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[Brody319]

http://mwomercs.com/...anmech-day-6-11


seems legit.

[Deathlike]

I'm pretty sure that would crash the servers hard.

[Brody319]

Deathlike, on 01 April 2015 - 10:12 AM, said:

I'm pretty sure that would crash the servers hard.

exactly, thats why the new match maker is 1 urbanmech vs 12 assaults. so the servers can handle it, the mediums and heavies are getting deleted.

[Malcolm Vordermark]

I'm sure we've all seen this by now, but it seem appropriate.

Edited by Rouken, 01 April 2015 - 10:15 AM.

[MilesTeg1982]

all this time and energy wastet on a first april joke ... makes it someone hard to find any amusment in that

[Corbenik]

MilesTeg1982, on 01 April 2015 - 10:15 AM, said:

all this time and energy wastet on a first april joke ... makes it someone hard to find any amusment in that

And yet alot of people are finding it amusing

[KraftySOT]

Brody319, on 01 April 2015 - 10:05 AM, said:

http://mwomercs.com/...anmech-day-6-11


seems legit.

Give marketing a raise. Because thats ****ing awesome.

[verybad]

MilesTeg1982, on 01 April 2015 - 10:15 AM, said:

all this time and energy wastet on a first april joke ... makes it someone hard to find any amusment in that

Well, then too bad for you. I liked it.

[Malcolm Vordermark]

MilesTeg1982, on 01 April 2015 - 10:15 AM, said:

all this time and energy wastet on a first april joke ... makes it someone hard to find any amusment in that

I disagree, I think the time was well spent.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

[KraftySOT]

Rouken, on 01 April 2015 - 10:14 AM, said:

I'm sure we've all seen this by now, but it seem appropriate.

Youve never lived until a stinger missing a leg and firing from prone with a 12 to hit, hits you with a medium laser through armor critical to the head, right to the pilot, life support, and sensors, and your mech falls with your pilot unconscious into level 0 water and drowns.

The fact that random dice rolls can lead to those sorts of situations, is whats so cool about it. Its kind of like dwarf fortress before dwarf fortress.

Mech skids turning on pavement, hits a building, which collapses on infantry, which flee to the next hex, which displaces a tank over a 3 level cliff, which falls on an Atlas, critical hitting its engine, causing a meltdown, which kills the three mechs standing around the Atlas hiding.

Nothing else offers that.

Edited by KraftySOT, 01 April 2015 - 10:26 AM.

[Koniving]

MilesTeg1982, on 01 April 2015 - 10:15 AM, said:

all this time and energy wastet on a first april joke ... makes it someone hard to find any amusment in that

13 free testers, 1 editor, stock music, three flamers given 3 different models with a 45 degree cone of fire and 150 meters range with 3 different weapon effects and extra damage.

Short of film time with the free people and the editor, the last aspect takes about 40 seconds of value additions to a stable or test build, maybe a minute or two to tack in the model changes.

At most 20 minutes to include filming. If even that.

[KraftySOT]

Yeah that video took almost no time at all to make, and is really funny. A clear homage to the 'Why battletech sucks' video.

I do videos and such for my band. The most time consuming part is editing, and with a workstation, and a solid plan, it takes no time at all.

[Koniving]

About the only thing I left out is the additional "Flamers" would have to be slipped in to a test/development build to patch the test server. So it wouldn't even be done all in one go. One guy gets a humorous idea for a gag while needing to test the ability to add new weapons to the game, does both at the same time. He passes it on to the testers, and bam. Just tack in a little editing and there ya go.

So you can, in theory, get some real work done when screwing around. We have a view of the cockpit -- something they were gonna do for us anyway. The April 1st gag. Check. The demonstration of a functioning 360 degree turret twist. Check. Ability to add new weapon systems without the game crashing, check.

On a side note, that's virtually nothing compared to the effort War Thunder put in creating a "World of Tanks" mode with a special World of Tanks tank made of rubber.

[KraftySOT]

"Another difference from the rest of the War Thunder vehicles is that SPS-255 has a health bar - or so-called “hitpoints”, which may help users from other projects to adapt."

That just slays me.




You realize if they do this...

We cease to exist...

[Malcolm Vordermark]

I also like the speedometer at the bottom left with two labels on it: "slow" and "less slow."

[HimseIf]

Video demonstrates pretty much how i intended to use the urbie, except i expect to be moving slowly between large objects.

[Roadkill]

Brody319, on 01 April 2015 - 10:05 AM, said:

seems legit.

The quotes were hilarious.

[WarHippy]

Brody319, on 01 April 2015 - 10:05 AM, said:

http://mwomercs.com/...anmech-day-6-11


seems legit.

Greetings, Starfighter Urbanmech. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada the Clans.


Grig: Remember, Death Blossom delivers only one massive volley at close range... theoretically.
Alex Rogan: What do you mean "theoretically?"
Grig: After all, D.B. has never been tested. It might overload the systems, blow up the ship mech!
Alex Rogan: What are you worried about, Grig? Theoretically, we should already be dead!

Looks good to me.

[Burktross]

KraftySOT, on 01 April 2015 - 10:24 AM, said:

Youve never lived until a stinger missing a leg and firing from prone with a 12 to hit, hits you with a medium laser through armor critical to the head, right to the pilot, life support, and sensors, and your mech falls with your pilot unconscious into level 0 water and drowns.

The fact that random dice rolls can lead to those sorts of situations, is whats so cool about it. Its kind of like dwarf fortress before dwarf fortress.

Mech skids turning on pavement, hits a building, which collapses on infantry, which flee to the next hex, which displaces a tank over a 3 level cliff, which falls on an Atlas, critical hitting its engine, causing a meltdown, which kills the three mechs standing around the Atlas hiding.

Nothing else offers that.

or you can have the platoon of infantry one hit crit a jenner going topspeed.
Good times.

[Uncl Munkeh]

Congrats on the new special attack.

That video was too fun.