Quote from: OpenMaw on Apr 23, 2012, 12:13:50 AM
It's false advertising when that shit gets put into a magazine.
Also, since it's being used publicly as part of promotional material for the game, they should be in trouble for stealing someone elses artwork.
By that logic any concept artwork, pre-rez graphics, or simple box art is false advertising because it doesn't reflect the visual look of what's in the final game. Concept art is precisely that: a quick encapsulation of a very specific thing for the artists to work from. As someone interested in the game-making process, I love the insight concept art provides. Some of it is good enough to frame, and some of it is a slap-dash attempt to convey something rather straightforward. Why bother drawing an alien warrior from scratch when you can simply drop in an existing graphic to give a rough idea of scale etc?
As for the topic at hand, I wonder what gameplay role this new sub-type of alien is going to play. To judge based on its look, I would have said stealth/ambush, but we already know the domed aliens are fulfilling that role. The ridge heads are fulfilling the cannon fodder role, and the crusher is going to be the brute, so what does that really leave? Ranged attacks, maybe?