The Nod Rocket Cyborg

[Malovolpe 3]

I liked how that Nod Rocket Cyborg looked, it looked different.

[Raptor 4000 0]

I liked how that Nod Rocket Cyborg looked, it looked different.

 

You got a picture of him. Or am I tempted to think *Insert Nod Engineer here*.

[Luk3us 63]

Its the cyborg with the big triangles on his arms. It looks kinda stupid to me.

[Sonic 296]

These guys?

 

 

Odd looking yes, but not half as bad as the Nod Engineer.

[Malevolence 6]

Its the cyborg with the big triangles on his arms. It looks kinda stupid to me.

 

Lol, this is becoming like a comedy. Gee. C&C4 gone wild.

[Luk3us 63]

Yeah they are the ones. Like I said, they look kinda stupid. It looks worse when you single them out like that.

[Raptor 4000 0]

These guys?

 

 

Odd looking yes, but not half as bad as the Nod Engineer.

 

Ugh, our perceptions of designing power armour. That has to be really painful for the "pilot".

 

(i know they're meant to be Cyborgs, but with the scale, the messy design and all, its hard to tell.)

[Guest Stevie_K]

Meh, that thing has nothing to do with a cyborg.. It's more like a walking SAM site..

The only thing that looks somewhat acceptable on this unit, is the head, and it's all ruined by the triangles that are cut in a way that looks really weird.

whatever.. it's basically an annoying design and it deserves some serious attention.

 

I wonder how they will explain it in the unit profile.

[Sonic 296]

I wonder how they will explain it in the unit profile.

If its even profiled at all. I'm sure I read somewhere that only select units were getting profiles posted.

[Nmenth 291]

I wonder how they will explain it in the unit profile.

If they do, it'd have to be something like this:

 

Cyborg C-2.15.21 was testing out his new accelerated cybernetic legs when he crashed into a SAM site, getting the missile turrets wedged onto his arms.

 

Jumping around, trying to get them off like a dog with a bucket on his head, C-2.15.21 collided with a flame tank, now getting one of the fuel canisters lodged onto his back. Dismayed at his embarrassing condition, he finally decides he will have to get an engineer to remove the parts from his frame. However, the Nod engineers, boasting a massive rocket up their butt and no aerodynamic capabilities, flies haphazardly with the unfortunate C-2.15.21 and misses the Crawler's repair zone completely, instead propelling the cyborg into the manufacturing bay where the personnel are waiting with a report that a new prototype is supposed to be arriving.

 

Suddenly C-2.15.21 comes flying in and is knocked unconscious despite his heavy head plating due to the engineer's jet-powered anus and no flight control. The crew assumes this must be the prototype since he can't speak up and explain that he is not.

 

After nine of the new Rocket Cyborgs roll off the line and the Crawler hits its pop cap, the engineer finally is able to come in for a landing by some dedicated clenching and cutting off the exhaust route (this does result in some intestinal discomfort and a later massive pressure release that inspires some Nod scientists with a new super weapon concept, but that's another story).

 

When the assembly crew manages to pull the engineer out of the side of a cliff face where he landed, he is able to inform them that they made a mistake. Since the pop cap was already reached though, the actual prototype was unable to arrive. The Crawler commander was about to order all Rocket Cyborgs to commit suicide to free up the pop cap limit so the real prototype could come in, when none other than the Massiah himself dropped by to inspect the new design.

 

Unwilling to be the one to tell Kane that his crew had copied an oaf with random components embedded into his exoskeleton, the commander pretended the new disaster was the real thing and hyped it as one of the greatest and efficient inventions to ever come from the Brotherhood of Nod's ingenuity. Kane, suspicious of the ridiculous contraption, so imbalanced it could hardly stand upright, nevertheless permitted it to exist as he calculated that the GDI forces would lose concentration laughing at Nod's latest army when they faced off in combat, and besides... it all fit into his grand scheme.

 

Now that the commander had promoted the junk reminiscent of the Forgotten's junkyard magnet style of assembly to Kane himself, they had no choice but to go with it. Since the Rocket Cyborg didn't need a massive tank of volatile fuel on his back, they used it as a counter balance by filling it with lead to help the unstable cyborgs remain vertical.

 

Unfortunately, C-2.15.21 committed suicide without orders as he was too disgraced to live on. His arms were returned to the damaged SAM site and the fuel canister was used to start the cremation. The pyre however, caught a noxious could of combustible gasses that a nearby engineer was unable to hold in and everyone in the area was lost in the explosion. Luckily, due to the pop cap limit, there were few casualties. C-2.15.21 will be remembered, every time a Rocket Cybrog is finished, soldiers will shake their heads and utter, "That fool."

[Raptor 4000 0]

If they do, it'd have to be something like this:

 

Cyborg C-2.15.21 was testing out his new accelerated cybernetic legs when he crashed into a SAM site, getting the missile turrets wedged onto his arms.

 

Jumping around, trying to get them off like a dog with a bucket on his head, C-2.15.21 collided with a flame tank, now getting one of the fuel canisters lodged onto his back. Dismayed at his embarrassing condition, he finally decides he will have to get an engineer to remove the parts from his frame. However, the Nod engineers, boasting a massive rocket up their butt and no aerodynamic capabilities, flies haphazardly with the unfortunate C-2.15.21 and misses the Crawler's repair zone completely, instead propelling the cyborg into the manufacturing bay where the personnel are waiting with a report that a new prototype is supposed to be arriving.

 

Suddenly C-2.15.21 comes flying in and is knocked unconscious despite his heavy head plating due to the engineer's jet-powered anus and no flight control. The crew assumes this must be the prototype since he can't speak up and explain that he is not.

 

After nine of the new Rocket Cyborgs roll off the line and the Crawler hits its pop cap, the engineer finally is able to come in for a landing by some dedicated clenching and cutting off the exhaust route (this does result in some intestinal discomfort and a later massive pressure release that inspires some Nod scientists with a new super weapon concept, but that's another story).

 

When the assembly crew manages to pull the engineer out of the side of a cliff face where he landed, he is able to inform them that they made a mistake. Since the pop cap was already reached though, the actual prototype was unable to arrive. The Crawler commander was about to order all Rocket Cyborgs to commit suicide to free up the pop cap limit so the real prototype could come in, when none other than the Massiah himself dropped by to inspect the new design.

 

Unwilling to be the one to tell Kane that his crew had copied an oaf with random components embedded into his exoskeleton, the commander pretended the new disaster was the real thing and hyped it as one of the greatest and efficient inventions to ever come from the Brotherhood of Nod's ingenuity. Kane, suspicious of the ridiculous contraption, so imbalanced it could hardly stand upright, nevertheless permitted it to exist as he calculated that the GDI forces would lose concentration laughing at Nod's latest army when they faced off in combat, and besides... it all fit into his grand scheme.

 

Now that the commander had promoted the junk reminiscent of the Forgotten's junkyard magnet style of assembly to Kane himself, they had no choice but to go with it. Since the Rocket Cyborg didn't need a massive tank of volatile fuel on his back, they used it as a counter balance by filling it with lead to help the unstable cyborgs remain vertical.

 

Unfortunately, C-2.15.21 committed suicide without orders as he was too disgraced to live on. His arms were returned to the damaged SAM site and the fuel canister was used to start the cremation. The pyre however, caught a noxious could of combustible gasses that a nearby engineer was unable to hold in and everyone in the area was lost in the explosion. Luckily, due to the pop cap limit, there were few casualties. C-2.15.21 will be remembered, every time a Rocket Cybrog is finished, soldiers will shake their heads and utter, "That fool."

 

Aww, i feel sorry for the poor Cyborg.

[Malevolence 6]

Nmenth just made my day. That article was made of win!

[Guest Stevie_K]

Now that's a reply I did not expect. I LoL'd hard.

[ORCaLoVeR 0]

I bet that will be the majority of Nod victories in C&C4.

 

GDI players and soldiers laughing them to death

[Gben 20]

That was funny Nmenth... I don't believe Kane would stoop to such tactics though.

[Nmenth 291]

I don't believe Kane would stoop to such tactics though.

I didn't think so either, but how else do you explain his latest army?

[BioBen 3]

A Mina worthy post full of Nmenth goodness

[Nmenth 291]

A Mina worthy post full of Nmenth goodness

Mina worthy? How can you say that? I broke it up into paragraphs and didn't use one single 'XDDDDDDD'.

[Mighty BOB! 5]

This unit is easily in the "Top Three Dumbest Units in C&C4" list.

[BioBen 3]

Mina worthy? How can you say that? I broke it up into paragraphs and didn't use one single 'XDDDDDDD'.

 

Ok I'll give you that, the only resemblence to a Mina post was the size really.

[Guest Stevie_K]

After the bad news about cutbacks, I kind of feel bad about complaining...

Now I just hope EA will release C&C4 balanced enough to be fun and playable for a very long period, since we might have to wait a loooong time before we see a new C&C again.

To hell with how the units look then. Honestly.

[Nmenth 291]

I take back nothing. Cutbacks do not justify sub-par work. I do hope the game is balanced and fun, but the developers have a responsibility, even if their jobs have an end in the foreseeable future, and I will hold them to it. As long as they keep getting their paychecks, they still have jobs, and that job is to make a good game.

[Guest Stevie_K]

Your'e right.

But I fear the chances of a Nod rocket cyborg and Nod engineer getting a remake has just been pummeled. maybe that's just me.

[Gben 20]

To be fair cutbacks and bad fan feedback are probably not unrelated. EA made it clear the their cut backs affected new & unreleased IP's and poor performing titles. If C&C was more successful there probably wouldn't be as much danger of job losses.

 

IMO the universe will go on, and it could use a break for fresh ideas.

Even if the break was 5 years.

 

Everyone complains about it, but I still prefer the Blizzard model of more development, more support, and less games.

[Mighty BOB! 5]

Ugh, just kill the franchise already*. >_<

 

*After C&C4.

 

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I never would have believed that I would ever say those words; not in my wildest dreams. Not even if future me built a time machine and came back in time.

Edited November 12, 2009 by Mighty BOB!