Republic Commando, Visual Dictionary Style

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-06-10 02:34am

Link

The only thing I find annoying is the quaint spot-lamp.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-06-10 02:42am

Very good. Now if we could only see a screenshot of the HUD clone troopers use.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-06-10 02:46am

You mean like those that have been out for 8-10 months?

McC · Post by **McC** » 2004-06-10 01:11pm

Since Spanky decided to be useless, here you go, Evilcat:

Commandos over some dead Geonosians
Commandos in a hangar bay
Commandos attacked from above
Snipervision?
Commandos in the jungle
Commandos caught in fire/explosion

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-06-10 01:50pm

My apologies. I knew that they existed, but didn't know where to look (most of the pictures I have seen were from a few gaming magazine issues).

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-06-10 02:59pm

Now only if your armor can come in colors other than bone-white...

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-06-10 03:09pm

It looks like they did a "HALO Eye for the StarWars Guy" thing there. Pretty cool stuff. Like IP said, now they just need to apply some camo spray paint.

Tasoth · Post by **Tasoth** » 2004-06-10 07:14pm

does the ingame screen remind anyone else of Metroid Prime?

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-06-11 03:20am

Illuminatus Primus wrote:Now only if your armor can come in colors other than bone-white...

Camoflouge armor might not be very usualful due to sensor capabilities. Droids could use infrared to see them.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-06-11 03:28am

evilcat4000 wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote:Now only if your armor can come in colors other than bone-white...
Camoflouge armor might not be very usualful due to sensor capabilities. Droids could use infrared to see them.

And they could see them anyway without it.

Of course, they probably have countermeasures against such obvious detection methods...

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-06-11 04:06am

I doubt they could think up an effective countermeasure to being seen by droid eyes, really.

It's probably the legacy of the Clone War that Stormtroopers are dressed so. With every droid probably having detection systems able to see through something so rudimentary as camoflage, why not white?

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2004-06-11 08:44am

I find the "Katarn-class commando armor" interesting... a Dark Forces reference? (And if so, is Kyle Katarn's armor in the original Dark Forces an old chestplate from a Katarn-class commando armor suit?

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McC · Post by **McC** » 2004-06-11 08:49am

A Katarn is a type of large wolf, IIRC.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2004-06-11 11:15am

evilcat4000 wrote:
Illuminatus Primus wrote:Now only if your armor can come in colors other than bone-white...
Camoflouge armor might not be very usualful due to sensor capabilities. Droids could use infrared to see them.

Ok? So fucking what--some of their enemies would find them harder to see, which is the whole fucking point.

What, you thought real life camo was a stealth suit?

Vympel: More fighting is being done by local volunteers and stuff than anything else. At least logistics--the pure numbers--would argue for that.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2004-06-11 03:53pm

At the very least you'd think the Republic/Empire could afford to at least give their squads a few cans of primer in a dull color and some spray paint before a mission.

Crazedwraith · Post by **Crazedwraith** » 2004-06-11 04:57pm

Why is pre-New Rep commanda armour called Katarn-class? Was Kyle named after the armour or something?

McC · Post by **McC** » 2004-06-11 05:02pm

Crazed, please look up a few posts.

McC wrote:A Katarn is a type of large wolf, IIRC.

That's like asking if something that's called a "Wolf-class" whatever was named after "Wilbur Wolf" or some such. It was named after the animal. Kyle Katarn's last name like also descends from the name of the animal.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-06-12 03:30am

Illuminatus Primus wrote: Vympel: More fighting is being done by local volunteers and stuff than anything else. At least logistics--the pure numbers--would argue for that.

On which side?

Axis Kast · Post by **Axis Kast** » 2004-06-12 11:09am

Vympel - a lot of the Seperatist planets seem to have considerable numbers of local levees (i.e the Shatterpoint planet and many of those in the "Insider" news pages).

Also note that the Commando armor does not feature a utility belt of any sort. Interesting.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-06-12 11:31am

Axis Kast wrote:Vympel - a lot of the Seperatist planets seem to have considerable numbers of local levees (i.e the Shatterpoint planet and many of those in the "Insider" news pages).

Good point. I haven't read any prequel EU.

Also note that the Commando armor does not feature a utility belt of any sort. Interesting.

Anything they need must be in the Survival Pack. Putting ammunition back there is just plain bad design, however.

FTeik · Post by **FTeik** » 2004-06-12 03:04pm

Did anybody notice, what is said about their weapon?

The DC-17?

Icehawk · Post by **Icehawk** » 2004-06-12 03:13pm

You can't read it?

"DC17M

The DC-17m combat rifle supplants the formiddible DC-15 rifle used by standard clone troopers. Light-weight design and withering firepower allows for close quarters combat while the formiddible chassis quickly transforms the DC-17m into a sniper rifle or an anti armor gun"

FTeik · Post by **FTeik** » 2004-06-12 05:05pm

Icehawk wrote:You can't read it?

"DC17M

The DC-17m combat rifle supplants the formiddible DC-15 rifle used by standard clone troopers. Light-weight design and withering firepower allows for close quarters combat while the formiddible chassis quickly transforms the DC-17m into a sniper rifle or an anti armor gun"

I can read it.

What i was curios about is, if anybody besides me thinks it worth mentioning, that the DC-17m can be transformed into a sniper-rifle or an anti-armor-gun (what does anti-armor mean? enough power to destroy tanks?)

YT300000 · Post by **YT300000** » 2004-06-12 06:07pm

FTeik wrote:(what does anti-armor mean? enough power to destroy tanks?)

Basically, yes.

Icehawk · Post by **Icehawk** » 2004-06-12 08:37pm

what does anti-armor mean? enough power to destroy tanks

In real life, anti armor rifles are used for taking out light armor vehicles like troop carriers and Humvees.

Star Wars blaster tech might allow them to charge up the gun to get a few extreme high power shots off to knock out a light hover tank or a large battle droid.