The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3441

Chapter 3441: A Contrarian Design Concept

Ves appreciated the BDX-35F-3 for presenting him with a novel mech concept.

The idea of designing a mech that allowed mech pilots to become unaffected by fear and other negative emotions had a lot of uses, particularly for mech forces with low-quality mech pilots.

A mech pilot that depended less on emotions had to fill up the void in another way, and that mostly translated into greater rationality.

What Ves found particularly brilliant about the BDX-35F-3 model was that its advanced neural interface enabled mech pilots to directly access the formidable processing power of their mechs.

This caused the mech pilots to aim the weapons of their mechs more precisely and become a lot more deliberate about their coordination. It was a good way for bad or average mech pilots to increase their effective performance in battle, especially when subjected to a lot of pressure.

Although the BDX-35F-3 model ultimately failed to gain popularity, Ves still wanted to work with this idea.

His innovative desires began to fire up his passion again. The challenge presented by the BDX-35F-3 and its concept was just right for him. Whereas others would probably fail if they tried to work with this idea, Ves was confident that his specialty and his circumstances would allow him to succeed!

He recalled the time when the Battle Criers fought against the Burza Fens of the Molten Hammers.

The Battle Criers did not lose courage immediately, which was commendable, but they were definitely intimidated by their opponent. The powerful force of will of the enemy expert pilot had likely suppressed the Battle Crier mech pilots to a certain degree, causing them to feel more burdened than normal.

The superior mobility of the axe-wielding expert mech also posed a hindrance to the Battle Criers. The expert pilot might not excel at evasion, but his high skill level combined with his powerful machine caused a lot of incoming shots to miss.

If Ves was able to take the premise of the BDX-35F-3 and put his own spin on it, he could equip the Battle Criers that could help them perform a lot better in the same scenario!

"In fact, it's not just an effective solution against enemy expert mechs. It's also good against other kinds of opposition!"

The Larkinson Army was filled with emotional mech pilots. They paired well with living mechs and they were also key to increasing the chance of breakthroughs.

The clan culture also placed a great importance on emotional attachment. A good clansman was someone who cared about family, loved their fellow brothers and sisters and was invested in the success of the clan. _{freёwebnovel.com}

When Ves looked back on his work so far, he realized that every mech leveraged strong emotions in one way or another. It was a formula that had always paired well with the kind of mechs he liked to design.

The recent expert mech design projects exemplified this design direction as far as he was concerned.

For example, the Dark Zephyr actively stimulated Venerable Tusa's desire to pursue speed and freedom. By increasing the expert pilot's main tendences, the expert mech performed a bit better due to arousing greater resonance between expert pilot and expert mech.

The Shield of Samar was an even more extreme case. This masterwork expert mech depended a lot more on its resonance abilities to show its value. The more Venerable Jannzi feared the deaths of fellow clansmen and the more she yearned to shield the vulnerable Larkinsons from attacks, the stronger she and her machine partner could project a powerful resonance-enhanced barrier!

Though Ves had never seen this dynamic play out in a real battle, he was pretty certain it worked that way based on his own understanding and the performance of other expert mechs.

"The point is that I've been relying so much on this single direction that I have never considered any alternatives."

As a passionate mech designer that was sensitive towards life, Ves loved to embrace emotions.

Emotion was life, both figuratively and literally. Spiritual energy was not neutral, but instead emerged from the thoughts and emotions of sentient life. This had further pushed him towards using and leveraging emotions to his advantage.

This realization presented him with a daring notion.

Instead of designing yet another living mech that centered around emotions again, what if he went into the opposite direction?

What if he focused on developing a new mech that emphasized total rationality in place of emotions?

Ves ignored everything else around him and played this idea out in his imagination.

A mech based on rationality likely wouldn't translate well in a melee mech. Melee mech pilots depended heavily on instinct and unconscious reactions to make split-second decisions on how to defeat opponents right in front of them. Perhaps he could find a way to make it work, but the consequences of failure were much more direct and impactful.

It was better to apply it to a ranged mech where there was more room for deliberation. The price of failure was not as dire, as a missed shot was nothing special.

The goal behind a ranged mech based on rationality was to minimize flaws and inconsistent behavior, though. While Ves did not expect to achieve total accuracy, he at least wanted to give mech pilots the capability to leverage the processing power of a mech to make more accurate judgements about the positioning of a fast-moving opponent.

The more he thought about it, the more he wanted to tackle this project right away!

This was a good sign. As long as he was interested in realizing a new vision, he would undoubtedly put his best effort into the design project.

That said, he did not completely let his emotions run away with this new idea. His more cautious side recognized that this was a riskier design project than usual.

Trying to develop a mech that adopted a completely opposite paradigm was not for the faint of heart!

Ves would be entering new territory where he could not rely on a great portion of his previous accumulation to steer a design project towards a successful implementation.

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