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[Alex Warden]

i played my Bansh during my testing for about 2 hours... gotta say it feels very well balanced... my teamates all drove Clans, so i could pretty well compare... i think PGI did it okay...

BTW: THEY SNEAKED 1/2 TON AMMO IN, for both IS and Clans

[Kirtanus]

I'm pretty excited with what i've met in public test! waiting for the release! Clans feel unique from IS.

[Sigilum Sanctum]

Am I the only one who thinks the Dire Wolf looks obscenely small? Is this thing supposed to go toe-to-toe with an atlas? My Timber Wolf is bigger than this thing.

[Solid Alexei]

SnoweeDrifter, on 12 June 2014 - 12:54 PM, said:

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WHOA is Stormcrow suppose to be that massive?!

[Clideb50]

Amazing job PGI. I don't have any real complaints about these 'mechs. I haven't really seen any IS 'mechs to make any comparisons though.

[Bootsock]

shad0w4life, on 12 June 2014 - 12:13 PM, said:

Is this a joke?!

You didn't order the clan mechs and then you're bitching that you don't have clan mechs in your mechbay?

They cleary said if you ordered a clan package you could play them, if you didn't you couldn't.

Holy heck.

To be fair, it's a bit of a marketing own-goal that PGI didn't put the clan 'mechs out there for all as part of the public test, because I'm sure it would have led to more orders.

[John Archer]

I clicked Quit Match so I could play another Clan mech and the Public Test Client crashed with a 'Cry Engine Error'.

Just FYI

[Gas Guzzler]

Ben Morgan, on 12 June 2014 - 12:57 PM, said:

Just returned from fooling around with all my precious babies and it was AWESOME. Nearly everything about the Clans is great. I love the HUD, I love the sounds and the best thing is: Finally burst fire ACs!

Still got a reason to complain though: Warhawk Prime goes up in fire extremely quick. Even if you drop the lrm & ammo for heatsinks the "stock" loadout of 4 ER-PPCs just won't work. With 2 ER PPCs 2 ER Large its rocking my boat.

Also, I am a little concerned about the timber wolf S.... After trying around with the LRM possibilities I got to 60 LRMs (2x20+2x10)+1,3k of ammunition + 2 ER-Meds. Sure, with the Clan LRM-fire mode AMS has more time to shoot missles down, still... This badboy wont even heat up if you only fire LRMs and a constant stream of 60 lrms is pretty damn annoying

No complaints about the S with 2 ERPPCs and Gauss though?

[JohnnyWayne]

Clan gauss (2 of em) will be the next upcoming issue together with 2 CERPPCs. I'd recommend to already start planing for that meta.

[Gas Guzzler]

That is Dire Wolf only isn't it? Maybe Warhawk. No JJs at least.

[Zerberus]

The client is more stable for me than the current live client, Poptarting was mostly non prevalent on the PTR (though a few misguided sould tried, and paid dearly for it... brawling or actual tactical maneuvering are quite common, and clan mechs look and sound awesome. And most importantly, they feel "right".. like I`m finally playing Battletech.

Just watching missiles ripple out of a Timberwolf, or hearing the triple pow of an AC, or the Blue HUD, or the recolored lasers and PPCs.. or just the way every weapon sound just has a BAAAD attitude.... Seriously, ust firing one weapon, any weapon, makes you feel like you can take on the whole IS alone.

With proper fire discipline, even the most insane loadouts (like the Nova prime or Warhawk prime) are actually quite dangerous....

Since most of my matches were clan vs clan (pugging, but no surprise as it`s predominantly clanners testing I think), I can`t comment on clan vs IS balance... but I can say that have not had this much fun playing in quite a while.

The warhorns seemed non prevalent, and those times I heard one it wasn`t nearly as bad As I feared. For all I care you can just reroute the live client to the PTS and be done with it.

There were some quirky GFX things going on occasionally, like suddenly looking out of the bottom window on the (iirc) warhawk, but nothing really major, definitely no real "this kills little children" bugs.

And seing am ECM Kit Fox running around in the last match showed me there`s a lot more for me to find out come Tuesday.

Bottom line: Instead of considering a refund anymore, I actually feel these may have been the best 240$ I could have invested in the game.

Edited by Zerberus, 12 June 2014 - 02:14 PM.

[Mangonel Jorgensson]

wait. you can only test the clan mechs if you already bought a package? what kind of stupidity is that? PGI missing the marketing strategies boat AGAIN, total fail. was looking forward to testing some to see if they were worth buying, i know where my money will be staying....

[JohnnyWayne]

WM Mangonel, on 12 June 2014 - 02:19 PM, said:

wait. you can only test the clan mechs if you already bought a package? what kind of stupidity is that? PGI missing the marketing strategies boat AGAIN, total fail. was looking forward to testing some to see if they were worth buying, i know where my money will be staying....

Haha bullshit. They are testing what happens next thuesday and nothing else. If you don't pay you are not target of this test. Get over it.

[Zerberus]

WM Mangonel, on 12 June 2014 - 02:19 PM, said:

wait. you can only test the clan mechs if you already bought a package? what kind of stupidity is that? PGI missing the marketing strategies boat AGAIN, total fail. was looking forward to testing some to see if they were worth buying, i know where my money will be staying....

Well, you could have just bought the ones you were interested in in preparation for the PTS and then gotten a refund (or not) tomorrow.

But that would have been too easy compared to complaining about the people that actually bought something getting to play with it first, wouldn`t it.

Edited by Zerberus, 12 June 2014 - 02:26 PM.

[Dawnstealer]

Glad to know I can get in on the test action even though I didn't buy in. While I don't want any Clan mechs, I do kind of want to get a feel for what I'll be up against in a couple months.

[Zerberus]

Dawnstealer, on 12 June 2014 - 02:25 PM, said:

Glad to know I can get in on the test action even though I didn't buy in. While I don't want any Clan mechs, I do kind of want to get a feel for what I'll be up against in a couple months days.

FTFY

[Mangonel Jorgensson]

1st Johnny, GFY.


2nd
who wants to go through all the trouble of extracting a refund from PGI, the horror stories of those experiences are plenty.

[Koniving]

Koniving, on 12 June 2014 - 11:26 AM, said:

I only have 2 Kitfoxes. Is this known to anyone else?

JennerCrusher, on 12 June 2014 - 11:30 AM, said:

Can you give us some screenshots?

Innocent, on 12 June 2014 - 11:36 AM, said:

Did you check under the Champion mechs?

What happened is when I relogged it "redeemed" the last one. So they didn't all deliver on the first try.

[GizmoGecko]

Could someone enlighten me please regarding lower arm actuators? 'Cause mine just seem to have vanished on all my Warhawks. I heard in chat that there was some tick-box I needed to check, but I've had no luck finding such a thing. I thought playing a match with only lasers in the arms would restore yaw, but to no avail...

[Koniving]

WM Mangonel, on 12 June 2014 - 02:19 PM, said:

wait. you can only test the clan mechs if you already bought a package? what kind of stupidity is that? PGI missing the marketing strategies boat AGAIN, total fail. was looking forward to testing some to see if they were worth buying, i know where my money will be staying....

They're using it as a testing strategy instead.

Clan weapons are still not balanced. They need to get data on what's obscenely out of balance.

Personally I turned an Adder into an LRM boat with a NARC and leveled 5 mechs. o.O;