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[Odanan]

Something for playing while you wait for the Fire Moth.
(or HBS' Battletech)

Now imagine if there was this mini-game inside MWO, so you can play while waiting for a match... (PGI, please?)

[Odanan]

In a couple of days?

[Uncle Totty]

Odanan, on 27 December 2016 - 09:00 AM, said:

Next week?

Next month there is a chance we may get what we were promised for this month? (Something new? Something PGI has not done before? A light mech with MASC?)

[Odanan]

Here is a post of suggestions from June, 2015.

Spoiler

Odanan, on 04 June 2015 - 12:49 PM, said:

In order of complexity:

1- Training grounds against AI mechs

And later: you can choose the enemy mechs in the training grounds. And, later: co-op support for this training ground. Well, what I want is basically the "Instant Action" feature from MW4. You choose the map, enemy mechs and number of enemy waves. Co-op support for this would be a (great) plus.

2- The Gauntlet (see the Battletech book "The Sword and the Dagger" for the reference)

That's a single-player map that will test your skills with a mech. There would be all sort of turrets (laser, LRM, SRM, pop-up, sliding, hardened, etc) and the objective is to finish the course. Best times and scores are recorded (maybe with a global ranking). This would also be perfect for last Combat Tutorial ("if you finish the course, cadet, you are promoted to mechwarrior").

3- Solaris

Basically what we have in MW4:M, but with human players and ladders. (hopefully with Duncan Fisher narration)

4- "MOBA" game mode (for CW?).

Two bases spawning AI Vehicles (tanks and VTOLs). The objective is to destroy a certain enemy building (Command Center?), but there would be other buildings you could destroy (like tank hangars and helipads - destroying them would stop the vehicle spawning).

5- Historical (or not) co-op Battles (and Campaigns).

Battle of Tukayyid, Battle of Luthien, etc... There are hundreds of canonical battles that could be reproduced.

6- MWO: Mercenaries.

Full singleplayer (or even co-op) campaign. You choose the contracts, travel to the planet, do the mission, receive the money, buy, repair and customize your mechs, hire pilots, etc... Imagine MW1, MW2:M or MW4:M with MWO's assets.

PS: for mech packages: Clan Wave IV, with Fire Falcon, Viper (or Huntsman, or Black Lanner), Night Gyr and Turkina; a Clan Second Line Pack, with Piranha, Hellhound, Grizzly and Kodiak; and later on the timeline, the Clan Wave V, with Hellion, Grendel, Nova Cat and Blood Asp.

The singleplayer Mechwarrior new title was my most far fetched suggestion and it's coming along!
Thank you, PGI for the year of 2016 and let's hope there will be a lot of great MWO new features in this 2017 (so we can suffer less with the wait for MW5).

[Odanan]

Any day now?

[CK16]

I hope Alex draws an Elemental just for it! Really though, I want some form of Elementals in this game

[Odanan]

CK16, on 02 January 2017 - 09:47 AM, said:

I hope Alex draws an Elemental just for it! Really though, I want some form of Elementals in this game

Maybe not in MWO, but they will certainly feature in MW5 (which will go up to the Clan Invasion).

[ShadowbaneX]

Odanan, on 02 January 2017 - 09:30 AM, said:

Any day now?

Edited by ShadowbaneX, 02 January 2017 - 10:15 AM.

[Pariah Devalis]

A show of hands for Fire Moth supporters?



Ah yis.....

[Odanan]

Pariah Devalis, on 02 January 2017 - 11:22 AM, said:

A show of hands for Fire Moth supporters?



Ah yis.....

It looks like a baby mech with the arms raised... I want to hug it.

Edited by Odanan, 02 January 2017 - 01:42 PM.

[Sereglach]

Odanan, on 02 January 2017 - 10:02 AM, said:

Maybe not in MWO, but they will certainly feature in MW5 (which will go up to the Clan Invasion).

Where on earth did you hear that? If that is the case and has been officially stated, that's a lot to cover and cram into one game. I honestly doubt PGI could pull that off in a quality fashion.

Consider that MW5 is set in 3015. That's a LONG time to cover in one game which would include both the latter portion of the 3rd Succession War, the Entirety of the 4th Succession War, basically everything Wolf's Dragoons did after working for Liao, the recovery of the Helm Memory Core, AND everything that led up to the Clan Invasion. That's not even including all of the little stuff that happened in the meantime.

[ShadowbaneX]

I don't remember specifics, but it came out when tell game was announced. People were bitching about the Raven-3L and it said the game would cover like 4 decades.

And while it covers that time period it does take place in an isolated cluster. There's no guarantee that we'll be leaving that place. So while, yeah, massive history that's happening "Over There".

[Sereglach]

ShadowbaneX, on 02 January 2017 - 07:43 PM, said:

I don't remember specifics, but it came out when tell game was announced. People were bitching about the Raven-3L and it said the game would cover like 4 decades.

And while it covers that time period it does take place in an isolated cluster. There's no guarantee that we'll be leaving that place. So while, yeah, massive history that's happening "Over There".

I saw the reveal on the live-stream and there was no mention of the game reaching the Clan invasion. I even went through Russ's Twitter feed and didn't notice anything about it (of course that doesn't mean I couldn't have missed something). However, no official words means nothing but speculation, which is why I was asking for a source. Also, for people complaining about the Raven 3L . . . PGI has paid how much attention to canon in mech releases for MWO? I don't expect them to do so for a pre-pre-Alpha preview of a game that's not slated for release for two years at the earliest (although for simplicity's sake I could easily buy seeing the Raven 1X, 2X, and 4X in a Third/Fourth Succession Wars game).

Besides, regardless of massive history happening "over there", there's still the fact that all of that history would be impacting the game, especially advances in technology and availability of chassis/variants in the game. Let alone the fact that for the game to cover even the beginnings of the clan invasion, and have it impact the game, that means the game is going to be located at least partly near the invasion itself . . . so the massive history isn't necessarily happening "over there". It'll all need to be taken into account if they want to get that ambitious.

Therefore, that's still a LOT for a game to do; and it's even more to do it well enough to have a quality game. I'd like to say I have faith PGI can pull it off, but I can't . . . and the earliest I think my mind could be changed is after the first quarter of this year when PGI has put hard dates for February for the Skill Tree Overhaul and March for the Assault Game Mode Overhaul.

Regardless, if you or anyone else has a source on the game lasting from the end of the Third Succession War through the Clan Invasion then I'd love to see it.

[Pariah Devalis]

I believe the quote was that it would run up until the dawn of the invasion. Not that it would include the invasion. So we might be looking at a time slice of 3025-3047ish. About 20 years. How they'd cover that much time without obnoxious time skips is beyond me.

[Karl Streiger]

Don't want to be the elephant but you know the only workable FireMoth - D will be locked behind the paywal

[FLG 01]

That may be true, or not, but if the Dasher makes it into the game... it means the super high speed is no longer a problem, consequently a number of faster Mechs would become available.

The Fireball should run some 265 kph with its 310 engine cap.

No seriously, I like the Fireball. I would not use the max engine but I can imagine going faster than a Locust.

[Karl Streiger]

And go full berzerk with the Fireball (S) version - considering HP inflation 3 Ballistic and 3 Missile Slots
why can't I mount a Gauss on this thing the gun look so tiny it could hardly weigh more than 3tons wut its not the MagShot?

[Steinar Bergstol]

Pariah Devalis, on 02 January 2017 - 10:16 PM, said:

I believe the quote was that it would run up until the dawn of the invasion. Not that it would include the invasion. So we might be looking at a time slice of 3025-3047ish. About 20 years. How they'd cover that much time without obnoxious time skips is beyond me.

I really, really want a chance to fight in the War of 3039 and give those FedRats the thrashing they deserve. I don't think that particular war has been covered by any mechwarrior or battletech videogame yet.

[Odanan]

Sereglach, on 02 January 2017 - 05:31 PM, said:

Where on earth did you hear that? If that is the case and has been officially stated, that's a lot to cover and cram into one game. I honestly doubt PGI could pull that off in a quality fashion.

Consider that MW5 is set in 3015. That's a LONG time to cover in one game which would include both the latter portion of the 3rd Succession War, the Entirety of the 4th Succession War, basically everything Wolf's Dragoons did after working for Liao, the recovery of the Helm Memory Core, AND everything that led up to the Clan Invasion. That's not even including all of the little stuff that happened in the meantime.

It's a lot to cover, but do you think they will leave half the MWO's mechs out of MW5? The Clan (and 3050's IS) mechs will come, even if in a later expansion.

See, PGI is now "married" with the Mechwarrior franchise. When the MW5 crew finish their game, they will need to do something else.

I love the IS mercenary set (MW2:M is my preferred MW title), and MW5 is not even out yet, but I can't wait for a sequel where you play as the Invading Clans... (MW5: The Clans?)

Edited by Odanan, 03 January 2017 - 04:27 AM.

[Ovion]

FLG 01, on 02 January 2017 - 11:40 PM, said:

That may be true, or not, but if the Dasher makes it into the game... it means the super high speed is no longer a problem, consequently a number of faster Mechs would become available.

The Fireball should run some 265 kph with its 310 engine cap.

No seriously, I like the Fireball. I would not use the max engine but I can imagine going faster than a Locust.

Won't happen.
IF the Fireball was released, you can bet that it wouldn't have any higher engine cap.
220 would be its limit.

Hell, the Locust is meant to have a 200/205 cap, but it's limited due to the engine. (sillier now with the drop to tweak).

Locust should get a 200 engine cap.