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[armyof1]

Dat huge 5% boost

[Deathlike]

I anticipate that the Champion mech is a Raven 3L, so if you were to strictly grind for GXP, this would actually be helpful... but only on double XP weekends.

[EyeOne]

How about a 10% boost to both CBills and XP for less MC than Hero Mechs?? The 5% boost to XP generation is basically nothing. I'll pass.

I've been waiting for a Hero Hunchback (I love Hunchbacks and I have just enough MC left for a 50-ton Hero) and with my luck the first Champion Mech will be a Hunchback and thus worthless to me.

Edited by EyeOne, 03 April 2013 - 01:26 PM.

[Fishbulb333]

Bought a stock mech once for MC, only purchase out of many I've made on this game that I truly regret (it was an AWS-8Q..sigh). Hero mechs...ok maybe, but I'd never buy another stock mech for MC at those prices and without any preview option & a paltry 5% xp gain won't change that, unless these champions are much cheaper than current stock mechs. (like 50-75% cheaper, highly unlikely)

[BarHaid]

Maybe this is how the Centurion-AH will make its return. One can only hope.

[Ozric]

Interesting design choice. I have to admit, my P2W sensors started flashing when I saw the term 'Champion' mech, but it doesn't seem like a bad idea at all. Certainly no advantage other than quality of life.

This might mean that champion = XP mech, hero = cbills mech, but on it's own I don't think that champs would be really worth it. I would not be at all surprised if the champ mechs get a little cbill boost as well (5-10%) by the time they are released.

And are we thinking custom skins? I think I am.


Edit: Unless i have misunderstood the announcement of course. I do that sometimes too.

Edited by Ozric, 03 April 2013 - 01:47 PM.

[Vassago Rain]

Ozric, on 03 April 2013 - 01:45 PM, said:

Interesting design choice. I have to admit, my P2W sensors started flashing when I saw the term 'Champion' mech, but it doesn't seem like a bad idea at all. Certainly no advantage other than quality of life.

This might mean that champion = XP mech, hero = cbills mech, but on it's own I don't think that champs would be really worth it. I would not be at all surprised if the champ mechs get a little cbill boost as well (5-10%) by the time they are released.

And are we thinking custom skins? I think I am.


Edit: Unless i have misunderstood the announcement of course. I do that sometimes too.

I am totally down with putting lots of little MC upgrades on my favored mechs. I'm not really down with buying yet another atlas that¨s exactly like the others, but has a custom decal, and that's it.

[Sybreed]

Vassago Rain, on 03 April 2013 - 01:48 PM, said:

I am totally down with putting lots of little MC upgrades on my favored mechs.

You mean you play something other than your D-DC? (just teasing ya bro)

Edited by Sybreed, 03 April 2013 - 01:50 PM.

[MrPenguin]

Nicholas Carlyle, on 03 April 2013 - 01:01 PM, said:

Does 5% exp bonus really make your playing experience better?

Yes, about 5% better.

[Vassago Rain]

Sybreed, on 03 April 2013 - 01:49 PM, said:

You mean you play something other than your D-DC? (just teasing ya bro)

No, and that's why I'd be down with upgrading it forever. PGI gets my money, and I have a use for my MC.

[Sybreed]

you should get the X-5, it's the mech I have the most fun playing with and I'm usually a heavy mech player.

[Exoth3rmic]

All XP bonuses that aren't directly premium time related seem a little odd to me.

Take the double XP weekend for example, now out of all the mechs in my hangar I have elited/mastered most of them and have no reason to "grind" them anymore thanks to, effectively, being incentivized to play half as much to do so!

Obviously, I like the game in general but with the XP incentive removed I am less inclined to play the "arena modes" currently present.

Still, yet another thing re XP bonus being odd is I am highly unlikely for the above reasons to ever wish to convert XP to GXP for MC when I could simply play the game in the mechs I require XP for.

Very odd.

[KinLuu]

Vassago Rain, on 03 April 2013 - 01:52 PM, said:

No, and that's why I'd be down with upgrading it forever. PGI gets my money, and I have a use for my MC.

The DDC has been neutered by the Missile Balancing. It was a force of relentless destruction. Now its just a bad Atlas with ECM.
The RS now is the scourge upon the enemy team.

[Vassago Rain]

KinLuu, on 04 April 2013 - 02:22 AM, said:

The DDC has been neutered by the Missile Balancing. It was a force of relentless destruction. Now its just a bad Atlas with ECM.
The RS now is the scourge upon the enemy team.

I can tell you from 9 months in all the various atlases that this isn't true, but will be if they lock ECM in a stupid spot, like the ballistic torso.

[Karl Split]

TruePoindexter, on 03 April 2013 - 01:03 PM, said:

I have a Champion for you:


http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Champion

...It's ugly honestly...

Dawww the champion was in MW3 I still love that ugly *** mech it looks like it was made by a commitee

[LordDante]

TruePoindexter, on 03 April 2013 - 01:03 PM, said:

I have a Champion for you:


http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Champion

...It's ugly honestly...

somtimes i whish that certain People shouldnt have acces to paper and pencils !

[KinLuu]

Vassago Rain, on 04 April 2013 - 02:31 AM, said:

I can tell you from 9 months in all the various atlases that this isn't true, but will be if they lock ECM in a stupid spot, like the ballistic torso.

Apart from ECM, the DDCs main advantage has always been the 3rd missile HP. And this advantage has diminished greatly.
The DDC no longer has the burst to end a fight quickly, once it is in range for its SRM array. And thus builds that favour sustained dps - like the RS - got a lot stronger in comparison. If ECM is not needed, my Atlas of coice is now the RS.

[jakucha]

I don't want one but I see no problem with them implementing them either.

[Flashback37]

I'd much rather a straight up Cbill bonus than xp. It doesn't take long to max out a single mech and then what good is that xp?
If I want a new xl engine, it's grind grind grind for cbills.

[Elizander]

Nicholas Carlyle, on 03 April 2013 - 01:01 PM, said:

Does 5% exp bonus really make your playing experience better?

As long as you can eventually upgrade it to 15% or 20%.