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Melissia wrote:I still remember MW2 Mercenaries... yeah, I'm a dork. But still. I kitted out my 'mechs completely custom...

That game was fantastic, i really miss it. I loved watching the clan invasion happen and the getting imprisioned by clan forces. I liked the holding the line against them at the end. The championships were great too.

As for customizing the mechs I liked to strip the armour off everything but the legs on the Atlas and load it with as many jump jets and fuel as i could then land on enemies DFA. Elementals were hard to hit but satisfying

I remember in MW3 the customization wasn't too bad. I remember filling an annihilator with PPCs and removinging all the heatsinks. If you hit the alphastike button you'd go nuclear and make a creator in the ground

Based on colors, I vote Lyran, just have a thing for Black and Gold.
I wonder if it might be possible to allign with Rasalhague.....

I'm not biased to any House, myself, my preferred Clan being willing to sell and trade with any of them.

Melissia wrote:Err, what? Victor made mistakes, he fethed up big time in quite a few places. He was the "protagonist" sure, but he wasn't perfect...

I guess it's just bothered me that the was ALWAYS the protagonist.

Unite the FedCom? Victor!
Form the Star League? Victor!
Destroy the Smoke Jaguars? Victor!
Get a 'Mech named after you? Victor!

He wasn't, though. Heck, even Sun-Tzu Liao got to be protagonist in some books...


Man. Talk about an incestuous family... poor Liaos...

Never bothered with the politics of the game.
However.... Have a strong dislike for Comstar.


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So.. who has their SN already?

Mine is the same as here.

Melissia wrote:He wasn't, though. Heck, even Sun-Tzu Liao got to be protagonist in some books...


Man. Talk about an incestuous family... poor Liaos...

I do realize that he wasn't the protagonist in every book. However, there really aren't any that he is in where he isn't the protagonist. I think that's what got to me more than anything. Sun-Tzu is vilified as often as he is glorified, same with Hohiro, Thomas Marik, or any other character. But, hey, we all have our opinions.

For those of you crying out for Mad Cats, a bit of good news:

Piranha Games wrote:
Are there any Mechs that you are scared of rebooting?

Probably the Timber Wolf, I know that if I mess that one up, I will never hear the end of it, and will probably have to try to outrun a few pitchfork wielding mobs.

Although at this point there is no information on being able to play as/against the Clans or the availability of Clan tech. This is a reboot, so timeline can be shifted, however in theory at least they wouldn't be seen until 2013 (3050 BTech time). Then again, that's only a year after the theoretical release.

helgrenze wrote:
So.. who has their SN already?

Mine is the same as here.

Went with my other online tag, Occam.

Shrike325 wrote:

Melissia wrote:He wasn't, though. Heck, even Sun-Tzu Liao got to be protagonist in some books...


Man. Talk about an incestuous family... poor Liaos...

I do realize that he wasn't the protagonist in every book. However, there really aren't any that he is in where he isn't the protagonist. I think that's what got to me more than anything. Sun-Tzu is vilified as often as he is glorified, same with Hohiro, Thomas Marik, or any other character. But, hey, we all have our opinions.

For those of you crying out for Mad Cats, a bit of good news:

Piranha Games wrote:
Are there any Mechs that you are scared of rebooting?

Probably the Timber Wolf, I know that if I mess that one up, I will never hear the end of it, and will probably have to try to outrun a few pitchfork wielding mobs.

Although at this point there is no information on being able to play as/against the Clans or the availability of Clan tech. This is a reboot, so timeline can be shifted, however in theory at least they wouldn't be seen until 2013 (3050 BTech time). Then again, that's only a year after the theoretical release.

Looks like the players are taking Clans into their own hands as Merc Companies.

I may be a Sea Fox Clanner, but I'd rather stand by my Dakka brothers and sisters.

IF I had to pick a clan, it'd be nova cat or ghost bear...

I honestly always liked Wolf's Dragoons, but apparently one of the makers of BattleTech never did and wrote them out the fiction. Sad Hat.

Oh, man, if we can somehow ally with the Clans (though what clan would hire a bunch of Freebirth mercenary scum?! I assume we'd be able to roll Clan characters and their "mercenary companies" would be Sibkos or something)... Clan Smoke Jaguar. Sure, they got wrecked by Clan Ghost Bear. Sure they were, in fact, completely and totally annihilated. Don't care. They had the crazy, and for whatever reason, I love the crazy.

LordofHats wrote:I honestly always liked Wolf's Dragoons, but apparently one of the makers of BattleTech never did and wrote them out the fiction. Sad Hat.

Err, what? No they didn't...

The Wolf's Dragoons were and still are the most famous merc company ever made, and play a hugely important role in the story of battletech. They are even held as the aloof ideal of what a merc company is supposed to be. One of their members was TWICE made into a very important member of the Wolf Clan-- Natasha Kerensky, the leader of the Black Widow Company, who used to be a Star Colonel before the Wolf's Dragoons were formed and who rose to become a Khan in the Wolf Clan after the Clan Invasion.

Hell she was so well respected that the Jade Falcons left her a memorial after she died. For those who don't understand this, the Jade Falcons were the Wolf clan's biggest rivals.

Sure the Dragoons had some trouble in the ranks after the clan invasion (because of the disparity of their internal demographics-- trueborn clanners, freeborn clanners, clanners captured in the clan invasion, inner sphere members of every house) but they eventually put those troubles aside and there's no mention of the group dissolution.

Really? Sweet. I was under the impression that the Dragoons were written off years ago as being destroyed in battle and removed from fiction in some big massacre.

If the Dragoons are still around I really wish an option existed to join them

LordofHats wrote:Really? Sweet. I was under the impression that the Dragoons were written off years ago as being destroyed in battle and removed from fiction in some big massacre.

If the Dragoons are still around I really wish an option existed to join them

Wolf's Dragoons actually played a huge part in ensuring the Inner Sphere wasn't utterly destroyed by the Clan invasion...

Yes, I've read too many of the novels lol...

Melissia wrote:

LordofHats wrote:Really? Sweet. I was under the impression that the Dragoons were written off years ago as being destroyed in battle and removed from fiction in some big massacre.

If the Dragoons are still around I really wish an option existed to join them

Wolf's Dragoons actually played a huge part in ensuring the Inner Sphere wasn't utterly destroyed by the Clan invasion...

Yes, I've read too many of the novels lol...

I've only really played MechWarrior 4 V+Mercs and Mech Assault 1 & 2

Around the same time I picked up a copy of MechWarrior 4 I also got my hands on Dawn of War. Warhammer 40k won the fiction battle

Battletech has FAR better written books than black library, believe me...

Though in battletech there are no aliens, so it's purely a human affair.

Melissia wrote:Battletech has FAR better written books than black library, believe me...

Though in battletech there are no aliens, so it's purely a human affair.

Untrue. Far Country. Only one book, but hey, it's there!

I too have read too many BTech books (I think them all). Although, I agree that the written books are better than BL books.

Melissia wrote:Battletech has FAR better written books than black library, believe me...

Though in battletech there are no aliens, so it's purely a human affair.

I don't mean the books just the universe. 40k pulled me in more than BattleTech did and I've never really gone back and explored that content.

I actually find the lack of aliens intriguing though. Aliens are such a staple of scifi I think most people expect them.

As mentioned there was That One Book, but everyone likes to forget about That One Book.

As for the universe, well... the books define the universe, so... yeah. They tell the story of what's going on in the various realms.

First developer interview up - some pretty nice pics of various Atlas concepts, and the interviewee seems like a pretty awesome guy.

Linky

That Atlas looks nice.

helgrenze wrote:So.. who has their SN already?

Mine is the same as here.

Doesn't hurt anything to get it out of the way early, went with Iustis.

I've read like 10 or so battletech books... without having ever played the miniature game. Yes, they kick the crap out of 40k literature for the most part (I'd say Eisenhorn is on par with it).

I just might have to buy a new subwoofer for my computer, because the old one just isn't up to it. Oh, yeah I like assault 'mechs. Nothing like stomping around destroying a little bird-walker with every LRM 20 shot.

No comp specs as yet... but I should probably upgrade/update my 6yo system.
Still on a single core processor, with an agp video card.

warpcrafter wrote:I just might have to buy a new subwoofer for my computer, because the old one just isn't up to it. Oh, yeah I like assault 'mechs. Nothing like stomping around destroying a little bird-walker with every LRM 20 shot.

Sure there is.


Being a little bird walker that marks a giant assault mech with a NARC and then escapes before it can react, letting its allies pound it with their entire missile arsenal with perfect accuracy at extended range

Melissia wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:I just might have to buy a new subwoofer for my computer, because the old one just isn't up to it. Oh, yeah I like assault 'mechs. Nothing like stomping around destroying a little bird-walker with every LRM 20 shot.

Sure there is.


Being a little bird walker that marks a giant assault mech with a NARC and then escapes before it can react, letting its allies pound it with their entire missile arsenal with perfect accuracy at extended range

See, I like the way you think on this Mel. If we get a Dakka group going, sounds like it's going to be you in a little scout, and then some serious fire support from the rest of the lance (3 Stalkers? 1 Stalker and a couple of Catapults?)

And a Blood asp? :3 (if it's in)

Shrike325 wrote:

Melissia wrote:

warpcrafter wrote:I just might have to buy a new subwoofer for my computer, because the old one just isn't up to it. Oh, yeah I like assault 'mechs. Nothing like stomping around destroying a little bird-walker with every LRM 20 shot.

Sure there is.


Being a little bird walker that marks a giant assault mech with a NARC and then escapes before it can react, letting its allies pound it with their entire missile arsenal with perfect accuracy at extended range

See, I like the way you think on this Mel. If we get a Dakka group going, sounds like it's going to be you in a little scout, and then some serious fire support from the rest of the lance (3 Stalkers? 1 Stalker and a couple of Catapults?)

Sure. I love playing light 'mechs, anything from 45t down (basically lower medum to superlight).

I prefer Med to most other classes (or a light heavy). Just too hard to give up on the speed of that range but it's nice to have a little more firepower than a light.