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I discovered Battletech back in '93 and have been a fanatic ever since; I can't wait for this game to come out. I'll definitely be getting one of those Founder's packages. I also need to do some serious research into joystick setups; I haven't had one in a long time but, for a game like this, I want the full effect.
Confirmed Mechs: (from pics, and the MWO forums)
Atlas
Awesome
Catapult
Dragon
Hunchback
Centurion
Cicada
Jenner
Raven
Commando
And it looks like the Atlas, Catapult, Hunchback, and Jenner will be tied in to the founders packages?
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Mechs might start diverse, but will end up the same, especially if the game uses something akin to Battletech rules, as it appears to do for mech creation. This is what happend to all the other mechwarrior games.
IS factions are not supposed to be able to completely configure a mech, swapping out a weapon is about as much as should happen. Rebuilds should be limited, perhaps by having threshold limits for equipment change beyond which you pay a minor penalty either in heat management or speed.
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I'd count the Urbanmech as confirmed as well. It was in some of their art that they released at a certain threshold of likes on Facebook. They haven't shown their version, but it is all but bound to be in there.
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Gitzbitah wrote:I'd count the Urbanmech as confirmed as well. It was in some of their art that they released at a certain threshold of likes on Facebook. They haven't shown their version, but it is all but bound to be in there.
The urbanmech... my favorite semi-ambulatory turret! It has it's uses in the boardgame as a dirt-cheap gun platform, but I'm curious to see whether it can fill a niche in MWO, or if it will ultimately be a novelty- the 'slow gun platform' can be pulled off better by almost everything else in the game. It'll be fun to see, either way.
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With the mechs changing this much they should do more unseen.
Were the original cataphract someone elses property this would clearly be different enough.
Warhammer please, Crusader please, Locust double special please.
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Ravenblade666 wrote:And today's new mech is... the cataphract
Spoiler:
You just made my day. Cataphract is one of my all time favorites. Move aside, Centurion, 'cause I know what I'll be piloting on launch day.
Orlanth wrote:Warhammer please, Crusader please, Locust double special please.
And the Thunderbolt, and the Archer, and the Phoenix Hawk, and the Shadow Hawk, and the Marauder... I'd love to see some reseens make it into the game.
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I still want to see the Panther, Valkyrie, and Stalker. They also need some more heavies.
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12. Three per weight class (light, medium, heavy, assault).
With more to be released as time goes on.
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You can pick between one of four starting 'mechs, one of each weight class. Or something.
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If I had my guess, I'd say your starting 'mech will be a choice between the Jenner, the Centurion, the Cataphract or the Dragon, and the Atlas.
I know that it's gonna be one per weight category, I jsut don't know which ones.
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Dunno, I think the awesome's ppc boat would be more popular.
But I was actually kinda picking generalists.
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Activated my Beta, I think now would be as good a time as any to start working out how the DakkaCorps will work, considering we will all be in different timezones, are we just gonna have a nominated set of lance leaders per timezone, with other members nominating their roles here on the forums and allowing the nominated lance leaders to form ad-hoc lances? That's how I would do it personally, but we are a group, so we should work something out we can all agree on.
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Ledabot wrote:I'm not even going to try activating. Not surporting overseas
Actually, they said they're going to have an overseas beta eventually. It's just that they're still arranging for the servers necessary for it.
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Soladrin wrote:If you read the Q&A's theres quite a few restrictions.
Weapons can only be placed in areas that had weapons to begin with. So for instance, no weapons in a hunchbacks left torso.
They also have a slot system for fitting in weapons.
Not enough. The slot system is actually standard battletech. Modding mechs is permissable, but discouraged on a large scale.
As for limiting guns to where they are already, that just saves on unit skins. Nothing to stop anyone from replacing the armament exclusively with large pulse lasers and heat sinks. Ultimately that will be all anyone sees.
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