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[Jonneh]

http://www.pcgamer.c...nlines-new-map/

If you didnt see the leak anyway.

Edit: (I like!)

Good interview with Russ below as well.

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Just to clarify, will every mech inherently have access to thermal vision?

Bullock:

Yeah. Certain things like basic zoom and thermal and whatnot will be given to every mech, and then I think you can think of it like extra layers on top of that. Those might come with modules.

^^ I like this a lot too. Imagine the cool things you could add to your mech with modules based on this kind of idea. I chuckled to myself imagining the second Predator movie when he scrolls through all his vision modes.

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Will update this with some stuff people pick out from the video thats interesting:

Commando cockpit view at 00:12 Credit to Sesambrot (More Commando and Dragon cockpit views throughout, dragon looks cool with its front bulk being visible from the cockpit )

Commando mech viable in the distance here (00:31-34) Credit to Namwons Also 00:55 and 1:17

Mech varients of the Dragon seen (1C & 5N) Credit to Rhavin

Edited by Jonneh, 27 June 2012 - 10:43 AM.

[TheSassySquatch]

Still very good info. Thank you for the post.

[Urulf]

tumbs up! Guess Devs finally noticed the good point of drop some videos from time to time.

[Sesambrot]

The guy in the vid is piloting a Commando!!!
I wanna know what that thing looks like from the outside!

[GuntherK]

Oh man, Russ needs to get some beauty sleep ASAP !
He looks like he hasnt sleep in weeks. He has to relax or he wont last untill launch.
The road to getting filthy rich is hard.

And great interview and video. Looks like another media blowout is closing in.

Edited by GuntherK, 27 June 2012 - 10:06 AM.

[Rhavin]

Thanks for the heads up on this article! Really nice video, saw some mech variants in there that I haven't seen yet, like the Dragon-1C and 5N.

[Elizander]

It would be great if the wind from the snowstorm knocked jumping mechs around in addition to reducing heat buildup.

Edit:

Making lasers unable to fire and making ballistic weaponry + missiles more inaccurate might not be so fun if they went that far with physics and realistic stuff.

Edited by Elizander, 27 June 2012 - 10:09 AM.

[Namwons]

Sesambrot, on 27 June 2012 - 09:58 AM, said:

The guy in the vid is piloting a Commando!!!
I wanna know what that thing looks like from the outside!

you get a glimpse of it at 0:34 and 0:55. one also gets blown up at 1:17

Edited by Namwons, 27 June 2012 - 10:15 AM.

[Jonneh]

I really like the idea that different maps provide you with changes to the meta game. When he talks about the bigger map in the interview being a more snipe-centric creation it gives me a thought;

Will you be able to pick your mech/modules/loadout based on what map is coming up in the next battle? I mean, surely as a Mechwarrior we would equip ourselves out with more Lazers on the cold planet, and perhaps more "snipey" modules etc on the long open map planet.

Is that something that has been considered I wonder?

[Kooky Carter]

Glad they put up an official video of this new map; I'm excited that it seems to have a very different feel than Forest Colony (I'm guessing that's the name of the map we've been seeing in the videos these past months?).

[BFalcon]

Eliz: not sure what high wind would do to even a 20-ton mech, tbh.

That looked awesome... complete white-out suddenly and without warning... I can just imagine that happening and then clearing just to reveal the enemy Atlas stood in front of your Light...

*sigh* another control to try to find a home for on the X-52...

[Lucky Strongarm]

I like that there's an inertia mechanic that prevents larger 'mechs from coming to a quick stop on slippery surfaces such as ice, or slip-n-slides. I so can't wait to blow up alot in August!

[Stormeris]

Nice find dude

[Warfeli]

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Frozen City especially, I would call that a small map. I would call Forest Colony a little bit bigger than that, it’s bordering on a medium-sized map. The next map we’ll announce, I won’t give it a name just yet, but it’s probably at least three or four times bigger than anything people have seen to date. So much bigger

AWESOME. Since the map in the leaked video (frozen whatever map) seemed to be able to support 24 players maximum, I am speculating these 'much bigger' maps will support 32 players and more? Thoughts?

[Midian]

New maps looks deadly. Love the way the different environments will affect 'mech behaviour :-)

[Kobold]

Nitpick for Russ:

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Bullock: The only thing you wouldn’t be able to use much in the caves would be long-range missiles. And at any given time, there’s not a really long stretch in the tunnels, so long-range weapons would not get a lot of use in the tunnels. So I suppose you’d want to go for more short-range missiles, beam weapons, smaller-caliber autocannons, basically up-close-and-personal brawling types of weapons.

In Battletech/MechWarrior you want large caliber autocannons up close.

[Grokmoo]

Warfeli, on 27 June 2012 - 10:20 AM, said:

AWESOME. Since the map in the leaked video (frozen whatever map) seemed to be able to support 24 players maximum, I am speculating these 'much bigger' maps will support 32 players and more? Thoughts?

Unfortunately it looks like 12 v 12 will be the maximum at launch. Maybe later.

[PiroGoth]

Loving the ideas behind this map, wish I had access to have a go on it already

[Jonneh]

Grokmoo, on 27 June 2012 - 10:30 AM, said:

Unfortunately it looks like 12 v 12 will be the maximum at launch. Maybe later.

Yeah, I think the idea of the larger maps is more to give you different playstyles. Longer flanks to race down, more access paths from point to point so its not just a cluster frag when everyone gets to the middle. That kind of thing.

Edited by Jonneh, 27 June 2012 - 10:41 AM.

[Dagger6T6]