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[ball0fire]

not sure why this isnt on the front news page of site and launcher
i didnt even know aboot it till i was browsing the forums

[Will9761]

AFAIK these faction mechs are stables of each House:

Panther- Kurita
Enforcer- Davion
Grasshopper- Marik?
Zeus- Steiner

Well, at least Steiner players have a better reason to defend Hesperus II now.

Edited by Will9761, 21 October 2014 - 03:51 AM.

[LordBacon]

am i the only one questioning this mech choice?
panther 35t - Ember, Jenner and Raven in that weight seem to be better
enforcer 50t - hunchback, centurion might be even but the trebuchet seems better cause of JJ's
grasshopper - CATAPHRACT.
zeus - victor (no way zeus is beating the victor there)
all according to the meta the pack mech choice seems bad.

anyways most likely to get the pack still, because of the money to effectivness of that pack (4 hero mechs 60 days of premium 12 mechbays and 6 faction packs)

[mad kat]

Can someone clarify for me if i bought the Rage pack would that give three variants of both the Panther and the enforcer?

[DeeSaster]

mad kat, on 21 October 2014 - 03:54 AM, said:

Can someone clarify for me if i bought the Rage pack would that give three variants of both the Panther and the enforcer?

All other sales so far followed that system, so its very, very likely that you are correct.

[LordBacon]

@ mad kat: the answer is yes 2 prime variants and 2 other variants of both mechs makes a total of 6 mechs on the rage pack

[Sir Roland MXIII]

@ Will####: Grasshopper is an all-houses mech. It predates the Houses having individual armies (their own as opposed to depending mostly on the all-encompassing SLDF forces) and the Succession wars. As it wasn't deemed fit for the Royals it got spread to the common 'warriors... who ended up literally everywhere - Houses great and small, merc' units, and 'lone wolves'.

@ mad kat: Yes each level you receive three of that mech, one of each variant. So, Rage means 3 Panthers and 3 Enforcers, one of each variant, and mechbays for each mech included.

[DeeSaster]

Joseph Mallan, on 21 October 2014 - 03:32 AM, said:

Not only are they sweet rides... They are displayed with House Colors!

I might have to risk divorce for this Pack!

I hope your wife is a die hard clanner and threatens divorce if you are flying IS colors. If not and your marriage can't handle 80 bucks, you are in a tuff spot already, mate.
SCNR!

[ImperialKnight]

LordBacon, on 21 October 2014 - 03:54 AM, said:

am i the only one questioning this mech choice?
panther 35t - Ember, Jenner and Raven in that weight seem to be better
enforcer 50t - hunchback, centurion might be even but the trebuchet seems better cause of JJ's
grasshopper - CATAPHRACT.
zeus - victor (no way zeus is beating the victor there)
all according to the meta the pack mech choice seems bad.

anyways most likely to get the pack still, because of the money to effectivness of that pack (4 hero mechs 60 days of premium 12 mechbays and 6 faction packs)

The Panther is the one with the potential to be really good. Imagine a 35 tonner with the size/hitboxes of a Spider. Together with good hardpoints could dethrone the Ember and Jenner-F as the king of lights.

[Steinar Bergstol]

LordLosh, on 20 October 2014 - 04:14 PM, said:

the Zeus looks like a pudgy, fat, frumpy, ugly Battle-master. I would change the cockpit to make it unique and set it apart. You do awesome work Alex, please don't limit yourself or allow others to put you on a time constraint to where you feel you have to use already created parts. just my two cents

Yeees, the Zeus looks Battlemasterish, but that's always been true. Take a look at the original TRO art for the Battlemaster



And then the Zeus:


See the similarity? The Zeus was always the Battlemaster's less glamorous brother.

[NeoCodex]

Hmm, you do make a good point. It is true that concepts from Alex are closer to these canon schematics more than they've ever been in any other MW game, and here they look even more similiar. My perception just got blurred by the vision of how Zeus was like in MW3 and MW4.

[Milocinia]

Gunhed, on 21 October 2014 - 12:55 AM, said:

All these new Mechs are boring.

Give us the Marodeur, Archer, Warhammer and Rifleman!

Sure.

Hold on, Harmony Gold would like a word.

ball0fire, on 21 October 2014 - 03:38 AM, said:

not sure why this isnt on the front news page of site and launcher
i didnt even know aboot it till i was browsing the forums

It'll be up on Wednesday.

[Zarock]

So if I would buy the Package for 80$, will I get the mechs plus 12 mech bays for them or another 12 extra?

[Ens]

Steinar Bergstol, on 21 October 2014 - 04:22 AM, said:

See the similarity? The Zeus was always the Battlemaster's more glamorous brother.

ftfy

[Selene Lunaris]

No Cyclops or Black Knight. Iffy.

but i'll probably get it anyway because i suck

[Malleus011]

For the official launch, those should probably be 'Resistance Mech' instead of 'Prime' as the IS doesn't use that terminology (and to follow Phoenix).

[Pale Jackal]

I agree, call them Resistance mechs, not Prime.

I was tempted by the Phoenix pack in the past, assuming the hardpoint layouts are not awful I will have to jump on this... partially to get the top tier King Crab. Also PGI has been making moves in the right direction.

[Zerandir]

Iam amazed why someone has problems with this. Why is it "ok" when someone pays 600 USD for spaceship in SC and yet its totaly out of the line when PGI gives us 60 days of premium time, 6 color packs, 8 normal mechs, 4 hero mechs and 12 mech bays for 80 USD? Its hell of a deal! Those of us who couldnt afford founder or phoenix packs back in the days were asking for this. Now when we have the money we have an option to spend them on IS pack. What is wrong with this? Nobody is forcing anybody to buy this. So why being angry and bicker "bout another mech pack". And btw yes, iam here from the release of beta so i was here when "bad bad IGP" was there.

[Thorn Hallis]

The Zeus looks like what I would expect the Thug to look like.

[Joe Mallad]

Pale Jackal, on 21 October 2014 - 05:04 AM, said:

I agree, call them Resistance mechs, not Prime.

I was tempted by the Phoenix pack in the past, assuming the hardpoint layouts are not awful I will have to jump on this... partially to get the top tier King Crab. Also PGI has been making moves in the right direction.

agreed. I think PGI has been doing much better after pulling away from IGP and taking on MWO as their own project.