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[Norris J Packard]

Lagfest, on 13 January 2013 - 09:44 PM, said:

Melee will be in the game Eventually.
About the same time as RAC and H Guass and ATMs

So never.

[Adridos]

Sharp Spikes, on 13 January 2013 - 03:35 PM, said:

Longbow. With ECM of course. THAT would be not just SSRM boat, but SSRM battleship

Longbow is unseen, though.

[Lagfest]

>.>
never say never....

Within the scope of our interest / funding?
prob not

[Odanan]

I'm curious about the hardpoints of the Spider tomorrow... Will it be the worst mech ever or will they improve the hardpoints?

[Sharp Spikes]

Adridos, on 13 January 2013 - 10:15 PM, said:

Longbow is unseen, though.

I know. But it was present in MW4:Mercs, so I think that's not a problem.

[Butane9000]

Odanan, on 14 January 2013 - 04:56 AM, said:

I'm curious about the hardpoints of the Spider tomorrow... Will it be the worst mech ever or will they improve the hardpoints?

I don't think they'll improve the hard points. One of two things will happen tomorrow:

1. Spider turns out to be useful and gets popular.

or

2. Spider turns out to be garbage and becomes the new Commando.

Edited by Butane9000, 14 January 2013 - 08:32 AM.

[Odanan]

Sharp Spikes, on 14 January 2013 - 05:40 AM, said:

I know. But it was present in MW4:Mercs, so I think that's not a problem.

That's intriguing.
The Longbow in MW4M was really the Unseen, not the Reseen. I wonder how they did that.

About the mech itself, all possible (and few) variants are basically the same thing.

Thontor, on 14 January 2013 - 08:38 AM, said:

1: They've added hardpoints beyond the stock weapons loadout on pretty much every mech with less than 5 weapons.
2: they've shown a precedent to move hardpoints to locations that do not match the TRO specs for the mech.(multiple examples)
3: no mech has less than 4 hardpoints in the game, even if they have as few as 3 weapons in stock form.

I will be shocked if they implement the Spider with only 2 hardpoints in any of its variants.

This^

[Butane9000]

Thontor, on 14 January 2013 - 08:38 AM, said:

1: They've added hardpoints beyond the stock weapons loadout on pretty much every mech with less than 5 weapons.
2: they've shown a precedent to move hardpoints to locations that do not match the TRO specs for the mech.(multiple examples)
3: no mech has less than 4 hardpoints in the game, even if they have as few as 3 weapons in stock form.

I will be shocked if they implement the Spider with only 2 hardpoints in any of its variants.

I didn't actually know that. But it's still limited by it's total weight (30 Tons) and the need for JJ's.

[Butane9000]

Thontor, on 14 January 2013 - 09:00 AM, said:

Its main limitation is the 8.5x tonnage engine rating cap, which is necessary cause the net code can't handle mechs any faster than that.

If they ever improve the net code enough to take that away, it'll be the fastest mech in the game at 202 km/h with Speed Tweak.

That and jump jets need improvements.

Yea they HAVE to have a JJ fix in this next patch otherwise whats the point?

[Odanan]

Butane9000, on 14 January 2013 - 09:03 AM, said:

Yea they HAVE to have a JJ fix in this next patch otherwise whats the point?

This, and it would be a good surprise if they also review the unnatural speed cap.

[Adridos]

Odanan, on 14 January 2013 - 09:20 AM, said:

This, and it would be a good surprise if they also review the unnatural speed cap.

That would require them to already have netcode sorted out. I personally don't want to see trollmandos all over again.

[Vincent Lynch]

Thontor, on 14 January 2013 - 08:38 AM, said:

1: They've added hardpoints beyond the stock weapons loadout on pretty much every mech with less than 5 weapons.
2: they've shown a precedent to move hardpoints to locations that do not match the TRO specs for the mech.(multiple examples)
3: no mech has less than 4 hardpoints in the game, even if they have as few as 3 weapons in stock form.

I will be shocked if they implement the Spider with only 2 hardpoints in any of its variants.

The hardpoints list for the Spider is already posted somewhere here, I saw it yesterday. Can't exactly remember where.
But as far as I remember that post, every variant had 4 hardpoints.
The one with the machine guns still has 2 energy hardpoints.
The one with the flamer has 2 energy hardpoints each in CT and that one arm.
Not sure where the hardpoints of the other variant are, but I think it also has 4, spread over the torso. (maybe 1 LT, 1 RT, 2 CT.)
also, 1 of them is ECM capable, due to that post.
(I don't know how speculative it is really, but the poster seemed to be 100% sure about it.)

[Odanan]

Vincent Lynch, on 14 January 2013 - 10:51 AM, said:

The hardpoints list for the Spider is already posted somewhere here, I saw it yesterday. Can't exactly remember where.
But as far as I remember that post, every variant had 4 hardpoints.
The one with the machine guns still has 2 energy hardpoints.
The one with the flamer has 2 energy hardpoints each in CT and that one arm.
Not sure where the hardpoints of the other variant are, but I think it also has 4, spread over the torso. (maybe 1 LT, 1 RT, 2 CT.)
also, 1 of them is ECM capable, due to that post.
(I don't know how speculative it is really, but the poster seemed to be 100% sure about it.)

I just found a post by Sennin about it, but with few information (just one variant).

[Failcube]

Vincent Lynch, on 14 January 2013 - 10:51 AM, said:

The hardpoints list for the Spider is already posted somewhere here, I saw it yesterday. Can't exactly remember where.
But as far as I remember that post, every variant had 4 hardpoints.

The visual avatar for each of the three variants show 4-5 hardpoints on each:
http://mwomercs.com/...t/spider/sdr-5d

[Odanan]

Failcube, on 14 January 2013 - 04:24 PM, said:

The visual avatar for each of the three variants show 4-5 hardpoints on each:
http://mwomercs.com/...t/spider/sdr-5d

hmmm are you talking about that black sppts in the upper side torsos?

[ArmageddonKnight]

Give me a mech that can fit a LongTom Cannon and ill be a happy MechWarrior > ..that weapon was/is brutal.

[Lagfest]

Yea... sure Long tom...
Jihad era says hi!

Pilliger - Anvil

[chewie]

@ Odanan

Unseen Longbow


"Seen" Longbow


ReSeen Longbow

[Armorpiercer M82]

what about summoner ?

Edited by Armorpiercer M82, 15 January 2013 - 02:33 AM.

[Norris J Packard]

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