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[Belorion]

I made the poll multiple choice for the people that really like two or more.

[Lucy Cameron]

Shadow Hawk is my first choice, but the Battlemaster looks very solid.

[One Medic Army]

Shadow Hawk.
It may not be the Wolverine, but at least it's a fast 55ton jumping medium.

[Euri Yggdrasil]

I'd vote Shadow Hawk if it had been a Griffin instead.
So I'll go w/ the Thud.

[FupDup]

Marauder.

Oh wait...

[Wintersdark]

Crypt0Kn1ght, on 02 July 2013 - 08:33 AM, said:

Shadow Hawk is my first choice, but the Battlemaster looks very solid.

Battlemaster is my first choice, but the Shadow Hawk looks very solid.

Seriously, though, I think the Shadow Hawk will add the most to the game, a fast jumping 55t medium. More jumpy speedy mediums is always good. The Battlemaster is just pure awesomesauce, adding a nice competitor in lighter-assault range as the Awesome... isn't. It'll sit nicely with the Stalker, which is of comparable tonnage but a vastly different mech.

Locusts are cool and all, but I'm dubious it'll actually be... well, useful.

I have nothing against the Thunderbolt, and will happily use it - it looks pretty cool, and I really dig that off-center cockpit - but the Shadow Hawk and Battlemaster are what really push my buttons.

This is kind of odd, too, because I'm if anything a Heavy pilot.

[Dayuhan]

The Shadow Hawk is an excellent chassis and it may even become my new favorite medium build. I also like the possibilities of the Locust.

[Belorion]

I am actually a little surprised that the T-Bolt doesn't have more votes than the Battlemaster. Either the T-Bolt is less popular for a heavy or the Battlemaster is particularly popular (which is probably the case.

[Angel of Annihilation]

Wow I can't believe all the people looking forward to the Shadow Hawk. It just seems so meh but it is such an iconic mech I guess I understand why some people are excited about it.

I just hope that those people remember the reason to like the SHD is that it is iconic, not because they expect it to be a great preforming mech otherwise we will have to build an arc on the forums to save us from the flood of tears on Oct 15th.

That being said, the SHD will probably be the first of the four I will load out and run out with just because I am really curious if my predictions of it mostly sucking will be true or not hehe.

My personal favorite is the T-bolt because I think it will be the sleeper hit and exceed most people expectations of it. The Battlemaster is obviously going to be a successful design just based on the loadout options, speed option and heavy armor. While everyone knows the locust will be a joke, although prehaps a truly fun one.

Edited by Viktor Drake, 03 July 2013 - 08:21 AM.

[Josef Nader]

The Locust looks way too much fun, especially once they lift engine caps. Did some number crunching, and without speedcaps the engine maxes out at a 225. You can comfortably fit an XL225, full armor, two machine guns (with 2 tons of ammo), and a medium laser in there. This means that the old girl is booking it along at 180+kph. The only other light mech to come close in speed is the Spider, and it has to sacrifice it's jump capability or already extremely limited firepower to do so. The next fastest mech is the Jenner, which will be left in the dust at ~160kph. Everything else is already sitting at cap.

The Thunderbolt also looks good. The idea of a mixed-loadout heavy is why I was so pumped about the Orion. Plus, it looks much sexier than the Orion and matches the Atlas D for hardpoints. What's not to love?

Edited by Josef Nader, 03 July 2013 - 08:22 AM.

[SgtMagor]

Wanted jump jet tbolt, so the thumbs up goes to the BM!

[N a p e s]

The Shadowhawk for me.

I just really like medium mechs.

[Ghostrider0067]

I voted Battlemaster, but I can't say I'm a fan of the look. I would have much preferred the old school bubble canopy look. If they're bringing mechs back from the past, why not do it right?

[Wintersdark]

Dayuhan, on 02 July 2013 - 12:32 PM, said:

The Shadow Hawk is an excellent chassis and it may even become my new favorite medium build. I also like the possibilities of the Locust.

The locust has possibilities? I've been playing with various builds in the Oosik's mechlab ( http://theoosiks.com/mechlab# ), but I can't find anything that really looks even remotely promising.

Depends if they cap engine size to limit speed or not.

Ghostrider0067, on 03 July 2013 - 09:03 AM, said:

I voted Battlemaster, but I can't say I'm a fan of the look. I would have much preferred the old school bubble canopy look. If they're bringing mechs back from the past, why not do it right?

Alex explained that. They can't "do it right" because they don't own the artwork. They could NOT mirror the original artwork too closely because it creates legal issues and would be grossly irresponsible. They have rights to the concept of the mechs, the loadouts etc, but not the original imagery.

[MuonNeutrino]

Marauder. Only the Marauder. Just the single most badass 75 tons of fighting fury to ever stalk the corridors of the human imagination.

.... sigh. I wish. I don't normally tend to go for things like the phoenix pre-order packs, but if the phoenix heavy was a marauder I would have plunked down 60$ that same evening without a second thought. Well, ok, I probably would have waited the extra two days for the concept art to be released just to make sure they hadn't butchered it (unlikely given the quality of their past mechs, but an outside possibility), but still, shut up and take my money!

Lacking that, I've always had a soft spot for the good old shadow hawk. I'm not especially confident that it'll be all that great of a mech in MWO considering that it's got ballistic slots but doesn't seem to have the XL-friendly torso shape it'd need to effectively use them, but I'll still buy and pilot the heck out of em. Medium mechs for life - or, until they add the marauder, anyway!

[Angel of Annihilation]

MuonNeutrino, on 03 July 2013 - 03:22 PM, said:

Marauder. Only the Marauder. Just the single most badass 75 tons of fighting fury to ever stalk the corridors of the human imagination.

.... sigh. I wish. I don't normally tend to go for things like the phoenix pre-order packs, but if the phoenix heavy was a marauder I would have plunked down 60$ that same evening without a second thought. Well, ok, I probably would have waited the extra two days for the concept art to be released just to make sure they hadn't butchered it (unlikely given the quality of their past mechs, but an outside possibility), but still, shut up and take my money!

Lacking that, I've always had a soft spot for the good old shadow hawk. I'm not especially confident that it'll be all that great of a mech in MWO considering that it's got ballistic slots but doesn't seem to have the XL-friendly torso shape it'd need to effectively use them, but I'll still buy and pilot the heck out of em. Medium mechs for life - or, until they add the marauder, anyway!

I have to agree on the Marauder. If it every got added I would pilot one, even if it ended up sucking just because I think it is absolutely, hands down the best looking mech to come out of the Inner Sphere in the 3025/3050 time frame. Marauder II would be the other one I would love to see.....100 tons of Marauder fury...with JJs.

But doubt we will ever see them.

[VirtualSmitty]

I'm most excited for the battlemaster but the tbolt isn't far behind.

[Mad Dog Morgan]

I hope they completely dump the 1:1 timeline...

And throw in some IS mechs that look really great, but won't come out till the 3060's

Edited by Vaskadar, 03 July 2013 - 10:05 PM.

[Ghost Rider LSOV]

Battlemaster. Bulky, menacing, energy hardpoints for some LLs.

[Kasiagora]

I voted Shadow Hawk because I've been wanting a 55 ton jumper with a 275 engine in this game for a long, long time. The 55 ton mechs were always my favorite in tabletop too.

I didn't vote for the Battlemaster, but I'm almost as excited for it. It was my first miniature I ever bought out of a bits box at a sci-fi convention when I was 10 or 11 and didn't even know what Battletech was until a couple of years later. I enjoyed piloting one in MW2 with the cheat code to unlock it and I feel like this game will reunite me with an old friend.

But I still feel like the Shadow Hawk fills a role that was lacking in the game. That is; a maneuverable, classic, 3025 mech that's equally bad at all ranges.
I think if there were 1v1 matches in this game a mech like it would be desirable so you have a little something for everything. As it is, it'll get modded and made cookie cutter by whatever the week's meta is.