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The legs on a person are only about 1/3rd of the mass of the individuals, a lot of that is because they have to carry more weight on their limited frames though. Since the weight of the torso would be the same, each leg on a quad (or more) mech could be considerably thinner across the board...

Well, yes, that's why I referenced the Tachikoma as a good counter example. In both this mech and the Convenant one you showed the center of gravity is lower than the knees, which makes them very stable. But if you contrast that with an AT-AT and they are so unbalanced that even most of the...

Quads seem like they have a lot of problems. Quadrupeds bounce a lot when they walk, so that kind of motion would not be ideal for a manned craft, and quadrupeds are actually white easy to trip, flip and disable (dog wrestling talking). I'd probably just go for a full spider-bot instead...