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They posted art for the Flea today. I wonder how fast it's going to feel compared to the Jenner?

I'm really get tired of the lag mechs, er I mean light mechs. It's funny to watch them run into stuff and glide around on the floor and reappear somewhere completely new. I know it can't be only me that has that happen to them. The new ravens seem really bad for this.

I wanted to toss this out before , If anyone wants to play send me a pm. It would be nice to play with a few people instead of lone wolfn' it.

I don't like the raven. First and foremost the footstep noise sounds like an alarm or something. It's slightly annoying. However, the biggest reason I dislike it is because compared to the jener, it's slower but more heavily armored.

If you think armor is more important than armaments and speed, you shouldn't be playing a light.

EDIT

Yep, I goofed. I unfamiliar with the flea chassis, and when I made my raven I called it a flea, which I imagine led to some confusion when I responded to the post. Apologies gents.

Yeah, though I prefer lights I think a medium would have been nicer.

Wait what? I thought the flea was a lighter frame than the jenner. 25tons? How can it have more armour on it?

It does have one advantage and that's that it could be smaller than the other lights. The jenner is quite bulky.

I'm guessing he is talking about the raven, as the flea isn't in game yet and he mentions the sound fx and the movement speed.

Actually the Flea is 20 tons...

Hey I am so getting this-ive always loved Mech Warrior.

My pilot name is Blood Rose so chalk me up-youll be encountering me soon

Ah crap-still got to get a PC-but hey i can do(not tempting fate and touch wood )

[edit] wait wheres the Timberwolf? [/edit]

With the clans a bit later.

Their is no clan mechs till the clan invasion. You could think of it as a expansion that will be coming out. Its still at least a year off though.

Well then, the NDA is apparently lifted now.

I got a Beta invite, but my Video Card isn't supported. Sad face (had the invite for a while.)

I took my raven and mounted not only an AC20 onto it but also an engine that lets it go 100kph.

I have had to cool off for a while, I cant sit there and play the same 4 maps over and over lone wolf style just to get enough Cbills to buy a mech that i have been playing with for the last three months.

Maybe when they introduce a new map or mech I'll hop back in.

BTW I never see anyone that is in the OP online, when do you guys normally play?

I took a time out for a month as well, but since about two weeks I'm playing again - and I'm once more hooked. The recent patches had introduced two new maps and a bunch of new 'mechs and equipment such as Narc beacons and TAG, though so far I only tried out the latter. They also reworked some of the cockpits and optimised the netcode and the game engine; runs much smoother now (most irritating: before I occasionally had mechs get "blurred out" when they got close, that really didn't look pretty at all, so good that it doesn't happen anymore).

Me, I am usually playing for about an hour or so, some time after I get home from work (meaning anywhere between 2:00-6:00 am GMT), though for weekends it can happen at almost any time that I feel the urge to don a cooling vest and strap myself into the pilot seat.

Speaking of new features ...

MWO wrote:Upcoming:
- Endo Steel (October 16)
- Double Heat Sinks (October 16)
- Ferro-Fibrous Armor (October 16)
- New Game Mode: Advanced Base Capture (October 23 or 30)
- Cicada (Early October)
- New Map: River City Alternate (Early October)
- Beagle Active Probe (Late October)
- Artemis (Late October)
- Camo/Color Patterns in Mechlab (Late October)
- Battlemech Cockpit Items (Late October)

 Deathshead420 wrote:
I have had to cool off for a while, I cant sit there and play the same 4 maps over and over lone wolf style just to get enough Cbills to buy a mech that i have been playing with for the last three months.

Maybe when they introduce a new map or mech I'll hop back in.

BTW I never see anyone that is in the OP online, when do you guys normally play?

Honestly, I only play when friends are on at the moment. Because when open beta drops everything resets, I really don't feel like grinding yet. I've got my jenner, my k2 dual ac20 cata, and my fatlas. Don't want anything else. So for now it's strictly play with friends or play something else.

Besides, pugs can make you rage so hard. If it's not people who still don't understand how a ppc work, it's the ones that fire LRMS in close quarters. The game has been out for a while, and I see these things still happening all the time. URGH

And I'm in a completely different time zone.

Tag system, I've come to enjoy. I swapped my Commando over from a 1B to a 2D, throwing Tag and as many SSRMs it can carry. I tried a game or two with it set up as a Sling before switching to the SSRMs.


I have tried the Raven, but ended up selling it as it wasn't as fun as I thought it'd be. The cockpit looks nice though.

I've been really enjoying my raven. Its a bit slower than I would like but overall, its small size helps keep the heat off. I upgraded the engine to assist too. Until I save for an awesome or a cicada, I will be rocking that.

I got the 4X, figure the weight restriction and machine guns being next to useless is probably what threw me off of it.

Looks like the Highlander is the next assault mech!

It's good to see that they finally have revealed it. Its been talked about for a while since they showed the picture for it in PC power play or something like that. They were just trying to mix it up a bit apparently.

Yep, they revealed it in the PC gamer. The hero mech though people are still wondering on. I'd like Yen Lo Wang and it seems to be a popular wish list for it, but that's because I like the Centurion a bit. But, in the current timeline it'd pretty much just be a AH with only a AC/20. Which I like to run anyway, but has some pretty big limitations (namely you want a urban map or something like that (duck out shoot, retreat for reload and attack from a new direction)). Give it a few months and it gets its upgrade to a gauss and a few med pulses.

It really does seem to be the Yen Lo Wang. Apparently the custom paintjob is already in the client files, and someone edited them to have it applied to the CN9-AL:



Rawr.

But how do you like the new Cicada screenshot? Also note the winter version of Forest Colony!


[edit] lol, accidentally wrote Yen Lo Want instead of Wang.

At least it isn't the highlander the others were going on about.

Sadly, for some reason despite now exceeding the minimum standards I cannot get this game to function properly :/ it appears to be my processor, I guess. I suppose I'll wait for them to optimize it more.

Hmm, my pc is always lagging too, but being quite new, Its not really the computers fault. I blame the fact I live 20000km away for the nearest server in the US.

Different types of lag.

Now that the NDA is up, should we start discussing what builds we have found to work so far?

Well Commando is flat out just 3 SSRMs and either a med laser or tag.

Looking forward to the next update to improve the Centurion a fair bit, not so much looking at Yen Lo Wang coming.

Catapult is brutal if you get the K2 and go for 2x Gauss Rifles.

Or the A1 with 6x streaks.

Yesterday I was taking out my streakapult, and I literally 1 shot a commando. Blew off his arm, chain reaction from ammo cooking off took out his shoulder, where he had an XL engine. Was pretty awesome.