Some Houses are not feeling the love of the 12 revealed mechs
#1
Posted 08 June 2012 - 09:19 AM
House Kuritia has the Dragon/Grand Dragon, Jenner and the Catapault K. They need Panther and possibly the Spider. The Mauler is pretty bad so I am guessing we will eventually see an Hatamoto-Chi.
Marik is pretty generalist. Their signature mechs are poorly stated mediums which I doubt will be included anytime soon. They do manufacture the Hunchback, Cicada and Awesome however. The Orion is a signature Marik mech and will the expected choice of a 75 ton mech.
House Steiner has next to nothing. They have the Commando. I understand why the Banshee was not released as it is very close in weight and speed(3S model) to the Atlas. You could argue that the Atlas itself is fairly Lyran as only Hesperus II and Al'Nair produce the Big Al. Perhaps the eventual Atlas-K model will go to the Combine with more Banshee 3S and 5S models in the assualt ranks for House Steiner. The Zeus is iconic but brings little firepower compared to the Atlas, Awesome or Stalker.
The Federated Suns are missing numerous signature mechs. They definately need the Blackjack, Dervish, Enforcer, Victor and Jagermech.
Assuming there are four additional mechs how would you balance them according to faction?
#2
Posted 08 June 2012 - 09:24 AM
Spheroid, on 08 June 2012 - 09:19 AM, said:
Atlas,and the Stalker are very common Kurita assaults.
However the most common of all the medium mechs for Kurita is the Hunchback, which as we see is already in
#3
Posted 08 June 2012 - 09:28 AM
#4
Posted 08 June 2012 - 09:32 AM
Steiner is kinda of "meh" to me, I agree though that the Zeus would be a serious disappointment. Maybe a t-Bolt variant?
#5
Posted 08 June 2012 - 09:43 AM
#6
Posted 08 June 2012 - 09:45 AM
It would be really sweet & make the houses more diverse if they made faction only variants. So yeah, everyone gets access to all 'Mechs for the same price but Kuritans would only get access to the CPLT-K2 Catapult, the Capellans grab the CDA-2B and 3C Cicada, while Davions get the RVN-3X Raven, etc.....
....or at least give variation on prices per house per variant.
#7
Posted 08 June 2012 - 09:47 AM
#8
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:05 AM
Smoke Banshee, on 08 June 2012 - 09:24 AM, said:
However the most common of all the medium mechs for Kurita is the Hunchback, which as we see is already in
Draconis Combine and medium 'mechs?
Why do you think that the Panther is 35-tons and the Dragon 60-tons?
The DCMS hates mediums.
#10
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:18 AM
#11
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:19 AM
#13
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:24 AM
If we breakdown which mechs could reasonable be associated with each house it's actually pretty even.
Marik - Cicada, Hunchback, Awesome and Stalker
Kurita - Jenner, Dragon, and Atlas
Liao - Raven, Catapult, and Cataphract
Davion - Raven, Centurion, Cataphract
Rasalllhague - Commando, Jenner and Dragon
Steiner - Commando, Stalker and Atlas
The Jenner isn't in the game because it's an iconic Draconis mech, it's there because it's one of the best hit and run mechs in the game. The Hunchback has the most variants of any medium mech chassis (it may even be any mech chassis but .I would need to check that). While the Centurion is an example of a versatile generalist mech.
Even that Cataphract was chosen because it's one of the few non-unseen or TRO 2750 (Royal SLDF) designs that is a good generalist heavy battlemech.
I suspect that each house will have 4 mechs that get a house discounts at the end of the day and that what role the mech will play on the battlefield is more important to the devs then insuring that each house has it's iconic mechs.
#14
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:27 AM
Redburn, on 08 June 2012 - 09:43 AM, said:
This is my way of thinking. The stated mechs are for all and this discussion about each house having what it needs or wants or usually fights in is not really applicable in this game. My opinion. I just think an MMO, the whole "Roles" thing and Information Warfare requires players to play in the chasis that suits their prices needs.
Whatever the house.
But then as someone said, there is a plan and maybe a bunch of variations or mods specific to a house plus to a chasis will come. I too can see them creating some way for a house to get the most out of specific mechs in ways other houses can't. Maybe a houses perks will be that very approach.
It's going to be fun finding out for sure and there are beta testers doing just that. But not even they know what will come before the end of 2012.
#15
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:27 AM
#16
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:30 AM
No jumping assault, no AC-2 mechs, no SRM2 mechs. More Davion mechs could fill all these weapon holes.
The Panther or Vindicator are needed for lighter PPC platforms.
Edited by Spheroid, 08 June 2012 - 10:31 AM.
#17
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:32 AM
DireWolf307, on 08 June 2012 - 09:47 AM, said:
That so smacks of Steiner mindset, I couldn't help but laugh. "We need more Zeus' for our light lances!!" You sure you have the right faction picked??
#18
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:36 AM
aglarang, on 08 June 2012 - 10:32 AM, said:
That so smacks of Steiner mindset, I couldn't help but laugh. "We need more Zeus' for our light lances!!" You sure you have the right faction picked??
The Zeus is a Stiener fast attack 'mech, basically their version of a Jenner
It is the lightest of the Assault class, after all!
#19
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:44 AM
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#20
Posted 08 June 2012 - 10:49 AM
What I'm trying to say is why haven't the devs added the BNC-5S yet.
Seriously.
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