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[ccy]

Happy halloween!!!



Trick or treat?


Stalker: Hey Cent, why you are the beauty but I am the beast?

Cent: Oh, come on....... do you want to put on a skirt, too?

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Hope you engoy it and happy halloween!!

LEGO Mad Cat: http://mwomercs.com/...go-timber-wolf/

LEGO Centurion: http://mwomercs.com/...13#entry3375013

LEGO Stalker: http://mwomercs.com/...18#entry3536018

Edited by ccy, 31 October 2014 - 09:32 AM.

[gaIaxor]

Atlas AS7 "Ring" will visit you in 7 days...
To prevent this you have to show a copy of this video to someone else.

[FearNotDeath]

Wolf's Pumpkins.

[Antidote X]

Painting I threw together. Trying out a different approach to the standard Halloween picture...something more metaphorical maybe.

Of course a million and one things that can be changed or polished. But free time is what free time is ^^

Enjoy!

[Merciless531]

Merciless531's Entry for the 2nd annual MWO Halloween contest. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Centered - "Yah, he's a MAD CAT cus' I had to put him down!"



Close up on the Hunchback Firing an AC20 and 2 lasers




Close up on the Timberwolf taking it 2 THA FACE!

Edited by Merciless531, 31 October 2014 - 04:57 PM.

[mad kat]

Bout what i can muster up in Gimp without going OTT

From the gates of hell:

I may as well of got the crayons out judging by some of the incredible professional artwork here!

Edited by mad kat, 04 November 2014 - 02:07 AM.

[KAT Editor]

MWO maps do not look festive?

Sit back and look what my imagination + ArtRage2 show you )



And not how animation

Edited by KAT Editor, 03 November 2014 - 06:35 AM.

[mania3c]

okey..here is my entry

Base model was provided by fellow mechwarrior HanaYuriko more than year ago. Since then model was adjusted, some parts remodeled, rigged, textured and put into this animation.. It was done in less than 2 days..really don't have time to work on it any further but hopefully you will enjoy it.

Edited by mania3c, 02 November 2014 - 01:10 PM.

[Solahma]

Faces in the Night - A spooky short film
Takes place on Hermagor City shortly after the fall of New Bergen a few months into the Clan Invasion. A lance of Kell Hounds is hired to defend the city from a group of raiders. Little did they know, the clans have already arrived!

I suggest you up the resolution, throw it on fullscreen, dim the lights, and turn the volume up

Edited by Solahma, 02 November 2014 - 07:36 PM.

[Fherot]

Every Halloween the same Leopard-Class creeper parks near the Scout training academy. Every Halloween... Dozens of lights go missing.

[Lucinator]

Here;s my atlas head pumkin

[markos2012]

http://i.imgur.com/Sq3QH4O.jpg


please check it....as I couldn't make a direct upload to the site. Click like whatsoever! Thanks partners!

Edited by markos2012, 03 November 2014 - 06:19 AM.

[ResidentCrow]

It's a little late, but work and real life took over.
Hope you enjoy, it's a darker take on the Urban mech.

[EM0ntY]

Trick or treat mwo style!!!

Making this cookie accidentally a raven was eaten... and to get an idea how big the cookie is, I put a tablespoon into the picture.

Bon appetit

Spoiler

Spoiler

[Amethyst Blade]

Mark Charke

Edited by Amethyst Blade, 03 November 2014 - 12:31 PM.

[RedWasp]

The Ring 3049

[Phlyer42]

My entry: (Jason Vorhees)

Edited by Snakeguy612, 03 November 2014 - 03:23 PM.

[Sky Hawk]

So.. If I understand it right, part of the whole Halloween thing is, telling scary/funny/weird/strange storys.. Since, 10.000 MC is a nice prize, I will try it too.. I thougt, I just write down, some of my average, own thoughts (inner voices), with a little bit of Halloween-style, while I am playing MWO. Because, I think, for the most of the humanity, these thoughts/ideas are surely funny and/or strange/crazy/weird enough, for a short Halloween story..

Before anybody asks it. Yes, the story is fictional, but the characters are mostly based on Real Life persons. With this work, I don't want blame or hurt them, no matter, how strange the text sounds. For me, they are exact much as part of MWO, as Mechs, bugs, players, nerfs, buffs, and even Bug-Mechs are.

Warnings: If anyone really reads these texts (besides, the poor guy/girl, that Nikolai force to do that - Sorry, but think always about, that you becomes hopefully, some money for reading it!), I will ask you not to eat or to drink, during the reading. Some events in the past showed me, both could be bit dangerous for healt and/or equipment.. Thanks!

(SN: I used Spoilers, because I hate long scrollings, so they are not really Spoilers!)

Through the Dark

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Dark.. dark.. why is everything so dark... no.. there is some light.. on the right.. oh.. that's my room light.. oh.. Looks like, I slept away for my PC.. Let's see... Outside it's night.. so.. Wait!.. Then, the dark thing was my monitor???.. But, I can clearly hear my PC's fan.. So, it's on..

Hell! We sent men to the Moon, why can't we make a silent PC too?.. Why???.. Crap! My ears will pain again.. Oh.. But, anyway.. If the PC is still on.. Then, why is the screen so dark? Oh, God, I hope, it isn't dead!.. It still in its early tenth, it's far too young for the death... and it's still so small... so damn small... Oh, God, I am no racist, I don't care, that its screen is dark-red since last July, but.. Please don't die! Please!.. Oh.. the little green led-thing is on.. So, it's lives! GOOD!.. But, then, why?... Hell, I am so tired!... Ooohm... Where.. hmm... where are...?

My papers!... Where are my papers?... Papers.. papers.. papers!.. Oh.. Here!.. Good... Ok, let's see... Hmm.. Headline: "Russ ABC Event - 2015..".. So, it's MWO.. I would be crazy, since long times ago, without my papers!.. So... That means.. the dark screen is the MWO loadscreen... least, it could be... hopefully... Hmm.. Ok... Looks like, I slept away by searching a match... Ye, lately, I had a couple times longer search times, then matches... My monitor lives, and the MM dying... Great!.. OK, so, event...

It's the 19th day.. so.. the letter.. is... "S"!... Hmm.. perhaps, my Ice... The words Stalker and Misery.. both have an "S"...Hmm.. Actually, the ABC Event is a good thing, theoretically... "For every day, we choose a single letter. If you play with a Mech, which chassis-name consist the Letter-of-the-day, you will be rewarded extra... (5 MC for Wins, 2 MC for Kills, 1 MC for Assists)..".. Ye, Ice will fit surely..

But hell! Why, must we go, straight off throught the whole ABC!?... Crap! It is soooo long! I mean the event,... not the ABC.. The english ABC is actually very short, we have almost... hmm.. twice as much letters.. lol.. 26 letters... Anyway,.. I know, this event was planned to bring back or replace those players, which we lost in The Dark Week, but it looks like, it didn't works.. Ye, surely, the MM works lately so bad, because we left just so few here.. Damn SM-Patch!... Damn Dark Week!...

Lol.. Some of the newbies think really strange things, if they hear the first time, from the SM-Patch.. lol.. Ah.. Good Old Days.. We had the last CW-PLD-PTS, .. was a nice Friday test on Frost.. We found only one major bug.. Every Mikey stocked in the basis-gate, even after the gate was destroyed.. Ye, we LRM-ed those Mikeys to hell.. Lol.. was lot of fun... Actually, the whole CW looked fine.. Just Lordred found some minor black color bug, or whatever... but as always, nobody cared about that.. We all hoped for a nice, Thuesday Patch... But, just one hours after it's went online, came the post from Paul: "Sorry folks, as you knows, it looks like, we found a small mistake in the Frost Turret AI.. Looks like, it is a minor decimal failure. We work hard on a hot-fix..." Ye, "Small Mistake"!.. That name, will stay surely forever, on the first place of the MWO-worst-bug-list.. Forever!

As we saw it first, it was actually very funny.. I watched it on twitch (Don't play on Patch Day!).. The guys and girls from NGNG made somehow a full 12 player Unit, the "IS Defenders"... They want play CW live, from the very first match on... The enemy was Jager's 12-er group of SJR's... of course.. Everyone hoped an epic fight.. But then..

I heard some teammates voices on Jager's TS.. "Look! Our turrets started to shoot!... Strange.. there is no enemy on the radar!.. Oh.. The basis-gate's laser turrets started to shoot too... They shooting us!.."... After then, the only thing, I could heard, was Jager last words: "That can't be, we are still more than 2.000 meters away!.. What? My leg!.. Something one-shot my leg!... INCOMMING MISSILES!.. What the he...??!?" From that point, all I/we heard, was the knocking of the LRMs.. and.. saw just... Kill Blow: Defense Turret's.

The "minor decimal failure", what Paul mentioned, affected the turret's detection and firing ranges, and the damage... by tenfold... Both the basis, and the spawn-points denfense turrets, with 5.000 m effective range, 10 DMG/Missiles and 50 DMG/ML firepower,... they killed the whole enemy teams in 40 seconds... After 6 minutes, all 4 wave of players was dead.. Then, the turrets from both sides, started shooting each other.. In the 9th minutes, the base side won.. It has more turrets...

First, everybody just laughed... hard... I heard later, the whole PGI stuff started to working on the hot fix, but just one and half hours after this match.. Because, that time they could take least some painfully moves, without to laughing.. Russ could twitter just: "Lol.. sorry guys,... just.. lol...!" Ye, they all saw that match.. The first hot-fix comes 3 hours later.. They didn't find the bug, the turrets AI was clear.. so, they just took CW-Frost off-line..

We all helped,.. we played on the following 3 days on PTS... withot any failure.. But, every times, when they tried to put Frost, on the live server.. The turrets killed everyone.. Even, when in the last try, they put the turrets damage on zero.. Many players, who come back, just for the CW... they gone.. All they left here, was a sentence: "We will come back, if our blood drying up in our dreams too, from the damned snow of Frost!"..

Lordred was rigth, with his color bug.. On very high resolution, the smoke of the destroyed 48 Mechs, which laid in a radius of 200 meters around the two spawn-points, looked like a dark-red rain.. The player called it "Bloody Rain".. At the end, MWO went offline for 4 days... They take the whole server-park into small pieces.. I never understand, what they found.. was some little crappy thing, that translated an x to a 10,.. or something similar.. We lost nearly 50% the players that week... The Dark Week.. That name, is written with blood, in the book of MWO history.. Forever!... Damn Dark Week!

Oops.. Looks like the MM found a map... Terra.. Good!..

The Light

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Hmm.. Terra Therma.. Good!.. I like this map.. I just don't like... the Lemmings... That crater is too hot, and except from Conquest, it has not even a major relevant strategic values.. but, almost every teams, go there to die.. I hope, this time we go around.. If we do that, we have a 90% chance to win... Perhaps, PGI should make some new achievments:

"You gone into the crater of Terra Therma and died, without a shot, 1.000 times. You receive the Achievement Title: Lemming Prince!" or "You blocked one of your teammates path, on Terra Therma, 10.000 times. You receive the Achievement Title: Iron Door-Still!".. Ye, perhaps, they will learn... Oh, match start-screen!... Let's see... Who won... 59.. 58.. 57..

Hm.. 1.. 2, and 3... Ye, looks like, we won the DC-war this time! Ye, 11 vs.10!... Lol.. I remember in such situation, always on two things.. First, that I read somewhere, from Russ: "We can't start a match, with 23 players..."... And second, that old slogen: "Yes, you can!".. Lol.. I don't know, which MWO Russ played that time, but,... I play average 10 matches every day, and I can count on just one of my hand, how many times we have a 12 vs. 12... Ok, I could count it on one hand too, if I would lost three of my fingers... lol.. "We can't start..".. lol...

52.. 51.. Oh, man.. We have, this reconnect thing since many-many months... No way, that those DC players coudn't reconnect a bit later,.. like in the 2th, or the 3th minutes of the game... If they want reconnect at all... Now, we must wait, least a whole minutes.. We have 21 players here.. So, it is a lost of 21 minutes life-time.. Great!..

48.. 47.. 46.. Lotspeaker <All> Happy Puch Day! 45.. 44..

What? Patch day?..Or what?! Hell! The patch was about 4 days ago.. and... the hot-fix.. 2 days ago.. Ye, lol.. What a bug!.. I wish, they wouldn't fixed that... When a Mech, ran faster as 130 kph, and the pilot hit the JJ-button... he lost both legs instantly,.. lol...The legs just flew away... lol.. The Mechs didn't died.. it was a bug... so, they just stayed floting in the air.. lol.. we called them "KMP"... I killed about 15 or 20 from them ... they were so happy for it... Hell, that was fun!

I think, Light pilots are very similar to sailors... I heard, sailors, after a long sea-voyage becomes sometimes seasickness, when they go to the land... The same goes, for Light pilots too.. if they stayed, in one place.. without any movements... they felt sick... Oh.. they just cryed, and cryed.. "Kill Me Please!" / "Could someone Kill Me! PLEEEZ"... lol... KMP's... lol...

38.. 37.. Asker <All> ?? - ? 36.. 35..

Not to mentioned, it was not easy... even, when they lose their lag-shields, their JJ-shield stayed mostly there.. bug.. in a bug...lol.. So, they were mostly invulnerable for laser hits.. And nobody wanted waste any AC-Ammo, for that purpose... If they don't had an ECM.. some of the LRM-boats shoot them down... least, if they had the extra 2-3 tons of Ammo.. If not.. huh... We must overheat them, with lasers... was not so easy... But, two days later, they hot-fixes it... lol...

Still, I am mostly a Heavy/Assault pilot... I can't really use Lights.. but, in this special case.. I had surely, no problem, with that bug.. I use always, such buttons like the "100% / 70 % / 30% trottles"... auto-forwards... or "Full Stop". If I don't want to run faster, as 130 kph.. I just rebind my buttons in no time... But, as I read the Forum posts, that time... no one else use these buttons.. Ye, there are some very strange people here...

30.. 29.. Lotspeaker <All> Lol.. Sorry! Happy Punch Day! 28.. 27..

Oh.. That!.. That was a really big surprise, from PGI... But, a good one! Was.. about.. I think.. 4 weeks ago.. Ye.. Good day! "We improve today, the arsenal of MWO, with a new weapon! From today, IS Heavys an Assaults can use, their arms as weapons, (if they have similar arms to humans)! Yes! They can really PUNCH , from now on! "... Russ...

Ye.. My poor Stalkers... They can't do that.. But, Banshees, Cataphracts, and co.. Ye, "Mech Punch" - 30 meters hit, forward. Heavys (30 DMG), Assaults (60 DMG).. 1 ton Punch Ammo = 10 separat hit... Only one little drawback.. we must place the Ammo, in that arm, that we want use for the Punch... Very funny thing...

21.. 20.. Thanks <All> Thanks! 19.. 18..

Hmm.. Sadly.. they can't implemented the "Kick".. They said something from "too unstable centre of mass..".. but, I saw that thing, in one of Kon's video... The Mechs just felt over, like a potato-sacks... BAMM... lol.. sad, but.. lol...

16.. 15.. OK.. The match starting soon.. Let's see.. which Mech I choosed... I hope, it's Ice... or least some nice Assault-Boat... Hm.. where is Sky Hawk... Hmm, I am not in the Assault Lance?... Hmm.. strange... very strange.. Sky.. ah here... Sky Hawk... and the Mech is... LCT-NS.. ! ! !

WHAT THE BLOODY HELL !!??!!.. 12.. 11.. A... N I I I C O O O !?!? 10..

Why the hell, have I a Nico! Holly crap! A freaking Nico!... 8.. 7.. It's a 20 tonner!.. The only usefull 20 tons for me in MWO, is the 4 x ERLL's... 5.. 4.. ../.. / .. .. 58.. 57..

56.. 55.. Oh no! Not that too! Some one reconnected!.. Great! Hell, we lost so.. 43 minutes of our life-time!.. Thanks, Russ!.. Oh, God! What will happens next? Will the ceiling crush down to me, or what!?!.. 53.. 52..

Calm down.. Calm down... Hell, I am tired!.. 50.. 49.. Ok, Let's see.. Good, least, this was our guy.. 12 vs. 10... But, now we have to wait again!.... Damn!.. 46..

45.. 44.. Let's think!... hmm.. a Nico?.. Perhaps.. from the 3-months reward? Russ throw this things, after every player, who was still here, 3 months after the Dark Week... Hmm.. I thought, I selt it away instantly... for the Bay... Looks like, I forgot that to do... lol... Russ had many of them, on stock that time...lol.. Because, of course, nobody wanted to buy them.. lol.. Poor Russ!.. He really thought.. everyone want a Nico, just because it's won the Forum Poll.. what was it.. ... was about 80% or so... lol.. Really?

40.. 39.. 38.. Ye... lol.. Russ, man, what a stupid idea!.. 80%! .. Lol... Almost nobody voted for it, except from Nikolai!... Hero or not, a Nico is a terrible Mech.. And it's won? Of couse it's won!.. lol.. What have you thought?... What the hell does Nikolai the whole day? Working?.. Really? lol ... Of couse not! He made surely over thousand clone-accounts, and voted with all of them for the Nico.. Who didn't want a Hero Mech, with his own maiden name... lol.. Poor Russ!..

36.. 35.. 34.. Ok.. If, I must pilot, this Nico.... Let's see.. hmm.. Terra Therma is not really good for it.. Not just, it's too hot, but... A Nico is white.. hellish white... Ye, Alex painted it white... Ok.. what the hell, could he others do, once the Mechs name is Snow!.. It must be white.. sure... But, so.. I will light up on Therma, like a 20 tons flare gun!... Even a blind noob will spot me, from least 2.000 meters away... Hell!.. Anyway.. I need to be carefull.. lol.. Me and carefull.. lol..

30.. 29.. Hm.. And, ok, I understand the white color.. But, why this chest-painting?... In the place of Alex, I had asked Nikolai for a photo, from his dog.. Or better, since he lives mostly in the online world.. His dog has, surely an own facebook-page... I had just take some pictures, from there, a little brush, with a bit white, and done! A nice wolfy.. Done!.. But no,... Alex is an Artrist... He has to put, a Vampire-Snowman on the Nico's chest...? Really? A bloody-mouthed Vampire-Snowman! Hell!

26.. 25.. 24.. Aaaand... Of course, with fang teeth.. With bloody fang teeth!... No matter, what he paints... teeth and teeth everywhere!.. I mean, we play this Game in the future, right?! Not in the prehistory!.. No matter, how God blessed his hands are, he watched surely to much Jurassic Park... waaay to much!... Omg.. so many fang teeth..

22.. 21.. 20.. OK, I admit, when I came first time here, I thought too, that "Nico Snow" is the civil name of the Santa Claus/Nicholas/Nikolaus, or whatever the canadian variants name is... A little mistake from my sides.. Can happen... I am not a Dev or such... But, really!... Which iditot choose as unchangeable built-in warnhorn sound for the Nico, the first notes ot the "Twinkle twinke little star"??? Omg!.. That is so annoying!...

18.. 17.. And the specs! Hell, even, when the original Santa has 9 reindeers.. Why should have, a Nico, 9 fixed Jump Jets? Nine!!! Damn!.. I guess, that's why nobody wanted to buy it... Only thing, what that Mech can do is flying high... very high...

15.. 14.. Hmm.. I don't know, if anyone tried it before... But, perhaps it can fly over the whole crater here... from one sides, to the others... Hmm.. perhaps... But I guess, no... with Engine Cap as 130??... Perhaps it has not even enough speed for it... and it would fall into the lava and burn... lol.. No! It's a Snow! It would be melt away... lol..

11.. 10.. Anyway.. If I want to be least a bit usefull, to my team, I should find out something very soon.. The Mech is not the only problem here... Sadly the pilot is much worse... Still I can't drive a Light properly... I always crush into buildings and such... Least, here are not so many of them...

8.. 7.. And, as usually, close combat is a big NO.. I hit moslty more Blues, than Reds... If, I hit something at all,.. before I die... Hmm.. Damn...

5.. 4.. The match is starting.. Least... if no more DC-er comes back.. Hmm.. The DC-ers!.. 2.. 1..

Kills

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So.. Here we are!.. Let's see.. Map!.. Hmm.. I am.. in the right side... Good!..

Sky Hawk <Team> I go for the DC-ers!

Max speed.. Right turn... away... Good, it moves!.. Let's see, what weapons I have... 2 ML? Really? Hell! My nice ERLLs, those are weapons.. or a little, but nice LRM30!... But no.. I have just 2 hot-laser-pointers! Crap!.. Least I hope, I don't run into a Red!.. There are sometimes idiots, who didn't understand the meaning of "Stay together!" or "Group up!" They just run away, from the group.. and straigt into me.. Hell! Damn "Freethinker"!... Sometimes I have no luck, and they... OUT OF BOUNDARY 9.. 8.. Hell, what? 7..

Turn-turn-turn. 5.. 4.. turn-turn!!!.. 3.. Stop! ... Huh.. That was close... Looks like, this thing is faster, than my Ice... or any other my Mechs... Hell, if I don't watch.. I run or fly over to an other map.. lol.. They would wonder, why is a 25th player there... lol... Ok.. Where I am?... Map! Hmm.. yellow arrow... Here!... North map border... The spawn-poinst should be.. somewhere.. about 12 o'clock. direction..??

Hell... we have.. about 8?..10?.. 13! maps... Why I have never time, to write down the coordinates of those freaking points?.. A little crappy piece of papers should be enough for it... Ye.. Hell! Writing is sooo booring...

Ok... Max speed!.. Where are those Reds? Hmm.. nothing.. nothing.. lava.. bridge.. nothing.. nothing.. lava.. ECM-jamming.. nothing.. lava.. noth... WAIT!... ECM!... Where an ECM is.. a Mech should be around it too!... Turn! ... 30% speed!... No.. nothing... nothing... no.. ah.. there!.. A Raven!... Oh.. you little birdy... You won't fly anymore today!... Ok.. go in nice distance.. slowly.... 30 meters.. Good!.. Even I can hit a Light from here... mostly..

Fire!.. Nothing?.. Again!.. Nothing!.. Again!... Noth.. OVERHEATING!!... Great!... That was only 3 Alphas! ..Hell! Ye, I have just two major talens here... And one of them is,..damn, of course.. I could overheat any time, even a TAG-only Mech... Hell!.. OK.. The only good thing... Least, I have time to think!... Hmm.. that Raven, had no damage... after 3 Alphas... not a bit yellow... hmm.. why?

Oh.. crap.. I forgot.. some of them has a DC-shield too... hmm.. they are invulnerable... mostly... on the upper parts... head and such... I should aim perhaps, on the legs??... AND, watch for the heat!... Crap!...

Ok.. I am cool again! Aim.. leg... 1-2.. 1-2.. Yellow-yellow-orange-red-red-black.. Ye!... Now the other one!... 1-2.. .. .. orange-red-re... OVERHEATING! Crap... not again... Hell!... Bumm! ... Ok... Least the Raven is well done!... lol..

Ok.. If I can move again... I should find fast, the other one too... Cool!... OK! Max speed!... Nothing.. nothing.. nothing.. oh.. left side! There is it! A Nova!... Distance.. good!. Hmm.. let's try the CT.. good! Slowly 1... 2... 1... Hell it will last forever... Ohhhh... Hm.. Nova.. I never read the lore, but I guess... It could happened about so..After the first field test:
- Good! That is a good, deadly Mech.. It killed almost 11 Mechs, from the 10 possible targets!... Good Work!
- 11 Sir, from 10?
- It almost cooked itself too... But, it will be a good one... Just, hot like a star... We should find a name for it... Suggestions?
- If.. it is deadly and hot, like a star... "Star of the Death".. or "Deathstar"!
- No.. First, they are uncool.. lol.. un-cool... hrrm.. and second.. HG has still the copyrights for it, for least 4.000 years long... Anyone else?
- Sorry, Sir.. But, can we not go around it... I mean... Death and Star... If a stay dies.. It will be a Black Hole.. a Supernove or Nova... something like this way..
- Hmm. Black Hole is big NO... But... still it is a medium.. Nova... will surely fit....

"Twinkle twinke little star..."

What? Oh... Ye! The Nova is dead!.. Hell, was time for it... OK.. Let's see.. How are my team? ... 9 : 6... not bad... That means.. Three Reds are still alives!... Hm.. One is a Spider.. surely.. There is always a Spider as last Mech... Hmm... and.. the other one is surely a Mikey... no doubt.. So.. where... Hmm.. 9 : 7... oops...

Redshirt (Dead) <Team> Something at F8..

So.. we have the Mikey!... Max speed!... F8.. Map!... Ah.. there!... .. Ok.. slowly.. Stop.. There!.. Targeting.. .. Hmm... one leg is red.. but, the rest are just a bit yellow.. Hmm.. Since, I am one of the about 19 MWO players, who ever heart from the target lock... The others can now see, this Mikey too... So, they will be there soon.. Hmm.. I have no chance against him.. but.. so... perhaps.. I can it slow down... without to die.. maybe..

Aim.. But which leg?... No matter!... Just shoot it idiot!.. Still I find out, which one is, the right one... the match will ends... SHOOT! Hit?.. Black! Ye.. I had luck!.. Oh.. damn, he saw me!.. Run! Max speed!... Turn... OK.. LoS... Huh.. Map!... OK.. Three Blues are there now... hope.. they are better, than I am... surely.. Hmm.. now the Spider... where is the Spider...

Not, that I could hit it... I am pretty sure, that I am the only MWO player, who use his mouse for both driving and aiming.. But.. since, my other talent, as overheating.. is to be a bait... Ye.. for some reason, no Red can resist against me.. I am such a nice target.. they always try to kill me first... no matter which Mech I choose... I could bait, this Spider... surely.. And the others could revenge me later... Hmm.. but, where should I do that... where could be... Hmm.. 10 : 8...

So, the Mikey don't want die fast enough!... Hhmm.. Wait! A Red triangle! Lock... 2463 m??... Wow.. there is an other player in my team, who can lock! How unusual!... Look! I said, it's a Spider... lol.. I had right... It is always a Spider!.. And.. He's dieing? 11 : 8 !... Wow.. we have a really Light pilot here!... Good!..

Ok.. Where could be, the last one hiding?.. Hmm.. since Terra Therma, has so many valleys and hills on its long borders... There is so many good possibility, where someone could easy use to hide... Ye.. Just.. lol.. No one use them.. That means.. the last one is 100% in the crater... surely!.. lol.. Like Lemmings!... Max Speed!...

Hmm... the others are coming here too... Least, we can finish it fast... It's the last bringe... I should slow down.. a bit... I almost there... ECM-jamming... Hell! Jackpot!.. I found it.. I.. I.. What the hell! The screen is frozen! Not a lag! Say, that it is NOT A LAG! We almost won!... Wait.. there is a text? What the hell???....

GREETINGS MECHWARRIORS!

WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE LIVE, SOME OF OUR NEW DEVELOMPENTS IN MWO:

1. FROM NOW AN, WE CAN USE OUR NEW IN-GAME ANNOUNCEMENT SYSTEM. WE CAN SEND IN THE FUTURE LIVE MESSAGES, NEWS AND WARNINGS TO YOU ANY TIME,!

Hmm.. looks like, the NASA dismissed some canadian brainheads too... And Russ buyed one or two..

2. WE CAN PUT THE LIVE SERVER'S GAMEPLAY FOR 60 SECONDS INTO "STASIS". IN THAT WAY WE CAN SEND TO YOU LONGER TEXTS TOO. (LIKE YOU CAN SEE IT NOW!) AFTER THAT 60 SECONDS PAUSE, YOU CAN CONTINUE TO PLAY THE GAME NORMAL, FROM THE POINT WHERE WE STOPPED THE GAME.

So, they can make, not just unintentional way LAGS!... Great!

3. IN THIS 60 SECONDS STASIS, WE CAN EXECUTE IN TH FUTURE, EVEN MAJOR CHANGES IN THE LIVE SERVER'S MAIN PROGRAM. (THAT MEANS, WE DON'T NEED TO STOP IT EXTRA, IF WE WANT TO MAKE SUCH THING AS HOT-FIXES, REPAIRS, ETC..) SO WE WILL HAVE NO MORE "SEVER DOWN TIME"S, EXCEPT THE REGULAR MAINTENCE TIMES!

Ok.. now, it is sure... They have some NASA guys....

4. OUR FIRST PROGRAM CHANGES IS A WHOLE NEW DEVELOPMENT TOO! FROM NOW AN, HEAVY- AND ASSAULT-MECHS CAN MAKE REPEATEDLY, A SMALL AMOUNT OF DAMAGE, WITH THEIRS LEGS TOO, BUT JUST, IN VERTICAL DIRECTION!

ENJOY IT!

3.. 2.. 1.. Oh.. that was weird... repeatedly... vertical... What the hell??.. Oohh... where I am?... Ye.. in the crater.. of Terra Therma... ECM-jamming.. The last Red!.. Where is... BUM-WUM-WUM! My leg! My arms! He destroyed all 3 in one shot!.. Crap! Oh.. and one of this sound was.. an AC20!.. Great, I am surley dead.. Hell!..

And I still can't see the Red!.. Tuuurn.. So slow... soooo slow... Why don't comes the next shot? He is such bad player, as I am?... No way!.. Then.. or...no... lol.. He is out of Ammo??? Both AC and SMRs? Tuuurn.. It can't be! And no secondary weapons? Sound strange! Wait!

AC20 + ECM .. Could be a Damn Proctologist? No.. I hate it, when they do that!... Tuuurn... A 100 tonner should fight on the front.. Ye, except my 100 tonners... But, anyway! I really hate it, when, they playing Procto! Oh.. there... hmm... looks like a zombie.. no arms!... But, he don't shoot... So.. I had right!... No Ammo... lol.. And no Arms! That means he can't Punch! Lol.. I am safe! Huhh... luck again...

But, with one leg.. I am slower as, this Atlas... So.. I can't run away... Aaand it looks like, he try to me force to the wall... Why?.. Hell, why not?...lol.. He can't hurt me!... Oh.. The others are here soon... Bip... Oh, crap I forgot!

Sky Hawk <Team> DDC in crater!

Ye, Big Boy... they come after you! Lol... What do you want to do? Just, jump into the lava, and kill yourself!... Lol... he just stays in front of me, and trys lift his leg... lol.. Stupid Procto! Damn! I forgot, that too!...

Sky Hawk <Team> Sorry! He is out of Ammo! And a ZOMBIE.. lol..

Bip... Ok.. They are surley almost here.. Let's see, what this Big Boy... What? He really trys to step on me? Why? He can't hurt me!.. BANG! What?!? My armor! BANG! That was 2%!... BANG!.. What the Hell!??

Blue Leader <Team> Lol! Guys! Come here fast... lol!

Don't chat, you.. BANG!.. idiot! He kills me.. ANG... slowly, but, he kills me!.. BANG! Least, I know, that the... BANG!.. hell is "vertial damage"... BANG!... Idiots! Help me!.. Bip!..

Light Hunter <Team> Wzup?
Blue Leader <Team> Run! You must see this... lol...
Heany Man <Team> I am slow.. I need time... so.. what?
Blue Leader <Team> Lol... a zombie DDC is stomping on our Nico...!
Heany Man <Team> ??
Light Hunter <Team> Wow.. cool... we should take some screen...

Bip!.. At the end, this idiots let me die! BANG!..

Sky Hawk <Team> Help first! Kill that Procto-Zombie!.. BIP..
Blue Leader <Team> Lol... Sorry pal!.. I can hardly type... lol.. no way, I could hit...
Light Hunter <Team> Ok!.. lol... Don't worry Sky! I PM you some pictures after!
Heany Man <Team> Huh.. I am here.. Should I really not shoot?
Blue Leader <Team> Lol...no.. that would.. ruin the pictures!

BIP.. I can't belive... It's not a zoo!

Blue Leader <Team> Let him the joy.. lol.. we can kill him.. when we can breathe...
Light Hunter <Team> Rgr... I send every of you, some screen-shots later!
Heany Man <Team> Great! Thanks!

BIP! Hell... I can't really breathe.. and I feel... BANG!... Can I feel the pressure?? BIIP! It seems.. it is darker here? BIIP!... And what are, these bips? BANG!... Surely, not Ms. Betty... BIIP!... I can't breathe.. .. My chest is so heavy.. BIIP!... Least, the stomping... BIIP!... stopped... BIIP! BIIP!.. But.. why.. it.. is ..BIIP!.BIIP!..so.. dark.. here.. BIIIP! BIIIP!... and.. why am I.. lie.. BIIIIP! BIIIP!... BIIIP! BIIIP!...

B I I I P!.. B I I I P!

The Lie

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BIIIP! My hands! BIIIP! Move!... Good... my mouth is free!.. BIIIP! BIIIP!.. I can breathe... again... This annoying sound!... BIIIP! BIIP!.. Crap!... Left hand.. streeetch... BIIIP! BIIIP!.. hard... chest... bit up... corner... BIIIP! BIIIP!.. Got it!.. Click!... Silence!... Ye!.. Hell.. Even, I wrote this sound, almost ten years ago... It works still now!.. Hell!.. This mobil!.. Ohh, I am so tired!

So.. I just lied... I'm lied.. in my bed.. It's dark.. So. Let's look the.. screen... 02:20 am... Looks like, I want to wake up bit later as usual.. Hell, what a dream!... Like, I would drive a Light!.. lol... Almost a nightmare! I should stand up... I don't set the alarm, just for a joke.. Surely... So why?.. Sure, some farming things... Perhaps, it is really MWO?... Oh, hell! If I must dream, from MWO,... least, why not a nice and funny dream?

Like, that Glue Cannon dream was,... some weeks ago.. Wow.. That Cannon stopped all Lights.. SPLASH!... And I could kill them easy... Nice dream!.. But.. Ye.. On the second night... Paul nerfed it.. "To strong! / Need a balance!".. Nvm... At the end, that was a nightmare, too!.. I should stand up.. really!

Ok.. Socks, socks.. vest... Power ON.. PC.. ON.. Ye, the usual not-too-nice, truck-engine sound... Hell! We sent men to the Moon, why can't we make a silent PC too?.. Why???.. Crap! My ears will pain again.. Ok.. Still, it warms up... Flushing coolant.. lol.. I miss so, that part, from MW4!... Ok.. It sounds good... the fan is quieter... Internet.. MWO Forum.. F5.. No messages.. New Announcements... nothing.. Ok.. Papers!

My papers!... Where are my papers?... Oh.. Here!.. Good... Ok, let's see... Hmm.. Headline: "Russ ABC - Halloween Event - 2015.."... Ok.. So, I woke up, because MWO.. and it's Halloween for them... again.. Ok.. The word is "RUSS".. It's the 4th day.. so.. the letter.. is... "S".. again!... Hmm.. So.. I can take Ice... Hmm.. Least, for warm up..

Actually, the ABC Event is a good thing... And give an extra MC-boost to the Halloween Event too .. Not too much... but, with the time... it is more, than nothing.. Why I have, this strange feeling?.. Anyway.. I know, this event was planned to bring back or replace those players, which we lost in The Dark Week... Ah.. Good Old Days.. When the PGI guys had enough time to play on the Forum!... Hell, that was long times ago... But.. ye.. No more, after the Dark Week.. OK.. time to start the game...

Ye... CW come back online one month, after the Dark Week... The Devs did everything, they could for the players.. They changed even, the respawn-points on Frost.. One is an Ammo Refill Station.. and the other is something like, a post cemetery, with monuments and eternal-flame, for the fallen, etc.. But.. it didn't worked.. The players don't come back.. least not enough... Password!..

Let's see... Units... nothing.. Friends... Shar online... Store.. Lol.. Nico is on 70% Sale off!... Sorry Russ, nobody will it!... Ye.. Hard times for PGI.. Since, we have just so few players here... Hmm.. After two weeks awful games, they give up trying to run CW, and the normal game modes at the same time.. We had simply not enough players, for both... I think, Karl becomes his break-down, about that time.. Since then.. we have CW on weekends, and Events and/or normal gameplay, during the week... The half PGI stuff hand-operating the MM, to hold it somehow alive... and the other half is trying hard to merge Assault and Conquest to one game-mode.. But, both turrets and minig-stuffs, don't really want fit... the maps are small... I choose: Ice!... Game Start!

And now... waiting... We all hope, that the one year CW anniversary, bring back more players... Perhaps, we can even reach, the numbers before CW.. Lol.. During the waiting, in such long-long search-times, I imagined many times, that meeting.. I call it "Born of the new MM"... I think, it could be happened in spring of 2014..

- Hey Karl! I have a good news!
- Russ, hey! Really? But, good for who?
- For you, for PGI, for MWO... I have the money, for the new MM!
- Hmm.. Ok.. So, you really want, that I make a new one?
- Yes! With all the things, we have talked lately..
- So, multi-game modes, multi-ELOs, 3333, multi-group-sizes, etc.. Right?
- Oh, yes! The perfect MM, for MWO. Flexible, fast, and easy to adjust, from our side. The players will love it! When can you start, with the work?
- Hmm.. After I finished my coffe.. But, Russ.. Do you understand it, that it won't be working so really good? Right?
- Good, the sooner the better... Ooo.. What?..
- I mentioned it several times.. It won't be working so perfectly, as you perhaps think. For that, we need one more major part..
- So, you can't make it?
- Oh, yes, I can, and I will,.. but it won't be so great.
- Sure..You need more money!? Really? Hey, I really don't have my own island! I selled for this borrow-money both my, and my childrens souls too, to the..
- Oh.. no.. not money... If we want, a really perfect MM, we need more players.. many-many new players, to fill all the possible brackets..
- Players? How many?.. I mean, how many times need you more, then we have now?..
- Hmm.. For a perfect MM.. Let me... .. . OK, give me 70-100 times more players, and it will works, like a dream.. A nice, money-making dream...
- Oh.. 100? No-no-no-no.. That's impossible.. no way... What's your worst case scenario?
- Hmm.. If I use some tricks, and we can for example,... force the players somehow, with events or whatever to play specific game modes, etc,.. Hmm.. with, a bit duct tape.. and many luck... 10 times... 10 times more players, then now,.. and... it will works.. somehow.. Not soo great, but somehow it will...
- 10? Ohmm.. OK, what about 2, or maximal 3 times? Would be that not enough?
- Hmm. Let me explaine the situation.. You love the lore.. so.. We have some Spiders.. a relative good Mechs.. Those are our players.. Ok?..
- Yes...?
- And we have the AC20.. the biggest cannon we have.. So, that will be, let's say, the new MM.. Ok?.
- Aaand?
- Both are great.. But, what happens, if you put the AC20 on a Spider? What will you become?
- Oo.. Pass... I don't know..
- An Urbie! Got it? With just so few players, we will have an Urbie-MM..
- So bad? Really.. No way...
- Sorry.. That's, the reallity... Ok.. I'm finished here... I go back to work.. time for MM! Thanks for the info!
- An Urbie?.. Really? ..No.. .. .. Really?.. ... An Urbie?

Ye.. poor Karl.. I am sure... he knowed it, from the very firts time on.. We need more players... or MM will works,.. like now... Ah, crap! Why have I, such a huge, strange feeling.. Perhaps, because this dream? I can hardly remember... was.. someting with a.. Light Mech or... Damn!... I forget always everything!... lol..Least, I forget bad things too!.. Perhaps, that's why I can play still MWO.. I forget always the bad games... Not like the others..

Oops.. Looks like the MM found a map... Terra Therma.. Good!.. I like this map.. Let's see.. Wow.. I jump so fast trought the start-screen!... So.. 12 vs 12. Really? Perhaps I have luck today!... But, I have this strange feelings... Almost like, a Déjá Vu?... Or it is because of this whole Halloween things? I don't know..

Startaker <Team> I have a plan! Follow me, and we will win!

Hmm... sounds good... But, this strange fe..

Startaker <Team> Rush to the center!

Ah.. That's why!.. I felt, that I will die fast and painfull here.. Ah.. Damn Lemmings!

END

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PS: Dear Readers!

If you feel a little headache, please don't worry, it is a not so rare, natural physiological reaction, of your contact, with my thoughts.. I apologies myself for it, but I can't do anything against it.. I'm sorry!

Thank you, for the reading: Sky Hawk

Edited by Sky Hawk, 03 November 2014 - 04:56 PM.

[phinja]

SO,
I totally forgot about this contest, between working full time, dealing with school stuff, and just taking care of life in general. All the while, On top of that, the coverage for this contest seemed pretty low. So I didn't remember till I scrolled through the news.

With that being said, I pulled this together today! I REALLY wish i could put more time into it, but hey.

As far as I go? I'm a light mech pilot, the jenner is my main mech and there's no feeling in game quite like toppling the giants. . for me at least.

Do let me know your thoughts, and don't forget to vote and share! C:

Edited by phinja, 03 November 2014 - 03:47 PM.

[Janitor101]

The Zombie Grasshopper, haunting your dreams since March 17th, 3052.
It just... won't... die!

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Original without backdrop.

Credit to Bishop Steiner for the Grasshopper Template I used..

Edited by Janitor101, 03 November 2014 - 04:01 PM.