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[BookWyrm]

After the disappointment of the Quickdraw I learned to hold off for a day or two and see them in action first. Now I'm only worried that I impulse bought the Phoenix package...anyone want to trade me a decent mech for a jenner sized locust in a month or two ><?

[Your Friend Mr Rogers]

The design of the Kintaro is actually brilliant if you think of it this way...

....no need to worry about your XL exploding! Because the center torso is where everyone is going to be focusing, and the center torso has way more armor then the side torsos! Also I have seen a few in battle, and they don't seem that large,or is it just me?


I don't know food for though.

[Wired]

BookWyrm, on 13 August 2013 - 11:15 PM, said:

After the disappointment of the Quickdraw I learned to hold off for a day or two and see them in action first. Now I'm only worried that I impulse bought the Phoenix package...anyone want to trade me a decent mech for a jenner sized locust in a month or two ><?

Jenner sized? My good man, you are underestimating its size. It will be Dragon sized at the least.

On a side note, I noticed the initial engine for the Golden boy was very small. Does it have a smaller max engine than the others?

Edited by Wired, 13 August 2013 - 11:25 PM.

[Sephlock]

So far I've found that the best bet is to hide like a craven coward and wait for an enemy mech to get close. THEN, make sure to wait until your teammates have gotten at least one of it's torso sections red, RUSN OUT AND BUM RUSH HIM, OMGWTF LEEROY JENKINS ALPHA STRIKE ALPHA STRIKE ALPHA STRIKE- NAPTIME!

If you time it right, you will have finished your opponent off faster than he would have gone down otherwise (unless your whole team is there, in which case you took several shots in the back for no real gain ), albeit not as fast as you would have if you had been using machineguns (if you had waited a bit longer, THEN rushed him with MGs).

[Lorcan Lladd]

Wired, on 13 August 2013 - 11:23 PM, said:

Jenner sized? My good man, you are underestimating its size. It will be Dragon sized at the least.

On a side note, I noticed the initial engine for the Golden boy was very small. Does it have a smaller max engine than the others?

Yes; the other Kintaros max-out at 360 if I'm not mistaken, whereas the Golden Boy can only mount an Engine as heavy as a 290.
It is most unfortunate.

[Sephlock]

Lorcan Lladd, on 14 August 2013 - 12:36 AM, said:

Yes; the other Kintaros max-out at 360 if I'm not mistaken, whereas the Golden Boy can only mount an Engine as heavy as a 290.
It is most unfortunate.

But the Golden Boy has the advantage of, uh...

... It has Kanji on it's chest!

[HeavyRain]

And that golden paint makes you the pimpiest **** of the inner sphere, fo shizzle.

[Sephlock]

Maybe I'll try this later. In for a penny, in for a pound.

[One Medic Army]

Sephlock, on 14 August 2013 - 12:51 AM, said:

Maybe I'll try this later. In for a penny, in for a pound.

I was planning to set the side torsos on mine to 15front/15rear and save some tonnage there for more SRMs.

[Sephlock]

One Medic Army, on 14 August 2013 - 12:58 AM, said:

I was planning to set the side torsos on mine to 15front/15rear and save some tonnage there for more SRMs.

If you are living long enough to fire more than 3-4 volleys of SRMs on a consistent basis, I beg you to record your games and upload them to youtube.

[One Medic Army]

Sephlock, on 14 August 2013 - 01:00 AM, said:

If you are living long enough to fire more than 3-4 volleys of SRMs on a consistent basis, I beg you to record your games and upload them to youtube.

Oh, I haven't bought one.
No way am I spending MC on this stinker, but I'm willing to give it a chance at the CBill level.

[Devil Fox]

I've seen Golden Boys... new rule with a Kintaro, CT it on sight, simple, effective and removes a good alpha if ignored. I just face hugged the more recent one in my Poptart VTR-DS, it was kill the SRM/ML Golden Boy or a AC5/PPC Trebuchet 5K (and it was mauled)... I slaughtered the Golden Boy from near fresh armour in a few alpha's.

I have noticed one or 2 friendly CBill Kintaro... personally this mech is one of the worst, and might actually be the first mech I will not buy 3 variants of.

[xengk]

Ran into a kintaro packing 4 or 5 SRM6.
The sneaky thing just do a drive-by shooting on my team's jenner who have stopped to backstab an atlas, he speed up behind the jenner and unload his SRMs. The jenner is dead before it can respond.

The same kintaro was later seen chasing down the team's ECM commando.
He got the commando off screen, and was later killed by a dragon from the team.

Tried to shot at him with ERPPCs in my 8Q, but the thing is fast.

[Shadey99]

Anjian, on 13 August 2013 - 09:36 PM, said:

I see one or two, and they are really few. The ones I saw die in battle, and I don't think I ever recalled one surviving a match even on the games where its team won.

I have seen a Kintaro survive... barely... By hiding the whole match until just before the end, Where I was trying awfully hard to make him my 4th kill and had torn off his CT armor and just about to munch on his tasty internals when the match ended (Conquest points victory).

[SgtMagor]

the GB is way to slow to be effective with its payload, so in its stock speed you bought a SUICIDE! mech, Some assaults can easily out run or keep up with you. now I need to figure out what would be the prime engine for the GB without having to lose most of my weapons

Edited by SgtMagor, 14 August 2013 - 04:57 AM.

[HammerSwarm]

Viktor Drake, on 13 August 2013 - 08:44 PM, said:

Seen two today so a few people are buying them although I just don't understand why. Honestly a C-bill mech for MC is on thing I would never buy well unless they were like 100-200 MC a piece then their might be a remote chance.

I think I can answer this one. The people who would have spent mc on a Kintaro early are the people who would have spent MC on a Kintaro anyways.

I have my GoldenBoy maxed through basics with around 8000 xp for the elite tier. I play it in a single double XP match each time I play to take advantage of that. Then I jump back in my other mediums. As a centurion/dragon pilot I don't mind the Kintaro as much as some people, I am used to being cored first. That said it's a huge target and I can't stand toe to toe with anything at this point. All that to say I won't be spending any MC on a Kintaro to get it 1 week early,

I am not sure if they actually expected a mech that has been reviewed poorly by the forums to sell like hotcakes or if this was the new plan for rolling out mechs and it was on the Kintaro by coincidence. Either way I suspect the sales numbers of this mech to me less than average.

[General Taskeen]

Nauht, on 13 August 2013 - 08:47 PM, said:

Maybe cos it was a gawdawful TT mech to begin with, I mean it's a strutting chimp.

This is a game FYI, it doesn't matter if something was crap in TT, it can be balanced to better in REAL-TIME with Mech sizing and Hitboxes. Consider any of the default Kintaro's, they have decent above average speed on par with Centurions and Trebuchets and are Missle/Laser based, that's plenty good for a REAL-TIME game. No one cares if it looked like a chimp with a perceived "it sucked in TT" attitude.

But in this real-time game they were given a bad Mech scale and Bad hit-box design, which directly relates to its current uselessness. All Mediums suffer from the "Mediums Must Suck™" Balancing decisions by the Devs.

[tuffy963]

I have the 18, 19, and 20. I am through the basics working on elite skills now.

They are death traps. The hard points and speed encourage a SRM brawler build, but the fragile CT that can be hit from the back and sides won't allow that build to be successful. I rarely survive one hit and run attempt in it.

Most disturbing, I am routinely killed so quickly that I never see the Internal CT structure turn colors. I go from yellow CT external armor to dead.

Then there is this...



Is my Front CT armor supposed to extend around to the back like that?

[Deathlike]

tuffy963, on 14 August 2013 - 06:36 AM, said:

Is my Front CT armor supposed to extend around to the back like that?

Well, what does the back CT armor show?

You could get away with stacking most back armor to the front to compensate...

Edited by Deathlike, 14 August 2013 - 06:57 AM.

[tuffy963]

Deathlike, on 14 August 2013 - 06:57 AM, said:

Well, what does the back CT armor show?

EDIT: I think this is what you wanted...

Edited by tuffy963, 14 August 2013 - 07:03 AM.