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[CygnusX7]

Because of all the Jester talk I dropped in my 2 AC10, 4mL K2 last night. What a great mech! It was the 2nd I purchased and hardly ran it since. Not sure how I feel about an all energy one.

[Malleus011]

Someone please tell me UI2.0 comes with the ability to change the skins of Hero Mechs.

[The Justicar]

Malleus011, on 30 October 2013 - 07:26 AM, said:

Someone please tell me UI2.0 comes with the ability to change the skins of Hero Mechs.

A million times this.

[stjobe]

The Big Stick, on 30 October 2013 - 06:39 AM, said:

As a Cat Driver my Jester wish list is:

Support an engine upto 350
twin AMS
6E
ECM
JJ
old school torso swivel
2(3) Module slots... how did the K2 lose one anyway?

All benefits and no drawbacks - yeah, I'm sure that'll be just dandy in a "Oh no, it's not Pay To Win" way.

Drop the ECM and JJ and I could see it; that's just an all-energy K2 with an extra AMS and slightly bigger engine after all.

[MeiSooHaityu]

Malleus011, on 30 October 2013 - 07:26 AM, said:

Someone please tell me UI2.0 comes with the ability to change the skins of Hero Mechs.

Actually, I kind of hope they don't. I'm not a huge fan of the Catapult camo (or even the Ilya really), but it is a distinguishing character of the mech. I am glad the colors can be tweaked, but I say keep the camo mandatory.

[Fate 6]

Vassago Rain, on 29 October 2013 - 10:54 AM, said:

Lights are weak, and you can't really release anything that'll compete with 3L or the jenners, so what's the point? All current mediums, bar the hawk, are terrible.

Centurions are good chassis, PGI just needs to a) address walking on hills so that JJs aren't almost completely mandatory and fix SRMs so they actually do damage unlike the chaff cannons we now have.

[Sarsaparilla Kid]

DONTOR, on 29 October 2013 - 12:42 PM, said:

It appears to be a K2K or K4 variant. Im hoping K4 because it will then have JJ atleast.

Unfortunately, the K4 was not introduced until 3068, so they would really have to bend the timeline to get JJs in this one. I'm betting it won't happen...but would be pleasantly surprised if it did.

[P o t a t o]

Cant Wait For The Jester. Looks amazing with those Lazors.

[verybad]

The thing is just as uglyaspiss, They'd have to PAY me to drive that thing, even if it had a good loadout.

[Deathlike]

Malleus011, on 30 October 2013 - 07:26 AM, said:

Someone please tell me UI2.0 comes with the ability to change the skins of Hero Mechs.

MeiSooHaityu, on 30 October 2013 - 07:38 AM, said:

Actually, I kind of hope they don't. I'm not a huge fan of the Catapult camo (or even the Ilya really), but it is a distinguishing character of the mech. I am glad the colors can be tweaked, but I say keep the camo mandatory.

They don't and/or probably won't ever be able to remove the base camo/pattern on the hero mech.

Hero mechs are designed as such (at the moment) to not do that AFAIK. They probably could, but it'll be a lot of objects.pak restructuring and recoding and other background things before that occurs.

At best, you could just recolor all 3 parts to the same color and hope that's good enough.

Edited by Deathlike, 30 October 2013 - 10:07 AM.

[New Day]

Can somebody circle (with paint or smt) the ballistic stuff in the arms for me cause no matter how much I look at the photo I don't see it.

[Sephlock]

I admit I never thought they'd top the Pretty Baby in terms of ugliness...

[Sephlock]

It's also especially cruel of them to release this well after the energy boat nerfs... I guess you could stick ppcs in the arms and mlas in the body... if it has JJs it could work out alright.

[focuspark]

all i know is that this is the ugliest hero mech yet... makes the Heavy Metal's camo look decent.

an all lasers K2 is doomed.

[Amsro]

focuspark, on 30 October 2013 - 11:13 AM, said:

all i know is that this is the ugliest hero mech yet... makes the Heavy Metal's camo look decent.

an all lasers K2 is doomed.

We all know as a Marik pilot you secretly LOVE the Heavy Metal Pink camo.

[focuspark]

Amsro, on 30 October 2013 - 03:20 PM, said:

We all know as a Marik pilot you secretly LOVE the Heavy Metal Pink camo.

Dude that's "pleion" and it's "purple"... not pink :-p

and as Kurtian... Touché

[SgtMagor]

any news about jump jets dang, gotta have them been looking for a reason to buy a Cat for a long time, but K2 didn't have them either.

[zagibu]

What do you guys think, is that a missile launcher on the left torso next to the ML?

[juxstapo]

mwhighlander, on 29 October 2013 - 10:48 AM, said:

Hey high, remember my mektek.net avatar?*

%&$# logic and reason, K2 is my best kitty, and this is one with a Cheshire Cat painted on the face. Emotional Impulse Buy real hard.




* it was the cheshire cat

[Sable Dove]

So, what's the appeal? It looks pretty much like a K2, but with a second AMS, and without ballistics. What can it do that the K2 can't? Hell, what can it do (that doesn't suck) that the JR7-F can't?

And honestly, what makes the K2 special (somewhat unfortunately) is its ballistics, more than its energy points. Mostly because ballistics are a bit too powerful compared to energy weapons.

I think this sucks, because I love the Catapults; this feels like such a waste of a Catapult hero. "Oh no! here comes the HBK-4P, but with two-thirds of the hardpoints and instead of a giant RT, it has a giant CT!"