Theta Commander

It's kinda odd actually, thinking back when Uber started talking about Commanders a lot they said 4 Rigs, but also said that a Tank Commander wouldn't be one of the 4 Rigs. Back then we figured the Theta would be getting it's own rig along-side the obvious bipedal and supposedly obvious Multiped Rigs. I wonder what happened.

Mike

I think the Theta would look cool with a "HAL 9000" eye (how I thought it looked in the concept) instead of an orc / iron giant-like head.
A little paintover:

I'm pretty sure that was not my quote.

Whoops, but still.....any comment? ;p

Mike

Yes, we have four rigs. We have a lot of commanders to make, and rigs have cost, both in terms of hours spent making them, and technical concerns.

So it is what it is for now. Personally, I think even on the imperial rig, this guy looks awesome. I like that not all of the commanders are looking identical, and that there even feels like a timeline progression on some of them.

Yes yes, that's all old had to me. ;p I meant more so about the Shift from "No Tank Commanders but 4 other rigs" to "Tank Commanders are one of the 4 Rigs".

Mike

Yup, way better. And closer to the original concept.

Also, why are eyes of all commanders red? They were white in Kickstarter trailer, eyes of all other units are white and box art also has white eyes... I think white would look better.

I don't recall the conversation, honestly. I think at one point I mentioned we were considering trying to do custom rigs for each of the "specialty" commanders, but that was always just a hope, not a sure thing. And given the amount of time for each rig, and the number of custom commanders we are doing, it wasn't possible.

Could each rig/class have it's own strategic icon in game?

would be nice for those like me who live with icons on and in the orbital or far zoom levels.

Not quite what I meant, but I'm heading off to work and won't be able to pull up the stuff I need to be more specific xD I'll have to get back to you later on this.

Mike

That's cool.. however, to put all this chin talk into perspective, here's some exclusive footage of what the theta commander is going to look like in-game:

Cool, please do. I'm scratching my head trying to remember the conversation.

I don't remember the conversation itself, but I do remember the vast amount of confusion over commander rigs when the Alpha commander was released.

Honestly, I think a lot of it stemmed from the fact that prior to PA, all of its spiritual successors only had Imperial-type commanders, so when you guys said that there would be several rigs, we thought that would mean lots of shapes and sizes for conventional bipedal commanders.

Everything made a lot more sense when the chicken, spider and tin-can commanders made their respective debuts, but at the time there was a massive amount of really unproductive and confusing discussion over the Alpha and the imperial skeleton.

So it's chicken, spider, tin can and.... imperial? lol

It was the same one where you promised me a free custom commander.

Pretty much this. I only ever notice what my commander looks like for the first minute of the game (and the last minute, if I lose).

Is that the one where they announced PA was moving to a pay to win model?

That's chicken, spider, Johnny 5 and monkey to you!

Edit: Please someone make a Johnny 5 version of the tank commander- any of you guys getting custom commanders you KNOW you want to (and as it's my birthday soon you know you want to give me one of your commander keys...!)

I only ever use the imperial personally. The others just don't appeal to me.

Raptor, Tank, Quad and Imperial.