20517 replies to this topic

[Phoenix Branson]

Bryan Ekman, on 28 June 2013 - 12:43 PM, said:

Strum Wealh: What are the plans and attitudes of PGI with regard to the in-game availability (or lack thereof) of certain BattleMechs (or individual variants thereof) that, in BattleTech, are generally or wholly restricted to specific organizations/units (such as the Hoplite not being produced at all in the Inner Sphere, and neither it nor the Annihilator not being available outside of the Wolf's Dragoons)?
A: You will however see some of this come into player through price adjustments based on faction availability in a future game update.

Does that mean we shall see the mighty Annihilator?

Edited by Maverick01, 01 July 2013 - 08:55 PM.

[Der BruzZzler von Wiesndoof]

A personal dream would come true!
ANH FTW!

[FireSlade]

Maverick01, on 01 July 2013 - 08:49 PM, said:

Does that mean we shall see the mighty Annihilator?

Wow she looks nice....... *whistles*

After playing MW3 I never understood why everyone liked that mech since it was useless in it and the design team did not do the artwork justice.

[Bishop Steiner]

FireSlade, on 02 July 2013 - 07:08 AM, said:

Wow she looks nice....... *whistles*

After playing MW3 I never understood why everyone liked that mech since it was useless in it and the design team did not do the artwork justice.

Well thank you. That is one of my better re-designs, IMO. So I appreciate it.

IDK though, I ran ANH-1As a LOT in MWO (it and the Nova were my rides of choice). Max armor, 400XL and 4 ER PPC with oodles of heatsinks, on chainfire, I absolutely WRECKED anything I came across. And I thought the art was decent (better than the MW4 stuff, on the whole), but not great.

[Morang]

FireSlade, on 02 July 2013 - 07:08 AM, said:

After playing MW3 I never understood why everyone liked that mech since it was useless in it and the design team did not do the artwork justice.

In MWO it will have speed cap of about 35 kph w/o tweak (220 max engine). But a minimum of 4 ballistic hardpoints (one per arm and one per side torso, so slots for big guns won't be a problem) and 4 beam hardpoints (2 in arms for bug hunting and 2 in CT for zombie staying power).

[Bishop Steiner]

Morang, on 02 July 2013 - 08:29 AM, said:

In MWO it will have speed cap of about 35 kph w/o tweak (220 max engine). But a minimum of 4 ballistic hardpoints (one per arm and one per side torso, so slots for big guns won't be a problem) and 4 beam hardpoints (2 in arms for bug hunting and 2 in CT for zombie staying power).

And then there is the Dragoon version with a 54 kph base...... of course it is all Clan Tech, so we will likely never see it......

Still 4 UAC5, 2 ER PPC and 2 Mediums (or an ER Large if one wants to use heavy E for sniping, ballistics for CQB) even in a slow mech, has gotta be kinda scary.........

Morang, on 02 July 2013 - 08:29 AM, said:

In MWO it will have speed cap of about 35 kph w/o tweak (220 max engine). But a minimum of 4 ballistic hardpoints (one per arm and one per side torso, so slots for big guns won't be a problem) and 4 beam hardpoints (2 in arms for bug hunting and 2 in CT for zombie staying power).

also, it is x1.2 engine mod for Assaults, so a 240 max. (for what... 37 kph or some such, lol)

Edited by Bishop Steiner, 02 July 2013 - 09:50 AM.

[Odanan]

Hmm the hero Victor has 7 hardpoints... that means the variants will have at least the same number and the super cool VTR-9A and the VTR-9A1 should not be let out of the game. Well, at least if they want us to buy the mech anyway.

So, my predictions might be true:


BTW, that Annihilator is your masterpiece, Bishop.
Maybe we wont get the ultimate ballistic boat (quad gauss goodness), but I would be satisfied with the Victor VRT-9A1.

[Strum Wealh]

Odanan, on 02 July 2013 - 02:49 PM, said:

Hmm the hero Victor has 7 hardpoints... that means the variants will have at least the same number and the super cool VTR-9A and the VTR-9A1 should not be let out of the game. Well, at least if they want us to buy the mech anyway.

So, my predictions might be true:


BTW, that Annihilator is your masterpiece, Bishop.
Maybe we wont get the ultimate ballistic boat (quad gauss goodness), but I would be satisfied with the Victor VRT-9A1.

Well, it looks like the VTR-9A1 shall not grace MWO with its jump-capable triple-Gauss/triple-AC/20 doom-boating...

Khan Ignotus, on 02 July 2013 - 11:49 AM, said:

According to the Smurfy Mechlab site as of this moment as I post this, there are Victor variants of VTR-9K, VTR-9B, and VTR9S. Are these the variants of the Victor in which will be surely implemented into the game, or is this idea still in the air?

Genewen, on 02 July 2013 - 12:21 PM, said:

Pilot lab mech tree says it is correct:

[Odanan]

Strum Wealh, on 02 July 2013 - 05:03 PM, said:

Well, it looks like the VTR-9A1 shall not grace MWO with its jump-capable triple-Gauss/triple-AC/20 doom-boating...

Noooooooo! God darned! Why? Why?

[Bishop Steiner]

Odanan, on 02 July 2013 - 06:27 PM, said:

Noooooooo! God darned! Why? Why?

because of the SnipeSpam Cheeze festr MWO is currently, I would guess.

[Mad Dog Morgan]

If PG were to do the clan mechs according to timeline, the Ebon Jaguar would be amongst the clan mechs' ranks in 3050, though incredibly expensive (A whopping 18mil C-bills) and rare. The nasty little Piranha would have started production in one more year as well.

[Der BruzZzler von Wiesndoof]

Vaskadar, on 02 July 2013 - 08:08 PM, said:

If PG were to do the clan mechs according to timeline, the Ebon Jaguar would be amongst the clan mechs' ranks in 3050, though incredibly expensive (A whopping 18mil C-bills) and rare. The nasty little Piranha would have started production in one more year as well.

Incredibly expensive? The Executioner costs nearly 36,000,000 C-bills. That's expensive!

[Adridos]

Vaskadar, on 02 July 2013 - 08:08 PM, said:

If PG were to do the clan mechs according to timeline, the Ebon Jaguar would be amongst the clan mechs' ranks in 3050, though incredibly expensive (A whopping 18mil C-bills) and rare.

There is no salvage of Clan mechs at this point in time... not a single bit of it.

So price is kinda moot, considering they are definitely not buyable.

[Strum Wealh]

Odanan, on 02 July 2013 - 06:27 PM, said:

Noooooooo! God darned! Why? Why?

Bishop Steiner, on 02 July 2013 - 07:49 PM, said:

because of the SnipeSpam Cheeze festr MWO is currently, I would guess.

Probably.

[Der BruzZzler von Wiesndoof]

Greez mates,

can anyone give me some canoncial background informations about the Hero-Victor "Dragon Slayer"? Pilot, time area etc. It would help me a lot.

[CDLord HHGD]

The Birdeater, on 03 July 2013 - 04:16 AM, said:

Greez mates,

can anyone give me some canoncial background informations about the Hero-Victor "Dragon Slayer"? Pilot, time area etc. It would help me a lot.

http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Victor

[Butane9000]

The Birdeater, on 03 July 2013 - 04:16 AM, said:

Greez mates,

can anyone give me some canoncial background informations about the Hero-Victor "Dragon Slayer"? Pilot, time area etc. It would help me a lot.

As far as I know it's one of PGI's concoctions (which means there isn't any lore or back story information).

[Strum Wealh]

The Birdeater, on 03 July 2013 - 04:16 AM, said:

Greez mates,

can anyone give me some canoncial background informations about the Hero-Victor "Dragon Slayer"? Pilot, time area etc. It would help me a lot.

Butane9000, on 03 July 2013 - 07:23 AM, said:

As far as I know it's one of PGI's concoctions (which means there isn't any lore or back story information).

Given the name and coloring, and as yet without the e-mail announcement that usually includes such information, I would guess that the DS might be supposed to be the 'Mech piloted by either Hans Vordel (from the bodyguard lance to the command lance from Wolf's Dragoons - who also fought in the Battle of Misery, after the Dragoons were betrayed by the Draconis Combine) or Arden Sortek (from the FedSuns, the current Prince's Champion, and arguably the most famous Victor pilot).

[tulip]

Colddawg, on 28 June 2013 - 01:44 PM, said:

did anyone else see the link url for the image of the battlemaster?
"thanksforbeinggoodsports"
and if using mozilla the page at name says "mechs_sorrycouldnothelpmyself.png"

That's because during the reveal when the picture did not show all of the mechs the URL the picture was hosted at was suggestively named with the day, if you tried simply changing the day in the URL to see the next day's mech revealed it was a picture of a trollface.

Ergo the final image URL's "thanksforbeinggoodsports" and "mechs_sorrycouldnothelpmyself.png" was a nod to those of us that tried to see the fully revealed picture before they wanted us to because we would notice the URLs, it was a good joke and those of us that noticed enjoyed it, didn't post it on (these) forums because I thought that would ruin it for anyone else that would find it themselves.

[Strum Wealh]

So... Griffin or Wolverine as candidates for the next Medium 'Mech?