Following up on yesterday’s reported news, Artist Mark Brassington shared on his Art Station page some more material he did for Jagex’s Transformers Universe MOTA game.
Included in this round up are images of Flamewar and Ratchet’s alternate mode, and several images of weaponry (Flamewar’s missile launcher, Optimus Prime’s axe and mini gun, Barricade’s blaster, Brawl’s rocket launcher, Breakdown’s hammer, and Bulkhead’s mini gun).
Make the jump to see the full gallery and discuss with your fellow fans.
Shizuka
Flamewar…
Why am I not surprised that she looks like Arcee/Catapult/Duststorm.
They did well with Astaria or whatever her name is who in a truck I think. Or maybe a beefy car. I haven't played in a while. We get it, the designers think that all fembots have to have a typical thin female form but, how about some variation?
What annoys me is that the proportions design ques always resemble Arcee – especially the head. What annoys me even more as a character designer is that women are magnificent to draw because they have such various shapes. Make a chubby one, I'd like that. How about a pear-shaped one or one with fuller curves; some women have large breasts but I know, big breasts isn't "realistic" or whatever.
Nocturne
Yes, we are discussing it because it is something that is problematic and needs discussion. And women tend to froth at the mouth over it because we're sick of of seeing women in media depicted with the same body type when men get to be every shape under the sun.
The problem here is all the females are the same basic shape(Long limbs, small waist/torso. slap on some lipstick and with very little else) while the males at least have some differences between them. It wouldn't kill them to take one of those bulky male bodies and give it a female voice and identity. Just for a little bit of variety.
The Mad Demobot
I too would like to know how to get these models into a program. This is what I know for sure:
The game runs on Unity, as such there might be a decent ripper to get the contents inside. The problem is that concept art like this is never really there, not even hidden. What you could get atm are the characters out now, the vehicons, and the terrorcons.
maximus_primal
Loving these weapons now someone needs to make and sell these!
RobotKnight95
I'm just going to repeat myself for one sentence: Flamewar's weapon looks like a demonic goat head.
Novaburnhilde
I continue to really like these designs.
The weapons look great too.
QLRformer
Those are some great designs.
Flamewar is a clone of Arcee, which she has always been. All righty then.
TFW10
Flamewar looks horrible
dovianax
Oh man. I brought the tissues for all the butthurt.
Seriously? Flamewar is a robotic alien motorcycle. Are you guys seriously discussing female body type standards for a fucking alien robot?!?!?
Then everyone wonders why women now a days are frothing out the mouth. -_-
Plasmapause
So far the only "flyer" appears to be Switchblade and it's unknown if he will be playable. Upon launch the first wave of warriors will all be ground based, indefinitely.
Blitz.
I had some high hopes for this game but even months on the HighMoon games still beat it hands down. This game really needs some flyers asap to really bring my interest back.
RobotKnight95
^ Some of them look okay for the designs they were given. Its really just the moto-bots that look uninteresting. The only exception to that is Stiletto/Wildcard who has goggles and turns into a Harley.
Dinodigger97
If this is how all Transformer Universe fembots look like, I don't want to know how Strika would look like.
RobotKnight95
I really like the textures on the weapons. I'd like to see Shapeways tryout some of these.
As for Flamewar… Oh boy. Now I will be generous and say I do like her textures and design cues (wheelarches via Energon), but not the overall design itself. As many have stated its a generic stick figure design that the other fembots in the game have as well. In fact, all of the new motorcycle fembots of this game look rather underwhelming in design (Cameo and Diabla) yet they are still more impressive than Flamewar here who barely has anything going on here. The other fembots in this game look satisfactory on a design point. Catapult, Astraea, Rollcage, and Stilleto/Wildcard look okay. Some better than others but all interesting at the very least.
I would say that I can give credit for making her slightly different than Arcee, but then I look at the Legends design and see that those designers did better (Legends, not Jagex).
Legends Flamewar:http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/9/94/TFLegendsApp-Flamewar.jpg
Edit: I just noticed Flamewar's Rocket Launcher resembles a demoic goat head Metal!
GAUGE
I'm all for Fembots looking like actual humanoid females, but why like Miley Cyrus?
Plasmapause
Transformers Universe is currently in Open Beta. It's playable, but it is still far from launch.
GreednGluttony
Is this game even out yet?
bumblebeej8
Love this!
Sideways77
Oh god, that Flamewar looks horrible. Super stick limbs, scrawny-ass torso, ridiculous gun…
Can they make a Fembot that's UNIQUE? And not a stick? Apparently not.
SPLIT LIP
Because different is good? Because Breakdown was a scrawny combiner limb since forever until Prime made him a bruiser? Because Arcee was a pink Princess Leia ripoff until Prime made her a blue bike?
Also, she's not an Arcee repaint here, and that's the problem. She's a new model but so derivitive, like damn-near every Universe model.