>>5269088>>5269110>>5269122I've had an idea like this as well. I wanted to focus on more obscure characaters with the major players like Optimus, Megatron, Bumblebee,and starscream MIA. Laser based weaponry would be forgone in lieu of ammo and melee weapons. TFCybertron Crosswise was one character I was thinking of using as a protagonist, since I think he was somewhat interesting and I like his hunter persona. BW Maximals/Predacons(mainly non-show characters) would exist as envoys between humans and TFs, as trackers since they're more acclimated to the landscape of Earth that makes up most of the surface, and able to consume far less fuel than Autobots and decepticons. Crosswise would travel with K-9, as an homage to MadMax. He'd meet up with other Autobots and a few human resistance fighters like Landmine and they'd start to form their own ragtag group.
One of the first villains they'd fight would be Overlord, who would be revealed in the end to be a corpse piloted by two humans.
Stratosphere was going to be an important deus ex Machina,as he was the only one with enough fuel to take the main characters across the ocean to meet up with an autobot Resistence cell lead by sentinel Magnus(basically a more serious take on the Animated version with some influence from the dotM sentinel). Sentinel would lead the pretense of bringing back the old Autobot order, when in truth he's using both human and cybertronian slave labor to rebuild the remains of Metroplex into the first of "New Cybertron".