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Which one is the bad guys, or is this one of those "everyone is bad" things?

I've never really known anything about the MW universe.

MrDwhitey wrote:Which one is the bad guys, or is this one of those "everyone is bad" things?

I've never really known anything about the MW universe.

Its more of a team thing..... us vs them.

Yeah, Innersphere has the numbers, where as Clan has the tech/skills, if I remember right.


Oh, and Innersphere has the Atlas, so that makes up for quite a bit.

The Atlas is living proof that Superior Technology just don't matter in the face of Superior Firepower.

Honestly I don't really mind what we go as, as long as it doesn't restrict mechs that much.

Can you play as an Elemental? I miss MW2...

Still waiting on the Panther previews to hit.

Scambone wrote:Can you play as an Elemental? I miss MW2...

No. The game is set before the clan invasion.

Which unfortunately means no Mad Cat *tears*

Oh well life goes on. Did the Uziel exist before the Clan Invasion?

Hm.

Clan invasion took place at 3049, and according to Sarna's wiki, the Uziel was part of the 3067 'mechs. IT is listed as a dark age 'mech too, which makesit even more unlikely as the dark age was well after the end of the clan invasion. Short answer, probably not. Long answer: I would really have to check the specific datasheets to determine when it was first made, but it seems unlikely.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/

Have you seen the new update? OMG! Massive details on pilotting and fire control. Actual screenshot of cockpit.
Atlas vs Atlas battle in the offing.... at medium range from the look.

Yeh, looks like the way I kept changing my controls because I didn't want to use a joystick.

Not sure what to think of this, as I hold my mouse diagnolly. Do you guys think that might affect it?

Nope, to the mouse it isn't diagonal only to you.

Well, what I mean is that most people hold it like this:

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I hold mine like this:

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So will I still be going Side to Side, or will Ibe having to move it diagnally?

You won't have a problem, since you canm surf the net, you can probably co-ordanate your hand fine.

True.

Bah, sorry guys, worried about something has me all sorts of jittery.


So of the seven mechs announced so far, which would you guys say is closest to my precious Summoner?

I thought you were being a smartass, not serious.

Also how far is it set before the clan war again? The Summoner shows up at about 2872 so may be in, but I'm not sure.

n0t_u wrote:I thought you were being a smartass, not serious.

My good sir, I am one of the most serious people on this site.

Also how far is it set before the clan war again? The Summoner shows up at about 2872 so may be in, but I'm not sure.

That would make me really, really happy.

Not sure where you're getting that the Summoner is around in 2872, at least in the IS. Depending on release, the Clan invasion won't happen for at least a year.

As for closest to the summoner, I'd say either a Cataphract (if it's around at the time) or a Grand Dragon.

Oh I know that (Asked that a couple pages back ), but aren't there only seven of them announced right now?

Got it from here.
http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Summoner_(Thor)

It just says it was introduced in 2872. No idea how accurate it was.

Ah. It may have been introduced in 2872, but that's only for the Clans, which are not in MW:O yet. Timeline (as I put in my earlier post) has them invading at some point next year. And there is no information on what/when Clan 'mechs will be available.

Would have been interesting to see a more modern approach to it, but guess we'll see it in a year or so.

It's more interesting to see pre-clan 'mechs in play.

I am completely in love with whatever artist(s) they have working on this. They've managed to take what are arguably some of the ugliest mechs in the series and make them look like something I would actually be proud to pilot! Even the Jenner doesn't look as horrible as it used to.

I'm sure it still has the Movie Theatre Cockpit though. That poor mech was such a joke in the game. Oh look! Jenner! ... Locking On... LRM's Away... Cockpit Destroyed.

I guess I'll have to dial back my way-back machine to find a good IS Mech I like. There were a few, but I was always a Clanner for some reason. I'd kill for a Cerberus, but that is definitely NOT in this timeline.

I'm verymuch looking forward to the InfoWar stuff, as well as seeing what I can do for a Command Mech. A lot of ya'll seem to be totally gung-ho about your roles, and none of them seem to be sitting in that command chair barking orders and giving updates. I'm not afraid to slug it out, but I was in love with the approach Chromehounds took on Command.

Even AC5 is going to have a 'handler'. I'm not sure how that's going to work, but I'm certainly interested.

I like the idea of Dakka forming a Merc corp. I don't think we should even bother with a 'color scheme' though. If we can make a symbol to tack on to all our Mechs, cool, but we're a community of Wargamers! No way we're all going to agree on a scheme. We'd be much better represented by our individuality, combined with our abilities to Metagame and work together.

If we work as a kickass team, it doesn't matter what we look like.

I signed up with my pilot name... not callsign, but my actual Pilot name I used back when my friends and I used to play ALL the time. Tabletop, RPGs, Online... oh the addiction.

Someone have a list going of our names? If not I'll scroll back through the past 14 pages and write em' down. Or we could post a spot on the forrms over there and we could all check in.

Yeah, some dumbass little gak sitting back giving me orders is just going to be ignored.

Amen to that. A Commander is in a Battlemech, that's an asset! You need to be out there laying down fire and slugging it out with the rest of them.

Unless you're hiding in a command APC somewhere, you need to be pulling the trigger.

I'm still digging for more info on how the command stuff is going to work, but I'm thinking that's going to be my bag. Poor Mike, a mechanic turned pilot turned battlefield commander. I bet he wished he kept turning wrenches.

More likely than not it involves not actually commanding anything.

Probably has better com devices and that's about it or something like that. I do think we need some form of leadership though, in maybe a squad by squad basis. Of course not being too knowledgeable about mechs I definitely won't give out any orders.

Probably. I figure it's target designation with a splash of assisting in coordination.

I figured proper ECW would be performed by the mid-range Scouts. Mechs like the Raven which are pure badass for that sort of thing.

But the 'command' might have some support tricks or something. Chromehounds made the Command useful because it made you a mobile beacon to make sure your troops could stay connected. You could lay out a little hurt if you needed to, but you were no frontline combatant.