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There's a FPS/tower defense hybrid game I've been playing that lets you build your own outpost for defense. I tried to recreate Fortress Maximus:  Had to make some concessions to actually have enough guns to play the game but I think it turned out pretty well. There's not my much color customization though so I couldn't really get away from grey. Edit: With some shenanigans with the builder (it really doesn't like what I'm doing here) I was able to get the guns on his legs working.  Hyper Inferno fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Apr 28, 2024 |
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That's pretty cool!
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TaurusOxford posted:Impossible. Not only would the other MP Primes not have the engineering to fit into the cavity, MP Ginrai is clearly smaller than them. The only "engineering" I hoped the Optimus would need would be to turn the waist around backwards before turning it into truck mode so the knees can fold the rest of the legs up behind the cab. Most Optimuses let you do this, then I just hoped the cavity would be big enough to let it sit in there.
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for fanmade, it's pretty spot on G1 style. i remember a g1 episode where Megatron was lamenting how ugly the Earth forms were. I think that was when the cons got loving wasted on Energon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR28DoWaR9I
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Apr 29, 2024 14:50
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Sweet! ShowZ actually did get the factory to send me an entire back panel to fix my KOMP Sunstreaker! Part of it was also broken, but in a way where I can easily discard the broken bit and still do the repair to get him 100%.
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May 2, 2024 02:53
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Magmatron came in from BBTS. It’s glorious.
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Joe Fisto posted:Magmatron came in from BBTS. It’s glorious. Post some pics. I'm on the fence but deep down I want it.
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Playing with character ideas (as one does) S1 era of Beast Wars, a Maximal moose triplechanger in the style of B'Boom or Transquito. Third mode is an air defense platform firing Surface to Air Moosiles. (The antlers are his radar!) Normally phlegmatic, doesn't do well with close confrontations. His natural enemy is, of course, the Predacon Wild Weasel.
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May 3, 2024 01:51
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i want new beastformers
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TheDK posted:Post some pics. I'm on the fence but deep down I want it.  
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May 3, 2024 02:46
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He's so angry and weird! I love it. Have you experimented with the
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May 3, 2024 03:04
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I got this guy (and the other two teams but they don't look this good).  He's not perfect. The hand feel on fansprojects' parts is weird. But what an experience.
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May 3, 2024 03:16
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Did it come with the original hands and what can only loosely be called "feet"? Weird feel is still an upgrade. Is that a completely third-party Swindle?
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May 3, 2024 04:31
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It came with absolutely everything from the original releases including the other tank and copter. Both Swindle and Blast Off are completely third-party figures from Fansproject that constitute one massive upgrade kit along with all the improvements to Onslaught and the parts that make Vortex into a Combiner Wars-grade limb.
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May 3, 2024 04:36
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TheDK posted:He's so angry and weird! I love it. Have you experimented with the I haven’t and I’m not sure if I’ll try it. The Dino modes are nice though.
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May 3, 2024 04:40
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DoctorWhat posted:Both Swindle and Blast Off are completely third-party figures I figured, they didn't ring a bell and I remember the Energon combiners doubling up on limb molds. I was really impressed by the Energon combiners back in the day for how well good they were as individual figures, full articulation, not excessively blocky yet still sufficiently sturdy, and the only concessions to the combiner function were a few connectors and a spare head hiding in a compartment. Never really bothered combining them much. I guess figuring out elbows was also a nice trick. Combiner Wars I guess ended up using most of the same tricks but a little bigger and with much better handfeet.
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So free broadcast TV network MeTV is doing an all cartoons spinoff channel called MeTV Toons in collaboration with Warner-Bros Discovery and among their initial slate of shows is Challenge of The Go-Bots in what is probably the first time that show has been aired on English television in at least twenty years(probably closer to thirty but who knows maybe it aired on Boomerang at some point)
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The Energon combiner hands didn’t bother me at all. There’s no reason a combiner should have normal hands; making them all weapons is the way to go. It’s not like the drat things will need to sit at a computer and code C++ or something
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Nodosaur posted:
What happens when the war ends and he needs a job do you ever think about anyone but yourself
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drrockso20 posted:So free broadcast TV network MeTV is doing an all cartoons spinoff channel called MeTV Toons in collaboration with Warner-Bros Discovery and among their initial slate of shows is Challenge of The Go-Bots in what is probably the first time that show has been aired on English television in at least twenty years(probably closer to thirty but who knows maybe it aired on Boomerang at some point) I'll always have a soft spot for Go Bots as they were popular here where I live. They did come out before Transformers and were much more affordable. Leader-1 was a tomcat and you couldn't get any more cool than that at the time. They couldn't compare to Transformers or stand up to it, but they did some good stuff and had a couple cool bots.
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May 4, 2024 22:03
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The Starscream voice actor in this fan reimagining is insanely good: https://youtu.be/I87-sVAVh8c?si=Mfk6uTwt5gZct-Fx
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Nodosaur posted:The Energon combiner hands didn’t bother me at all. There’s no reason a combiner should have normal hands; making them all weapons is the way to go.   The Combiner Wars handfeet also had their share of issues, but I thought they were a much better compromise for needing to pull double-duty.
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Nodosaur posted:The Energon combiner hands didn’t bother me at all. There’s no reason a combiner should have normal hands; making them all weapons is the way to go. How do you expect them to do finger pointing or slam their fists together when they complete their combination if they don't have normal hands? Don't disregard the cool factor.
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May 5, 2024 02:15
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Snapping claws or firing off a laser shot or something like that is cooler
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Combiners probably should be more like mobile artillery or specifically equipped for battle. It's not like (as far as I know) the combined forms have their own lives separate from the individuals that compose them.
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May 5, 2024 03:12
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What if they do and that life is nothing but disconnected moments of terror and violence?
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The IDW Combiner Wars comics felt like a major missed opportunity on that front. Fair amount of homoeroticism with Bruticus but apart from that, very perfunctory with regards to gestalt consciousness.
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DoctorWhat posted:Fair amount of homoeroticism with Bruticus but apart from that possible new thread title.
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Marmaduke! posted:The Starscream voice actor in this fan reimagining is insanely good: Holy poo poo, you were not kidding. I've heard good Starscream impressions over the years, but this one has every bit of Latta's character's voice down to the subtle warble that I just sat in silent awe watching it.
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TealShark posted:Holy poo poo, you were not kidding. I've heard good Starscream impressions over the years, but this one has every bit of Latta's character's voice down to the subtle warble that I just sat in silent awe watching it. I saw the first post and figured "pfft, sure - everytime someone says stuff like this it invariably turns out to be nowhere near", then saw yours and gave it a spin for the hell of it and, er, yeah. If it weren't for the fact Wheeljack sounded pretty off I'd have sworn some necromancer mofo has raised Chris from the grave or something because that *was* Starscream, perfectly. Just nails it absurdly.
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Sentinel Red posted:I saw the first post and figured "pfft, sure - everytime someone says stuff like this it invariably turns out to be nowhere near", then saw yours and gave it a spin for the hell of it and, er, yeah. If it weren't for the fact Wheeljack sounded pretty off I'd have sworn some necromancer mofo has raised Chris from the grave or something because that *was* Starscream, perfectly. Just nails it absurdly. I might have jumped the gun on celebrating the impression: Though I'm not sure if he used it here, he apparently uses retrieval-based voice conversion filters (RVC) in some of his work to shape his voice using existing models, vocoder style. He made a video about is here after taking heat for accusations he was just using machine learning text-to-speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWBLRAgdU08
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I like the G1-accurate approach of just having all the dead season 1/2 characters back, no explanation. Very Sunbow. I also really like their Optimus, I think he sounds more like G1 Optimus than Peter Cullen does nowadays, though whether that's because Peter's older now or just because directors keep having him play grumpy stern Optimus I can't say.
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Arquinsiel posted:What if they do and that life is nothing but disconnected moments of terror and violence? I prefer this idea because combiners being a true gestalt consciousness independent of the individual members is super interesting. Combined forms should have a personality that is weirdly revealing about the team as a whole.
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DoctorWhat posted:The IDW Combiner Wars comics felt like a major missed opportunity on that front. Fair amount of homoeroticism with Bruticus but apart from that, very perfunctory with regards to gestalt consciousness. Transformers: homoeroticism with Bruticus
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I prefer this idea because combiners being a true gestalt consciousness independent of the individual members is super interesting. Combined forms should have a personality that is weirdly revealing about the team as a whole. was it in the cartoon or comics where the Stunticons were always at odds with each other, some outright hating each other, and all of them fearing Motormaster, so their gestalt was horribly janky, compared to Devastator being pretty loving smooth?
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Cowslips Warren posted:was it in the cartoon or comics where the Stunticons were always at odds with each other, some outright hating each other, and all of them fearing Motormaster, so their gestalt was horribly janky, compared to Devastator being pretty loving smooth? Had to be the comics because the cartoons (at least G1) never really went into the psychology of the gestalts.
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TealShark posted:I might have jumped the gun on celebrating the impression: Though I'm not sure if he used it here, he apparently uses retrieval-based voice conversion filters (RVC) in some of his work to shape his voice using existing models, vocoder style. From what he says in his video, he's basically using the same method they used to deepfake Mark Hamill's younger voice onto another actor in the recent Star Wars shows. ...But the difference there is that Hamill was actually on-set and gave his permission for his voice to be used this way. This guy is just stealing the voices of other actors and taking credit for it. And it's not like his performance is essential to the output either. Steve Blum or Tom Kenny or Charlie Adler could probably give performances that blow this guy out of the water, and his only advantage is that he has a specific piece of software. And not only that, the software is actually limiting his performance. Respeecher (the tool they use on Star Wars) and whatever program this guy's using have a difficult time handling anything beyond normal conversation. For example, it can't do extreme character voices. If you were to use Mark Hamill as the training data, you could sound like Luke Skywalker, but you couldn't sound like the Joker. Which means that this guy's Starscream can't scream.
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I did think when watching the video that it was a GOOD Screamer but he was talking pretty deliberately and at a really steady pace. There wasn't much variation.
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Robot Style posted:From what he says in his video, he's basically using the same method they used to deepfake Mark Hamill's younger voice onto another actor in the recent Star Wars shows. Second this.
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I recall that in the IDW comics that the Aerialbots stayed combined as Superion for so long that Superion became their default state and sort of had his own personality. There was also the entire plot with Prowl Devastator.
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