The Mech Touch novel Chapter 3498

Chapter 3498: A Fitting Design Spirit

All 32 mech designer pairs worked intensely to design and fabricate a mech in 3 days.

To Ves, the Wild Brawl Bowl's design phase was almost like a vacation. Though he still experienced considerable pressure, it was practically a massage compared to the pressure he endured when he competed in the High Tide Tournament.

The biggest complication was that he needed to work together with another mech designer.

Though Ketis was a highly-regarded swordmaster in the personal combat community, she was not a stellar mech designer.

If anyone only looked at her meager design accomplishments, she was by far the worst Journeyman in the competition!

Every other mech designer published a lot more mech designs and participated in many more design duels or design tournaments. Their knowledge bases were often broader and more comprehensive.

To be fair, Ketis was also a lot younger than the majority of the competitors. This was one of the reasons why she was able to gain the services of a mech pilot as good as Lyain Kepper.

When Team Larkinson began to design their mech in earnest, they chose to focus on realizing a fairly restrained machine.

It was quite difficult to design a more adventurous mech this time. Despite the longer time limit, the availability of materials and component designs were not as good as those in the High Tide Tournament.

Ves understood that the Wild Fighter Association wanted the mech designers to win by relying on their ability to design a solid fighter mech.

The restrictive conditions left less room for gimmicks and solutions derived from high technology. Hardly any mech designer would be able to develop a mech that was absolutely superior to any other machine in the tournament.

In theory, every competition mech should be able to defeat any other machine in the tournament. The materials and component designs were simpler and easier to work with, but that also meant that it was hard to leverage too much power from them. Even the most ingenious mech designer could only accomplish so much when he could only make use of low-grade exotics at most.

Ves could already imagine the kind of mechs that would result from everyone's efforts. The relatively low-budget competition mechs they would produce at the end would probably resemble third-class mechs in many ways.

As someone who used to be a third-class mech designer himself, he only needed a short moment of adjustment to get back in the mindset of someone who had to design a mech under so many constraints.

Third-class mech designers were a lot more basic and less varied because there simply wasn't enough room for advanced solutions.

While the circumstances for the Wild Brawl Bowl diverged in numerous ways, the similarities were still great. This was why Ves favored a more conservative approach that focused on designing a mech with good basic parameters and enough reliability to remain in peak condition for half-a-dozen mech duels.

Of course, that wasn't enough to win the tournament. Many other design teams were probably designing their mechs along the same lines.

What would truly distinguish the competition mechs from each other were the specialties that the mech designers incorporated in their design.

Ves and Ketis both emphasized their respective specialties from the beginning of the design phase.

Their swordsman mech was not only going to be alive, but also put together in a way that also amplified Lyain Kepper's swordsmanship!

Ves didn't think his contributions would be able to exceed that of Ketis this time. Though he could still add a couple of useful functions related to living mechs to his work, his design partner was the definite authority when it came to swordsman mechs in the clan!

That didn't mean he was content to play second fiddle, though.

Based on his performance in the High Tide Tournament, Ves was still able to affect the success of his competition mech by emphasizing the short-term advantages of his design philosophy.

He had two ways to do that. The first one was to focus on improving the man-machine relationship. This was fairly standard for Ves, but what was different from last time was that he knew the mech pilot in advance.

This made his job a lot easier this time. Together with adopting some of Gloriana's design methods, he was able to align the technical and spiritual design of his competition much more closely to its user this time!

"The mech you'll be piloting in the next phase of this tournament will be a lot more different from what you are accustomed to." Ves already began to explain his distinctive work to Lyain. "It will be hard for me to explain all of the nuances about my living mechs without letting you have a chance to pilot them first, but you'll just have to take my word for it. Some of what I'll say will be hard for you to believe, but know that millions of mech pilots have already sworn by my products."

Ketis added her support for her mentor. "Ves doesn't lie when it comes to his work. I know he'll say stuff that will make you think he's gone mad, but living mechs are truly special."

It was quite helpful for Ves to explain the essence of his work and how it affected the interfacing experience to the mech pilot in advance.

Previously, Ves only met up with his mech pilot after he designed his mech. The highly compressed timetable hardly left any time for him to explain the qualities of a living mech to Gregory Haloscar before the pilot had to fight his first match.

Although Gregory eventually managed to get into tune with the Pontifical Lance and its design spirit, that was only after he lost one match and barely managed to overcome the last and most difficult opponent in the High Tide Tournament.

With all of that hardship in mind, Ves was determined to lower the learning curve and prep Lyain Kepper as much as possible!

It was extremely helpful for Lyain to witness the process of designing his swordsman mech from the ground up. Already he had built up a good idea of what he was about to pilot in a couple of days.

Hopefully, all of this exposure would make Lyain so prepared that he would immediately be able to leverage most of the qualities of his swordsman mech at the start of his first match!

At the same time he was trying to deepen the man-machine relationship between Lyain and his swordsman mech, Ves also worked towards leveraging a design spirit in his work. _{freewēbnoveℓ.com}

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