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[Graugger]

Kiiyor, on 04 August 2014 - 07:56 PM, said:

This excites me the most. It's the King Crab. I know it is. It can't not be. It's ordained. I've called it, therefore it is. There aren't even alternate dimensions where it isn't the King Crab.

KING CRAB.
KING CRAB.
KING CRAB.

There, three times. I SUMMON THEE.

JudgeDeathCZ, on 04 August 2014 - 08:02 PM, said:

Another cashgrab patch...

You mean another cashcrab?

[Kilo 40]

JudgeDeathCZ, on 04 August 2014 - 08:02 PM, said:

Another cashgrab patch...

I'm fine with that. to be honest I can't wait for some clan camo patterns.

[Hillslam]

If they give that BLR hero the torso nerf bat the 1G and the 3M got, I will drive the letters P, G, & I to a cliff and throw them over. Then I'll toss in a can of gasoline. Then I'll toss in a Bic lighter. And pretend that resulted in a bollywood explosion.



... and then I'll still buy it. 0o

Edited by Hillslam, 04 August 2014 - 08:46 PM.

[Roland]

I honestly don't understand why you people buy hero mechs. Especially the garbage ones.

[Graugger]

Roland, on 04 August 2014 - 08:56 PM, said:

I honestly don't understand why you people buy hero mechs. Especially the garbage ones.

Wait nobody said anything about a Urbanmech, why are you talking about garbage?

[Carrioncrows]

I have been waiting FOREVER for my spider hero

[Deathlike]

Mcgral18, on 04 August 2014 - 07:38 PM, said:

Never buy it of course, but sometimes you just need to give something an SRM [redacted]*.

*Word filters prevent proper spelling....interesting.

Last time I attempted a KTO SRM boat, I felt bad, and you'll feel bad too.

LRMs are a pro-Kintaro build, especially for the Golden Boy.

Edited by Egomane, 05 August 2014 - 01:58 AM.
quote cleaned up

[TB Freelancer]

Wintersdark, on 04 August 2014 - 05:09 PM, said:

is it?

Note my clan faction badge. I'll be piloting clan mechs for the clans. I'd be really annoyed at being unable to use my phoenix mechs in what I too view as the whole game, but I'd survive as I'm not planning on piloting them less anyways.

But if you think for a moment PGI isn't thinking really long and hard about causing a freaking riot, the likes of which they've never seen before (and that's really saying something here! We've had some great riots) just to have CW limit which mechs a player can use? Well... I hope you deal with disappointment well.

The majority of us here don't stand to lose anything of note. There's no self interest going on, its just a frank discussion of the realities of business.

Next patch is a bit of a ways off....though I see most around here are feeling a little envy....




I suppose if you can't be gold you can just keep on sliffing gold.

[Ovion]

MonkeyCheese, on 04 August 2014 - 07:32 PM, said:

Well the Bmaster hero means eventually a locust hero will come so yay to one day trolling people with some kind of hopefully squirrely paint job.

Also yay for spider weapon meshes so I can finally show off my ac5 cannon arm.

Just gotta bring out a hero spider now.

Oh, we knew the Locust Hero was coming.
It's just a question of when.

Roland, on 04 August 2014 - 08:56 PM, said:

I honestly don't understand why you people buy hero mechs. Especially the garbage ones.

Permament 30% C-Bill Bonus.

I decided to go with 1 hero of each weight class for the sake of grinding, all bought in half-price sales.
It's helped reduce the grind significantly.

'course, the Ember, (Kitfox,) X5, Firebrand and Misery are all pretty solid heroes.
If I'd been able to afford it, I'd have bought the Masakari pack instead of the Uller, and had 8 pretty solid hero-class mechs.

I'll be getting the Locust Hero regardless, and am sad I missed the Phoenix pack one. (By about 3 days no less! )

[MonkeyCheese]

Well I am still without a hero/founder/phoenix/invasion aka cbill bonus for the assault class.

King Crab hero might change that. hint hint!

[Mcgral18]

MonkeyCheese, on 04 August 2014 - 11:24 PM, said:

Well I am still without a hero/founder/phoenix/invasion aka cbill bonus for the assault class.

King Crab hero might change that. hint hint!

The King Crab hero!

A Missile+Energy boat!

[Almeras]

BM will probably have 1 or 2 more slots than usual and a massively excessive torso twist nerf because of the P2W backlash pgi fear.

[Onmyoudo]

Yawn. Another week, another patch lacking anything to actually convince me to patch the game. Maybe if the BLR hero somehow turns out to be really good I'll buy it on sale. Maybe.

[Dirgez]

TB Freelancer, on 04 August 2014 - 11:00 PM, said:

Next patch is a bit of a ways off....though I see most around here are feeling a little envy....




I suppose if you can't be gold you can just keep on sliffing gold.

Why are you posting my identity on here? So embarrassed.

...As for the surprises, I am open to just about anything. New mechs, new maps, reskinned maps, new weapons, new equipment, new modules, ui tweaks, sli, 3d.

Now if you would excuse me, going to find some primer to finish some touch ups around the house.

[Rose Scented Love Puff]

Inject new maps and mechs over time, eventually CW and I'm a happy chappy.

[Alistair Winter]

Called it.

Been saying this for weeks now. Why would anyone expect them to sell the Spider hero mech before the Battlemaster, when the latter generates significantly more income? The only question is how many other hero mechs from Phoenix package we will see before the Spider hero mech. It'll be hard for them to resist the temptation of releasing Shadowhawk first, while that mech is still relevant.

And I imagine we will see every kind of clan hero mech before they get around to doing the Locust hero mech. They may never do the Locust hero mech, actually. Especially since they've already explored all the interesting Locust options with the standard Locust variants.

[Vassago Rain]

Alistair Winter, on 05 August 2014 - 01:45 AM, said:

Called it.

Been saying this for weeks now. Why would anyone expect them to sell the Spider hero mech before the Battlemaster, when the latter generates significantly more income? The only question is how many other hero mechs from Phoenix package we will see before the Spider hero mech. It'll be hard for them to resist the temptation of releasing Shadowhawk first, while that mech is still relevant.

And I imagine we will see every kind of clan hero mech before they get around to doing the Locust hero mech. They may never do the Locust hero mech, actually. Especially since they've already explored all the interesting Locust options with the standard Locust variants.

Note that they're saving the actually good robots for last. Shadowhawk sales, and griffin sales, if they aren't boar's head and huginn tier, will generate a lot of money for PGI.

[Alistair Winter]

Vassago Rain, on 05 August 2014 - 01:47 AM, said:

Note that they're saving the actually good robots for last. Shadowhawk sales, and griffin sales, if they aren't boar's head and huginn tier, will generate a lot of money for PGI.

Yep. Of course, it's going to be 6375 MC for the Battlemaster, 4125 MC for the Griffin / SHD, 2250 MC for the Spider and 1500 MC for the Lolcust. The cost for PGI to design the hero mechs (I doubt they spend any money on testing) is probably constant, regardless of tonnage. So the SHD / Griffin sales would have to be 50% higher than BLR sales to be equally profitable.

Since you can only buy 6500, 3000 and 1500 MC, anyone with less than 1125 MC in their account will have to pay $30 regardless of whether they want the Shadowhawk or the Battlemaster.

I imagine that the hero mech sales are decreasingly rapidly, so saving the best for last doesn't make a whole lot of sense (which is probably why they delayed the Treb, Quickdraw and Blackjack hero mechs). People are going to be spending money on Clan mechs and, if available, Clan reinforcements.

Who knows what PGI is thinking though. They don't always make rational, economical choices.

[At Least Three Bears]

Am I the only one impacted by the slot 1 item not being usable or visible if i put an UAV + Impr Air Strike and the mech module Air Strike Accuracy? I posted it on the feedback but it went straight to page 500 and I bet someone spat on it at some point. Is this a feature I am not aware of?

[Kinski Orlawisch]

New warhorn? I directly increased my MCs..... Taröööööööööööö I hope for a nice sound..