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Thread: Friday Feature January 21st – Combat Upgrade New Faction Armor
But the Rebel armour looks weird, but what can you expect when you never see any full body armour in the Films, just helmets. I don't like the Rebel Armour, but I expect it will grow on me. If rebels don't like it they don't have to wear it, and I can kill them easier.
The Rebel Battle Armour looks Japanese in Design
The Rebel Assault Armour looks like a robot
The Imperial Assault Armour looks medieval with the extra Plating on the Shoulder and the Helmet shape... and I like it.
DeQuosaek wrote:
Ok, I guess if they give the Shock Trooper Armor six pack abs you'd be happier?
silversaber wrote:
LOL yea, if you look closely enough, you can see anything you want to see.
But you have to admit that the new Reb armor looks a heck of alot better than the ST armor.
Tell me, is this really appropriate for a rag-tag always on the move Rebellion Army armor with far less resources than the Empire?
No.
I just want SOME sembelence to Starwars in the game.
And not just on the Imp side.
shadowviper069 wrote:
What was seen in the first movie was not armor, the helmets are more like safety gear. The imps had similar helmets. If you look at military flight deck crew they all wear helmets, is this armor NOO. Pilots wear helmets is that armor no its safety gear.
Yes, but they could have taken the basic look of that outfit, slapped a few armor plates on the chest, legs and arms, and presto: Instant Star Warsyrebel armor.
Besides, one could argue that the Corvette outfit is just as much armor as the current rebel Marine Armor. That's basically just a greenish jumpsuit with a few pieces of metal here and there...
Vicotnik wrote:
Yes, but they could have taken the basic look of that outfit, slapped a few armor plates on the chest, legs and arms, and presto: Instant Star Warsyrebel armor.
Besides, one could argue that the Corvette outfit is just as much armor as the current rebel Marine Armor. That's basically just a greenish jumpsuit with a few pieces of metal here and there...
They also could have taken the Imperial uniforms and slapped on armor plating, but you know what? That would just look dumb. The same goes for doing that for the Rebels.
(in my opinion)
DeQuosaek wrote:
They also could have taken the Imperial uniforms and slapped on armor plating, but you know what? That would just look dumb. The same goes for doing that for the Rebels.
(in my opinion)
That's not really the same, I would think. The imperial uniforms where just that: Uniforms.
However, the rebel outfits we see in the movies are more similar to actual fieldwear, the Corvette trooper outfit in particular. Slap some armor plating on that, and it would look like proper rebel armor.
On the imperial side the outfitswhich mostly resembles the the rebelones in this respect is the outfits worn by the imperial troopers aboard the Death Star (the "mushroom heads"). Slap some armor plating on that, and it would look like proper"Star Warsy" Imperial armor. Thing is though: That's not needed, since we all know that proper imperial armor is already quite avaliable. And for that matter, the new assault armor for the Imps actually looks like proper imperial armor.
Vicotnik wrote:
DeQuosaek wrote:
They also could have taken the Imperial uniforms and slapped on armor plating, but you know what? That would just look dumb. The same goes for doing that for the Rebels.
(in my opinion)
That's not really the same, I would think. The imperial uniforms where just that: Uniforms.
However, the rebel outfits we see in the movies are more similar to actual fieldwear, the Corvette trooper outfit in particular. Slap some armor plating on that, and it would look like proper rebel armor.
On the imperial side the outfitswhich mostly resembles the the rebelones in this respect is the outfits worn by the imperial troopers aboard the Death Star (the "mushroom heads"). Slap some armor plating on that, and it would look like proper"Star Warsy" Imperial armor. Thing is though: That's not needed, since we all know that proper imperial armor is already quite avaliable. And for that matter, the new assault armor for the Imps actually looks like proper imperial armor.
Another point in this whole situation is this: Even today we have body armor that can be worn under clothing. With the tech level of the Star Wars universe, there's no reason why those ANH Rebel uniforms couldn't be concealing highly effectivearmor.
Stormtroopers could probably have a very effective form of protection that also looked like a simple fabric uniform, except for the fact that the Empire WANTS its troops to have an intimidating appearance... hence the "hard-shell" look.
Therefore, the devs could give us the ANH/ESB/ROTJ Rebel uniforms and set them up with armor prots. Rebels are wearing the armor UNDER the clothing, whereas the Empire wears it in full view for the intimidation factor.
Message Edited by RontoMike on 01-23-2005 06:07 PM
DirkTheDaring wrote:
Isn't anyone upset that composite armor isn't Star Warsy? Where have you all been for the last year and a half? Why not complain about it too?
They could have steel plating (or some other high tech material) surgically implanted under their skin too, but that's just silly. I think the idea of bullet proof vests under the Rebel Trooper uniforms is just as silly. Why should the armor look just like the 'flight deck' uniforms?