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[TELEFORCE]

I REALLY love the way PGI's Summoner model looks! I think it's almost spot on with its classic TRO depictions. I just wish the Warhawk turned out to be more closer to the TROs and miniatures like the Summoner had.

But this is the Summoner thread. I love the look of it. I'm looking forward to getting one!

[Mystere]

Screen shots are nice. But, details on Clans weapons would be better.

[Name140704]

TELEFORCE, on 08 May 2014 - 02:06 PM, said:

I REALLY love the way PGI's Summoner model looks! I think it's almost spot on with its classic TRO depictions. I just wish the Warhawk turned out to be more closer to the TROs and miniatures like the Summoner had.

But this is the Summoner thread. I love the look of it. I'm looking forward to getting one!

Same. Summoner C was my mech for stock matches in MW3. SO fun to outmaneuver missiles and drop Timberwolf Ds

[Clideb50]

Xeno Phalcon, on 08 May 2014 - 01:36 PM, said:

I think their reasoning is this from the omnimech construction thread:

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• OmniPods can exist for configurations that we do not sell as complete 'Mechs in the store.
  
  • E.g. The Black Hawk D only has 2 hardpoints, and could be hard to justify making as a 'Mech on its own, but the hardpoints are unique compared to other configurations. So the OmniPod of the Black Hawk D’s right arm OmniPod could be made available to place on other configurations

The idea is that even though the Prime has 3 hardpoints, they are more like sections of the mech you can swap out, IE prime would be "1E(RA) 1B(LA) 1M(LT)" and a Alt C has (In theory, I dont recall what side it had the UAC20 on to be honest) "1B(RA) 2E(LA) 1M(LT)" and the omnipod system would let you exchange the primes 1E(RA) for the Alt-C's 1B(RA) allowing for a "1B(RA) 1B(LA) 1M(LT)" build, or do the opposite and take the energy points for a "1E(RA) 2E(LA) 1M(LT)".


Think I hurt my brain.

They also considered giving pods with less hardpoints than others little bonus quirks (ie an arm with only 1 energy hardpoint might have a cooling bonus compared to one with 2 energy hardpoints.) If they decide to down down that road, I suspect the Prime configuration of the Summoner(Thor) will have several quirks.

[TELEFORCE]

When I first saw the screen shots for the Summoner, I immediately remembered the MechWarrior 3 intro, watching the Smoke Jaguar Summoner and Timber Wolf march to the city for a brawl with Inner Sphere scum

[Archon]

Mystere, on 08 May 2014 - 02:08 PM, said:

Screen shots are nice. But, details on Clans weapons would be better.

SoonTM.

[Amardez]

If they Changed the cockpit so it looked less like a massive bulls eye this would be one of the best looking mech around timber wolf and this holding the top spots as eye candy. Not bad at all guys.

[Gorthaur]

looks great! best one so far IMHO

sorry had to:

[Gigastrike]

Looks pretty ok. Center torso is bulky as heck. Not saying it looks bad, but it's gonna make this mech difficult to brawl with. Maybe if the sides of the center torso are considered side torso it'd be ok.

Number of hardpoints is low, but that's no different from any other prime variant we've seen besides the Timber Wolf. Like all other Clan mechs, this will be fixed by bringing in components from the other variants.

[Ngamok]

Odanan, on 08 May 2014 - 12:54 PM, said:

I didn't buy the Summoner because of this:

Hardpoints:
LA: 1B
LT: 1M
RA: 1E

Are you serious, PGI? If at least you said "Minimum Hardpoints"...

It works, try it on a Thunderbolt, load the same weapons.

[CtrlAltWheee]

Love the industrial looking left arm

[MrMasakari]

I approve of this product and/or service.

[KuroNyra]

I don't like the cockpit...

I prefer the Rectangular one. :'(


Nice work still.

[CaveMan]

Well I'll be damned. Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut after all.

Good on ya, art team. First one of the clan mechs to actually look like it's supposed to look.

[Domoneky]

no no no.....we're not suppose to be happy or approving. We're supposed to be bitter, angry, and unsatisfied. Lets get back o complaining shall we? i mean...that's all we ever do right?

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For those who dont understand sarcasm.....

[IraqiWalker]

I am liking the Summoner more and more.

People complain about the hardpoint count, but honestly. One of my best shadowhawks is 1ERLL + 1LB-10X. 2 weapons, and it is a monster, the other one is Gauss + ERPPC. Only 2 hardpoints, and it wrecks so much face it counts as 50% of all mech reconstructive surgeries.

[Metalcell]

Its a thunderbolt.

[A Man In A Can]

Very nice PGI.

Cheers to you.

[Dark Jackal]

Model looks nice and all ... but for 3 separate Omni Weapon Pod mounts that only provide 1 slot of weapon apiece on a heavy leaving it with a whopping 3 weapon slots in total, isn't that just a tad bit boring for the clans? I understand we want to make giant missile hitboxes and neat easy to hit center mass shots to make the less than ideal armor layout survive even less on the small maps (wait until you see the Loki for folks that aren't up to speed with Clan 'Mech literal configurations), but could we consider at least some design capability with the weapon mounts? The iconic TimberWolf/MadCat with it's giant box missile shoulders at least has a respectable spread of weapon mounts, why not the Thor? This is as bad as the Masakari's Weapon Mounts and that Masakari Omni has an even easier shootable profile for a poor momentum 'Mech.

[WonderSparks]

Hey, sweet, the Summoner is up! And I see you guys put in a picture showing various angles, too; I recall reading somewhere that someone wanted that, and I agree with them.
And to anyone complaining about the limited hardpoint space, have you not seen people running around with only a couple weapons on their IS 'Mechs? They're not all that bad, and the Summoner is by no means any worse.