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[Tennex]

Anyone know when it will be announced?

any guesses to what it will be ?

[Belorion]

Sometime before August.

[FupDup]

Soon™

[Kiiyor]

I've heard it's the Kraken. Yep.

Let's get the rumor mill ball rolling.

[skullman86]

King crab

[White Bear 84]

MadCat *cough* Timberwolf

[Tickdoff Tank]

Urbanmech

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[Durant Carlyle]

Marauder.

[Ralgas]

well... there's rumored to be mech 20-25 near ready to roll, but no roll out date. Ima guess a month. The flea realistically shouldn't happen till they can up the speed cap, and that just leave the orion left to release.

[General Taskeen]

Ralgas, on 05 April 2013 - 08:26 PM, said:

well... there's rumored to be mech 20-25 near ready to roll, but no roll out date. Ima guess a month. The flea realistically shouldn't happen till they can up the speed cap, and that just leave the orion left to release.

Did you forget about the Blackjack?

[One Medic Army]

General Taskeen, on 05 April 2013 - 08:29 PM, said:

Did you forget about the Blackjack?

Everyone should forget about the Blackjack.
It's a 45-ton rifleman with jumpjets, less armor, and the same speed.
The worst thing you could do with one is 2x UAC/5s at about 80kph with an XL.

I'm calling it now, dead on arrival.

[Vrekgar]

Ralgas, on 05 April 2013 - 08:26 PM, said:

well... there's rumored to be mech 20-25 near ready to roll, but no roll out date. Ima guess a month. The flea realistically shouldn't happen till they can up the speed cap, and that just leave the orion left to release.

The flea is next month.

The release schedule has followed a set pattern for awhile now.

Light -> Medium -> Heavy -> Assault

This month we get assault, Highlander, which means next month were getting the flea.

[Staplebeater]

One of the theories for the lack of announcements is that they are holding onto them (was mentioned that 6 sets of art are done on NGNG). My guess is that they are the clan mechs and that the artwork and builds of new mechs has continued in the background

[Vermaxx]

I swear, the Flea is such a waste of time. I've never seen the value of ultralight mechs, doubly so in a game with maps this small, and occasional speed caps, and the fact that people will still find the skill to shoot you no matter how fast you are moving.

Especially when you constantly run into shart and stop moving.

[Wizard Steve]

I seem to remember a comment recently from a PGI staff member that they were holding out on fresh announcements while they released the backlog. They'd got themselves in a position where they'd preannounced too many and we ended up waiting over six months for mechs. The Jagermech for example was announced in July last year.

Given that we're down to four (well three and a bit) announced but unreleased mechs, I'm guessing we'll see a new announcement within the month.

[armyof1]

I don't find the Flea or Blackjack that interesting to be honest, with that little weight the variation of loadout is very limited and I'd quickly become bored. I'm interested in seeing what the 75ton Orion can offer though.

[Vrekgar]

Staplebeater, on 05 April 2013 - 08:59 PM, said:

One of the theories for the lack of announcements is that they are holding onto them (was mentioned that 6 sets of art are done on NGNG). My guess is that they are the clan mechs and that the artwork and builds of new mechs has continued in the background

Im pretty sure imho this is whats going on.

Really we dont NEED another assault mech because its pretty well served category already. Frankly the Orion, Blackjack, and Flea dont look interesting at all because their stock design is either worse than an existing mech in the same category or so asymmetrical they will be difficult to make decent builds for.

However if instead they were the initial flight of Clan mechs, it would be a good idea to release more than 1 mech for the initial introduction. Perhaps when they get to 8 then we might get the big reveal, 2 for each category.

[MrPenguin]

One Medic Army, on 05 April 2013 - 08:45 PM, said:

I'm calling it now, dead on arrival.

Is that what the magic 8 ball told you?

[DCLXVI]

Tennex, on 05 April 2013 - 07:30 PM, said:

Anyone know when it will be announced?

any guesses to what it will be ?

if ya really wanna know, you'll have to ask this guy. https://home.eease.c...?id=4417871&t=1

[MrPenguin]

DCLXVI, on 05 April 2013 - 09:12 PM, said:

if ya really wanna know, you'll have to ask this guy. https://home.eease.c...?id=4417871&t=1

Okay, let me just point out how illogical you're being right now.
The fact they can afford to hire 50 more people on-top of what they currently have shows how well this game is doing financially. Not the other way around.

Also, as stated before, theirs already 6 mechs "done" to some extent or another. They just aren't showing them to us.

Edited by MrPenguin, 05 April 2013 - 09:24 PM.