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[Ngamok]

TELEFORCE, on 24 February 2014 - 07:56 AM, said:

I would be surprised to see a Crockett or Katana in MWO. That would be a 'mech nobody would ever see coming!

Really the Thug makes sense as does the Zeus in that both of these offer a different look and play style. I mean typically the hard point locations are in different locations that mechs but since everything is swappable in the mech lab, nothing offers anything different anymore unless you can boat stuff a la Mauler with 4x AC/5 and some LLs.

Zeus, AC and LRMs in arms, LL in torso and ML in CT so good for some zombie.

The Thug can be your Warhammer.

[Damocles]

The Thug can be pretty fun when made in an AWS-8T. But the low engine cap hurts.

wheee

[Scrawny Cowboy]

So it's a fact we have the Mauler inc?

[Rubidiy]

yes. But no date of release.

[C E Dwyer]

I think the next one will be the Banshee, I'd be completely happy with it, and I'd buy it.

But I would love the Zeus

Rubidiy, on 25 February 2014 - 10:29 AM, said:

yes. But no date of release.

link please ?

[Josef Nader]

Blurg, another mixed-loadout humanoid with no interesting or unique characteristics to speak of. My favorite.

Edited by Josef Nader, 25 February 2014 - 04:10 PM.

[Colonel Fubar]

Really???
Let me get this straight...

YOU WANT CRABS???

[DEN_Ninja]

Russ said it is an Assault mech with a Hero Variant.

It will not be 85 tons.

[pbiggz]

Id love a thug, id love a zeus, id love a king crab, and id enjoy a mauler too i guess

Personally id want a zeus or thug but I think it'll be either the king crab or mauler.

[Rubidiy]

Cathy, on 25 February 2014 - 01:10 PM, said:

link please ?

Proof that Mauler is gonna be in the game.

https://soundcloud.c...-part-3#t=32:30

like this post please. I've spent an hour searching through the whole interview.

Edited by Rubidiy, 28 February 2014 - 07:18 AM.

[Khobai]

The Mauler will eventually be in the game. But if theyre only just working on it now then its definitely not going to be the next Assault mech.

Its almost definitely either the Banshee or Cyclops.

[C E Dwyer]

Khobai, on 28 February 2014 - 07:43 AM, said:

The Mauler will eventually be in the game. But if theyre only just working on it now then its definitely not going to be the next Assault mech.

Its almost definitely either the Banshee or Cyclops.

Or Zeus

[Khobai]

zeus is unlikely since its just a way worse victor without jumpjets. It adds absolutely nothing to the game.

of the mechs that actually add something the cyclops and banshee are the obvious choices.

[pbiggz]

a have revised my opinion. I now forecast a bansheepocalypse.

[stjobe]

Seeing as this thread was made by Garth almost TWO YEARS ago, it's pretty sure to be the Banshee.

Edited by stjobe, 28 February 2014 - 08:22 AM.

[GizmoGecko]

New assault hero next Tuesday then? Wish PGI would tease us more with screenshots like they used to... (Apparently the devs accept screenshot requests, so here's a request!)

[Rebas Kradd]

zagibu, on 23 February 2014 - 02:26 PM, said:

Leaked footage of upcoming assault mech, it's not the Mauler: TNM-A

Better than a Dragon.

[Rubidiy]

stjobe, on 28 February 2014 - 08:22 AM, said:

Seeing as this thread was made by Garth almost TWO YEARS ago, it's pretty sure to be the Banshee.

if you look at all available mechs, there's no choise in 95-ton category. It's only Banshee. A lot's changed. We had Phoenix mechs, while some of them had no change to appear in the game initially. We still don't have Flee. Now we're going to have Clan mechs, so devs need to balance them out with something hard hitting. I cann't argue with Banshee as a new assaul, but it's very unlogical from my point of view to have it in the game now. Things've changed. It's not just "ok, we released 90 ton mech, now let's release 95 ton one..."
This mech should be selled. I don't see how it can be any good. Firestarter was a good example that now it's time to release mechs of next level of effectiveness.

[MisterPlanetarian]

*The Mauler is the second 90 tonner and it's most likely being released along side the clan mechs we can now preorder post june and onwards.

*The new mech is most likely a 100 tonner or a 95 tonner. I hope PGI plays the timeline a bit and skip the Banshee in favour of the Cerberus or The Nightstar.

*The Banshee adds next to nothing to the game aside from being 95 tons. It is worse than a highlander and worse than an Atlas. All its weapons are in the right and left torso aside from the head small laser anyway which makes it a terrible mech overall. It would likely not sell well aside from collectors either. Garth's poll can be concidered a joke since he listed three Banshee variants and has a well documented flavour of fast moving big mechs.

Besides, the timeline has been bent before, as an example: The Highlander 732 was not manufactured by the Inner Sphere again untill 3057. The only functioning units were with ComStar whom were hoarding a stockpile left over from the SLDF.


The direwolf will be able to support 3x UAC20 or 3xGauss pretty easily with the current omnimech rules. So the whole "Can't let assaults use ballistics" is really out the window anytime now.

Edited by MisterPlanetarian, 02 March 2014 - 09:04 AM.

[Ragnar Darkmane]

I raise my pincers praying that the King Crab will be the next mech. It's not that unlikely, there are enough variants, a concept (that everyone agrees with that it is great) exists, it's basically the most wanted mech besides the urban mech as far as the community goes and the split-crit issue is not the unsolvable problem some people make it out to be (or that PGI couldn't ignore it entirely). It even made it on a "what is your favorite 100t mech" poll made by Russ 2 years ago. It fills multiple niches (non-humanoid design for a change, ballistic heavy Assault, 2nd 100 ton mech, absolutely unique gameplay) as well.
It also has NEVER been in a Mechwarrior game before.

Seriously, it would be rather goofy for them NOT to release the King Crab when the 2nd most popular thread in the suggested features section is a thread where people are voting that they would be willing to pay $40 for a pre-order just to get the REGULAR variants of both Crabs. PGI seems like they want to improve their relationship with the community lately and this is one of the most obvious ways to do it.

If you think the same, take a look at my sig below

Edited by Ragnar Darkmane, 02 March 2014 - 10:07 AM.