Behold the new Boa

maybe because bots are all alike?

Pix is missing out on the chance to release these redesigns as, in this case say, the New Boa. New bot. Same specs. Just new look. Same price. People who like the old look keep theirs, people who like the new look will buy them. People who gotta collect 'me all, will also buy at least one. The battlefield gains visual variety. It's a win/win all around.

Even if the new design allows a slightly offset heavy mount for whatever battlefield edge you can scrape out of it, who cares?

They could have done this from the beginning, no matter whether the bot was silver (Shutze, Golem, Destrier) or gold (Rog, Gepard, Fury)

I realize that in the case of the Golem the weapons mounts were shifted around. So what? You like the New Golem better, buy it! Old Golem? Buy it! It's not like Pix has to actually build these bots. It costs them nothing to have weapons and bots in the game that are less used.

I will probably miss the classic Boa look later but personally I couldn't look at the way it's legs were hitting the side skirts any longer. It needed a redesign imo. Would've been cool if they kept the WW2 era tank look intact though.

Damn fugly!

I don't like the new Boa design. The old design looks like it belongs to the same manufacturer as the Leo and give is a unique style. New Boa looks too much like the Griffen and Rogotka. Maybe that's what they are going for though, a more unified set of "manufacturers". If so then I would assume the Leo will be next for a redesign.

No.  I actually like the new designs and I also think this pattern of designs already started happening before Pixonic was sold to mail.ru.    Right about the time the Workshop bots were introduced as these were the first to embody the design trend.  The "classic" bots which I also call the Silver bots, all appear to be based on modern planes and tanks that had legs attached to them.   I think the only one there that came out pretty good was the Leo.   The Natasha is based off a amphibous plane, one of the ones the firm Beriev makes.   The war machines the robots were based from tend to be Russian, with the Cossack based of the Hind attack helicopter.

The next wave of designs were the Workshop bots.  No longer are they based off Russian war machines, they were much more animalistic in the way the torsos reflect heads of animals --- Carnage, Rhino and Stalker.  I think this is where the new designer came in as since then, the torsos have become more curved and organic.

IMO the original Bastion with its squared off looks and squared shields was done by the "first" designer, then rejected by the "second" designer to produce the Raijin with its curved shields.    

The Gunslinger bots may have already been designed before the Pixonic sale since they came soon after.  Again, torsos with rounded carapaces.  The torso of the Butch looks like the head of the Alien from that franchise.  The Britbots in my opinion, were already sketched by the first designer, and the second designer took the original sketches as inspiration and worked from that.  IMO the second designer is also a bit more anime inspired.  

The K-bots simply continued the trend, as you look closely at the torsos, they resemble heads  especially the Kumiho, and the Haechi has a horn.  The Inquisitor has a reptile head for its torso.   Or is that a frog.  The Stalker has a torso like a dragon, the Rhino has its horn and the Carnage's torso looks like the head of a snake, which is why one of its camouflages has the word "Snake" in it in Chinese. 


So the designs continue to have a more futuristic and organic look, IMO somewhere between anime and Battletech.


 

Hellburner looks to me like something Disney would pop up to put in a Star Wars movie.

Actually Pix should just make the old look of the Boa one of the possible skins. That'll satisfy both crowds. But I suppose it'll need more coding and the projectile collision is probably different for both models. In fact, the new model looks like it has a bigger side profile and a smaller front profile. Better for face to face confrontations.

not seeing why the boa needs an aerodynamic design. need to keep the tank look

I was also going to add that the "second" and current designer is also responsible for the Gepard and Golem redesigns, which all occurred before the mail.ru takeover.

I don't mind the futuristic designs. It's like War Robots is mimicking real war, where designs start off bulky and cumbersome and are function over fashion, and as times move on, designs get sleeker. I kind like that new Boa look. Too bad they shot themselves in the foot with the Mk2 moniker. They could have easily released this as the Boa Mk2 or V2, and give it a special ability or and extra weapon slot, and then charge $300 to buy it.

Is it not able to glide anymore?  The first incarnation you could use about half of the ability to get in the air... and if you already had forward momentum you could stay in the air for a LOOOONG time and "glide" across a large distance.  Made getting around in the moon map easy.

I feel like a lot of people dismiss it without seeing how it is best used.  That thing would be decent support.  It's not a quick attack bot in the sense of a Carnage or a Lance or even a Griff... but it can get to places that others can't, and can get over obstacles in a horizontal sense rather than a Vertical only one.  A Hydra setup on one of those would be a royal PITA.  Could find some un-hittable locations.