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[InnerSphereNews]

Thur. Nov 17, 3048: Despite only a year’s operation, ’Mech Magic Incorporated has become “the” BattleMech custom mod outfit on Outreach.

[V3n3tta]

what?

[Hayden]

Yeah, what?

[Black Sunder]

I am now happy.

[Ghost]

'Mech Magic Incorporated is the business name of a highly-skilled group of BattleMech technicians and engineers on Outreach that specialize in upgrading and refitting military hardware. To finance their work the group would form the mercenary unit "Battle Magic". After a few short years of relatively peaceful operations the Battle Magic unit served in the initial stages of the Clan Invasion as a specialist in recovering Clan tech. The engineers and technicians of 'Mech Magic Inc. were among the first to begin reverse engineering the advances of Clan technology for use in the Inner Sphere. After profiting immensely from repairs and refits during the FedCom Civil War, 'Mech Magic would go on to develop the innovative Multi-Missile Launcher as well as aid in the design of a new model of battle armor. These developments attracted the unfortunate attention of the Word of Blake, which resulted in the entire unit being destroyed in 3067 by Wayne Waco.

Edited by Ghost, 17 November 2011 - 03:16 PM.

[Seth]

This might hint at how customization is being handled in the game. Instead of everyone having their own mech bays that are fully equipped to modify a mech design, this might indicate that we can go to Outreach to have the most technically challenging work and repairs done our mechs instead.

Edited by Seth, 17 November 2011 - 03:21 PM.

[Colddawg]

so wait? Did these guys help create the Awesome and the Bushwacker?

[metro]

so in other words.........they will soon have their own show on the ISN Network, called "PIMP my MECH"!!!

[Jack Deth]

metrO, on 18 November 2011 - 01:40 AM, said:

so in other words.........they will soon have their own show on the ISN Network, called "PIMP my MECH"!!!

So they will take your mech, degrade the handling severely by lowering it without camber correction, give it zero upgrades as far as power goes, stick a giant wing on it, and put in a stereo that you have to exit the mech to use safely? No thanks.

[Black Sunder]

Customization is in. YAY

[AdamBaines]

Black Sunder, on 18 November 2011 - 04:46 AM, said:

Customization is in. YAY

I dont think it was ever in doubt if customization would be in. It was more about how it would be done, and this gives us a bit of a hint, but there are still many questions to be answered of how these will actually happen. And will these just be for mercs and not house unit guys?

Still to many question, but man its a good start :-)

[Garth Erlam]

There will be no customization. You'll all get Urbanmechs and like it.

(Seriously though, how awesome is the name 'Mech Magic?)

[CoffiNail]

I was underlighting on my trashcan.

Edited by CoffiNail, 18 November 2011 - 11:07 AM.

[Ghost]

Reminds me of the infamous Reed's Brew APC that turns into a bar...

[Hello Lion]

Garth Erlam, on 18 November 2011 - 11:00 AM, said:

There will be no customization. You'll all get Urbanmechs and like it.

(Seriously though, how awesome is the name 'Mech Magic?)

Urbanmechs? Back in my day we all got agricultural mechs! And we LIKED IT!

In all seriousness though, the fact that Mech Magic were the guys who also started salvaging and reverse engineering Clan tech gives some hope for seeing Clan tech in player hands before too long.

[Terror Of Death]

Well the hints have been dropped that things might go into the clans wars............but i doubt as a playable group at first, more like challanging PvE events and missions, eventually with clan tech coming to us. Still back to customization sounds like it will be sick, wonder if we would ba able to upload custom 'nose art' for our mechs.

[Jack Deth]

I think I remember in one of the press releases somewhere you'll be able to do custom skins for your mech as a micro-transaction. I'm ok with that, something along throwing $5 each at the devs to get a custom paint job to match the rest of my merc company or whatnot.

[IntruderAlert]

Jack Deth, on 19 November 2011 - 01:54 PM, said:

I think I remember in one of the press releases somewhere you'll be able to do custom skins for your mech as a micro-transaction. I'm ok with that, something along throwing $5 each at the devs to get a custom paint job to match the rest of my merc company or whatnot.

Oh wait...yeah the Mechstohr...$$

[Harrow]

Ghost, on 17 November 2011 - 03:15 PM, said:

'Mech Magic Incorporated is the business name of a highly-skilled group of BattleMech technicians and engineers on Outreach that specialize in upgrading and refitting military hardware. To finance their work the group would form the mercenary unit "Battle Magic". After a few short years of relatively peaceful operations the Battle Magic unit served in the initial stages of the Clan Invasion as a specialist in recovering Clan tech. The engineers and technicians of 'Mech Magic Inc. were among the first to begin reverse engineering the advances of Clan technology for use in the Inner Sphere. After profiting immensely from repairs and refits during the FedCom Civil War, 'Mech Magic would go on to develop the innovative Multi-Missile Launcher as well as aid in the design of a new model of battle armor. These developments attracted the unfortunate attention of the Word of Blake, which resulted in the entire unit being destroyed in 3067 by Wayne Waco.

So you can get that Warhammer with the 16 medium lasers you always wanted...

Edited by Harrow, 28 January 2012 - 01:42 PM.