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[Tristan Winter]

They finally have a light mech in the game with weapons in scale. No more micro-PPCs.

Thanks to whomever made the call to make this PPC the correct size. I mean, it's still tiny compared to the K2-PPC. I wouldn't mind if it was twice this size, really. But it's a step in the right direction.

Hopefully the same approach will be taken to all MWO mechs in the future. Both future and past releases.

Edited by Nicolai Kabrinsky, 18 November 2014 - 05:15 PM.

[Glaive-]

That looks pretty sweet!

[Impyrium]

Giant cannon arms FTW.

It can look pretty funny sometimes though. I'm all for scale but... Centurion and all that...

[101011]

Yeah, at the cost of giving the Lynx huge arms.

[Risko Vinsheen]

How do you have camo on your Mist Lynx?

[Ultimax]

The weapon scaling is one of the things that contributes to the Mist Lynx being a poorly designed mech, unless the only thing you want it for is to look at screenshots of it.

[zeyzak]

I actually think the weapon scaling looks bad, and prefer the weapon scaling seen on mechs like the spider, kit fox, etc.

[sC4r]

Risko Vinsheen, on 19 November 2014 - 09:46 PM, said:

How do you have camo on your Mist Lynx?

not sure if intended or not but you can buy 1 time polygon camo for the mech (125mc)... from what i understood about the pre-purchase you should get that camo for free on december 16th

[CancersCincar]

Pretty skewed image; you should post an image of what it looks like from the front. Doesn't look half as cool when you realize its pasted onto the side.

Edited by CancersCincar, 19 November 2014 - 11:01 PM.

[Quxudica]

Ultimatum X, on 19 November 2014 - 09:55 PM, said:

The weapon scaling is one of the things that contributes to the Mist Lynx being a poorly designed mech, unless the only thing you want it for is to look at screenshots of it.

Nonetheless it's how it should be. Weapons should not arbitrarily shrink to fit a chassis, a PPC should be just as massive on a Spider as it is on a Catapult.

[Golden Vulf]

I really like the Mist Lynx, especially on the new map, and the Invasion variant looks awesome.

And the Mist Lynx is a smaller target than the Commando anyway.

[Brody319]

I feel this is an accurate picture of the Prime Lynx.

[Tristan Winter]

101011, on 19 November 2014 - 05:18 PM, said:

Yeah, at the cost of giving the Lynx huge arms.

To be fair, I keep losing my ECM-arm almost as much as my PPC-arm. 16 armour on a relatively slow light mech doesn't go very far. They should have given this thing armour bonus quirks from the get go.

CancersCincar, on 19 November 2014 - 11:00 PM, said:

Pretty skewed image; you should post an image of what it looks like from the front. Doesn't look half as cool when you realize its pasted onto the side.

That is true, but at least they got the scale right. I guess it would have been more expensive to replace the fist with the PPC, instead of just putting all energy weapons on the same slot.