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[Radbane]

To be honest most of the patterns availible, including hero mech patterns, are simply aweful. I'm not much into lore but they feel immersion breaking because they're either to detailed in a stupid way or just not "realistic". Tartan, Cobra, Virus, Urban block to name a few. I haven't ever seen anyone of those ingame and that says something.

We've got our share of real Camo, woodland, sherman and digital, but I miss more simplistic warpaints in the form of stripes and other geometric figures that actually fit the mech they're painted on. Some heromechs have gotten this right (Dragonslayer, Protector and the Phoenix mechs) and I wish we could have more variants of simple geometric patterns to buy.

Just my 2 cents

[RandomLurker]

Tartan is cool, especially since there are several prominent Scottish units in the lore (Royal Black Watch and Northwind Highlanders in particular).

A greater issue I have is spending real money on a trivial cosmetic upgrade to a single mech. I will never, ever spend MC on anything so limited.

[Wintersdark]

RandomLurker, on 27 September 2013 - 04:56 PM, said:

Tartan is cool, especially since there are several prominent Scottish units in the lore (Royal Black Watch and Northwind Highlanders in particular).

A greater issue I have is spending real money on a trivial cosmetic upgrade to a single mech. I will never, ever spend MC on anything so limited.

Patterns are purchased for all variants of that mech.

However, the much more efficient way to go is just to buy the One Use pattern. Even if you change them now and then, it's much cheaper just to buy a one-use application.

Note that you can re-colour a one-use pattern freely after it's installed without additional cost.

Edited by Wintersdark, 27 September 2013 - 05:01 PM.

[DarkDevilDancer]

Well as its purely cosmetic your under no obligation to spend money on it, vote with your wallet.

[RandomLurker]

DarkDevilDancer, on 27 September 2013 - 05:06 PM, said:

Well as its purely cosmetic your under no obligation to spend money on it, vote with your wallet.

Yup.

[IceCase88]

Their sales are unimaginative, bland, and utterly unappealling. Basically, the same sales rehashed over and over and over again. Their marketing leaves much to be desired. Just look at their launch sale. A grand event they built everyone up for and all that was on sale was camo and colors for one mech. If there ever was a time for a bold sale it was then and they failed. All they ever do is

[Vassago Rain]

No.

[General Taskeen]

I've waiting for actual battle tech camo's

http://www.camospecs.com

[GrandLocomon]

I have seen the tartan camo once in game, on an atlas. It's clearly not a popular scheme.

General Taskeen, on 27 September 2013 - 06:33 PM, said:

I've waiting for actual battle tech camo's

http://www.camospecs.com

This website is great for ideas to paint your mechs, but it would be nice if more were reproducible in MWO. I hope they have faction specific paints (like the jaguar spot camo for the smoke jaguars) available once CW begins.

[Risko Vinsheen]

Considering the university I graduated from's mascot is a Highlander (the actual Scotsmen, not the mech ) and thus tartan patterns are a common sight on the campus, I felt it was only proper I get the Tartan pattern for my Highlander with this sale. Didn't buy the colors, though. Used PC Gamer Red and Titanium White for the actual tartan pattern (university's colors) and then Camo Brown for the solid color in between.

[C E Dwyer]

Radbane, on 27 September 2013 - 04:51 PM, said:

To be honest most of the patterns availible, including hero mech patterns, are simply aweful. I'm not much into lore but they feel immersion breaking because they're either to detailed in a stupid way or just not "realistic". Tartan, Cobra, Virus, Urban block to name a few. I haven't ever seen anyone of those ingame and that says something.

We've got our share of real Camo, woodland, sherman and digital, but I miss more simplistic warpaints in the form of stripes and other geometric figures that actually fit the mech they're painted on. Some heromechs have gotten this right (Dragonslayer, Protector and the Phoenix mechs) and I wish we could have more variants of simple geometric patterns to buy.

Just my 2 cents

Urban,Dazzle,Woodland,Tiger,Mountain,Vagabond,Fractal,Virus,

Have all been used in camo patterns by all major powers on tanks and warships, in the 20/21st century if not under those exact names, as an example Vagabond is almost identical to the patterns used by the the french army on armour up until 1940.

Digital I could see as a modern attempt to recreate urban block.

The custom colours are the weakest, and are gimic, but I can see why people like them.

Not all camo patterns suit all mechs, I think Urban looks good on Atali, but not alot else, vagabond looks good on Victors and woodland Orions, but its personal choice and what colours you chose with the pattern.

Most armour, aircraft, and ships, have remained a single colour in history, as its much easier applied, so being all white for alpine, green for forrest, black for terra, pink for tourmaline, tan for canyon,would be well inside present day thinking on colour, and that thinking isn't going to alter much in the next 1000 years.

Also depending on what BT fiction you read, mech sensors are so weak its a surprise they don't trip over their own feet, or are so powerfull they can detect an ant fart in the next continent, so depending on which dogma you chose to follow, a bright Orange mech isn't going to be at a disadvantage to a fully camo'd one unless both are shut down.

I'm kind of surprised leopard pattern hasn't arrived yet, or one similar to german 'ambush' pattern.

I can't see why they would be immersion breaking though

surely people yelling CAKE, MOIN MOIN, DAKKA DAKKA, on open channel is far more immersion breaking, as I'm quite sure that soldiers of the Draconis combine are going to use those as the house Battle Cry, or not..

[Nick REX Trebla]

Honestly: I can't care less about it.