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[Rhinehart]

So the Raven is unveiled. It is a fundamental design, the quintessential Capellan Confederation Scout Mech and the E-warfare boat everyone always wants. The concept art looks good, definitely a sweet rework of the design.

Yet I must confess I find myself just a little bit Blase' about its appearance. Probably because given the direction the Dev blogs have taken about role warefare it's been pretty much accepted by the community that the Raven would be included for months now.

I realize that given the state of development of the project the starting Mechs have probably been long established behind the scenes and that releasing them is probably more a matter of which one to do first.

But I have to say I would really like to see the release of a dark horse, a surprise design that no one would've expected just to get heads wagging. I know that what we will probably see will be designs like the Zeus, Orion et al that have a strong presence in history in the MW universe. That's fine by the way and I want to state again that I am very impressed by the design work done so far.

But I would really love to get totally blindsided on an upcoming Mech release, to have to say "Whoa! Look at that design they just threw out there! Didn't see that one coming!".

[SGT Unther]

the Cicada, or the Assassin would be the ones I pick for unusual or maybe even the Mackie: the first true battlemech.


On the other hand I would like to see the Quickdraw......

[Hollister]

How about a Rock Hound thats rather unusual.

[Belisarius1]

Anything but the Excalibur.

[Valdor Constantine]

Urbi! URBI! URBI!! URBI!! EVERYONE!!!!!

[Jonas]

Well the "King Crab", was Lost tech, only Comstar had them. Well Hopper Morrison had his but that was a lucky find at best. The "Highlander" would also be a good one too, the Tech behind the Gauss Rifle was only recently discovered, any out side of Comstar would have had the Rifle replaced with an AC/20 or even as low as a AC/10. In fact I am not sure if even the Northwind Highlanders had any that where fieldable condition. The Shootist is another Mech that was only common to Comstar.

I want a Wolfhound, people are really interested in the Urbanmech, and Vindicator. The Black Jack isn't a bad design and it's a Capellan Design ( they may want to add the house Liao to the Raven instead of the Davion Sword and Sunburst ) Any of the unseen would be a good choice even if they are a buy only design.

As it stands we have 2 Mechs in each Weight class, I do hope by launch we have 4 per launch in the base game with maybe 2 per weight class on the purchase side of the game. Launching the game with less than 16 I think would be a mistake.

[Rejarial Galatan]

2 words: TIMBER WOLF. nuff said.

[Hayashi]

Valdor Constantine, on 25 April 2012 - 06:16 PM, said:

Urbi! URBI! URBI!! URBI!! EVERYONE!!!!!

URBANMECH!!!

It's unusual! It's the only Light 'Mech with the firepower of a 55 tonner.

[Rejarial Galatan]

Hayashi, on 25 April 2012 - 08:40 PM, said:

URBANMECH!!!

at the risk of upsetting a mod: oh god, please not the urbanmech. We were not all that bad.

[Hayashi]

You don't like shooting at trash cans?

Meh, mods don't work that way. The only one to use his power in that way so far was a dev, and that only after being challenged to do so directly.

[Rejarial Galatan]

I dont like trashcans getting up and walking around. Ill shoot em all day, but, They MUST DIE

[Fresh Meat]

Crab, Yo

[Rejarial Galatan]

get me some buttah!

[Vulpesveritas]

I wouldn't mind seeing a Clint. It would pull me away from the Centurion, and be a great scout-sniper / scoutkiller.

[Axen Marik]

Perseus D - 75 ton Ewar platform. good command mech

[Infine]

Some less common Age of War mechs?

Ymir?
Guillotine?
Hammerhands?
BattleAxe?
Banshee?
Hector?
Icarus?

In all seriouseness though, we don't have much chances to see them. Besides, maybe, Guillotine and Banshee. Most of the designs are completely lost or museum-rare.

Edited by Infine, 26 April 2012 - 01:17 AM.

[Nik Van Rhijn]

We are really hampered in "iconic" mechs by not having the unseen, especially in the medium class. We certainly need something faster which possibly means a Clint.

[LordDeathStrike]

Rejarial Galatan, on 25 April 2012 - 07:16 PM, said:

2 words: TIMBER WOLF. nuff said.

youve still got a bit over 2 years to wait on that

[Victor Morson]

I've got to admit, I'd love to see a Crab. It gets brought up all the time and we all want to see it, so I don't know why it's not in the running more often.

Honestly I bet you the next 'mechs are the Stalker and Dervish.

[Hayashi]

Victor Morson, on 26 April 2012 - 03:19 AM, said:

I've got to admit, I'd love to see a Crab. It gets brought up all the time and we all want to see it, so I don't know why it's not in the running more often.

Honestly I bet you the next 'mechs are the Stalker and Dervish.

They're going in Light->Medium->Heavy->Assault order it seems, so the next is probably the Dervish. Though I'd rather a Cicada or Kintaro appear instead...