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A concept piece for my co-op portfolio at college. Has taken waaaay longer to complete than I wanted it too, but I'm still very slow when it comes to digital paint.
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~prof-ohmgee Apr 2, 2013
Very cool.
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~omegaomegacyborg Mar 25, 2013
this kinda reminds me of doom
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~Zerahoc Mar 26, 2013
I did play the Doom BFG edition while I was doing this, so I guess some of that got channelled in. They had really cool helmets.
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~omegaomegacyborg Mar 26, 2013
yeah, if they ever made a doom movie that wasn't terrible, this should be the armor
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~Zerahoc Mar 27, 2013
heh, thanks.
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Mood: Joy ~Thanatosstorm Mar 17, 2013
This... is perfect for the stuff I wanted for the setting I had in mind... or at least one of the closest possibilities out of a bunch of great concepts. Very well done, sir. You have my favorite.
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~Zerahoc Mar 17, 2013
why thank you, it is most appreciated. It was a fun suit to design, to try and get something that has a unique look about it.
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~Thanatosstorm Mar 18, 2013
You succeeded. I'm not so much concerned about the amount of armor that's on it, since the setting that I am deriving already presupposes that personal combat weapons have evolved from slugthrowers to personal directed-energy weapons (fancy name for lasers), and Gauss weapons. With that sort of firepower, this would probably fall into my classification as Security or Marshal armor... designed to soak up a little bit of damage, but not a whole lot. But it isn't as heavy or bulky as Vanguard or Sentinel armor, thus it doesn't impair mobility like the heavier classes do. Even those heavier armor suits don't stop Gauss weapons fully... more like redirect the round away from any vital organs and keep the soldier in the fight with stimpacks, adrenaline and serotonin.
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~Zerahoc Mar 18, 2013
Yeah, weapon advances tend to put armour to shame. Most of the suits I design for this story/world aim for modularity, allowing the armour plates to be removed as needed. Since firearms are still projectile-based, plating has its uses. Not to mention in hand-to-hand combat with other powersuits, cyborgs, and robots.
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~Thanatosstorm Mar 18, 2013
Definitely along similar thought processes here. Though I will say that in certain cases (primarily armored vehicles) armor does have its uses.

In truth, before firearms, you could say that armor and bladed weaponry often ran in a tight race between one another.

Some folks might question whether body armor is even necessary, but I know for a fact that it's saved thousands of lives overseas, so much so that it's well worth the weight (even if you do have to sweat like a pig to wear it).
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