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PoptartsNinja posted:I want to give the expansion the full three months; but we may be seeing everyone's favorite Romulan again. You should probably think about teaming up with Vice Admiral Steiner. He brings the thunder.
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Trundel posted:You guys should only try to melee the Behemoth if you want the movie to completely and utterly fail as you clearly start to flail at cloth. I'm not saying don't do it, because it would be hilarious to see Hogarth lose his poo poo. They can totally fix it in post. Actually I love the image of the lance moving in to punch the Behemoth and becoming trapped under a giant cloth.
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If there isn't a DFA in this movie I can't feel good about releasing it to the public.
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Ice Fist posted:If there isn't a DFA in this movie I can't feel good about releasing it to the public. Nobody has jump jets except the Panther
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PoptartsNinja posted:Nobody has jump jets except the Panther That didn't stop the Behemoth from showing up. I suppose the Atlas II could climb the hill and then fall onto the Dragon this turn (fix it in post!), but I do think that crossing the streams should be the main event at this point.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Nobody has jump jets except the Panther Bah, this is a movie. Hell, they're already deliberatly confusing 'light mech' with 'heavy mech' what's to stop them from putting secret jump jets on an awesome.  Bobbin Threadbare posted:but I do think that crossing the streams should be the main event at this point. Ugh, fair enough.
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We'll see what happens when the Banshee activates Berserk Mode!
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PoptartsNinja posted:We'll see what happens when the Banshee activates Berserk Mode! Crap, and I was trying (rather poorly, I must admit) to keep that as a surprise. No Berserk Mode this turn, I think, but more moving up to Cross the Streams. Let's hope it goes better this time. Orders in. GhostStalker fucked around with this message at 21:49 on Sep 29, 2015 |
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Welp, time to crack-open Tac Ops. I wasn't expecting to have to use it because I figured y'guys realized the mission would end if you actually kill one of the OpForce pilots. Time to break out the optional ejection rules and see if the ejection system worked!
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PoptartsNinja posted:Welp, time to crack-open Tac Ops. I wasn't expecting to have to use it because I figured y'guys realized the mission would end if you actually kill one of the OpForce pilots. Time to see if the ejection system works! Hahaha! Beautiful! Nicely done killing a stuntman.
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Come on, it's a non-democratic state making war-time propaganda, there's no way they can't hush that up. If anything it might inspire some Crow-like legends about how the footage of the pilot getting killed was totally used in the final cut of the film.
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Goddammit we don't have TIME to process their life insurance! Much less fighting off the people from Health and Safety again. No justice footing the stuntmen! Or facepunching them either! For god's sake, do you want to get sued? Again?! Which one of you badgers forgot this is supposed to be a movie shoot? Malachite, is this your doing! It was wasn't it. I've neglected the question marks for a reason. Runa fucked around with this message at 01:12 on Jun 22, 2013 |
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:That didn't stop the Behemoth from showing up. I suppose the Atlas II could climb the hill and then fall onto the Dragon this turn (fix it in post!), but I do think that crossing the streams should be the main event at this point. MACHO MAN ELBOW DROP DO IT!
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Speaking on behalf of Defiance Industries, I'm very glad we ended up not sponsoring. Now I'm worried we got a real Turn Off the Dark on our hands.
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Right, so, this update is going to require a little more planning than I'd previously anticipated. I'm going to need some extra time to spin this.
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Ah poo poo, this can't be good (for the poor stuntman).
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Well, wait. Wouldn't a movie like this use either simulators to "puppet" the mechs for the fight, with closeups and the "battle damaged" Gundam-esque discussions being done as a different set of shots? I mean, I don't think that a tank in a WW2 movie has any stuntmen in it when it goes kablooey.
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Calax posted:Well, wait. You aren't thinking like a Lyran.
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Calax posted:Well, wait.
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Calax posted:Wouldn't a movie like this use either simulators to "puppet" the mechs for the fight, with closeups and the "battle damaged" Gundam-esque discussions being done as a different set of shots? That's mentioned. Hogarth doesn't think simulators are realistic enough (probably because he loses in them), so he uses real `Mechs in his movies. It's not like BattleTech has CGI.
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I can only assume Hogarth ran and kicked the poor Dragon in the head since the ranged attacks are all pyrotechnics rather than live fire. Which reminds me. Didn't the Black Thorns physically assault Wolf's Dragoons during a similarly simulated combat exercise?
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I will laugh heartily if Skye gets their hands on the actual battle footage and release their own propaganda film about how the Archon and the Hogarth deliberately play with young mechwarrior lives for their amusement. :edit: hahaha, 'the Hogarth'.
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T.G. Xarbala posted:I can only assume Hogarth ran and kicked the poor Dragon in the head since the ranged attacks are all pyrotechnics rather than live fire. Which reminds me. Didn't the Black Thorns physically assault Wolf's Dragoons during a similarly simulated combat exercise? ...Yes. Yes, they did. 
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PoptartsNinja posted:That's mentioned. Hogarth doesn't think simulators are realistic enough (probably because he loses in them), so he uses real `Mechs in his movies. It's not like BattleTech has CGI. Uh, I'm pretty sure we learned from the Cartoon that CGI is called Enhanced Imaging in the 31st Century and only the Clans have it.
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Scenario continues, except the stuntmen mutiny and it becomes an ACTUAL battle. New objective? Keep them from murdering Hogarth. Behemoth is a mockup so it's actually harmless in a real fight. Only physical attacks do real damage. All "damage" inflicted so far by special effects is restored. Okay probably not, but it makes me laugh. Edit: VVV Oh right, yeah. Boy does that sound wasteful and needlessly dangerous! Oh, Hogarth! Dolash fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Jun 22, 2013 |
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Dolash posted:Scenario continues, except the stuntmen mutiny and it becomes an ACTUAL battle. New objective? Keep them from murdering Hogarth. Behemoth is a mockup so it's actually harmless in a real fight. Only physical attacks do real damage. All "damage" inflicted so far by special effects is restored.
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Dolash posted:Scenario continues, except the stuntmen mutiny and it becomes an ACTUAL battle. New objective? Keep them from murdering Hogarth. Behemoth is a mockup so it's actually harmless in a real fight. Only physical attacks do real damage. All "damage" inflicted so far by special effects is restored. Yeah, to be perfectly frank, there's a standard chance of death clause in stuntman contracts. I'm not sure if using footage of someone dying is legal, but stuntpeople are aware they are risking life and limb while performing stunts.
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Yeah, to be perfectly frank, there's a standard chance of death clause in stuntman contracts. These are Nagelring cadets.
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This discussion raises a good point though. Are the Humane Society's auditing techniques lostech? Or have we just lost the advances made beyond the early 20th century's animal husbandry standards?
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PoptartsNinja posted:These are Nagelring cadets. "Training accident." So long as none of them have a relative whose last name is Steiner, the production should be okay. Although the situation does remind me of a video about a crazy director I saw recently. Bobbin Threadbare fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jun 22, 2013 |
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:"Training accident." So long as none of them have a relative whose last name is Steiner, the production should be okay. But if his last name is Steiner...
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This is going to be the best show ever. Not the movie, the upcoming negligent homicide trial.
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GenericServices posted:This is going to be the best show ever. "Reports are coming in that Lohengrin officers are pursuing a white Atlas in a low-speed chase. We take you now to the scene..." "My name is A.S. You know who I am, God dammit! I got Hogarth in the car!"
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:"Reports are coming in that Lohengrin officers are pursuing a white Atlas in a low-speed chase. We take you now to the scene..." High speed chase, The police are all in urbanmechs and other 2/3s.
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Hmm, hey guys! I just remembered a fervoured wish of mine for this thread! Someone needs to pick up a mech leg/light mech and use it as a club against the Behemoth! Also a complete and random question because I'm currently building a character for another system entirely, but has Battletech ever had any kind of Mech net? Like combat netting designed to cover and trip up mechs that can be thrown or fired from a ballistic hardpoint? I ask because I thought of it and immediately started laughing, hoping that it might have happened. Trundel fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Jun 22, 2013 |
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Yeah, to be perfectly frank, there's a standard chance of death clause in stuntman contracts. I'm not sure if using footage of someone dying is legal, but stuntpeople are aware they are risking life and limb while performing stunts. Drift left! Shoot the Atlas! Get close to the explosion! Kick the Raven! Cut! Too slow!
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