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Alexrd

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Why shift away so quick and then not change the outside shell at all for millenia? At the least that brown coating doesn't camouflage as well as the more sandy color of the KotOR Crawler.

 

And what happened to the crawler in KotOR?

 

Yup that's right, the Sand People attacked and disabled it. Sounds like a good reason to change the design.

 

[puts on Bindo's band of justification]More than likely the crawler was redesigned to house a whole tribe of Jawas. Raising the main deck would serve the purpose of putting the driver in a harder to hit position. Fully covered outer shell makes it more like a mobile safe refuge. That poop brown color is probably a side effect of being made with Tatooine metals. Rusted Durasteel would be my guess. Easier to maintain that color. Paint gets wind blown and stripped off. Bare rusted metal stays bare rusted metal. As for the body not changing for a millennia or 3. Well it actually does change. It gets bigger. Which could be a side effect of needing more falily space.

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But Feagildin, KotOR1 was still Star Warsy with its heavily modified Sandcrawlers, so why couldn't TOR use those? I liked their design more than the old boring brown blocky ones of the original movies. Why did they switch to the Brown Block over the KotOR1 version? Like you said, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And with them being scavengers who constantly "borrow" technology they find, why would they have vehicles with the exact same look for 3500 years? Surely at least a few people with some different technology came by Tatooine in the 3500 years between TOR and TPM, that the Jawas could "borrow".

 

My argument was against a complaint about why the crawlers didn't change from TOR to ANH, not why Bioware went ahead with the change. I am for the art style, music, and themes in general reflecting the character that the OT captured so well. This is all I was trying to say.

 

IIRC, the crawlers in KotOR were extremely vulnerable looking, with a set of canopies and lots of exposed gears and other mechanical parts. Slap a set of "armor" on that to protect from Sand People attacks and you have the ANH sandcrawler.

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Not one of my choices for planets, but that aside, the planet and it's assets look OK. I don't mind the sandcrawler so much, as it does look to be different enough from the PT/OT and KOTOR. I don't mind SOME similarities between TOR and the PT/OT, but those things should be few and far between, and only to show to progression and evolution of technology.

 

 

And lol @ searching for an astromech droid in a sandcrawler. "This IS the droid I'm looking for."

 

They better not use that IG...

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