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#221 GalaxyBluestar

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Posted 01 April 2014 - 11:31 PM

View Postmuddybayou, on 01 April 2014 - 10:58 PM, said:

I have a lot of other bones to pick with this game, but foolin' on everybody's favorite l'il mech... was phenomenally funny. Especially all the negative Nancys whining about how they "really want a cute little urbie of my vewy own. Phooey on you PGI! Phooey!".



so you condone angering your customers by mocking the product they want continuing not to supply it?

cool buisness stratagy bro!

thing is It’s easy to make urbie work in mwo

JJs; give em 8-10 so we can fly around like the spiders could when they were introduced, pre jj hieght nerf that’ll help some of the manurvering speed troubles.

Engines; introduce 50-100 range and give the urbie an 50-200 rating. so what if the 50-100 is only available on one mech, not like everyone uses 100 rated engines so there's no point arguing it's a waste, most stock equipment is a waste by design, on purpose, just look at heatsinks. a max of 152kph with speedtweak is fine for a mech with many JJs better than a locust by far and we got that and people play it. really who uses stock engines in lights when they want to be competitive? This too slow nonsense must stop cause you can change engines, everyone does, if you want to say urbie can't work because of stock engines join the light clanner pilots whom ARE stuck with engine limits.

movement architype: Overlord dropship

Torso; not only 360 twist but 40-45 degree vertical torso movement, perched on a roof top it’ll be the only mech capable of shooting down on someone’s head {without guessing what is where with the arms like you usually do} and staring up cliff faces it can shoot a mech who can’t fight back anywhere near as good. Terrain trolling and hidey hole sniping which is what the mech’s built for, not as fast but more flexible than any other light in the game.

Hardpoints; the UM - R60 can have 3B on the right arm and 2 energy on the left. The UM - R60L can have 2B on the right arm and 3 energy on the left arm. The third variant UM – R63 can have 1B in the right arm 2 energy in the left arm and 2 energy 2B in the left torso {pending use of R63 or machine gun version}. Then the hero is none other than deputy dog with 2energy in the right arm 2B in the left arm and 2 energy in the CT. {although i think the urbie hero will end up with a huge basket on it's head saying "police" if adaptions of Bishop's art is anything to go by}

And lastly scaling; it should be as wide as a firestarter but the height of a jenner, hard to hit and see.

And that’s just the top of my head how urbie can be done and made interesting for a large player demographic. not a joke, not DOA. We’ve seen worse lights carry on well.

if pgi thought about it could easily be done

but they don’t want our money.

Edited by GalaxyBluestar, 02 April 2014 - 04:51 PM.


#222 Sean von Steinike

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Posted 01 April 2014 - 11:52 PM

I'd rather a usable Urbie than this hero Raven for sure.

#223 SweetJackal

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 01:39 AM

Well, considering it is past 5am on April 2nd, April First is over even in Hawaii. So at this point you've got April Fools advertising up past April Fools.

I don't like the joke even though this was something I recognized this as a bad joke from the get go. Far to easy for this to be seen as mocking part of the community, a tone PGI has taken many, many times. But fine, April Fools everyone! Ha- Ha- Ha-

Now can you get this garbage, fake announcement off of the Front Page of your website and launcher as well as out of the announcements section?

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 03:50 AM

one possible idea for the engine thing.

Urbie- engines 100-160
quirk- all engines only work at 60% efficency because an urbie would be too awesome with a full powered engine. that turns that 100 engine into a 60 (ok maybe not- never did the math for it but you get the idea). may have to have all urbies come with endo though to fit the bigger engine and still have the urbie loadout though.

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 04:21 AM

Now, PGI, you can save hearth by revealing the real UrbanMech (one designed by Alex Iglesias, not this trash bin) as the April's new mech.

Many people would appreciate it.

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 04:47 AM

I actually laughed when I saw the Urbie Joke.



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JJs; give em 8-10 so we can fly around like the spiders could when they were introduced, pre jj hieght nerf that’ll help some of the manurvering speed troubles.

Don't forget to set the hill-climbing Archetype to "Dropship" :wub:

Edited by Eglar, 02 April 2014 - 04:53 AM.


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Posted 02 April 2014 - 04:51 AM

So...seriously...they made that stupid raven hero mech. but didnt make the Urbanmech. FFS PGI.....you made the wrong mech the april fools day joke.

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 04:53 AM

The Urbanmech is one of the worst mech ever designed and created!! I will never buy this sort of light mech.

I have find this joke so funny =)

And all the hates on this thread is just so hilarious!!!


Keep on going, PGI, that was funny! (more funny than the Huginn...)

Edited by Aleski, 02 April 2014 - 04:54 AM.


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Posted 02 April 2014 - 04:54 AM

The quality of an Aprils fool joke is to be measured by the ymount of realy realy pissed commends on the joke.

So, awsome.....just awsomely done. :wub:

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 04:58 AM

View PostGalaxyBluestar, on 01 April 2014 - 11:31 PM, said:


so you condone angering your customers by mocking the product they want continuing not to supply it?

cool buisness stratagy bro!

thing is It’s easy to make urbie work in mwo

JJs; give em 8-10 so we can fly around like the spiders could when they were introduced, pre jj hieght nerf that’ll help some of the manurvering speed troubles.

Engines; introduce 50-100 range and give the urbie an 50-200 rating. so what if the 50-100 is only available on one mech, not like everyone uses 100 rated engines so there's no point arguing it's a waste, most stock equipment is a waste by design, on purpose, just look at heatsinks. a max of 152kph with speedtweak is fine for a mech with many JJs better than a locust by far and we got that and people play it. really who uses stock engines in lights when they want to be competitive? This too slow nonsense must stop cause you can change engines, everyone does, if you want to say urbie can't work because of stock engines join the light clanner pilots whom ARE stuck with engine limits.

Torso; not only 360 twist but 40-45 degree vertical torso movement, perched on a roof top it’ll be the only mech capable of shooting down on someone’s head {without guessing what is where with the arms like you usually do} and staring up cliff faces it can shoot a mech who can’t fight back anywhere near as good. Terrain trolling and hidey hole sniping which is what the mech’s built for, not as fast but more flexible than any other light in the game.

Hardpoints; the UM - R60 can have 3B on the right arm and 2 energy on the left. The UM - R60L can have 2B on the right arm and 3 energy on the left arm. The third variant UM – R63 can have 1B in the right arm 2 energy in the left arm and 2 energy 2B in the left torso {pending use of R63 or machine gun version}. Then the hero is none other than deputy dog with 2energy in the right arm 2B in the left arm and 2 energy in the CT. {although i think the urbie hero will end up with a huge basket on it's head saying "police" if adaptions of Bishop's art is anything to go by}

And lastly scaling; it should be as wide as a firestarter but the height of a jenner, hard to hit and see.

And that’s just the top of my head how urbie can be done and made interesting for a large player demographic. not a joke, not DOA. We’ve seen worse lights carry on well.

if pgi thought about it could easily be done

but they don’t want our money.


This. This i would buy in a heart beat. I would spend MC on this. Need to be able to mount an AC20 on at least one variant though.

Those more urban maps, sneak off hide under a bridge shut down. have mates on comms to yell at you to power up when a big bad goes by and pow right in the rear armour. Oh the challenge of finding ways to make the best of this machine.

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 05:03 AM

View PostHJ JoeKano, on 02 April 2014 - 04:58 AM, said:


This. This i would buy in a heart beat. I would spend MC on this. Need to be able to mount an AC20 on at least one variant though.

Those more urban maps, sneak off hide under a bridge shut down. have mates on comms to yell at you to power up when a big bad goes by and pow right in the rear armour. Oh the challenge of finding ways to make the best of this machine.

All urbies should be able to mount ac20 ballistics in their arms since they don't have elbow or hand activators. If you guys really want an Urbie so bad, zombie this thread :wub:

Edited by Eglar, 02 April 2014 - 05:05 AM.


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Posted 02 April 2014 - 05:44 AM

Food for thought.

Last year, We got an April Fools joke of a Raven hero. This year, we got a Raven Hero.

Urbie in 2015!

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 05:51 AM

So many people here got out there wallets, saw that Urbie was a joke, looked at the new Hero Raven hardpoints...and put the wallet away.

April Fool's.

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 05:51 AM

View Postverybad, on 01 April 2014 - 04:21 PM, said:

Look at the feedback for the Urbie, and look at the feedback for the raven hero.

Obvious where the interest is.

PGI just doesn't get it. They don't understand their community because they aren't a part of the community.They don't love the background, so they don't understand the true quirks.


The saddest part is that this isn't even original. PP did this joke two years ago.

Edited by Bagheera, 02 April 2014 - 05:55 AM.


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Posted 02 April 2014 - 06:30 AM

Ok, seriously guys. The amount of whining about the April Fools post is giving me a real chuckle. Get over it already. Its funny for cryin out loud.

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 06:52 AM

This is so not cool :wub:

Now I really want an Urban mech

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 06:58 AM

So getting a large number of the communities hopes up with this april fool gag was going to make everyone go ohh guys your such cards..

Thing that sucks more than this poorly thought out weeze is the design ..no jump jets on an urban mech I mean wtf get real

:wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :angry: :angry:

Biggest joke is the Raven -H you guys were talking about buffing the Oxide and you come up with this load of old cobblers

I bought into that to, I need my K/D murdered :huh:

Edited by Cathy, 02 April 2014 - 07:02 AM.


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Posted 02 April 2014 - 09:31 AM

*Sigh* And where are the Jump Jets? PGI:s claim that they are true Battletech fans rings pretty hollow when they can't get the basic 'mech stats right.

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 10:28 AM

I have no idea where this obsession with one of the absolutely worst 'mech designs in BT lore comes from. It you removed the name and put those stats to another name, no one would be going "oh give me that 'mech it's awesome". Everyone sitting here going I need an Urbie, would be talking about how horrible this 'mech is.

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Posted 02 April 2014 - 10:33 AM

Urbie vs Locust would be epic!





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