Honestly I'm really liking the launching Dreadnaughts at people idea. If we can get it to work, I don't see why it wouldn't be able to throw entire actors at each other.

Shoulder mounted cannon that fires a drop crate containing a dummy with a rail pistol, grenade launcher, heavy digger, and 2 grenades.

This is my suggestion. I'd do it myself but i'm to lazy to make a sprite.

Dreadnaughckets! Unless you're talking about non-rocket-propelled-Dreadnaughts.

I got one in the works already. It's on my original concept art sheet about this, along with some other weapons I thought about.

Here's a BIG update on the sprites:

Head: Dummy Controller + Helmet Cover:


Torso: Modified Leg Sprite + Gib as attachable Chest Plate:


Above without Chest Plate (Animated):


Arm: Shoulder Guard + Dropship Engine + Fist Attachable:


Rocket Fist: Original Fist + Dropship Engine:


Leg: Shoulder Guard (Flipped) + Leg + Foot:


Composite Image: Mockup V2.00:



I'm chugging along. Still have all the arm extensions to do along with some animations. Enjoy the eye candy.

I'd say make the elbows smaller and the legs longer a bit.
Make it look less like a bunch of scraps put together, make it all around the same hue.

Looks nice though.

You just create an AtomGroup and then make the FootGroup variable in your actor's code point to it. I'm attaching a group I made some time ago. I can tolerate up to about 900 mass, so your robot should have no problem using it. Also, I really liked the sprite update you made, but the dummy simbol on the head still bugs me a little.

Someone should make a map with this as a boss.

New sprites are super sexay!
I like the beefy arms, they really add to the whole badass melee unit image.

I put together a quick jetpack, use it is you wish.
I hope its not too big though.

The new look now makes it look like a giant soldier robot. Now I see it as similar to MPAM's fighting style with this guy dual wielding massive chainguns or stuff like that. It looks more of a soldier than a brute robot now.

Certainly some badass robot coming up there.

I prefer the old fist, the new hand looks pretty open.

For the elbow and knee segments, I suggest you lighten up the outlines a bit. They look a little out of place right now.

What about the head symbol bugs you? I made it more distinct and flipped it to the correct position.

Yeah I can scale down the elbow. I originally had it this way, but I've had a strange goal in mind when doing this, and that was to edit the existing gibs as little as possible, just to see if I could do it. I'll try to make the colors a little more uniform.






That's a neat jetpack. And no it's not too big. If anything it's too small! The jet pack I have it the works was bigger and a little different, but that may work. I'm wondering if I should do a jetpack at all, or make the heels on the legs the point of the jets. I'll see how that turns out.

Amazing! But the feet/legs seem a little short in proportion to the Hulk-like arms and head, or maybe just a little thin-looking since everything else is so bulky. Maybe add in another part to extend/bulk them up?

That's probably a good idea. I can add another armor plate to the legs and see how it looks.

The arms are VERY long, gives it a very ape-like look. Perfect for picking things up and throwing them, much more interesting than just 'yeah I can hold big guns lol'
For weapons, having the fist morph into a gun would be pretty awesome too, like astroboy.
The realistic, possible equivalent of this is have the fist as a weapon, and you change weapons to morph it. I'm sure there's a tricky way of animating it to transform, even if it transformed for each shot, then transformed back again (using the minigun code).

Nice work so far!