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[Brain Cancer]

Odanan, on 03 December 2017 - 01:42 AM, said:

I prefer the Charger. It has more... character.

But it doesn't have the massive number of E hardpoints needed for Nova levels of SL/ML beamspam, which was the point.

[Pariah Devalis]

Brain Cancer, on 03 December 2017 - 10:48 AM, said:

But it doesn't have the massive number of E hardpoints needed for Nova levels of SL/ML beamspam, which was the point.

Wouldn't be surprised if the Charger got inflation, though. I mean, on paper for MWO terms, it is extremely lackluster, but being a battlemech is open to getting 2-4 more hardpoints.

[Odanan]

Brain Cancer, on 03 December 2017 - 10:48 AM, said:

But it doesn't have the massive number of E hardpoints needed for Nova levels of SL/ML beamspam, which was the point.

You can always inflate the number of hardpoints to 7 or more (maybe some extra in the slower variants). Here is a breakdown of the (older) variants. Each one is quite unique! (now tell me this isn't much more interesting than a faster Black Knight the Flashman)

[xVLFBERHxT]

Time for Dark Age mechs!

Sphinx

Clan 75t 375xl 2 ERLL (arms), 10 ERML (torsos).

Edited by xVLFBERHxT, 03 December 2017 - 11:53 PM.

[SuperFunkTron]

I hope they don't touch dark age until we get the rest of the classic clan mech in game. I know I'm like a parrot but the Phantom, Pouncer, and Grendel all deserve to be in this game before move on.

[Odanan]

SuperFunkTron, on 04 December 2017 - 07:27 AM, said:

I hope they don't touch dark age until we get the rest of the classic clan mech in game. I know I'm like a parrot but the Phantom, Pouncer, and Grendel all deserve to be in this game before move on.

Dark Age sucks.

[xVLFBERHxT]

Odanan, on 04 December 2017 - 08:04 AM, said:

Dark Age sucks.

I read the books and I liked the time-period. To me, it was like a resetting of the power creep, Back to the roods of battletech .

Knights and Paladins. Isolated Planets with complicated comunication. Mechs are rare, lots of combined forces with 1 or 2 mechs (mostly old and patched or IIC mechs).

The mechdesign mostly....


sucks .

Edited by xVLFBERHxT, 04 December 2017 - 08:35 AM.

[Bishop Steiner]

xVLFBERHxT, on 04 December 2017 - 08:34 AM, said:

I read the books and I liked the time-period. To me, it was like a resetting of the power creep, Back to the roods of battletech .

Knights and Paladins. Isolated Planets with complicated comunication. Mechs are rare, lots of combined forces with 1 or 2 mechs (mostly old and patched or IIC mechs).

The mechdesign mostly....


sucks .

Eh, resetting the Power Creep was the initial idea...but buy the third expansion pack or so, it was right back to a mad rush to Mary Sue land.

[Odanan]

xVLFBERHxT, on 04 December 2017 - 08:34 AM, said:

I read the books and I liked the time-period. To me, it was like a resetting of the power creep, Back to the roods of battletech .

Knights and Paladins. Isolated Planets with complicated comunication. Mechs are rare, lots of combined forces with 1 or 2 mechs (mostly old and patched or IIC mechs).

That's a good thing.

xVLFBERHxT, on 04 December 2017 - 08:34 AM, said:

The mechdesign mostly....

sucks .

Yep.

[Bishop Steiner]

Odanan, on 04 December 2017 - 09:09 AM, said:

That's a good thing.

Yep.

Mostly....? Maybe.

But not entirely








in fairness...

[Requiemking]

Bishop Steiner, on 04 December 2017 - 01:25 PM, said:

Mostly....? Maybe.

But not entirely




in fairness...

Ahh, the Gunsmith. One of the nicer-look DA mechs in my opinion, and quad MXPL plus MASC makes this mech terrifying.

[xVLFBERHxT]

Naaahhhhh

DA SPHINX IS DA BOT!

Pure molten lazor meta, with goat legs, gorilla arms and a highlander cockpit!

Nuff said...

[Requiemking]

xVLFBERHxT, on 04 December 2017 - 02:30 PM, said:

Naaahhhhh

DA SPHINX IS DA BOT!

Pure molten lazor meta, with goat legs, gorilla arms and a highlander cockpit!

Nuff said...

That cockpit doesn't say "Highlander" for me. It's gives me the same "Shoot Me" vibe as the Cyclops.

[Bishop Steiner]

Requiemking, on 04 December 2017 - 01:44 PM, said:

Ahh, the Gunsmith. One of the nicer-look DA mechs in my opinion, and quad MXPL plus MASC makes this mech terrifying.

Yeah. I also made a version with 2x L-PPC and 2x ERML. Made for a fun unit.

[Requiemking]

Bishop Steiner, on 04 December 2017 - 10:11 PM, said:

Yeah. I also made a version with 2x L-PPC and 2x ERML. Made for a fun unit.

It makes me wish we could get XPLs in game so we could get that mech. I wouldn't even care if we got the Laser Machineguns from MWLL, just so long as I could have the Gunsmith.

[FupDup]

Requiemking, on 04 December 2017 - 10:16 PM, said:

It makes me wish we could get XPLs in game so we could get that mech. I wouldn't even care if we got the Laser Machineguns from MWLL, just so long as I could have the Gunsmith.

The Gunsmith also requires the XXL engine, Reflective Armor, and XL Gyro.

The first two items are doable but very distant (probably at least 3+ years of IRL time). The last item is impossible in the current mechlab due to how our Gyro weights are handled.

[Brain Cancer]

FupDup, on 04 December 2017 - 10:18 PM, said:

The Gunsmith also requires the XXL engine, Reflective Armor, and XL Gyro.

The first two items are doable but very distant (probably at least 3+ years of IRL time). The last item is impossible in the current mechlab due to how our Gyro weights are handled.

The compact gyro alone would revolutionize many designs, simply because of allowing larger weapons to fit in the CT mounts that are frequently only fit for a small missile launcher or perhaps a LPL if you're really feeling it.

[Karl Streiger]

FupDup, on 04 December 2017 - 10:18 PM, said:

The Gunsmith also requires the XXL engine, Reflective Armor, and XL Gyro.

The first two items are doable but very distant (probably at least 3+ years of IRL time). The last item is impossible in the current mechlab due to how our Gyro weights are handled.

Well non of this would be a game breaker - you can only die once by a ST Destruction - so a IS Guy don't care about the fragility of a XXL
A xl gyro is a non crit so again a no brainer

reactive armor - should need to make it in-game yesterday, or last week or last year?

Edited by Karl Streiger, 05 December 2017 - 12:48 AM.

[Odanan]

Karl Streiger, on 05 December 2017 - 12:47 AM, said:

Well non of this would be a game breaker - you can only die once by a ST Destruction - so a IS Guy don't care about the fragility of a XXL
A xl gyro is a non crit so again a no brainer

But they need some drawback in the game.

Karl Streiger, on 05 December 2017 - 12:47 AM, said:

reactive armor - should need to make it in-game yesterday, or last week or last year?

Agreed. Specialized armor would help a lot to counter those energy meta boats.

[Karl Streiger]

Odanan, on 05 December 2017 - 04:09 AM, said:

But they need some drawback in the game.

more base heat (for example 9% on Terra Therma for others and 15% - 18% for the XXL (doesn't matter Clan or IS XXL)