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[Agent of Change]

Dax Paxton, on 18 April 2013 - 09:45 AM, said:

To anyone who thinks the Flea is a useless junk mech. If memory serves me correctly the Flea was capable of exceeding 200 Kph. While yes the bigger guns in the game are mostly all capable of a 1 shot kill on a 20 ton mech, good luck hitting a good pilot. This mech was not designed for anything other than scouting and harrasing. It will not be a striker mech like the Jenner, it will be an observer and a battlefield distraction.

If they intend to implement the MASC system properly and remove the speed limitations currently imposed, this mech will be incredibly viable to a small set of players will live for the frustration of their enemies.

High speed trolling anyone.

Well that's me!

[Glucose]

Everything in this thread is false.

The reason the Flea got delayed was because it was scrapped for the UrbanMech as a super surprise, and they aren't finished with it yet.

[Peiper]

Let me tell you: my heart is broken by having to wait longer for the Flea. I mean, it's got to be the coolest mech ever!

Oh wait, I was thinking of the Marauder II. What the hell is a Flea? Is there actually a battlemech called a Flea? It better be one of those giant understatements, you know like the German tank called the 'Maus.' The Flea should be a 120 ton jumping monster.

(Really, giving us the Flea shouldn't be the one mech they release in a month's time. What's a Flea? A lighter, non-jumping Spider? What a waste of technology. And if they bring out MASC, people are going to put it on all different kinds of mechs, unless they anachronistically make it like ECM and put it only allow it on certain mechs.)

Edited by Peiper, 18 April 2013 - 10:02 AM.

[Pinselborste]

flea will be useless as long as mgs are crap.

[Pinselborste]

Thontor, on 18 April 2013 - 10:10 AM, said:

More potential firepower than the Spider at least.

Minimum hardpoints based on stock weapons loadout:
FLE-15: 5e, 2b
FLE-17: 5e
FLE-4: 4e
Only one variant has a couple ballistic hardpoints. And even that one has plenty of energy... The small laser boating FTW!

if you find way to cool all those energy weapons

[Helmer]

Agent of Change, on 18 April 2013 - 09:29 AM, said:

It's because they hate me and they are prejudices against the chicken leg mechs of the world.

He knows!

Alert the Com Guard , Everyone lock down everything. We have a stage 1 alert.

Agent of Change knows too much!



Cheers.

[Royalewithcheese]

Flea is DOA unless they implement a hard or soft increase on the speed cap. They're probably not comfortable with doing that at this point.

[Lazydrones541]

I agree most likely very skilled ninjas..

That or space pirate monkeys coming to steal your shipment of bananas

[shintakie]

Pinselborste, on 18 April 2013 - 10:13 AM, said:

if you find way to cool all those energy weapons

Small Lasers are incredibly cool runnin.

They also weigh almost nothin.

If MG's weren't complete garbage the FLE-15 would be pretty dangerous animal with incredibly low heat alphas with the SL's and a noheat damage boost from the MG's.

As is it'd just be a low heat alpha SL boat.

Really, all of them will just be SL boats since MG's are useless and it's too light to effectively use heavy weapons. You might see the odd ML user or two, but SL boat all the way.

[Fate 6]

8RoundsRapid, on 18 April 2013 - 09:27 AM, said:

Good.

The sooner the Orion comes out, the sooner I can come back to this POS and be disappointed all over again.

I feel the same way about the Blackjack.

GIMME MUH 4xSRM6 MEDIUM PLZ

[PropagandaWar]

Need to listen to podcast but woot! Yay for Flea delay. Sorry but thats just a meh mech.

[Kommisar]

I'm more curious about that "unannounced" July Assault...

[Shumabot]

Because it's fundamentally useless and requires implementations of weight based matchmaking and different game modes not to be the worst mech in the game.

[Trauglodyte]

Actually, the ninja is really Garth. He saw the power fo the Flea and he quaked in fear while thinking of the doom it would bring to his beloved "bug". Dasterdly dirty deceitful Garth!!!

[Shumabot]

Thontor, on 18 April 2013 - 10:22 AM, said:

Technically, it's not a "speed cap". It's an engine rating cap. Without MASC, it does act like a speed cap...

But, even with the current engine rating caps, the Flea will run 202 while MASC is enabled. Assuming it gives the same speed boost as TT.

No, actually it's a speed cap. The Jenner can reach over 152 on a max engine and doesn't because the games speed is capped. There is both an engine cap normalizing top speeds and a mechanical speed cap that doesn't need to exist (but does).

Trauglodyte, on 18 April 2013 - 10:29 AM, said:

Actually, the ninja is really Garth. He saw the power fo the Flea and he quaked in fear while thinking of the doom it would bring to his beloved "bug". Dasterdly dirty deceitful Garth!!!

If garths a ninja he's one of the annoying inept ones from naruto.

[Belorion]

Pirates.

[Joseph Mallan]

Personally I don't see why they didn't use this art, give it a 160 engine and call it a Locust!

[stjobe]

Oh ****** it all to hell.

I've no interest in an Orion.
I guess I could fake interest in a Blackjack.

But what I really wanted for May was a Flea.

Hopes = crushed.

...

And why the hell is this devastating news delivered in a freaking podcast? It should be plastered all over the frontpage with a sincere apology from the devs. And pictures of kittens, to ease the pain.

Or, at least posted somewhere on their own site.

I think they're taking this social media thing just one step too far - their own site can't be the last every freaking time.

Edited by stjobe, 18 April 2013 - 11:31 AM.

[Nathan Foxbane]

KingNobody, on 18 April 2013 - 08:46 AM, said:

5. A vast conspiracy involving the Illuminati, the Rand corporation, and the interdimensional lizard-people who live at the center of the earth.

No mention of the Monsanto Corporation. You conspiracy is flawed.

[Hayashi]

Also, OP. Talk to Omigir regarding a Flea. You might have some extra insight when you do.

Edited by Hayashi, 18 April 2013 - 11:32 AM.