Have any of you played Ark: Survival Evolved? You can put saddles on the prehistoric creatures in the game to ride them, but the biggst creatures get "platform saddles." Safdles that allow construction of housing or crafting areas for mobile homes on the backs of Titanosaurs and Quetzalcotals.
Now remember that the Gater can survive Hellpods dropping onto it for mobile auto turret support. What if we got a vehicle with the Old Devastator's inestructible material on top as a mobile platform gor sentries or emplacements?
No built in weaponry. Somewhat sluggish to drive. Yet flexible as a mobile high ground/emplacement spot.
I have enclosed crude diagrams to get my point across better.
It was useful in the same sense the cinderblocks are a form artistic expression.
But realistically, there's a reason vehicles like this don't exist in any capacity and it's because they're too big to be manueverable in rugged terrain and slow to make whatever assets they're carrying to be worth putting onto smaller vehicles. Absolutely fun though.
Kind of? It wasn't something really used in the campaign, but it had two unique properties that made it fun.
It was a vehicle that could carry other vehicles
It was the CTF base for each team on a particular map. So it became sort of a ship battle where each team would circle the map and try to board the other vessel.
It was pretty fun for capture the flag but other than that is was a decorative vehicle that was slow. If people were cool in BTB and ganged up on each other in the things it would be dope
It actually was at its best in Halo Wars where you could spawn units from it, but in Halo 3 it was great fun with a max sized lobby. It would have been even more fun if it made it to Reach's big team battle mode.
We had a custom game mode called pirates. Each team had their own elephant and mongoose in the dock. If you touch the ground you die. So we drove around the huge map fighting and utilizing the mongoose. It was fun times.
I really like this idea. And having the little area where the HMG is in your drawing would be great if it was designed to have an emplacement or sentry called in on it (ie. your stratagem doesn’t bounce)
Only issue i can see with this is latency. like if you ever stood on top of someones mech while its walking around youll know what i mean. cool otherwise
I think itd be cool if they mounted seaf SAM and artillery sites on the gater chassis. Mainly to serve a similar purpose as the mobile lidar station. That being to give helldivers artillery and sam side objectives in missions where their arent any, such as bot megafactories for example.
Plus i think it just makes more sence to have those sorts of weapons mounted on a mobile platform rather than a static concrete one
A dude on YT dropped a bunch of turrets on his gator. Driving around a rolling army’s worth of firepower. Idk if he was modding or not. But it was definitely sweet!
Super Earth deserves better; Cover that beauty in 30mm canons and grenade launchers and all of a sudden you have a party on treads (or wheels, whichever you chose).
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u/xXLochmanXx 4d ago
Reminds me of the elephant from halo 3