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I'm on the merc version... I do have a copy of vengance and the black knight expansion

Its all on the bottom left of the screen. It has heat sinks with a box to the right for the number and Top speed/ Engine upgrade just below it and another box to the right of that showing the top speed the mech can run at.

Are you just complaining about not being able to place the sinks in the different slots or are you just unable to see them.

Kind of what I was wondering too.

I was being made of fail as I couldn't see it... I'm going to load it up in a minute and see if I can be made of less fail



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yesss Ummm sorry I was apparently utilising mechlab with my eyes closed........ many thanks for the advice

mullet_steve wrote:well Dannygee are you planning to join a house (booo Boring Booo) or join us dakka corps in our merc unit?

sign me up lol

not my unit and we haven't officialy formed yet... I believe we planning to create the unit on aug 7th when the founders early access goes Online...... but as I said I'm not fit to take charge

Dirty gaijin mercenaries. Kodeneta-banzai!

Do you people intend to align with one of the Great Houses or will you stay neutral?

Merc is where the money is at. House is where you have free support....Merc since your job options are so better

Yeah, but mercenaries can still take contracts from the Houses.

Don't you dare working for the dirty FedComs!

We will align with whomever can pay the bills at the time.

Here's the spider

Lots of light mechs, where are the heavy hitters like the fafnir or the annihilator?

fafnir wan't around in 3049 was it?

Plus I think they want to make the lights more appealing

Deathshead420 wrote:where are the heavy hitters

Atlas
Awesome
Cataphract
Catapult
Dragon
Stalker

fafnir wan't around in 3049 was it?

Im not really hip to the battletech timelines.

@ Lynata maybe I worded that wrong. I should have said where are the assault mechs.

Deathshead420 wrote:@ Lynata maybe I worded that wrong. I should have said where are the assault mechs.

Oh. Okay.

Atlas
Awesome
Stalker



But really, 15 mechs for 4 weight classes ... that would mean a "fair" quota being 3.75 mechs per weight class so far. Assaults take 3, and it's not impossible that mech #16 will be a 4th one. So Assaults aren't really underrepresented.

Basicly, The next mech will be an assault mech; Several guesses as to what it will be though. I'm going for the highlander or the cyclops, the mauler just doesn't have enough variants to convince me that they will be using it.

I hope for the cyclops.

Both are really cool, and deserve a spot in the game. I'm quite split for what I want more.

Highlander I hope.

Actually, People are rocking twin AC20's on the C4 (or whichever one has the machine guns) since it has balistic slots you can in theory slot them in, so, people threw away some armor etc. to get more free weight and threw those in. They are one trick ponies though, they can't carry a lot of ammo, the effective range is Abysmal and enemies will gut you even faster due to the lack of armor.

I tried this just to see and you have to dump all your armor and then have only 10 rounds, five for each. It didn't work so well. So then I replaced the two 20's with 10's and took 75 rounds and half armor and it worked much much better. I got 4 kills in the first game and 2 in the next.

I'm hoping for the BattleMaster for the next Assault reveal. It's just so classic that I feel it has to be there.

That's one of the unseen though, isn't it? I don't think they're going to poke that sleeping dog while they still have the Clans and hundreds of Inner Sphere mechs to choose from. I expect a Victor or Zeus- the Cyclops just feels like an Atlas-lite, and they haven't done any Steiner/Lyran assaults yet.

I kind of hope for a Charger, but that'll be useless until they introduce melee combat.

-edited to change Vindicator to Victor- my hands typed what I really want to see, not what I meant to type.

3025 Assaults we might see:
Charger
Victor
Zeus
Cyclops
Banshee
Hatamoto Chi
Daiboku (aka Mauler)

I think that the next assault mech will almost certainly come from this list. Everything we've seen so far, except for the Raven and the Cataphract, are 3025 designs, and the Raven and Cataphract have both been added to the original 3025 group of mechs in the new 'low tech' readout, TRO 3039. If the first 15 mechs are all in TRO 3039, I suspect that number 16 will be, as well...




2750 Mechs, plus 3050 oddballs, plus Unseen:
Thug
Highlander
King Crab
Crockett (aka Katana)

Shogun
Annihilator
Imp

Goliath
Longbow
Marauder II

The first four are 2750 era, Star League designs. They're all solid mechs in their own right. However, none of the previous 15 mechs were 2750 Star League designs, I suspect that number 16 will not be, either. Interestingly, the Crockett/Katana was excluded from the newer TRO 3039, which is the replacement for the old TRO 2750 and TRO 3025 (as far as I can recall, it's the only mech to be excluded in that fashion).

The second three (Plus the Marauder II, below) are 'orphans' that appeared in the original TRO 3050, and some of them were also present in 2750. However, none of them are in TRO 3025, and they're all pretty obscure and, for the most part, not very memorable. Again, I think these are longshots. With that being said, the almighty Cataphract, along with the Raven, were not amongst the original 3025 mechs; they were written for 3050 (though they were retconned into the reprint), so it's not inconceivable that mech 16 is something from one of these 8 machines.

The final three are Unseen. No other Unseen have made it into the game, and honestly, these are pretty much the least iconic of the Unseen anyway. They're not necessarily bad designs, just not as iconic as the other Unseen, IMHO. If one of these gets in the game before the Marauder, Warhammer, TBolt, Crusader, Thunderbolt...



I expect the next assault mech to the the Zeus or the Banshee. They're original, they're iconic, they've got a ton of variants, and they're suitably different from the Atlas, Awesome, and Stalker. The Victor might also be a contender, since it's the only Assault of the original bunch that can jump. The Cyclops, while a cool design, is essentially Atlas Jr. Charger's a lost cause, Hatamoto Chi and Thug are cool designs but similar in loadout to the Awesome. King Crab is a monster on paper, but it's bad range and pathetic ammo stores (5 shots each for the cannons, 8 shots for the LRMs) would really affect it's playability in MWO. The Highlander, Daiboku (Mauler), or Crockett (Katana) would also be pretty cool to see, all three are solid scrappers (the Mauler especially so, once you replace those quad AC2's with a pair of LB-10x's). The highlander also has the ability to jump, putting it on a very short list with the Victor for jumping Assault mechs, which could make it more a more attractive choice.

Lynata wrote:

Deathshead420 wrote:where are the heavy hitters

Atlas
Awesome
Cataphract
Catapult
Dragon
Stalker

Great list of mechs, the Awesome is literally one of my favourite mechs in both looks and pain bringing to others. Although I do like seeing Victors and also Devastators, though think the Dev may be far too new tech?

I admit tha I like the dragon and the grand dragon...

I admit tha I like the dragon and the grand dragon...

I'm not so sure you will have that opinion once you play the game.

The Devastator was unveiled in TRO 3055, but according to the fluff, it was a late Star-League prototype that was rediscovered in 3023 and put into production by Davion engineers in 3048 (low-tech prototypes were built earler). It's a real monster. I don't think it will be mech number 16, though- nothing else from TRO 3055 has been spotted, and there are still a few really iconic 3050's that have yet to be seen.

The Dragon, like almost anything else that relies on an AC5 as it's main gun, feels like a bit of a lightweight (especially since MWO has doubled armor values). The Ultra improves things somewhat, but not by much. The Grand Dragon is a little better; while still undergunned compared to many other designs in the 55 to 65 ton range, the Grand Dragon is startlingly fast. Better yet, it's almost certainly better armored than anything else at that speed band (6/9 speed with ~11 tons of armor and 6 tons of internal). Despite the virtues of the design, the Dragon variants in MWO are pretty poor- IMO they feel hamstrung by the hardpoint system (the Center Torso missile hardpoint is hampered by the fact that the CT has only 2 critical slots so can't mount a LRM 15 or 20; the main gun is a ballistic hardpoint but it's a real stretch tonnage-wise to get a Gauss Rifle or AC20 in there, etc). It's fat belly makes the CT a big target (though I believe this has been remediated somewhat), and the high price of engines means you're going to have to invest a ton of cash into the Dragon if you want to improve it (either by slowing it down and upgunning it, or dropping in a high output XL engine for more speed).

Thought I would post these links for people that don't go to game trailers on the reg.

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/5r7b7l/mechwarrior-online-developer-diary--centurion-reveal

http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/tdyc0l/mechwarrior-online-developer-diary--frozen-city-reveal

Ah. I've already seen them.

As I said, I put my cards on the hunchback. What You say about the cyclops is true though, I think the banshee is more likely than that now.