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[Keira RAVEN McKenna]

Just bought the Kitfox pack to try a clan replacement for my ECM Raven.

Problem is... I received 3 versions as expected but they were the Prime, the D and the S version. Not the ECM C version.

How do I get the ECM version that I was actually after?

[TercieI]

You don't. But you can buy its right arm in mechlab for about 150k c-bills and swap it onto any of the others for ECM and triple AMS. That's the fun of omnimechs.

EDIT: Smurfy!

Edited by Terciel1976, 24 June 2014 - 10:58 AM.

[Keira RAVEN McKenna]

ahhhhhhhh

[Hexenhammer]

ECM and triple ams? Makes me want to load all the AMS modules on it and take it for a spin.

[Koniving]

Keira_NZ, on 24 June 2014 - 10:56 AM, said:

Just bought the Kitfox pack to try a clan replacement for my ECM Raven.

Problem is... I received 3 versions as expected but they were the Prime, the D and the S version. Not the ECM C version.

How do I get the ECM version that I was actually after?

Right arm.
Replace it with the Kitfox C right arm.
The Kitfox C beyond that right arm wasn't unique enough to bother putting in as a variant.

Heh. Just noticed it already got answered.

Anyway here's how it looks.

Spoiler

Screenshot by Lordred. My Kitfox Prime in Zhizhu colors. Joke build "Look what I stuffed on and still under tonnage" weapons.

Edited by Koniving, 24 June 2014 - 11:37 AM.

[Stickjock]

Hexenhammer, on 24 June 2014 - 11:20 AM, said:

ECM and triple ams? Makes me want to load all the AMS modules on it and take it for a spin.

It's actually a pretty fun one to pilot... using a build I found over on Mechspecs:
ERPPC, 2xERSM, ECM, 3xAMS, 4xJJ's

Run it with Advanced Zoom and have fun... all while giving ECM and AMS umbrella coverage to your team...

[Redshift2k5]

Lots of fun <3

I didn't try one with an ERPPC, I'll have to give it a whirl.

Edited by Redshift2k5, 24 June 2014 - 12:14 PM.

[Deathz Jester]

Stickjock, on 24 June 2014 - 11:39 AM, said:

It's actually a pretty fun one to pilot... using a build I found over on Mechspecs:
ERPPC, 2xERSM, ECM, 3xAMS, 4xJJ's

Run it with Advanced Zoom and have fun... all while giving ECM and AMS umbrella coverage to your team...

You dont even need to switch to counter mode on ECM if you smack their ECM mech(s) with your PPC

[Zack Esseth]

Koniving, on 24 June 2014 - 11:33 AM, said:

Right arm.
Replace it with the Kitfox C right arm.
The Kitfox C beyond that right arm wasn't unique enough to bother putting in as a variant.

Not worth putting in as part of the clan pack, we may still see it as a full chassis when they get released for MC or Cbills. But the way omni works kinda defeats the purpose of having unique chassis.

[Koniving]

Zack Esseth, on 24 June 2014 - 12:14 PM, said:

Not worth putting in as part of the clan pack, we may still see it as a full chassis when they get released for MC or Cbills. But the way omni works kinda defeats the purpose of having unique chassis.

Exactly. Instead we'll see "configuration body parts" instead so we can replicate those ourselves.

[TercieI]

Redshift2k5, on 24 June 2014 - 12:04 PM, said:

Lots of fun <3

I didn't try one with an ERPPC, I'll have to give it a whirl.

I've been running one with one ERPPC and one ERLL and found it surprisingly workable.

Trying 3ERLL sans the AMS (which I am not sold on) next.

It's a fun little mech.

[Tarriss Halcyon]

I'm thinking that each Clan mech will only have three "variant" chassis for c-bills, and any others will be hero or champion mechs. We might get a few more basic chassis, if PGI wishes, with different hardwired tech or alternate engine sizes, but that isn't the Clan way, and I don't see that being how they'll do it.

As for the C-arm, I see it everywhere, but I haven't personally started to tinker with it - I'd rather get a feel for the chassis with the stock pods first, before I start playing with more complex builds.

[xMintaka]

As others have said, the -C right arm is available when you swap omnipods.

Running 2xERLL, ECM, 2xAMS and a jumpjet. Remaining weight is extra heat sinks. Can't get enough, I love the 'Fox.

You can also run two UAC2 with ECM, which is a great little harasser. The constant shells pinging off your cockpit is infuriating.

I've seen a couple with two ERPPC's... How do you manage that heat? The Adder Prime is bad enough, even removing the Targeting Comp for heatsinks.

But by far the most fun is triple AMS with AMS Overload module. LRM's? Haven't seen any in days.

[Hexenhammer]

Koniving, on 24 June 2014 - 11:33 AM, said:

AMS like a boss.

To bad LRM 5 catapults are extinct.

[Koniving]

That'd be a good thing.

But they're not.
And they break through.

[Hexenhammer]

Koniving, on 25 June 2014 - 12:01 PM, said:

That'd be a good thing.

But they're not.
And they break through.

I was in my stalker 5S when a lrm5 catapult went for me. He ran off after I ripped an ear off.

[Sniper09121986]

Lunatech, on 24 June 2014 - 11:34 PM, said:

As others have said, the -C right arm is available when you swap omnipods.

I've seen a couple with two ERPPC's... How do you manage that heat? The Adder Prime is bad enough, even removing the Targeting Comp for heatsinks.

I run mine with 2 PPC and NO additional heatsinks, and it is pretty manageable. Maybe because I just switched from Nova Prime, it really takes you to school in firing discipline and heat management I just try not to fire them both at once, and it works. As for the C right arm, I believe it might be the ONLY custom omnipod in the game right now, as in, not tied to a stock configuration. I wish they introduced more of these from time to time, like missile left torso from config C and ballistic and missile hands from config D for Nova. And then there is Dire Wolf C with jumpjets and ECM

[TercieI]

There's also a torso for the Nova to add AMS to non-S versions.

[Macksheen]

Last I checked it was bugged (at least mine is).

[TercieI]

Ah. Well, I'm such a big AMS proponent, you're just shocked I didn't know, right?