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[DrSlamastika]

lol Hightower

[BadKarma7]

Giant 'mech is giant. Seriously, who the hell thought this was a good idea?

[General Taskeen]

Alistair Winter, on 12 October 2013 - 08:51 AM, said:

I instantly regret not asking PGI about this in Ask the Devs.

When I first started looking at the Locust on Smurfynet, I realized they made the worst of all Locust variants a Phoenix mech.
"Oh well, at least I have the Shadowhawk as my other Phoenix mech. They wouldn't screw over both light and medium mech pilots, like they normally do"

GG, PGI.

Well, that's also due to how PGI balanced weapons. 1 ML, 2MGs with a crapton of ammo, or 1 ML, 4MG's can leg Mechs in MW3 in less than 10 seconds.

[Ghogiel]

I have officially completed MWO until the Thud comes out.

GG

[Ozzy Stormlight]

its been said before and i'll say it here..

Its the pilot, not the mech....

this isnt battle tech... this is MECHWARRIOR!!!

you want "accurate" scaling?? then you shoulda designed the game...
otherwise, i love this game for what it is

as should you all

[Alistair Winter]

Edited by Alistair Winter, 12 October 2013 - 10:01 AM.

[Vassago Rain]

It bears noting that the hawk is the most popular by far, and yet somehow they stuck it with the worst hitboxes and scaling.

Alistair Winter, on 12 October 2013 - 10:01 AM, said:

Damn it. It's true.

I guess the old 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me' struck again. Well, it's time to buy up some more gladiators before they vanish.

Edited by Vassago Rain, 12 October 2013 - 10:22 AM.

[General Taskeen]

Stormlight, on 12 October 2013 - 09:53 AM, said:

its been said before and i'll say it here..

Its the pilot, not the mech....

this isnt battle tech... this is MECHWARRIOR!!!

you want "accurate" scaling?? then you shoulda designed the game...
otherwise, i love this game for what it is

as should you all

[Vassago Rain]

Shaq hawk taking his hunchback 4G(F) out on a date.

[Alistair Winter]

Vassago Rain, on 12 October 2013 - 10:04 AM, said:

Damn it. It's true.

I guess the old 'fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me' struck again. Well, it's time to buy up some more gladiators before they vanish.

What the... when did those go on sale!? No one told me!

My poor wallet...

[Vassago Rain]

Alistair Winter, on 12 October 2013 - 10:30 AM, said:

What the... when did those go on sale!? No one told me!

My poor wallet...

They're available until monday, along with retributors and a year special aurora. Get them while they're hot, then play some phoenix mechs with me on patchday.

GG, clothes scaling.

[Felio]

HAHAHAA HAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAA

*wipes tear from eye*

[Mechwarrior413183]

I just don't understand what the reasoning behind making the Shadowhawk so big is I mean surely they realise a medium needs to be smaller as it lacks the armour and firepower of heavies and assaults? Oohhhh that's it, there is no reasoning they just scale at random with no logic behind it.

[GODzillaGSPB]

Mockeryangel, on 12 October 2013 - 12:51 PM, said:

I just don't understand what the reasoning behind making the Shadowhawk so big is I mean surely they realise a medium needs to be smaller as it lacks the armour and firepower of heavies and assaults? Oohhhh that's it, there is no reasoning they just scale at random with no logic behind it.

I easily get as cynical as that, as you can see in my posts. We are not in their shoes, we don't know whether there is a reason or not, we just speculate and we tend to be quite bitter, aren't we?

But then again...WHY don't they just tell us? Maybe they scale by volume. Maybe we're wrong. Maybe, maybe, maybe. And I even understand that they are not willing to make development as transparent as some kickstarter games are, because it was NOT a kickstarter, it was just a crowdfunding and they never promised a look into their cards.

But with so many topics, with so many posts...why don't they just answer this question? I don't see any company secret involved, how can this be so top secret, why are they holding back? They are just sitting this out as if it'd be impossible for them to rescale the mechs and I hardly believe that.

THAT is the most frustrating with the whole scaling situation, imho.

[Ghogiel]

GODzillaGSPB, on 12 October 2013 - 01:14 PM, said:

Maybe they scale by volume.

Assuming a similar density to volume ratio, they don't.

[Laserhupe]

What is it?

It's gonna be HUUUUUUUUGE!

[Karyudo ds]

GODzillaGSPB, on 12 October 2013 - 01:14 PM, said:

But then again...WHY don't they just tell us? Maybe they scale by volume. Maybe we're wrong. Maybe, maybe, maybe.

It really makes me wonder if they even use their other mechs as references when modeling each other because the 55 tonner seems like it would clearly tower over the others.

[Dymlos2003]

Look at all the people who don't play mediums complain about mediums... Wait it's the usual people, moving along.

[LordBraxton]

well, looks like the ShatHawk will be joining my quickdraw in hard mode

these are the mechs I play when drunk\stoned, so If I get a bad score, nobody can rip on me too hard, because I'm piloting an oversized piece of garbage...

and when I get top score, I get to flaunt how good I am in a ****** mech

OH WELL, was looking forward to this mech most of all.

I bet the griffin is going to be RIDICULOUSLY oversized, look how wide it's torso is...

[Vassago Rain]

LordBraxton, on 12 October 2013 - 02:12 PM, said:

well, looks like the ShatHawk will be joining my quickdraw in hard mode

these are the mechs I play when drunk\stoned, so If I get a bad score, nobody can rip on me too hard, because I'm piloting an oversized piece of garbage...

and when I get top score, I get to flaunt how good I am in a ****** mech

OH WELL, was looking forward to this mech most of all.

I bet the griffin is going to be RIDICULOUSLY oversized, look how wide it's torso is...

The wolverine's missilepod, man. It's gonna be the size of a jenner. The pod, I mean. The mech will be about atlas sized.