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#21 D V Devnull

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Posted 25 May 2016 - 03:42 PM

View PostRustyBolts, on 25 May 2016 - 12:48 PM, said:

However, until either PGI starts actually doing something positive with this game, or until another company takes over I refuse to spend my hard earned cash on your substandard effort at a game.

I have taken my stance with PGI and as hard as it is to pass up the new shiny mech pack of the month, I will not cave in. I AM DONE PGI! NO MORE MONEY FROM ME!

Heck, I know somebody else that might have spent money on PGI's game, MWO. Then PGI went and changed Faction Warfare's Contracting to feel like the French Foreign Legion. That person no longer wants to spend money now on MWO. They don't have 3.4 years to get deadlocked to one Faction, in order to retain LP greater than Rank 20 on changing. They needed more Mech Bays from Faction Warfare's achievements, in order to not end up being rejected and looked down upon by people who have been playing Faction Warfare for much longer. They basically feel like all the work they did for several Factions has all gone to waste now, right from the time they began playing. Unfortunately, I know how they feel, because I'm relatively in the same boat. I've left PGI a basic blueprint on Page 3 of the 2016-04-28 HotFix Thread of how they can do something in-between the Contract systems of Phase 2 and Phase 3. I hope PGI uses it soon before they end up dying due to another mass exodus of players, because they most certainly can't easily get new players to stick around right now. :(

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Posted 02 June 2016 - 04:59 PM

New pic showing off dual pistols. Pretty.

#23 Dawnstealer

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Posted 03 June 2016 - 06:54 AM

View PostCycKath, on 02 June 2016 - 04:59 PM, said:

New pic showing off dual pistols. Pretty.

Where at? I make the mistake of going to this forum for updates rather than the other places PGI inexplicably posts things: Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, Livejournal, Tinder, Gawker, that homeless lady that lives in the alley...

#24 MechPorn

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Posted 03 June 2016 - 07:06 AM



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Posted 03 June 2016 - 09:03 AM

View PostDawnstealer, on 03 June 2016 - 06:54 AM, said:

Where at? I make the mistake of going to this forum for updates rather than the other places PGI inexplicably posts things: Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, Livejournal, Tinder, Gawker, that homeless lady that lives in the alley...

Propably mean the front page image:
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#26 Malleus011

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Posted 03 June 2016 - 09:29 AM

The big fat pistols aren't attractive and will catch a lot of fire. Don't care for them.

Hopefully the non -KK models have the extra E hardpoints in the vambraces where they belong.

#27 C E Dwyer

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Posted 03 June 2016 - 10:51 AM

View PostReno Blade, on 03 June 2016 - 09:03 AM, said:

Propably mean the front page image:
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That's painfully bad, I just haven't the words
No I've found the words, how can someone take such beautiful artwork, and somehow turn it into 3D garbage ?

Edited by Cathy, 03 June 2016 - 10:55 AM.


#28 Felicitatem Parco

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Posted 03 June 2016 - 12:05 PM

Nice write-up! Now, put the early adoptor rewards back on to make it worth the money and you might get more sales... I won't buy it without the Bonuses because I know 3 100-ton Clan Assault Mechs cost only $20.

Edited by Prosperity Park, 03 June 2016 - 12:05 PM.


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Posted 03 June 2016 - 10:10 PM

View PostCathy, on 03 June 2016 - 10:51 AM, said:

That's painfully bad, I just haven't the words
No I've found the words, how can someone take such beautiful artwork, and somehow turn it into 3D garbage ?

It'll probably look better in-game and moving around. Although looking at that, I kind of want to run one with 4 Flamers in the arms.

#30 STEF_

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Posted 03 June 2016 - 11:09 PM

Going to ride PHX only for a bunch of months Posted Image

I have 7 to master Posted Image

#31 C E Dwyer

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Posted 04 June 2016 - 11:04 AM

View PostDawnstealer, on 03 June 2016 - 10:10 PM, said:

It'll probably look better in-game and moving around. Although looking at that, I kind of want to run one with 4 Flamers in the arms.

The head and body are good, it's the bulky god awful modular weapons systems that kill it, weapons are supposed to be in as mentioned before the vambraces, or hand held, not stuck out in front, neither one nor the other, doesn't matter whether they are small medium or large, as well they are all the same size, in P.G.I's modules.

where they should look sleak, and Alex's art does a good job of compromise between it's look and the modular system, this is just ugh..stuck out like Yosemite Sam pop guns..

I was hoping that the PHX was going to generate some interest and enthusiasm for the game again, but this has left me, with my finger hovering over the refund button, this has been one of my favourite mechs for me, and as you might guess I'm pretty fed up

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Posted 04 June 2016 - 03:06 PM

View PostCathy, on 04 June 2016 - 11:04 AM, said:


I was hoping that the PHX was going to generate some interest and enthusiasm for the game again, but this has left me, with my finger hovering over the refund button, this has been one of my favourite mechs for me, and as you might guess I'm pretty fed up


I don't know if you are viewing thins for the same perspective that I am...


.. but the best way to secure a good future for the MechWarrior franchise isn't to cater to the nostalgic battle tech fans by evoking their love for nostalgic Mechs. It's to make new layers interested in it. The Phoenix Hawk has zero nostalgic value to those who are most likely to carry this franchise into the future, so really PGI should be mostly worried about whether new players like it or not.

Edited by Prosperity Park, 04 June 2016 - 03:06 PM.


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Posted 05 June 2016 - 11:07 AM

View PostProsperity Park, on 04 June 2016 - 03:06 PM, said:


I don't know if you are viewing thins for the same perspective that I am...


.. but the best way to secure a good future for the MechWarrior franchise isn't to cater to the nostalgic battle tech fans by evoking their love for nostalgic Mechs. It's to make new layers interested in it. The Phoenix Hawk has zero nostalgic value to those who are most likely to carry this franchise into the future, so really PGI should be mostly worried about whether new players like it or not.

While I do in principle agree with you, this is a niche title, and far more so than mainstream games, it relies on retention of its supporters, very few people that don't have a love of the Battle tech universe stay. I think that steam numbers do give credibility to my assumption. The 800 or so that have stayed, are not going to keep this title running.

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Posted 05 June 2016 - 12:54 PM

Well, I dunno about you Cathy, but I rather like the dual classic Battlemaster gun pistol look for the Phawk, even with the current weapon models, as opposed to the gun on one side, vambrace-style mounted weapons on the other (or both). It gives it attitude, makes all relevant weapons level with each other, especially on the -KK, and makes the LA even better as a shield arm on the -1B.

If nothing else, it will get heavy armor/structure quirks on the arms/STs and agility quirks to assist it in brawls, side-pokes, and general light-mech style play. All of which I'm looking forward to.

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Posted 05 June 2016 - 03:27 PM

I'm sick of waiting

GIVE ME MY PHOENIX HAWK NOW!!!!!!!!!

#36 hypographia

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Posted 28 June 2016 - 02:07 PM

Phoenix Hawk Lore: Chapter 2

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15 July 3039 – exactly 12 minutes later



“No.”

Like so many in his fifth tier, he suckled at the teat of the Streamerz, poring over metamechs.com, lurking the forums for any bit of tactical advantage. He knew that the first thing he’d do when he took delivery of his p-hawks was to strip them and arm them properly. Arm them properly. Something about those last three words haunted him. Haunted? How could he be haunted by a phrase when nothing had yet happened? Was it foreboding? A premonition? He shook it off and dove into his mechlab, running through his newly gotten c-bills like inheritance money at WinStar.

“Yo!”

There was no choice in the forty-three-year-old-acting-as-an-eighteen-year-old’s mind as to which variant he’d run with first. ECM was the kind of tactical advantage he needed, knowing he’d be out there in an unmastered mech, slow and new. He recalled the Kodiak Massacres, so many dead bears. No amount of dakka could save those hitboxes. He relished it, playing Hunting Bears by Radiohead on repeat for two weeks straight. But now he’d be the hunted. So 1B it would be, and a wise old streamer who had advance intel suggested, by way of another wise old pilot, that three ERLL was the way to go. This appealed to his sniping sensibilities and the build was built.

“Damn.”

Hoping beyond hope that his bunny ears would take zero damage like the Archer, he dropped, in an unknown mech, on an unknown map, with no usable intel to guide him (though the generals had promised him this would be fixed soon, he questioned his own sanity in making this drop). Blind in every way. The concentrating of three ERLL in the top right section of his mech felt right, like his Snipe Chicken days – the first mech he ever mastered. And as near as he could tell, this map was a sniper’s map if ever there was. He was surviving, which, at the end of the day, was all a tier five pug could ever hope for. He longed for a KDR of 1.00, but he wasn’t fooling himself, not today.

“Hi.”

He never stopped to think that there would be so many other boots and scrubs out there, such easy targets for him. But today, here, everyone was a scrub. Hugging a frozen corner of a long forgotten building, firing across the “punchbowl” pinging diehard mechs long since mastered, even with half damage at distance, they couldn’t touch him back. Not with his XL. Not with his ECM, and not with those sweet, sweet jumpjets. He began to gain confidence - which was always an alarm to him - that old copper taste in his mouth creeping up, the taste of worry before a prideful crash. The taste of him biting the inside of his cheek in subconscious fear of the unknown. Arm them properly. Still, he was loving this new mech.

“...”

The taste passed, and the game (d)evolved with lights soon realizing they could scamper from building to building unnoticed. How could he have forgotten about the resizing of the Locust? They were everywhere. The swarm was real. His pre-recorded calls for help returned to him in a twisted echo of “sorry” followed by unintelligible returns on the coms. He realized, that despite there still being five mechs alive, and only being outnumbered by one, that he was truly alone.

It was time to put the new ride through the paces, see what she can do, if for nothing else than to hear an upbeat guitar solo at the end of the round versus a slightly less optimistic one, the razor-thin sonic line that separates victory from defeat. Scrambling, jumping, evading and cooling when he could on top of buildings, praying for torso mounts from the enemy, he picked off an Oxide, which these days was nothing to brag about. Still, he thought to himself, I just killed a Jenner. But there was still work to do, he had to fall back to what was left of his group. What was he thinking veering off so far to snipe? Sure it was a great angle of attack. Sure it would harass and turn his enemies’ backs to the attacking force. But why did he think this time would be different? He recalled his thankless weeks of NARCing in his Raven, watching the lrms and damage points streak above him.

With one last push, he jumped from one building to the next, backwards, firing his long-ranged weapons at a deadly-close range in a panicky misuse of Inner Sphere technology… and then it happened. One solitary “alpha” – if you can call it such – from the near-imperceptible Pirate’s Bane that was following him blew his arm clean off. What? Already I’m down to one third of my attacking strength? How could my arm have fallen off so easily? I still have the one laser, I can take him. Where is h…


Time to earn that armor.

Edited by hypographia, 28 June 2016 - 02:24 PM.


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Posted 28 June 2016 - 04:29 PM

Still hoping they'll contemplate changing the second energy hardpoint over to the vambrace instead of the double pistol. At the very least on the variants with only 2 energy hardpoints in the right arm.

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Posted 28 June 2016 - 07:21 PM

hypographia, Nice Post. Albeit that it was a tad 'SpaceBalls'-style cheesy, it definitely captured the feeling of many pilots out there in a quick nutshell, such as would happen with a Mech coming back into mass production. You even did well in displaying the essence of what realistically can happen with a battle, which can rapidly devolve into harsh and unforgiving chaos. Plus, you did your writing similar to the "Kuroi Kiri" Lore Piece, which I have to figure was hard for the Original Artist to do in the first place, but you did a good job following the formula of construction rather well. Frankly, I think you might have a future in the Fictional Writing Industry. :)

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Posted 29 June 2016 - 08:01 AM

Gotta agree on that the PH need some quirkies on arms and torso sections. At least to avoid non-canon hardpoint inflations.
I like the Phawks alot, same for the Shawks. You just have to pilot alot in them.





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