A question regarding the GBL intro

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A question regarding the GBL intro

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I figured that the Intro to Ghost Bear's Legacy has 1 plothole in my opinion-
How did the Kodiak manage to burrow into the ice or snow? Did the pilot manage to equip it with a retractable shovel? :P or used it's claws?
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Re: A question regarding the GBL intro

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well it could have fallen in the ice and been sitting there buried until someone came along.
But yeah its hard to believe a 100t mech would not be noticeable
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Battlemechs are much more agile than the games would have you believe. we have very few controls at our disposal. however a mech is fed by a not only what controls the pilot inputs manually, but by a neuro interface. meaning that the signal is as fast as thought. so balance, and many other things, are really controlled by your brain without input to the user or real contentious thought on the pilots part at all. yes, of course gyroscopes, but you are what feed it the information and process it.

a mech running looks like me or you running. not how we see and imagine robots moving in movies/games.

Mechs that have hands, have hands that operate just like ours. any pilot could could pick up a dime stood on end in an Atlas. so laying down and pilong a snow drift on top of you would be almost child's play (snow angels)


also, a mech creates enough heat to melt more snow than it knows what to do with. so even if you were standing on permafrost, you could easy melt a hole, to make the process even easier.
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Re: A question regarding the GBL intro

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Agreed, a mech is easily hot enough to melt into snow. The Kodiak stock configuration does not have jump jets, but jump jets can give a Kodiak up to 120 m of jump range. At that distance, you do not even have to cover it with snow to hide it, a deep hole should do. And you need some sensors, like seismic detectors or a camera, to detect other mechs stomping near.

However, the video shows the Smoke Jaguar walking up cluelessly to the pit where the mesh is hidden, so the mech may have waited there for hours or days, and was covered in snow that may have fallen normally from the sky. The Jag pilot will not make the mistake again ...
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Re: A question regarding the GBL intro

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Another thing about the GBL intro: the Mad Dog could have easily launched it's missiles at close range, maybe giving it time to retreat while keeping the Kodiak at bay with it's pulse lasers.
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it also could have been possible the Kodiak was on an underground elevator under the snow, and was quickly elevated when the Mad Dog was detected by the base sensors. The snow/ice didn't look dense enough in which a 100T mech would have much problems breaking thru, just like how Submarines in our time can break thru ice in arctic areas.

In the Battletech universe, during the Clan Wolf vs Jade Falcons war; the Falcons ambushed a Wolf force on an ice planet. The Wolves were losing, until they realized that the ice beneath the Falcon mechs was thin, and started firing upon the ice to melt it and send the mechs to their watery graves.
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