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[XX Sulla XX]

Not sure if some one already posted this but did not see it. Any way some interesting stuff.

http://www.nogutsnog...hp?topic=2220.0

* NGNG#115
* Hosts: Phil "Sean Lang", Daeron "Bombadil"
* Co-Hosts: Brandon "Cattra Kell", Tyler "JagerXII"
* Special Guest: Russ Bullock, President @ Piranha Games
* Discussion Topic: The Clan Invasion
* Approx. 25,000 Clan Packages sold (about 50% of those were Masakari Packages)
* Still injecting approx. 500 Clan 'Mechs a day
* Inner Sphere vs. Clan balance
* Dire Whale: 2xERPPC, 2xGAUSS
* The next Clan 'Mech
* Discussion Topic: New MatchMaker
* Solo/Group Queues
* More fine-tuning
* Inner Sphere vs. Clan events now possible
* Discussion Topic: Maps
* Map production has begun again
* "Mech Factory" industrial city map likely first, then "Swamp"
* PGI open to community input regarding future map production and direction
* Discussion Topic: Community Warfare
* Merc Corp association is step 1 and will hopefully be ready in August
* The basics of CW combat and planetary conquest by end of 2014
* Discussion Topic: Jump Jet & Fall Damage Changes
* Is fall damage too punishing?

[FupDup]

Lol @ their (currently deactivated) brainstormed rule for the ERPPC + Gauss combo. So many convoluted and nonsensical changes surrounding pinpoint weapon combos...so much avoidance of convergence changes.

[Mcgral18]

FupDup, on 17 July 2014 - 08:09 PM, said:

Lol @ their (currently deactivated) brainstormed rule for the ERPPC + Gauss combo. So many convoluted and nonsensical changes surrounding pinpoint weapon combos...so much avoidance of convergence changes.

But think of the Skill!!

How else can you 360 no scope everyone?

[Sephlock]

XX Sulla XX, on 17 July 2014 - 07:55 PM, said:

* Inner Sphere vs. Clan balance
* Dire Whale: 2xERPPC, 2xGAUSS
* The next Clan 'Mech
* Discussion Topic: New MatchMaker
* More fine-tuning
* Inner Sphere vs. Clan events now possible

* Discussion Topic: Jump Jet & Fall Damage Changes
* Is fall damage too punishing?

Did they herp and derp on these subjects as hard as we all feared?

What is the next clan mech?

Fine tuning of what, exactly?

And when are the IS vs Clan events coming? Please tell me they will be more than just "drop in your IS or Clan mech and we'll award the top players for each chassis, in each category, with a special reward for those who are on the side that wins overall".

Not that I'd OBJECT to that, but I wouldn't mind, say... a special queue or something where you get placed in IS vs Clan teams.

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* Discussion Topic: Maps
* Map production has begun again
* "Mech Factory" industrial city map likely first, then "Swamp"
* PGI open to community input regarding future map production and direction

Well this sounds promising, assuming the industrial map is more of an Urbanmech's paradise than another HPG map where the major parts of the map are all LRM invincibility zones where an entire team can hide and just focus down any enemies that dare challenge them.

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* Discussion Topic: Community Warfare

* Merc Corp association is step 1 and will hopefully be ready in August
* The basics of CW combat and planetary conquest by end of 2014

Based on the release schedule I get the feeling that we may not get MOAR MECHS, MOAR TECH, MOAR DAKKA before CW after all . OTOH we will have the worst aspects of the internet gaming community banding together to drool over some numbers.

"Oh boy, we won 13 more matches than Clan Purple Tree Badger! We got this planet, as represented by this number on this chart! -.0001% to pulse laser purchases, plus strutting rights on the forums!"

[Keeshu]

Technicly Russ never said which clan mech was going to be next. Mainly that he said it was going to be obvious, and he said that Mad Dog was one of his favorites (and that it was like a new version of the Archer), and Hellbringer because they can re-use stuff and it fills a tonnage slot (though no mention of the ECM Hellbringers can have).

Though we will get an Inner Sphere mech before another Clan mech though.


Wait a bit and I'll quote the podcast (right now it seems to be buggy for me for some reason)

[Tezcatli]

Can't seem to download it at the moment..

[Malcolm Vordermark]

Tezcatli, on 17 July 2014 - 09:10 PM, said:

Can't seem to download it at the moment..

Yeah, seemed sound cloud was having some issues. I just got it started though so it should be up for you as well.

[Tezcatli]

Rouken, on 17 July 2014 - 09:12 PM, said:

Yeah, seemed sound cloud was having some issues. I just got it started though so it should be up for you as well.

Every time I click download. It just brings up a blank page.

[Deathlike]

Sephlock, on 17 July 2014 - 08:29 PM, said:

And when are the IS vs Clan events coming? Please tell me they will be more than just "drop in your IS or Clan mech and we'll award the top players for each chassis, in each category, with a special reward for those who are on the side that wins overall".

For the record, it has be 1.5 months (6 weeks) that no PGI event has occurred (and I'm excluding sales and PTS from that statistic).

So, right now everything is pretty much static.

[Keeshu]

Alrighty since I can listen to it again, here's the whole thing with the clan mechs. Word from word, because while I was listening to them it was just amusing to hear them using filler words and how they emphasis certain words.

Phil: I have a question for you Russ, and this is a serious question. When.... Will I get.... my Shadow. Cat? Whe-When is that happening? When is, or is there an idea, or do you wanna sneak peek to the people in the live audience, cause they're here for you, listening to you right now, the next clan mech, or mechs, or package. Which honestly I was actually quite suprised that there hasn't been a reinforcement pack persay like the phoenix you know.
Bombadill: Everybody wants to know when the Mad Dog is coming, yes.
Phil: The Mad Dog, and uh.... Hellbringer, and actually I wanna see mechs we haven't seen for the clan side in a previous mechwarrior title, or haven't seen them since Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries. Do you have any thoughts, words, descriptions?
Russ: Welp, no (combined laughter) not really. Nothing I'm going to toss out here today other than I'm gonna give a little love to the Inner Sphere players and just say that the new chassis is an Inner Sphere chassis. So, that's that. As far as clans are concerned, I will say though it's quite obvious which ones the next ones will be. There's no question that, for instance, the Mad Dog / what do you call it again?
Phil: Vulture
Russ: Thank you. Is an obvious choice. It's a favorite of mine. I think it looks great. It's like the new Archer, right, it's so cool. Um, and the uh Hellbringer because of obvious reasons, because it fits a tonnage slot we don't have for clans yet and basically is, is just it uses the Summoner legs and there's a lot of reuse there and it's effective for us. And then it starts getting into some of the other ones you mentioned. Shadow Hawk (yes, he accidently said that) and everything I do find it interesting though you mentioned um.
Phil: Ice Ferret
Russ: Yeah I guess what do you call it?
Phil: Shadow cat
Russ: The reinforcement pack, I can say in all honesty, we are not creating a reinforcement pack right now, we have not considered one yet. I think a lot of people expected that we did, and that it was like the way we roll. There's nothing but like captilizing as much cash as possible. That, it hasn't even been a consideration for us at this point, but, you know, if that's what people want, um, that's I'm interested in hearing that kind of stuff.
Phil: Well I mean I guess the question is, uhm, we see the timeline of the release of the current clan mechs right? That's on a website, and if you haven't checked it out uh we've been passing that around on the stream as well. Um, I guess the question the question is uh maybe a timetable too of when is the next IS mech being released? and uh actually I think you've already mentioned that already in one of your tweets. What the, the next uh IS chassis WILL be. Um, when you know, What kind of time frames are looking for the clans or is there no new clan mech going to be released until , you know, the these initial clan packs.
Russ: Yeah I just don't know that right now. Meaning there's no plans to also wait until all of those have been released. No nothing like that. Um, so, I would say those chance are good. That we'll see a new clan mech prior to that. Although when the last one come out, I don't have that, that schedule memorized. Is it October? The last ones? So yeah, I think we'll probably see, see something before that. Um, yeah sorry that's as accurate I can be right now.
Phil: Welp, like I said um, you guys surprised me quite a bit, early on when you guys were coming out with a chassis that I did not expect. Quickdraw, Trebuchet, I mean you guys, sort of hit me with a left because I wasn't expecting those. I mean those weren't your, you know goto what you saw in Mech 4, Mech 3 and stuff. So anyways, continue that, let's see some new chassis we've never seen before and/or we only read about in the novels. (then swaps the subject to matchmaker)




I will now continue to worry about which variants, design, and other stuff they'll use when it comes to the Mad Dog.
I'm hoping for classic design (MW4 design makes the Mad Dog lose it's uniqueness, and doesn't look as good imo) with A + C variants for maximum customization (there's not much customization to begin with for the Mad Dog), and so B doesn't outclass the Prime in hardpoints and have to rely on quirks to balance B/Prime variants....

Though, I wouldn't mind them having a variant that references the MW4 version (especially if classic model is chosen) by having 2 Energy in the CT, 2 Missle for each side torso, and 1 energy for each arm. If there wasn't a variant like that, an omnipod for 1M 1E for each side torso would also be nice. Overall I'm not a huge fan of MW4's Vulture (I grew up on MW2), but I know there are some people who grew up with MW4 and never played any of the older games.

[Black Rabbit of Inle]

Russ: for instance, the Mad Dog / what do you call it again?
Phil: Vulture
Russ: Thank you. Is an obvious choice. It's a favorite of mine.

So much a favorite he never learned its name

Mad Dog / Vulture : Sometimes Russ I think you only love me for my shoulders...

[Malcolm Vordermark]

Well, he remembered the proper name of the mech.

Edited by Rouken, 18 July 2014 - 12:01 AM.

[Keeshu]

He's probably just used to people calling it the Mad Dog. I know most people that I know that played MW4 always call it the Vulture, but they usually are banging on about the Mad Cat (Timber Wolf) and Daishi (Dire Wolf) so much that they don't think of the Vulture much, so it's rare for me to hear it called Vulture as well. Personally I always call the MW4 design the vulture, and the classic design the Mad Dog all the time.
I will admit, took me a while to remember that the Adder is also called the Puma, since I never hear anyone call it the Puma. *cue red vs blue clip about calling the warthog a puma* "stop making up names!"
Though I did think it was kinda interesting how he referenced the Archer. When I first saw the Archer, I immediately thought of the Dragon. While I do like the looks of the Archer a bit, it's too bulky for my tastes, though it's design isn't always consistent looking at the pictures on sarna. I can see how he can call the Mad Dog a new version of the Archer

Edited by Keeshu, 18 July 2014 - 12:12 AM.

[Karamarka]

Russ Bullock

25000 packages

50% masakari

12500x240=3 million dollars

[KhanCipher]

XX Sulla XX, on 17 July 2014 - 07:55 PM, said:

* Dire Whale: 2xERPPC, 2xGAUSS

It caught them off guard because they didn't see that "dynamic" with IS... I literally can't even.

[Scurry]

The Hellbringer is making me kinda wonder.......

The only variants buildable with tech in-game are the A, B and F. So this may be the first Omni without its Prime config in-game. Thankfully so, because if the Prime didn't have A-Pods, we'd have to deal with the first Heavy ECM mech.

[Keeshu]

Scurry, on 18 July 2014 - 12:31 AM, said:

The Hellbringer is making me kinda wonder.......

The only variants buildable with tech in-game are the A, B and F. So this may be the first Omni without its Prime config in-game. Thankfully so, because if the Prime didn't have A-Pods, we'd have to deal with the first Heavy ECM mech.

I find it more likely that they'll replace the A-Pods with Heatsinks. Afterall, they both take 2 slots and weigh only 1 ton. I'd be very very surprised if they didn't use the Prime variant and used the alt configs instead on any mech. Or they could add in a 2 ton targeting computer, afterall it apparently takes no slots and weighs nothing originally (and was in the Left Torso).

[Gas Guzzler]

Scurry, on 18 July 2014 - 12:31 AM, said:

The Hellbringer is making me kinda wonder.......

The only variants buildable with tech in-game are the A, B and F. So this may be the first Omni without its Prime config in-game. Thankfully so, because if the Prime didn't have A-Pods, we'd have to deal with the first Heavy ECM mech.

Why is that thankfully so?? That would be awesome. Besides they will probably just drop the A-Pods

[Vassago Rain]

I question their continued decision to pretend they are somehow impartial with their PGI logos and paychecks.

[Willard Phule]

Gas Guzzler, on 18 July 2014 - 01:05 AM, said:

Why is that thankfully so?? That would be awesome. Besides they will probably just drop the A-Pods

Seriously? No, man, they'll keep the A-pods....it takes up slots and tonnage and is useless. It'll be the new "Command Console," since they actually gave it a function now.