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[SgtKinCaiD]

Are my eyes open because the K2 at the beginning has its ppc big barrel back !!!!

Neat video by the way !

[Johndar]

Smashing!

[Crockdaddy]

Corbenik, on 16 June 2014 - 03:31 PM, said:

NIce ! Especially the End with the Twolf lol

Ahem ... and by Timber Wolf you of course mean Mad Cat right? Unless you're a dirty clanner. ;p

[Semper Fi]

Can not wait to get out of work.. maybe getting sick... hmmmm.

Semper Fi

[Corbenik]

CrockdaddyAoD, on 17 June 2014 - 10:45 AM, said:

Ahem ... and by Timber Wolf you of course mean Mad Cat right? Unless you're a dirty clanner. ;p

Darn you Freebirth Scum! Naming our Machinery! lol

[spectralthundr]

Project Dark Fox, on 16 June 2014 - 04:23 PM, said:

To be frank, I am not sure what is stopping them from using the reseen version of the Marauder's artwork. I know special permissions were obtained for the OTHER unseens because they were not Harmony Gold properties, but a lot of us need a Marauder, Warhammer, or Rifleman by now at some point. I mean, the reseens for many of these designs aren't terrible, and you have the (nigh-)infallible Alex Iglasias working with you. What could possibly go wrong?

It's easy to see what would stop them. A lawsuit from HG. Who are more than happy to sue people. This is out of PGI's hands. Instead of complaining why not enjoy that we're getting clan mechs in a couple more hours? I swear this generation is beyond entitled and it's ridiculous.

[Catalina Steiner]

Please let me know what is more demanding for a player?
...being a White Knight or being a merchant of doom?

Iqfish, on 17 June 2014 - 10:37 AM, said:

Get ready for a massive Server breakdown.

[Iqfish]

Catalina Steiner, on 17 June 2014 - 11:14 AM, said:

Please let me know what is more demanding for a player?
...being a White Knight or being a merchant of doom?

Since I have been both:

Once you know what is really going on, being a White Knight is way more exhausting.

[Linolea]

Don't care if everyone before me said it... dat ending. chills.

[Koniving]

Hype builder.

"They're here.." A thread in the new player help that gives the background, history, and several videos introducing the history to this point, introductions of Clans Wolf and Jade Falcon from their own mouths, and the Wishes of Kerensky whose intentions are lost upon his descendents the Clans (special thanks to George Leaudoux). It also includes an awesome video by Wauweli.

It's a great resource for those who are new to the game, or who want to know more about the lore leading to this point in history.

Edited by Koniving, 17 June 2014 - 11:21 AM.

[kesuga7]

So the only clan mechs we are going to see or fight is from the clan package purchases

i don't know aside from seeing some new timed- exlcusive- mechs on battlefield and a srm fix and same modes/maps
doesn't feel like a 'invasion' to me

well still looking foward to see this patch anyways :s

[anonymous161]

They cant need more money for cw, they promised to deliver that 2 years ago...so no thats no longer an excuse. The sad thing is as much as I love the clan mechs and had great fun with them...eventually I will go back to just being tired of the game and wishing it had more meaning in it. Right now the clans are enough flavor to keep me in, but when other games like destiny comes out that are huge content massive games I wont be playing very much anymore which is a shame.

[ThermidorFallen]

################################ HPG Message Sent #########################################

Addressee : CPT. Ryan Fayden, Intelligence Officer MI2, Department of Military Intelligence
Date & Time : Tuesday, June 17, 3049 - 18:00:00
Topic : Possible Alien Invasion
________________________________________________________________________________


As per your request, here is the summary of my report (actual report will be sent when I get round to writing it up) into your ‘Alien Invasion’ theory.

After receiving your offer to investigate a potential threat to FedCom space, I engaged ‘hostile alien forces’ twice (once on the 12^th and again on the 15^th). From these engagements I can tell you one thing, this is no invasion!

After bribing periphery forces of all people (that was a slow ride to the front, my assault moved faster than their mediums!) to let me tag along in their skirmishes, we ran straight into 2 lances made up of unknown mechs (best reading I could get was a mix between a marauder and a catapult on one of them, targeting comp went nuts). Instead of blasting us to pieces with their 2 to 1 advantage, they tagged along with us until we ran into 12 more unknown mechs. Then the blasting began.

I can confirm that their weapons are on a different level to ours, lighter, smaller and more powerful but they seem to suffer from some heat problems. Their mechs are also of a completely different calibre, I saw at least 15 different variations of the same mech and not different weapons, different parts! Head on these guys might rip straight through the AFFC in its current state.

The reason this is not an invasion and why there is no co-ordinated threat however is simple, these guys are a bunch of drunken loonies! They did not care who they fought, they simply just engaged every mech in sight that wasn’t on their ‘team’. They had massive speakers mounted on their mechs that blasted random noise whenever they took out an ‘enemy’ (it’s just like that pillock in the pink Highlander! Can you imagine more of them!!! URGH!). As far as I can tell, any damage to HPGs or loss of contact is due to either due to them fighting over such locations, or after the fight when they get drunk in the HPG control room and trash the place!

If I can make a recommendation to control the future of the situation (if you are correct about them progressing further into Davion space soon), put all of our battle mechs in storage! These guys are here to fight but they don’t care who they fight, don’t give them a target and they’ll either rip each other to shreds or move into someone else’s garden. Let them trample Kurita’s daises for all I care! They only seem to be battling mechs too, I didn’t see a single infantry or armoured vehicle detachment fighting them at all. Double up our armour but drop the mechs. Keep a few disposables around to drag their fighting away from HPGs, even if they don’t conquer a planet, the disruption to ComStar’s communication network could cause irrevocable damage to infrastructure and cause mass panic. These suggestions are the best I can come up with on short notice but I leave it to you to discuss with the rest of your intelligence buddies.

Frankly, if you decide to do nothing what-so-ever to combat these ‘aliens’, I doubt it would make much of a difference to our current warfare. Undermanned Davion forces will likely find themselves supported by ‘alien’ forces whereas our units who outnumber the opposition will find themselves against the ‘aliens’; what little progress we were making from our previous fights will be exactly the same.

As per your second request, I couldn’t set up any communication route with the ‘invaders’, trying to talk to them simply resulted in insults about my mother, piloting or my mother’s piloting, though it also occasionally resulted in wishes of good luck/have fun/happy hunting. Take from that what you will…

Sorry for the delay in sending this message. Once I got back to base yesterday all I could do was stuff my gob with drugs, tea and vodka till I passed out, the damn noise blurting from the ‘alien’ mechs on a kill is still ringing through my head like a 50-foot church bell.

Send the money to the regular account and if you have any more jobs relating to these ‘aliens’, get someone else, I’m not messing with those weirdoes again if I can help it.

On behalf of the Hand of Dave,
For the Federated Commonwealth, for Davion!!

*addendum* Get our damn radio codes checked too! In both engagements the ‘aliens’ were able to call in support from both Davion and Periphery artillery and aerospace fighters. Both sides were getting bombed by both forces, it was completely indiscriminate!


################################ HPG Message Sent #########################################

Edited by ThermidorFallen, 17 June 2014 - 11:37 AM.

[w0lv3rin3]

ugh why cant i have all 3 packages on the forums, legendary, overlord AND cold stone!

[Sevronis]

I am SO happy they showed the target designation switching on the Timber Wolf at the end. That in itself made this video for me.

[Bartholomew bartholomew]

Iqfish, on 17 June 2014 - 10:37 AM, said:

Get ready for a massive Server breakdown.

got it right in one!!

[MechWarrior319348]

What has happened to me server!! the clanners came but they didnt know where to plug the internet cable into, and so they went back to valhala to rest and feed!!

[IceCase88]

As quickly as the invasion began it has ended. The clans destroyed the servers and sealed their victory. Thank you for playing.

[Lone Wolf MechQuade]

Hm... but beeing a merchant of doom like Catalina said seems to be an annoying thing for all the others since you were right with your prophecy. -.-
Anyway, you seem to have a past with this game. I have not, but I find it way childish to stay here and mime the bad prophet just to be able to say "I told you so!" in other situations that may come.
You should just leave the game forever like all the other prophets of dooms / black knights, whatever you'll call those guys. In my eyes they're children crying 'cause they didn't get their candy... or the wrong one.

[RTDouglas]

Yes indeed. The Clan invasion! How dreaded!

Inner sphere pilots tremble in fear as the clan invades and viciously fights side by side with inner sphere mechs....

How can anyone expect to get excited about a clan buildup like this?

CLANS! Fighting near you soon. Enjoy the show.

Are we at least allowed to kill Clan mechs on our own team yet? or is that still considered a TK.