News: The MMO Report - MAX Units Revealed! - Page 10

Sabrak · 2012-05-25, 10:28 AM

Damn the TR MAX sure looks frightening. It perfectly suits the "military tyrrany" thing!

NC MAX is awesome, very utilitarian, and it really looks like a guy shielded in a big armor.

VS MAX...? It looks like a Power Rangers' nemesis. Suits them.

Kipper · 2012-05-25, 10:39 AM

I can't keep up with this thread, but just my 2p on the MAXs.....

OMGWTFHolycrap!

The VS one looks like some sort of purple cockroach though (but in a good way), can't wait to stomp all over it with the TR one

kaffis · 2012-05-25, 10:54 AM

As for the big protrusions on the TR MAX's back -- it's the same as the big glowing sections on the NC and VS shoulders, only with more prominent shielding.

It's pretty clear it's either an exhaust for the power source, or a heatsink for same.

I like the female light assaults shown, and eagerly await some more armor types. I do have to say, however, that the NC helmet is clearly the most flattering for the female face. The TR's rounded edges accentuate the chest better, though.

Also, I'm in love with the NC MAX. I'm pretty sure that's a sawed-off PS1 Vanguard cannon on his right arm.

EVILoHOMER · 2012-05-25, 11:00 AM

I like the TR and NC ones but the Vanu one looks horrible.

psychobilly · 2012-05-25, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by CutterJohn

Still not 100% sold on the VS max. Guns, boots, and shoulderpads are all proportionally too big for the frame, imo. Either tone them down, or beef up the rest of the unit.

NC: Very nice.

TR: By far the best designed imo.

I'm in agreement with this... for the VS I would just enlarge the main frame slightly to catch up with the boots, shoulders and guns. I will be playing a lot of VS MAX either way.

Jonny · 2012-05-25, 11:10 AM

The shoulder pads for the VS seem a little odd, just chunky slabs of metal. I think this suit needs to look a little less power rangers.

TR and especially NC suits are incredible!

bjorntju1 · 2012-05-25, 11:21 AM

Dat NC max :O

Shogun · 2012-05-25, 11:45 AM

wow!

the progress on the max design is awesome! now i think all three maxes look great! the vs max looked very stupid from concept art to the work in progress tweets(with that silly oversized elven wings), but the final product looks good! it´s great to see how the things evolve!

the art team is really worth their water! as every team working on ps2.
thanks for showing off so much of the progress! other games never release most of the early design stuff, but you got the balls to show us things from the beginning! even things that were totally redesigned several times! thank you very much!

Gonefshn · 2012-05-25, 12:40 PM

I love all three so much! Best stuff I have seen so far!

Honestly these are incredible.

Bzak · 2012-05-25, 01:09 PM

Im alittle worried maxs are just going to be midget bfrs

Bags · 2012-05-25, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by Bzak

Im alittle worried maxs are just going to be midget bfrs

As long as they don't have ridiculous self regenerating shields, the ability to fly, really strong weapons, and a shit ton of health, I don't think you'll have to worry about that~

Troscus · 2012-05-25, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by Immigrant

After looking at all the pics I'm getting a feeling that all maxes will fly to some extent and those things on their back are jet-packs. Since now obviously all the MAXes will have dual weapons (what was TR only feature in PS1) it wouldn't be surprising that all of them had limited vertical liftoff ability (what was limited to VS in PS1).

That would make tons of sense, since in TB's video you see a TR MAX shielding.