, but they don't quite have the same range.

>also legs that large and heavy need roads
Literally where did you pull this from? Legs that large and heavy would shatter roads. You couldn't be more wrong if you tried.

>>383846060
Granin was a drunk.

>>383845619
>Can't launch proper ICBMs from a sub.
You don't need to, just hang out in range of enemy target in international waters. Its what the Soviets did, had tons of nuclear subs in the arctic circle.

If I remember right the point of the legs was to walk into shitty terrain like forests or mountains, fire its payload with the railgun, and walk away from the firing site. A single REX unit would be harder to detect than building a silo or something.

>>383846580
problem is that legs wouldn't help it at all in those types of terrains

in mountains it would tip over quickly due to it's elevated center of gravity and in forests it would either sink into the soft soil or else be obstructed by the various trees

>>383846435
Not so great if you get blindsided.

>>383846580
With that size and weight, wouldn't it stuck in said shitty terrian?

Legs, and walking as well as running, are a more energy efficient form of locomotion.

Legs and feet are also much more adaptable to terrain than wheels are.

>>383845619
Both the US and Russia have had submarine launched ICBMs that could target anywhere on the planet since the 80s.

>>383846757
>>383846703

In the real world, sure. In Metal Gear's wacky world? Who knows.

>>383846703
>>383846757
You're probably right about the terrain, but I explicitly remember the bit about it being hard to detect.

>>383846703
>in mountains it would tip over quickly due to it's elevated center of gravity
You're talking about the game universe in which they invented GEKKOs
>sink into the soft soil
That's the whole point of the legs. Tanks might have trouble in deep mud. Legs? You just pull one out, take a step forward.
>trees
Smashes through them, obviously. A tree isn't going to stop a metal gear

>>383846872
>Legs, and walking as well as running, are a more energy efficient form of locomotion.
alrighty, lets put that to a test
first one to get to a location 100 miles away, you'll go by foot I'll go by bike

how much you want to wager on it?

>>383845927
>MUH EXTREMES
Fuck off retard. At least use logic if you're going to bait

>>383846967
>Tanks might have trouble in deep mud. Legs? You just pull one out, take a step forward.

or, if physics is actually working as it should, trying to pull your leg out like that only causes your other leg to sink deeper

>>383846892
That's called an SLBM, anon. Not the same thing.

But I guess we have no need for ICBM missile silos if we have SLBMs, right? Right?

>>383847143
Or, if this is the real world we're talking about

Mud isn't 100 metres deep

>>383845402
That would look 10x times more impressive if it had legs.

>>383847249
It is probably why neither have built any new silos, or developed any new launch vehicles since.

>>383847413
Land based launch vehicles I should say.

>>383847249
why are we even talking about ICBM's, we're talking about the REX's railgun which could easily be fitted onto a submarine given it can be fitted onto REX

>>383847039

Okay, but there's no time limit, no use of roads or trails, and we're going over the sierra nevada mountains.

>>383845402
Because crushing things by stepping on them is infinitely cooler than just rolling over them.

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>>383842921
can we all agree that Metal Gear JOBBER had the best design out of all the mechs?

>>383847143
>Step on a spot
>Foot doesn't sink
>Step on another
>Foot sinks
>Lift foot in a moment before it sinks
>Keep walking
?

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>mfw this thread will devolve into mechs v.s. tanks
oh boy here we go

>>383842921
>No madcat
>Stupid useless penis machine gun
0/10

>>383845402
Well that was stupid.

>>383845540
>Nice shoes

I like how Big Boss is polite even within an environment where death could be around every corner.

>>383842921
Because it's a bipedal tank.

>>383842921
It not a bipedal tank if it can't walk on two leg
Hence MetalGear

>>383848335
>the mech the marines made is more anime than the one the anime nerd made

>>383845402
If that car had legs you could bet it would be over in seconds. Instead Mgs is anime trash cars will never have legs.

>>383848770
It's almost certain he was merely briefly entertaining the idea of eating them.

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We're not going to have a metal gear because the pentagon is researching swarms of smaller robots, not one giant robot.

Also if you want to put a nuke anywhere on earth than a space platform in probably the best choice, not a giant tank.

>>383846967
>You're talking about the game universe in which they invented GEKKOs

I think the question is about real world usefulness. I don't think anyone is going to be able to build a Ray style submarine transformer that can leap out of the ocean.

>>383847510
YOU'RE the moron talking about REX's railgun.

WE'RE talking about nukes because that's what metal gears were literally built for. It's what the entire series revolves around.

>>383849301
>I think the question is about real world usefulness.
>Why does Rex need legs again?

Don't derive meaning from such a simple question. There's really no point applying metal gears to the real world - if they were practical, we'd have built them.

And that's how to answer a "would MG REX work irl" question - which isn't the one OP asked.

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>>383845092
>no, not ever, not even then or under that circumstance
warfare has always been about terrain.
even in the older days before firearms, lining men up in formations the lesser numbers can out win based of terrain.
So thalking about modern warfare.
things like tanks are only good on flat land, choppers and planes are vulnerable to artillery and big cannons on navy vessels, artellery are sea bound, limiting their range of attack.

Now imagine you had a metal gear that was an al terrain vehicle that could do the job of a tank, artillery, air superiority and launch icbm's like a missile silo.

No weapon could surpass it's might.

>>383845212
>Wheels? Submarine?

Legs can quickly change directions, wheels cannot.

Submarines still Launch a warhead, Metal Gear literally shoots one at supersonic speeds, but the explosion is even deadlier since it came as a surprise, and it's almost impossible to tell where it was launched since no radar would detect a supersonic warhead flying through the air without a fiery chemical reaction flying it.

Metal Gear IRL would be a nightmarish WMD.

>>383849301
>answering a question about videogame context outside of the videogame context

How is it possible for Crash to spin so fast? Is it possible that he uses some sort of rocket propulsion? Where would he keep the fuel?

>>383842921

This thing reminds me of that weird-ass fuckable anthropomorphic vehicle meme.

>>383847367
A 62 ton tank with it's weight evenly spread out vs a 505.45 ton metal gear with all it's weight resting on the legs. The metal gear would be hindered a lot more by soft ground and mountains.

>>383849716
>Legs can quickly change directions
not when you weigh 500 tons they don't

if a mech tried to move like a human the sheer stress would snap its legs right off

>>383849863
Have you never noticed how humans have no problems traversing the mud a toy car/real car can't handle?

We're not even discussing how the REX can jump and has jets and shit in it

>>383850094
>the sheer stress would snap its legs right off

Shame really. And making something shoot a nuclear warhead is also not that possible since nuclear weapons need electronics to even detonate in the first place, shooting a warhead could just fuck up the wiring and the insides, or even accidentally detonate the nuke.

>>383850094
Anon
We don't need arguments for why metal gears work in the real world
We need arguments for why they need legs in the MG series

Fucking hell this is getting boring

>>383849863
>What is pressure distribution on feet

>>383843137
underrated post

>>383842921
The game needed a cool final boss machine of doom.

It's also the reason robots in movies have humanoid bodies, imagine The Terminator's future scenes with John Conor fighting against a talking server and a bunch of robotic arms instead of the iconic robot skeleton.

More relevant question. Why does something that can launch attacks across continents need to be mobile at all?

>>383851269
You mean less relevant.

It literally came up in this thread that SLBMs are rendering ICBMs defunct.

>>383844632
Shagohod

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Why not both?

>>383845212
>Metal Gear IRL would be a nightmarish WMD
Metal Gear IRL would be spotted from orbit via satellite and then raped by helicopters.

>>383845234
US Marines actually tested Big Dog as a mechanical mule which could follow a squad and carry ammo and other stuff without fear, but the thing is that the Big Dog is powered by a diesel engine which is LOUD AS FUCK. We just need better batteries, and then you'll start seeing portable direct energy weapons, powered armours and all kinds of shit.

>>383850823
>a talking server and a bunch of robotic arms
That actually sounds cool, could even have a creep factor if done right

>>383844632

If some high-tech system was installed that allowed it to detect and dodge incoming dumb-fire projectiles.

>You will never fire an RPG at a future mech and it fucking dodges the grenade before locking on you
>Allahu akbar

>>383851586
Time magazine has projected what the average American will look like 50 years from now, and its beautiful.

>>383850450
>>383850639
REX's legs aren't like human legs though, and they're still spreading hundreds of tonnes over a relatively small area

Funny enough a lot of discussion is about the legs and weight while a canon weakness of REX is shooting the gigantic radome forces the cockpit to open.

>>383842921
because otacon was a huge fucking weeb who wanted to make his death machine a mecha just like in his japanese animes. this is the dude that also put the giant radar dish weak point on rex for the exact same reason

>>383845402
This would be way cooler if there was an infidel in the car.

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Has nobody even played MGS here? The legs are for advanced mobility, to traverse where wheels or treads wouldn't be viable. They explained this.

That's it. That's the magic answer

>>383852969
but why does it need to move?

>>383853513
Because it's not just a platform to launch nukes you dolt. It's a bipedal tank. It has various other armaments and massive amounts of armor that make it an absolute terror on the battlefield.

This is not a hard conclusion to come to, use your heads people.

>>383853887
>that make it an absolute terror on the battlefield
that make it a huge target on the battlefield*

>>383844632
I know it's a meme at this point, to say Metal Gears aren't feasible and they just ignore it. But they say a few times in the series that any Metal Gear would be a sitting duck without support. Hell, in MGS2 they outright say that Arsenal Gear (which is a Metal Gear, even if it's not a bipedal tank) wouldn't last a week without a lot of air and sea support.

In Peace Walker, you can send Metal Gear ZEKE into missions, and unless you pair it with infantry and vehicles, it will inevitably lose against helicopters and tanks.

>>383846060
>>383846225
>>383846406
It probably made sense in Japanese.

>>383845431
This. What do you think the pedals are for in your car you retards?

>>383842921
You want some realistic military reason for it?

It's so that it can use the rail gun from an elevated position free of obstructions like trees and further aids it's usage from higher positions like large hills or mountains.

Rail Gun was additionally designed to deliver nuclear payloads from massive distances in a straight line and Rex was the only mobile land bipedal tank that could get it into ideal positions.

Rex was more likely built around the rail gun and not the other way around. The giant radar dome on the other side reinforces the idea.

Treat it like a nuclear submarine on land with the additional ability that whatever nuke it launches cannot be stopped by any conventional means.

because in the future weapons of war will have bipedal legs powered with bio-mechanical muscles

it only makes sense, why not perpetuate our organic shortcomings?

>>383854885
>It's so that it can use the rail gun from an elevated position free of obstructions like trees and further aids it's usage from higher positions like large hills or mountains.

They could just make a really tall tank :^)

>>383854990
Then you just have that machine from Fern Gully.

>>383842921
Better yet, why did the Rex cross the street?

>>383855471
To defeat the Ray on the other side.

>>383845619
>Rex
>ICBM

>>383844632
absolutely not, mechs in general are fucking retarded

>hey lets create a giant robot suit and have one person pilot it
>never mind that modern tanks have separate people for driving, manning the guns, loading ammo, and spotting I'm sure one person can do all that at the same time

>>383856176
>he doesn't want to pilot his giant war engine of destruction alone
Literally a cuckold mentality.

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>>383856176
sharing is for losers

>>383856176
What kind of mechs manually load their ammo? As for the rest of that shit, jet/drone pilots do all of those too, sometimes alone.

>>383855798
>Inter-Continental
>Ballistic Missile

That's literally what the nuke REX carries is. Only difference is no heat signature.

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>>383854990

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>>383854990

>>383852139
>shooting the gigantic radome forces the cockpit to open.
No it doesn't. You can't see your targets without the radome unless you open the cockpit. Bit of a difference.

>>383853887
I'm pretty sure the bipedal system along with the rail gun were so that an undetectable nuke could be set up and launched from anywere.

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>>383842921
Because fuck the Shagohod

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Why was this fucker a million times more advanced than the Metal Gear developed 20 years later with US govt backing?

>>383857513
>>383857284
>>383854990
>Go over a hill
>Fall over
Tnx 4 playing

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>>383858589
In Brigador's defense, the planet which produces those has canonically pretty flat relief, and those were build to project power over capital megacity districts.

>>383858761
Well it looks stupid.

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>>383859135
Stupidly cool, you mean.

Anyway, there are some small tanks in the game as well.

>>383859267
No anon I mean stupidly stupid
But that ones looks better

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>>383859327
Here's the full list of vehicles, like half of them are playable.

>>383846406
>Granin was a drunk.

I'm pretty sure he was drunk when he came up with the design for Metal Gear as well. He must have done something to warrant people following it without question, like how no one questioned Lucas with the Prequels.

>>383856864
It's technically a bomb. Missile implies it has any rocket propulsor. The game makes it a big deal that it's no ordinary weapon that needs new nomenclatures.

>>383844153
Walking

>>383858478
It was shota powered.

>>383842921
Cuz he can wear nice shoes like his creator!

>>383848335
Thing is why ray is a MG if he cant launch nukes?

>>383861787
is an anti metal gear

>>383861787
They LITERALLY tell you its an anti metal gear.

>>383861787
It's an anti-metal gear.
Also it's made to fight REX knockoffs, not the real thing. Its strategy consisted of ganging up on the REX knockoff with 2 or 3 RAYs at once.

>>383858478

It's not. It never worked, and just looked cool only. Functional equivalent of one of those junkyard robots you can see at a fair.

The only time it moved around was when a hyper powerful psychic was willing it to.

>>383858478
HIS HEAD IS TOO BIG

>>383844153
Do you particularly enjoy wheelchairs, by any chance?

>>383862264
> Also it's made to fight REX knockoffs, not the real thing.

Otacon the lead designer acknowledges of REX it as a "REX killer"

> Its strategy consisted of ganging up on the REX knockoff with 2 or 3 RAYs at once.

was never really stated

>>383858478
Thicc

>>383842921
Sex appeal, if it has legs it has an ass, if it has an ass... You can probably fuck it.

>>383852139
Liquid opened the cockpit because he couldn't see anything without the radome. The cockpit is completely sealed, after all.

>>383858478
It was nowhere near operational status, they tell it to you in the game. It only worked because the kid moved it with his powers.

>>383856864
A modern ICBM weighs upwards of 10 tons. The ICBMs at the time of MGS3 weighed at least 130 tons, that's why they needed the Shagohod and the airplane strip to "throw" them.

>>383848949
They outsourced the design to the Japanese if I recall correctly.

>>383862065
>>383862117
>>383862264
Why do they need to make another giant robot just to fight Rex when a single man with Stinger can destroy it?

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>>383852119
>50 years.
You mean Extinction by type 2 diabetis?

>>383863440
1) Snake fought it inside a hangar
2) Liquid couldn't just fire the railgun at Snake
3) REX's greatest strength was firing a nuke from anywhere totally undetected by detection systems worldwide - if someone knew where it was, its purpose would be totally defeated
4) Snake had the help of REX's creator
5) He didn't really destroy REX, only ejected its pilot

Like someone said above, a Metal Gear isn't an invincible battle robot. Without support, it will eventually succumb to conventional weapons, like artillery and bombs. REX's greatest strength was firing its nuke without being detected. REX is detected, anyone can go and destroy it (at a great cost).

>>383849658
>things like tanks are only good on flat land
anon please

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>>383845954
>Why did the Metal Gear cross the road?

Because it was following the chicken.

>>383844153
>t.fish

Metal Gear was never about fighting in direct combat. It was about being able to launch a nuclear strike from anywhere in the world.

The legs were to facilitate that, by allowing it to navigate terrain that would impede other vehicles.

>>383863440
>Why do they need to make another giant robot just to fight Rex when a single man with Stinger can destroy it?

You also need a cyborg ninja on a redemption arc.

>>383857665
>>383862769
oh fair enough, still, that's a pretty huge flaw, and what's worse is that it's intentional because they hired a weeb to design it.

>>383842921
To make it faster and more mobile than traditional tanks. Rex can move surprisingly fast and should be able to outrun most ground based opposition, which is important for what is meant to be a mobile nuclear missile platform.

>>383851716
Not before it launches, and even then you'd have to be looking in the general area. You'd have to be lucky to spot such a specific target out of everything else on the entire planet. After the fact, you could look over recorded footage but by then the nuke already landed and blew shit up.

The real fact of the matter is that it's extremely impractical for Metal Gear to exist because the amount of force required for just one of those legs to lift that body is massive. Don't even bother taking into account trying to keep it balanced, fuel requirements, building costs, and so on. It's also hilarious how one man is able to pilot a Metal Gear while today's modern tanks still require a team of soldiers to do everything from driving to spotting to loading a shell to firing - if tanks could be driven by one guy, we'd be seeing a lot more of them. I'm just glad that fantasy is a lot scarier than reality.

>>383861787
"Metal Gear" doesn't mean "a robot that launches nukes." All Metal Gears feature the property of disrupting or upending the traditional MAD nuclear-weapon system of world dominance. Metal Gear Rays were the ground-level enforcers of Arsenal Gear's system of controlling the world via information, culminating in the control of the world via SOP-linked mercenaries in MGS4.

>>383862769
>they needed the Shagohod and the airplane strip to "throw" them
This is still the most clever idea I've heard of for stealthily launching missiles. It's completely absurd since the precision required is fucking retarded levels of mathematical equations and if you want to throw in a different direction then you'd need to pave another airstrip, but it might technically be possible? The speed and weight required to pull off the launch might be far too expensive to make it practical at all but technically, it seems like it could be done.

>>383867261
That sounds good but it's muddled when Otacon specifically tells Old Snake that Gekkos aren't metal gears because they don't carry nukes. It does throw the whole thing into disarray though because Rays don't carry nukes either, but at least they were specifically designed to counter other Metal Gears so, in a way, they earn the name there.

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>>383856843
Planes don't need loaders because they don't fire the kind of rounds tanks do and in such large quantities. Go ahead, try to fit like 50 105mm shells onto a plane and have 1 guy do everything. Unless you're telling me your mecha is going to fire 20/30mms, you know stuff that can't even punch through modern tank armor?
Tanks also need gunners where planes don't because movement of the vehicle and gun are done independently, whereas in planes the guns are either fixed or missiles with lock on systems where a computer aims for them. And this is just for fighters by the way, many bombers have more than 1 pilot.
More planes are having electronics and the like where multiple people are needed now anyway, so the whole 1 pilot thing only limits the effectiveness of mecha when they're sent up against something where there's multiple guys doing their own role, making them much more efficient.

>>383844972
intimidation can work wonders, it also looks cool as fuck

>>383858589
don't you mean

tanks 4 playing

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>>383845237
Don't hate on based treads.

>>383845237
>>383848180
>>383848752
>>383847390
>opinions

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>>383842921
Because fighting a mechanical dinosaur is awesome

>>383842921
Real talk though, if the point of the metal gear was to be able to launch a nuke from anywhere, wouldn't have been more practical to make it a naval vessel instead so it can fire the nukes from international waters instead of having to somehow get through a a foreign country's border security so it can waddle around like an idiot on its retard mecha legs before firing?

>>383863440
Solid didn't destroy REX though.
He was barely able to do enough damage with the help of Grey Fox to briefly disable it.
REX was still fully functional after years of neglect and still take down RAY which was designed to fight REX.
A year without driving and maintaining a car could ruin a car, the military spends hundreds of millions just to maintain machines so no, Solid did not destroy REX.

>>383844632
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ep2PH3_oz8

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>>383869172
REX is able to launch a nuke from Shadow Moses to China and Russia.

>>383869545
>REX was still fully functional after years of neglect and still take down RAY which was designed to fight REX.
leave it to an otaku to future proof a walking nuke launcher

>>383869753
With a fucking direct fire railgun? Who the actual fuck thought this even made the slightest bit of sense?

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>>383869178
This.

>>383869792
Funniest part is that the cockpit should've been completely destroyed since Solid had to fire many stingers at Liquid

>>383846703
>in mountains it would tip over quickly due to it's elevated center of gravity

Rex is explicitly designed so that "center of gravity" is a non-issue. The legs are fucking huge, with an extremely wide stance and can make 4 points of contact with the surface by extending it's heels. That's not even mentioning the claws and being strong enough to just smash the surface and create a foothold if one doesn't exist.

>>383847039
If the distance to that location is covered with rocks and mud, you lose every single time.

>>383844972
Why do turban heads shit themselves when they hear a brrrrrt? For 500 bob

>>383849307
But Rex uses the Railgun to fire an untrackable nuke with no heat signature.

>>383850094
But the legs make up over 50% of its mass. They are fucking huge to offset any gravitational stress caused by the cab or weapon systems.

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>>383870016
>Building a nuke that can survive 500,000+G being shot out of a ~10m railgun to suborbital velocity and not be incinerated by atmospheric drag

That's even more amazing then a giant walking robot.

>>383870280
That bit really got me thinking, do you think Liquid wanted to repair REX to add it to Outer Heaven's arsenal? He was probably constrained by time so he just ripped off the railgun and poped it in OH

>>383869602
Jesus this voice acting. I love Mgs3 but woah

>>383846060
Artillery has a long range, but is limited in movement by the type of terrain and design of the vehicle, infantry can move almost anywhere courtesy of their own two legs, but is limited in range. Metal Gear tries to combine the best of both.

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>>383872321
A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR

>>383851494
I still find it funny that out of all the metal gears in the games, the shagohod is the one that has the greatest chance to actually work in real life
Even then, its still very impracticable and unrealistic

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A metal gear makes sense in a world where point defense systems are advanced to the point where they render long range missiles ineffective as a long range delivery system. In a wold with working railguns, this isn't hard to imagine, as the railguns can be used as a missile defense countermeasure.

In this kind of scenario, you'd need to get your hurt in before anybody can see you shoot. To do that you need a bigassed gun (probably a railgun) to shoot a bigassed payload really fucking fast.

So whats the best way to do this?

Well, you could stick your bigassed gun on a boat. Bad idea - see modern battleships. Plus, everybody would see you coming before you get in range.

You could put your bigassed gun on a submarine. Much better idea, but your range is much more limited than a missile, so you have no way to reach deep inland.

You could put your bigassed gun on a bigassed treaded tractor a-la a Paladin. Problem is, said bigassed railgun will create a shitton of recoil, so whatever you stick it on needs to be really big. A really big tank-like will be impeded by harsh terrain. Think trying to move around the Afghani mountain ranges in a fucking frontloader. You could put feet on the motherfucker, but that takes time to set up and take down, and you need a level spot.

Enter the situational usefulness of a Metal Gear. Assuming some genius finds a way to make the legs work, Metal Gear strolls the fuck up a mountain all stealth-like, not only going taking routes/angles/positions you don't expect, but increasing its effective range at elevation. It then jams a nuclear round into your anus before your point defense systems can react.