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[Cimarb]

Trystan Thorne, on 02 April 2014 - 05:08 PM, said:

Hmmmm, I'm really hoping that many people are been sarcastic here.

I would love to the Urban Mech myself ingame one day, but this April's Fools joke didn't upset me at all.
I actually liked it.

The only Urbanmech they should have released was the Gold one, and charged $500 for it. Then all of these people whining about the Urbanmech not being released would have something worth actually complaining about...

[GalaxyBluestar]

Aurien Titus, on 02 April 2014 - 06:28 PM, said:

Cimarb, on 02 April 2014 - 06:29 PM, said:

can't wait for 2015 when on april first your favorite mechs are deleted from your accounts. we can all laugh then.

[Cimarb]

GalaxyBluestar, on 02 April 2014 - 06:44 PM, said:

can't wait for 2015 when on april first your favorite mechs are deleted from your accounts. we can all laugh then.

Because your "favorite mech" was deleted this April 1st?... I don't see the correlation...

[Alik Kerensky]

Too bad it's an April Fools joke.

[The Reaper Beckons]

Ahhhh PGI. Even fail at humour.

[Utilyan]

Rebas Kradd, on 02 April 2014 - 02:52 PM, said:

The Urbanmech should not be on the field with a bunch of open-terrain...

Which is why Urbanmech would be perfect here since there is NOT a bunch of open-terrain!

Every place has tons of cover, even alpine peaks where one would expect to be worst, isn't that bad, its like a pop tart happy land.

The very worst place I could think of is caustic valley between sigma and theta D3...... And any mech let alone a urbie by itself out in the middle of that valley is dead.


Urbanmech would suck, with pilots who suck.

But pilot would not stay that way, they would eventually lose their cover-blindness.

Urbanmech is guaranteed to teach a person skill. Its a great mech. A fully customized Urbie would be a monsterous light.

[GalaxyBluestar]

Cimarb, on 02 April 2014 - 06:59 PM, said:

Because your "favorite mech" was deleted this April 1st?... I don't see the correlation...

well many thought "here comes urbie" but a joke means it was snatched away and forevermore we're without urbie. that's why it's not funny and i'm sure if pgi announced "nerfs don't work we really are deleting victors highlanders etc from the game" you'd understand howit feels we're not getting urbie but are teased to death with this announcment. then some people think it's really cool to pour salt into the wound by saying it should only cost an arm or a leg or not come at all. how would you feel if pgi said we're working on the mauler but we've scrapped the idea you're not getting one, or a king crab only way to have it is $500 a pop, to even think that as a joke or reflection on pgi just re-inforces how bad this situation is. just no, the more i think about this along with the player group limits unless premium and clans...

[Cimarb]

GalaxyBluestar, on 02 April 2014 - 08:31 PM, said:

well many thought "here comes urbie" but a joke means it was snatched away and forevermore we're without urbie. that's why it's not funny and i'm sure if pgi announced "nerfs don't work we really are deleting victors highlanders etc from the game" you'd understand howit feels we're not getting urbie but are teased to death with this announcment. then some people think it's really cool to pour salt into the wound by saying it should only cost an arm or a leg or not come at all. how would you feel if pgi said we're working on the mauler but we've scrapped the idea you're not getting one, or a king crab only way to have it is $500 a pop, to even think that as a joke or reflection on pgi just re-inforces how bad this situation is. just no, the more i think about this along with the player group limits unless premium and clans...

I'm sorry, but that is just silly. All of you need to stop obsessing over the mech - it's just a mech, and not even a good one.

I get the whole "underdog" thing, but if you want to be the underdog, just never equip any weapons with range over 270 meters, or only equip half of your allowed armor.

I have no problem with them coming out with the Urbanmech - it's just a "cute" light mech - but getting upset because they made an April Fool's joke (and a pretty lame one at that) saying it was going to be available? Come on...

I'm sure it will be available eventually - they have never said it WOULDN'T be, unlike the HG mechs - so get over yourselves and stop pitching a fit about an April Fool's joke...

[CMetz]

If anyone wants an urbie just put an AC10 on a spider, lowest engine possible, and I'll leg you. Easy as pie.

[Johnny Reb]

CMetz, on 02 April 2014 - 08:52 PM, said:

If anyone wants an urbie just put an AC10 on a spider, lowest engine possible, and I'll leg you. Easy as pie.

That's like like putting peanut butter and jelly on flatbread and calling it a proper PB@J sandwich!

[Fiona Marshe]

Before QQing about how bad an Urbanmech is; play one.

Any Spider chassis (-K or -D work best), 100 Std Engine, 2 JJ and the biggest guns you can fit. Drop in 10 matches.

Then notice that you are out-performing PUG Assault mechs in both damage, assists and kills...

[Wintersdark]

Aurien Titus, on 02 April 2014 - 06:28 PM, said:

What? To add completely useless 'mechs? Sure, that seems like a legit direction to take a game.

Why would an urbanmech be useless? You wouldn't be playing it in its stock configuration. Its in game stats are not locked in anywhere, so its entirely possible to make decent builds on the chassis.

[GalaxyBluestar]

Cimarb, on 02 April 2014 - 08:40 PM, said:

I'm sorry, but that is just silly. All of you need to stop obsessing over the mech - it's just a mech, and not even a good one.

I get the whole "underdog" thing, but if you want to be the underdog, just never equip any weapons with range over 270 meters, or only equip half of your allowed armor.

I have no problem with them coming out with the Urbanmech - it's just a "cute" light mech - but getting upset because they made an April Fool's joke (and a pretty lame one at that) saying it was going to be available? Come on...

I'm sure it will be available eventually - they have never said it WOULDN'T be, unlike the HG mechs - so get over yourselves and stop pitching a fit about an April Fool's joke...

plenty of things are silly, ponies, plushies, harry potter but look where the money's at and pgi wannna make a joke out of it. jokes on them dude, unless they suddenly get the real urbies out there then they just slagged off potential customers.

seriously you do not go to texas and say guns are for gays as an april fools, likewise you don't go to a nerd fanbase and say their characters are only jokeworthy. the announcment stinks of being totally outof touch with the playerbase, like the ford company manager at a convention announcing mustangs are crap and no more, you say pgi haven't said no.... well when are they going to say yes to urbie? it's long overdue. firestarter? who was looking forward to that? nice to have but urbies more popular we need it, and they need hero sales better than huggin.

Edited by GalaxyBluestar, 02 April 2014 - 11:32 PM.

[Odanan]

GalaxyBluestar, on 02 April 2014 - 11:30 PM, said:

plenty of things are silly, ponies, plushies, harry potter but look where the money's at and pgi wannna make a joke out of it. jokes on them dude, unless they suddenly get the real urbies out there then they just slagged off potential customers.

seriously you do not go to texas and say guns are for gays as an april fools, likewise you don't go to a nerd fanbase and say their characters are only jokeworthy. the announcment stinks of being totally outof touch with the playerbase, like the ford company manager at a convention announcing mustangs are crap and no more, you say pgi haven't said no.... well when are they going to say yes to urbie? it's long overdue. firestarter? who was looking forward to that? nice to have but urbies more popular we need it, and they need hero sales better than huggin.

Agreed!
(well, except for the Firestarter part - I was waiting for it!)

[LiGhtningFF13]

... not very funny, or didn't I get the joke?!

[sabujo]

Is the website broken? When does this cruelty of a lie vanishes from the frontpage?

[Cimarb]

Fiona Marshe, on 02 April 2014 - 09:53 PM, said:

Before QQing about how bad an Urbanmech is; play one.

Any Spider chassis (-K or -D work best), 100 Std Engine, 2 JJ and the biggest guns you can fit. Drop in 10 matches.

Then notice that you are out-performing PUG Assault mechs in both damage, assists and kills...

Thats pretty much my point - you can have the equivalent of the Urbanmech by doing what you said, and how many of those do you see on the battlefield?

The only issue here is that the Urbie, like Big Lebowski and tons of other relatively horrible cult films, have received an enormous influx of people that "like the unlikable just to like it" - call it nerd rebellion or whatever you want. There is no actual reason to like it, other than it is easy to make cute cartoons with it.

GalaxyBluestar, on 02 April 2014 - 11:30 PM, said:

plenty of things are silly, ponies, plushies, harry potter but look where the money's at and pgi wannna make a joke out of it. jokes on them dude, unless they suddenly get the real urbies out there then they just slagged off potential customers.

seriously you do not go to texas and say guns are for gays as an april fools, likewise you don't go to a nerd fanbase and say their characters are only jokeworthy. the announcment stinks of being totally outof touch with the playerbase, like the ford company manager at a convention announcing mustangs are crap and no more, you say pgi haven't said no.... well when are they going to say yes to urbie? it's long overdue. firestarter? who was looking forward to that? nice to have but urbies more popular we need it, and they need hero sales better than huggin.

As I said, I wouldn't have a problem with them releasing the Urbie, but I wouldn't buy one because it is just a poorly-designed light and I don't particularly like lights to begin with (I have spider, Jenner and Ember mastered, but rarely play them because I just don't like the playstyle).

My point is it was an April Fools joke, and people called it weeks ahead of time. It wasn't even a well done joke, but it's amazing that anyone would get all up in arms about it. Get over it already, lol.

If they want to make money, they should definitely release it as a Gold version first, though. See who is REALLY a fanboi!

[CCC Dober]

Cimarb, on 03 April 2014 - 06:18 AM, said:

...
The only issue here is that the Urbie, like Big Lebowski and tons of other relatively horrible cult films, have received an enormous influx of people that "like the unlikable just to like it" - call it nerd rebellion or whatever you want. There is no actual reason to like it, other than it is easy to make cute cartoons with it.
...

I think you are missing the crucial part of what actually makes the Urbie what it is. Ignore the cuteness for a moment and just focus on the design quirks:

1. A Light Mech that is so slow, it makes the Atlas look 'sporty'
2. It can pack guns that are more suited to Heavy and Assault Mechs
3. It's cheap as dirt

You can gloss over each of these quirks without being any wiser, but you cannot gloss over the sum of them. There simply is no other Mech like the Urban Mech. It is one of the few that punches way above its weight in its natural habitat.

Edited by CCC Dober, 03 April 2014 - 07:21 AM.

[uebersoldat]

Just release the frikken Urbanmech FFS! LOL

There is no reason not to have it. Just do it PGI and get it over with! People will buy it. People will love it. People will love to hate it.

Aurien Titus, on 02 April 2014 - 06:28 PM, said:

What? To add completely useless 'mechs? Sure, that seems like a legit direction to take a game.

Bet you're real fun at parties.

[Cimarb]

I want them to release it just to stop the fanboys from whining.... It won't be used any more than the commando currently is, so PGI please release it just to shut them up...

Edited by Cimarb, 03 April 2014 - 08:06 AM.