Why does my smg have horns?(vanu)

Ok so can anybody tell me

:why does the vanu smg have horns?

:why does the vanu max have high heels and lobster like guns arms

:why does the the most techadvanced faction make a main battle tank with the gun fixed forward with no horizontal movement (fixed gun tank destroyer went out after ww2)

: why do the vanu guns all look the same(as in crap)

:why does a vtol aircraft need spikee wings

Joking aside the first smg had a good look to it and sounded good to but the second looks like a five year olds stuck a load of bits to a gun and that makes it more space'e.

The the artistic direction of the vanu in ps2 is some thing that bothers me it started with the guns.Now i've played all three factions and i can say the vanu guns are so similar you have to look in the inventroy screen just to see which wierd purple boxy pew pew gun you have taken with you.even the lasher which should stand out just looks like another vanu lmg


im a old ps1 vanu vet but all this strange (and maybe lazy) design chocies are putting me off.
sorry if in wrong section

To add to point 2...

Nanites.
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Lol that video is hilarious.

But generally I know they have some animations planned for the new SMG, I think the tentacles move or the lights on the front move like pistons or something. I think that they plan on doing another pass through the vanu weapons as there have been a lot of complaints about them. I think the new SMGs is a sign of things to come.

If this holds true then we may see:
Less Purple
More Chromes
More Moving/spinning parts
More intimidating guns sounds
More lights (typically the lights shine for the user, but don't appear to enemies)

I personally hope they continue carrying the plasma and laser aspects to the common pool vehicles, for example:
Liberator bombs are plasma bombs
Sunderer guns are laser cannons

In interviews they talk about a lot more stuff coming as far as weapons for sunderers and whatnot and they've already gone to personalize the cloaking sounds for each faction which is nice.

I agree though, the MAX needs a second pass. It needs to be one arm only, and the laser shots need to sound like lasers, soft and streaking like the original- rapid fire.

To fix the high heel you just need to have two more heel pieces coming out the sides, then it looks less like woman's footwear.

Crabclaw needs to go. IMO the anti-vehicle weapons need to be the laser cannons, they look pretty cool. Also, bursters being used by vanu should be heresy as there has to be more technilogical way to shoot down aircraft then ye olde flak cannons.

As far as spikey wings goes, that's just Vanu asthetic. IMO it would have been smarter to make the aircraft in the shape of a vanu symbol. But that's just my opinion.

I agree with Lasher, it looks like they took the medic gun and smushed it down. Lasher has had a terrible life cycle in PS2, I like the design it had in the depot, but it looked underslung.

I also agree with the tanks. If they are so **** about the minichaingun being underslung, they should carry this concept to the magrider. The magrider as mentioned in a previous thread has to reveal 100% of itself to make most shots whereas other tanks can put the lower part of their chassis behind cover and shoot over. Like their choice to not make the minichaingun underslung they need to carry this idea across all the factions or at least situate the gun higher, I don't know how they'd do it, but common Tray, stop taking vacations and let's get to work.

Yeah, I don't really like the horns either. Actually, I'm not a fan of Vanu weapons (appearance) in general. The horns are especially bad and I would vote in favor of them being removed. Maybe tack them onto the hillbilly NC weapons instead.

They're simply running out of ideas. Which is unfortunate considering they have 'plans' of retroactively giving weapons their own identities. I can only imagine that this will lead to other nonsensical design decisions for the sake of uniqueness.

Vanu guns look pretty awesome, imo.

if your not keen I will trade my obstructed cockpit view for those spiked wings.

Heh, running out of idea, that would mean that they had a lot of ideas to begin with. There are maybe a total 7 or 8 Vanu weapon models, this includes the SMG's, sniper rifles, and rocket launchers. They can really come up with some cool designs, but currently the weapon design approach just seems very lazy. Recycle the skins with new stats just isn't going to cut it as the game matures.

Personalizing the cloaking sounds is not creative nor constructive changes. This was actually a nerf.

As far as I know, the new SMGs will have more animated parts to them. I'm guessing they'll be animated in future.

Have to agree I'm not a fan of the tentacle gun. When I unlock an SMG it will be the 1st one, unless they release another one later.

Maybe the actual Vanu (those space Mayans that you worship) were actually horned lobster men in drag?

hentai tentacles of doom

thats all because SOE got no single engineer, who got damn idea about war, vehicles, reasonable buildings...
TBH... giant vehicle-gate and next to the gate... a hole. i just loled.. generators for the gate about 5 m away from the gate, in 2x2 m room. Place generator in a room, where you can defend it, far away from the gate? no, not by SOE. High heels MAX? thats the last problem here.

Q: "Why did the design team do x?"

A: "Well, Johnny, they be smokin' copious amounts of that good Cali weed all day everyday"

Spot on. Their ideas for base design are bad beyond words. If these bases were real, they would have been build by complete idiots. The 2x2 generator rooms are one of the many dumb examples about how it is impossible to defend **** in this game.

Jimmy has been looking at too much hentai

1: If you spent your life cluched against the cleavage of vanu spandex covered brests you would be horny too.
2: The vanu worship aliens, and zoiberg is an alien
3: Technilogicly advanced does not mean practical or utilitarian. (also turn rate on mags is higher than other factions, the entirety of the mag is basicly a turret)
4: Because you are racist obviously, "they all look the same", come on man, show some class.
5: VTOL capabilities or not, wings still help creat lift makeing a better craft for atmospheric combat. Also I Am BATMAN.

i guess the concept looked good though the 3d model didn't