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[CCC Dober]

Hello Ladies and gents.

As the title already says: How do you think is the introduction going to happen?

To get the ball rolling, I have added my personal take on it (see spoiler below).
I'd be delighted to read your ideas, concepts, choices, scenarios, comments, critics and what else may come up =)

Spoiler

Personally speaking, I see the Clans as a gear shift. Once they hit the Inner Sphere, you can stay safe and comfy
with the IS or take a deep breath and plunge into the unknown. Once you decide to go for the Clans, you will be
initiated properly in a socalled trial that follows a set of rules. In order to understand them, some sort of tutorial
and optional training will follow. After that is done, it is time for the first real test, a trial of position. There you will face
3 opponents in a Mech of your choice. This choice represents the first bid in your long career and determines
which weight classes you will be up against. Choose wisely. Your goal is to defeat at least one opponent to pass
the test. Once you have passed the test, you are required to choose a Clan (optional history lesson).

Back to the trial: depending on how many opponents you defeat, 4 outcomes are possible:

1. Excellent performance, you beat all 3 opponents and have gained the rank Star Captain. You are marked out for
greater honors and may choose another Mech on top of the one you took for the trial.

2. very Well done, you beat 2 opponents and have gained the rank of Star Commander. You may choose any Mech
that you wish or keep the one that you took for the trial.  

3. Good job Warrior, you have managed to pass the test and can keep your Mech.

4. That was a very poor performance. You are given the choice to return to the Inner Sphere or try again.

Fire away!

[Syro]

I posted this elsewhere, but
I think by the time the clans arrive, most of us will already be fighting anti-clan tactics,and when someone is suprised to see a timberwolf pop up on the horizon, we will be ready. I'm sure we will win our first engagements well before twycross. That being said, i really hope the cannonical engagements happen. Who owuldn't love to be part of the Luthien campaign?

[CCC Dober]

Hehe, yeah not much surprise left for the vets. But I do wonder if PGI can manage to put the fear of Kerensky into the new guys when the Clans arrive. Past titles usually had a narrative and that led to some interesting confrontations with Clan commanders and their rides. Sure would like to see something like that again and experience that again from both sides of the conflict =)

[sgt coloncrunch]

Only problem I see with this is balancing it so that whatever mech you choose, you're still at a disadvantage, numerical odds aside.

Other then that, it's a *******' idea to be honest.

[Lysander Davion Steiner]

CCC Dober, on 20 June 2012 - 04:28 AM, said:

Hehe, yeah not much surprise left for the vets. But I do wonder if PGI can manage to put the fear of Kerensky into the new guys when the Clans arrive. Past titles usually had a narrative and that led to some interesting confrontations with Clan commanders and their rides. Sure would like to see something like that again and experience that again from both sides of the conflict =)

Yeah i know what you mean, the clans in MechWarrior 3 was good for clan boss fights.
and as for cannonical,
i hope something about the 1st somerset strikers comes out when we meet the clans.

[Purlana]

Is there even going to be any PvE in MWO? Otherwise how will the "test" work?

[sgt coloncrunch]

sgt coloncrunch, on 20 June 2012 - 04:33 AM, said:

Only problem I see with this is balancing it so that whatever mech you choose, you're still at a disadvantage, numerical odds aside.

Other then that, it's a awesome idea to be honest.

[Lysander Davion Steiner]

i would think PVE would work, in MWO

[Xyph3r]

personally, i´d love to see that in the middle of battle, we hear a voice out of our spekers, saying: "attention [name of planet], this is star colonel .... of Clan ... , a full trinary (yes, i know that´s too many Mechs for the Game mechanics^^) stands ready to conquer your planet. what forces dare oppose us?" and the devs (or maybe some "chosen" users) in unidentified (at least by our targeting computers ) Mechs join the fight shortly after that announcement.

that´d be awesome.

[Lysander Davion Steiner]

hahaha well the game may not be able to handle so many live player mechs but AI mech take up alot less off the server memory. so u may get a full trinary.An you never know as well, with updates.in computer tech the server will get more powerfull.

[Stormxdragon]

i can see clans being introduced as some kind of pve event, perhaps some invasion of x world, with clan equipment being made available via some kind of reputation based system or through salvage (something like eve-online), i for one dont mind how or when so long as eventually i get to run around in a madcat or shadowcat

[Xyph3r]

Lysander Spring, on 20 June 2012 - 04:50 AM, said:

hahaha well the game may not be able to handle so many live player mechs but AI mech take up alot less off the server memory. so u may get a full trinary.An you never know as well, with updates.in computer tech the server will get more powerfull.

please not. I´d rather have the star colonel bid down to a binary after seeing that poor, outdated IS Mechs standing against his forces than see AI pilots in MWO

edit: and it´s not about "the game can´t handle it" it´s about the 12v12 players Match system.

Edited by Xyph3r, 20 June 2012 - 04:57 AM.

[Lysander Davion Steiner]

Give me a Hunchback MK II and a Uller, lol ontop off the Timber Wolf, Loki, Thor, and the Vulture with the right arm laser's not the mechwarrior 4 silly timber world arms thay used. I LOVE THE CLANS

[CCC Dober]

Yeah, there's definitely room for PvE in MWO. If you take another game as example: in Warhammer Space Marine I have spent hours upon hours stemming the tide of greenskins and literally ran into a wall in the bonus waves against the traitor Marines. If you can do something similar with a squad/lance/star of buddies in MWO, then it's gonna be awesomesauce. Just this: when the Dreadnought DLC arrived, I just went straight for it and plenty other people as well. It's just a very tiny BattleMech in comparison to what we get to play with in MWO, but a big hint for PGI just how attractive Mechs really can be. Mechs are sexy =)

[Lysander Davion Steiner]

Xyph3r, on 20 June 2012 - 04:54 AM, said:

please not. I´d rather have the star colonel bid down to a binary after seeing that poor, outdated IS Mechs standing against his forces than see AI pilots in MWO

edit: and it´s not about "the game can´t handle it" it´s about the 12v12 players Match system.

Your goin to need an element og PVE tho at least or the games goin to drag its feat a little,

CCC Dober, on 20 June 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

Yeah, there's definitely room for PvE in MWO. If you take another game as example: in Warhammer Space Marine I have spent hours upon hours stemming the tide of greenskins and literally ran into a wall in the bonus waves against the traitor Marines. If you can do something similar with a squad/lance/star of buddies in MWO, then it's gonna be awesomesauce. Just this: when the Dreadnought DLC arrived, I just went straight for it and plenty other people as well. It's just a very tiny BattleMech in comparison to what we get to play with in MWO, but a big hint for PGI just how attractive Mechs really can be. Mechs are sexy =)

CCC Dober, on 20 June 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

Yeah, there's definitely room for PvE in MWO. If you take another game as example: in Warhammer Space Marine I have spent hours upon hours stemming the tide of greenskins and literally ran into a wall in the bonus waves against the traitor Marines. If you can do something similar with a squad/lance/star of buddies in MWO, then it's gonna be awesomesauce. Just this: when the Dreadnought DLC arrived, I just went straight for it and plenty other people as well. It's just a very tiny BattleMech in comparison to what we get to play with in MWO, but a big hint for PGI just how attractive Mechs really can be. Mechs are sexy =)

i got that same DLC my first match i killed 32 chaos marines >_> died once. FOR THE EMPEROR

[McScwizzy]

I'll join the RR and start fightning the bustards.

[Lysander Davion Steiner]

i want to join the 1st somerset's lol KICK SOME GREEN FALCON A HOLE

[CCC Dober]

Lysander Spring, on 20 June 2012 - 04:59 AM, said:

...
i got that same DLC my first match i killed 32 chaos marines >_> died once. FOR THE EMPEROR

Well done brother Lysander. The Emperor protects =)

[Xyph3r]

CCC Dober, on 20 June 2012 - 04:58 AM, said:

Yeah, there's definitely room for PvE in MWO. If you take another game as example: in Warhammer Space Marine I have spent hours upon hours stemming the tide of greenskins and literally ran into a wall in the bonus waves against the traitor Marines. If you can do something similar with a squad/lance/star of buddies in MWO, then it's gonna be awesomesauce. Just this: when the Dreadnought DLC arrived, I just went straight for it and plenty other people as well. It's just a very tiny BattleMech in comparison to what we get to play with in MWO, but a big hint for PGI just how attractive Mechs really can be. Mechs are sexy =)

you got a point there. i love that game, although i was forced to play as a member of the smurf marines in the campaign (good thing it didn´t take long till i was able top do so as a Son of Russ, god the emperor bless the modders

[Carl Wrede]

When the clans show up the whole of the FRR will shout "FINALLY!" and go on a berserk raiding spree to Strana Metchy!