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From: Bj Wizner:
Anyone else think Scrapper doing a handstand makes for a very flimsy foot? |
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From: Martin Sønderby Fallgaard Lund:
I don't know... a spiked shovel for a set of toes is pretty bad-ass in my book, though... :) Martin, also interested in seing this KO one in its combined mode... :) |
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On 23-Mar-2012 08:32, monoform wrote:
I know this is utter geek but when constructicons combine, do you think Devastator is a combination of personalities or a separate personality? More on point, if he uses a limb for combat, is there concern that a segregated personality of that limb is in danger from damage? Does the limb have say in how it is used? I've always wondered. If I was designing it, I would make devastator a combination of personality with access to all constructicon memories and memory of devastator actions would be duplicated to all six constituent parts. However, decisions on actions couldn't be made by means of consensus. It would have to be an integrated will so it could respond instinctually. I must be bored to be writing this... |
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From: B. J. Winzer: The only issue I have with combined personalities is that only Computron seems to show benefit from it... the other combined forms still have weaknesses. E.g. if Devastator combines, then he has the knowledge of six Constructicons and would have enough ability to know what works in battle and what doesn't, what others might try to use against him etc. Then there's the "dumbass" factor, like what Starscream programmed into the Combaticons - partly by using former criminals' personalities, and partly by adding the kill switch to Bruticus' back. Bruticus doesn't gain a lot by being combined: he gets Brawl's combative nature, Swindle's weaseling, the misguided sense of superiority from Onslaught and Blast Off, and Vortex provides the true bad-ass-ness.
Isn't it written in canon somewhere that Superion actually *loses* smarts when combined? |
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monoform wrote:
I seem to remember that there was something about the personality combining resulting in a less intelligent result than any of the constituents. I can understand this if the programming is trying to synthesize a common will out of five independent personalities. There would have to constantly be a striving for consensus yielding slower reaction times and more complicated decision trees. It would certainly explain how the gestalts act in the cartoon - all "me devastator, you gonna get beat". Computron however was created by genius grimlock who clearly, from the cartoon, programmed him to be optimal in gesalt mode from the start. |