From a taxtical standpoint thermal imaging would invalidate it but before anyone else brings that up minovsky particles disrupt the IR frequencies and they would absolutely have made other counters to thermal optics in the UC
Robots wearing your moms shaggy 1970s pussy don't sell as good.
>>23587604I mean at strong enough concentrations even visible light gets screwed up by Minovsky Particles, there's a reason Dummy Balloons work after all
When you climb into a 60 foot tall mobile suit, stealth isn't your goal. If a mobile suit did have cameo it would have to be some sort of cloaking system, that makes it invisible. Or maybe a non reflective paint that makes it blend into the blackness of space. But then without radar, things might run into it.
>>23587604You can't camouflage robots, they're too big.
>>23587877I thought that was more the MS' sensors detecting a silhouette and marking it as the target
Mobile Suits are toys. So the answer is no.
>>23587955This
From a tactical standpoint, they shouldn't even be designed with aesthetics.
>>23587604I could see the benefit of disguising a mech when it's idle outside of the hangar, but in combat they're either in open space or the biggest thing around. Even kneeling the mech is gonna have it's glowing eye head poking up out of most treelines
>>23587959The eyes don't actually glow, it just looks cool for the audience. Cameras don't glow.
>>23587964They're giant lens. It's gonna reflect the sun at least. Like a massive sniper scope.
>>23587903>>23587926Bright colors will reflect more sunlight and GMs will stand out a mile awayLine of sight is a thing, you clown
