75 replies to this topic

[IRONDEATH84]

I want the Battlemaster but I sure as hell am NOT going to pay $80 for it and have to wait 3.5 months to get it. That's a stupid deal.

[Scruffyrogue]

I went with Talon. Because the only mechs in that list that I care to get at all are the battlemaster and the locust. And honestly, I'd drop the battlemaster in a moment if they released the marauder. The premium time I'm not so concerned with, and could just buy with MC anyway. And I'm not certain I'm going to care about the faction medallions, either. So the way I see it, I don't want to invest an extra $60 to get the 3 battlemasters. I know, other stuff comes with it but it's pretty much stuff I don't care about.

Now, the locust. It's an odd situation. I have fond memories of the locust from TT. And I'm prepared for it may suck completely in MWO. At least, I've tried to prepare for it. But a part of me continues to hope that I'll find a way to make it work. When I played the game, the locust was always the fastest thing on the field with hardly any weapons worth mentioning. Usually, it ran ahead and played spotter for an archer while other direct-fire mechs kept enemies distracted. I plan to try to recreate that experience, and I expect I will be repeatedly destroyed while trying to do so.

[Hellcat420]

i bought overlord because battlemaster is one of my two favorite mechs, so its the only package worth getting for me. i dont even care about anything else in the package other than the battlemasters. fortunatly i can afford to flush $80 down the toilet to get the one chassis i wanted. anyone who thinks the overlord package is a good deal needs to get their head check tho, cause its a total ripoff. $20 more than a AAA game, less content than $7 dlc. good business tho to put a package together in a way that people are willing to be ripped off.

Edited by Hellcat420, 24 July 2013 - 06:24 PM.

[GRiPSViGiL]

I went Overlord. I like that I will have everything to master all 4 chassis, the premium time and the extras suits me fine.

[Bront]

I would love to go for this, but I don't know how much I'll be playing now, let along in 4 months, $80 is a lot, even if you get a ton for it, and I really don't want the Locust, and I'm not sure if I'm thrilled with the other chasis layouts ATM.

I'll just grind out cbills and buy what I want that way. Much cheaper. Premium time is an easy solution to help out with that if I want to spend money.

Heck, if I did drop $80 on this, I wouldn't need the premium time that comes with it, since I'd have no need to buy a new mech for a while.

On the other hand, I'd have dropped $40 if I could pick 2.

[OneEyed Jack]

Bors Mistral, on 29 June 2013 - 01:15 PM, said:

I wanted the freaking Shadow Hawk so baaaad... and then I saw its hardpoints.

If it has a stupid head-missile and nothing on the left arm... at least put a shield there, like the centurion has or something. An energy hardpoint would be better.

Overall, of the 4 Pheonix mech only Battlemaster and possibly the Locust (why no ECM on that one?) seem compelling.

You wanted the SH so baaaad, yet had no idea what it carried? That's the classic SH build, and PGI may add more of a hardpoint to a location than the original build came with, but they don't add them where they aren't or move them.

OT: I would have bought the Overlord package without a second thought if not for other changes that caused me to no longer be willing to spend money on the game at all.

[Coolant]

The OP left out an option for those that may upgrade. If you are tight on a budget you can put $20 per payday or month and keep upgrading. I bought the $20, now I'm at the $40 pack. Have to work up to $80 to get my Battlemaster. My favorite mech in MW4:Mercs was the Battlemaster (but IIC). 85 ton mech with lots of speed and agile will be hard to beat. I like my Victor because it's fast, but just missing a few tons to outfit it like I want....the 5 more tons on a BM should be perfect.

[AntharPrime]

Coolant, on 28 July 2013 - 03:26 PM, said:

The OP left out an option for those that may upgrade. If you are tight on a budget you can put $20 per payday or month and keep upgrading. I bought the $20, now I'm at the $40 pack. Have to work up to $80 to get my Battlemaster. My favorite mech in MW4:Mercs was the Battlemaster (but IIC). 85 ton mech with lots of speed and agile will be hard to beat. I like my Victor because it's fast, but just missing a few tons to outfit it like I want....the 5 more tons on a BM should be perfect.

What you talkin' about fool. I pitty the fool that didn' notice no ninth option that is exactly what you are lookin' fo fool.

[White Bear 84]

IRONDEATH84, on 22 July 2013 - 03:51 PM, said:

I want the Battlemaster but I sure as hell am NOT going to pay $80 for it and have to wait 3.5 months to get it. That's a stupid deal.

Stupid deal only if you ignore the fact that for that $80 you get $170 worth of stuff, 12 mechs (three of which are UNIQUE, 12 mechbays, camo and paint, 120 days of premium time.. ..not to mention if you dont get the package you will have to wait an additional 3 months just to get the Battlemaster...

Seriously suprised at how many people undervalue this deal...

Edited by White Bear 84, 28 July 2013 - 08:51 PM.

[Effectz]

I'm looking forward to the Tbolt and the Battlemaster so I bought overlord,but I'm sure I'll enjoy the Locust and Shadowhawk!

[Bullseye69]

On the fence myself.

I want to see Community warfare.
I want to see how the 12 vs 12 does as far as drops and performance.
I want to see if Direct x 11 run especially on my hardware. If it not playable then I would have to do some tweak and replacing on my hardware side and that will cost.
I want to see how fast they will be doing map updates, with canyon they hit it out of the ballpark want to see if they continue the trend.
Final thing I hate the locust it a pen and paper thing once had a battle between 6 friends I brought king crab a coupl ran duall 50 toner the other 3 ran 5 locust each it was bad day for me still give me the ******* thinking what they did to that king crab.

[Vassago Rain]

I got storm through gift money. Was not gonna spend any of my own cash on phoenix.

[CSPshala]

You forgot to put the option I took: Buy Overlord. Get a refund on Overlord.

[Poisonblack]

Not buying it, the game is almost fun free now and I reckon their inability to balance things joined with the elitist elements of the community will finally kill the game for me.

Doubt I'll even patch the client once it all goes live, probably just uninstall so I don't have the urge to play during a weaker moment.

[Dracol]

Not a fan of Hero mechs but I went with the overlord package.

Premium time helps since I only drop 1 to 4 hours a night. The ability to run mechs months before the rest of the population was also a big draw. 9 mech bays usable for other mechs down the road is nice as well. I'm also hoping the medallions will be useful.

Also the fact that I haven't felt the need to buy a new game since I started playing MW:O has left me some disposable income laying around.... wait there was Simcity, but I'm trying to forget that whole experience.

[Will9761]

I got the Guardian since it was cool and mostly because I wanted three things out of it: the thundy and two medallions (I'm going for the Steiner and Davion medallions when the time comes since I like the FedCom unity).

Edited by Will9761, 03 August 2013 - 08:37 AM.