Chapter 332: Fusion! The romance of the Soul of Steel!
Dr. Stan, a genius scientist from the Earth Federation, serves as the military's scientific research director. He presides over and is responsible for many weapons development projects of the Earth Federation Army.
Because I am particularly obsessed with the fictional technology in anime and games, I always mix my own personal opinions into the development process, and stuff that originally only existed in my imagination.
For example, drills, lightsabers, rocket fists... and the "fusion" that is most romantic for carrot lovers!
The most genius thing about Dr. Stan is not just his wild imagination, but that he has truly used his ability to restore the fictional technology he is obsessed with to reality!
This is the so-called "Earth United Army Combined Large Mecha Plan"!
The focus of this plan is to use transformable mechas as different weapon parts, and combine them with specially made core parts to form a large combined mecha with powerful combat capabilities, so as to achieve a battlefield suppression force that can defeat thousands of enemies with one man.
Dr. Stan not only completed it, but also provided three different core parts based on their suitability on the battlefield.
[Alpha Form: Fortress]
It has a tank-like appearance, powerful ground firepower and impressive defense.
[Beta Form: Cannon]
It can hover and fly, focuses on shooting, and can fight across various complex terrains.
Then comes the ultimate romance for radish lovers!
Gamma Form: Combat
The bipedal human form has the most powerful close combat ability among the three forms, and is also the form that Dr. Stan has spent the most time thinking about.
It's normal for romance to be mixed with personal opinions.
However, due to the current combat structure of the Earth Federation, the second and third generation transformable machines that can adapt to the core parts of the machine are all with the Blood Armor Team and the Chosen Team "arranged" by space. In other words, in the entire Earth Federation, only the machines of these two teams can fight together!
No wonder they were brought back all the way from Leia.
As a Leia, Rey has lamented more than once that this concept of fusion is something they, the Leia, could never even imagine. Only Earthlings, with their rich experience in science fiction, could be so crazy as to put it into real action...
In fact, the original game also has a fusion function, but whether it is the arcade hall of the past or nowadays when simulators can be easily found on the Internet, many players who have had playing experience have never triggered this function. The reason is that it has two important prerequisites.
First, you need to pick up the "communication device/radio" in advance, which is the pick-up item that explodes when you destroy the series of glowing reconnaissance balls at the beginning of the game.
The second condition is that more than two players are required to play at the same time, and they must persist in reaching the end of each level to face the BOSS before subsequent triggering. Players can also use the direction keys to operate when the combination parts are airdropped to choose from the three parts of "Alpha, Beta, and Gamma".
In the combined state, players will control the attack parts in the combined state separately, but only when three people are combined can it be complete. The combination of two people will result in the loss of some functions.
The Blood Armor Team's mechanic brought this thing here, which clearly means that the Earth Federation's top brass are serious about this.
This kind of parts was unfamiliar to the Chosen Team, but it was very familiar to the Blood Armor Team who had conducted many tests. The Brodia piloted by Jeff grabbed its own "landing booster" that was airdropped at the same time, and glided towards the drop site of the combined parts with the propulsion it provided.
This is an auxiliary device specially developed for short-distance airdrops of mechas. It looks like some kind of mechanical barbell and can be separated and then grasped to fix the shoulder position of the mecha.
There are a total of 4 large boosters and 2 small boosters on both sides of the landing booster. The large boosters are powerful enough to allow a heavy aircraft like Goulding, which can reach nearly 10 tons, to land safely in the air. The small boosters are responsible for fine-tuning the direction. The entire gliding process is similar to that of a paraglider and requires more skills.
Seeing that Jeff had taken the lead, the remaining three people discussed it briefly and decided to leave Sarah White's Ford, which had high speed, high ammunition loadout, and a good range, alone to continue to contain the Octopus Mecha, while the Repatos with thin armor and the Goulding with a very slow movement speed used landing boosters to chase the Brodia at the same time, preparing to merge.
As for the four players in the same camp, they do not have the privilege of using fusion parts, or in other words, their priority in using fusion parts is far lower than that of the Blood Armor Team.
I'm afraid they won't know how to use it even if I give it to them!
The Ford continued to fire, but the shells were blocked by one regular hexagonal barrier after another.
At this moment, Cheng, who was in the octopus mecha Agomis, was in a state of severe entanglement.
Rationally speaking, what he needs to do now is to try his best to stop the Blood Armor Team from rushing towards the fusion parts and prevent them from successfully fusion.
But emotionally, Cheng Tian wanted to see the enemy Blood Armor Team successfully merge!
There is no insider information, I just want to see the carrots merge!
There are countless works related to the combined carrot in Japan, but among the works involving the Trinity, the most famous one is undoubtedly "Trinity", or the "Getter Robo" that players are more familiar with.
The inspiration for the Armored Warrior's trinity mecha is most likely from Getter... Of course, it may also be because the technology at the time couldn't make a four-player co-op mode, and thus it was impossible to make a four-player mecha.
Similar tributes are not limited to "Armored Warrior". In the "Sea Base" route of "Contra: Iron Blood Corps", a mechanical BOSS named "Tageta Robot" was even created.
This is the kind of person who doesn't even pretend.
The three forms of the Tageta robot can exist separately or merge together. After merging, they can transform into three different forms: air, ground, and humanoid. Players need to defeat the BOSS six times in total to pass the corresponding level.
However, as a game that only has an arcade version, "Armored Warrior" has a very low degree of popularity, and it is a high-end product with a CP2 baseboard, which makes it almost impossible to see it in ordinary arcade halls in China.
After all, with the money and space, it is obviously a more profitable choice to put an additional machine with well-known titles such as King of Fighters, Street Fighter, and Metal Slug.
Those who can play the game using a computer simulator usually only play alone on the keyboard, and the insufficient number of people makes it impossible to trigger the conditions for the release of the fusion parts. This has resulted in many domestic veteran players still having never seen the fusion function of the Armored Warrior 30 years later.
In the end, Cheng Tian, whose Steel Soul had the upper hand, did not intercept the Blood Armor Team, allowing them to successfully reunite with the airdropped parts.
The Brodia, Lepatos, and Goulding underwent drastic changes in form, and were sucked into the combined parts that were originally just empty shells as if by magnets, and Cheng Tian's eyes also lit up -
Because the combined mecha in front of him showed Cheng Tian's favorite fighting-specialized gamma form!