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[FLG 01]

Nexus+Jackrabbit would be very attractive due to the variety it offers. And I think this Mech would be quite good. There is, however, one big problem: the vast majority of the Nexus variants are centered on C3. Not just a slave, but a CPU, and it's important to the design of the Mech as such.
I am not really comfortable with changing the base characteristics of a Mech that much. (Also, Nexus is an Unseen from VMI and I am not sure what the legal status of the VMI-inspired Mechs is...).

I mean, I would probably buy it, because the Mech itself and its lore are really nice. I have a soft spot for those lost-and-found Mechs, and the RWR-origins make it even more unique. Having a hero-Mech in RWR-livery would be great!

Edited by FLG 01, 13 August 2017 - 09:57 AM.

[Requiemking]

FLG 01, on 13 August 2017 - 09:54 AM, said:

Nexus+Jackrabbit would be very attractive due to the variety it offers. And I think this Mech would be quite good. There is, however, one big problem: the vast majority of the Nexus variants are centered on C3. Not just a slave, but a CPU, and it's important to the design of the Mech as such.
I am not really comfortable with changing the base characteristics of a Mech that much. (Also, Nexus is an Unseen from VMI and I am not sure what the legal status of the VMI-inspired Mechs is...).

I mean, I would probably buy it, because the Mech itself and its lore are really nice. I have a soft spot for those lost-and-found Mechs, and the RWR-origins make it even more unique. Having a hero-Mech in RWR-livery would be great!

Of course you would like the RWR. After all, your sig is Queen Insanity herself.

[FLG 01]

Requiemking, on 14 August 2017 - 11:36 AM, said:

Of course you would like the RWR. After all, your sig is Queen Insanity herself.

When did Katherine ever don a uniform?

Katrina Steiner, the grandmother of Victor and Katherine Steiner-Davion, was perhaps the greatest Archon the Lyrans ever had. That's why Katherine adopted/usurped her first name, but even as she called herself Katrina she never gave up the Steiner-Davion name (obviously not because she did not care for any of those, she just wanted the power granted by those names).

And, for the record, while Katherine was an incredibly bad ruler she was not insane. Just bad.

Anyway, since it is a fictional universe I allow myself to like the RWR and its imagery, especially as some of its personnel is actually quite likeable but fighting for the wrong side. Think of Patrick Scoffins who was kind of a Rommel-character.

Edited by FLG 01, 14 August 2017 - 12:02 PM.

[Metus regem]

FLG 01, on 14 August 2017 - 12:00 PM, said:

When did Katherine ever don a uniform?

Katrina Steiner, the grandmother of Victor and Katherine Steiner-Davion, was perhaps the greatest Archon the Lyrans ever had. That's why Katherine adopted/usurped her first name, but even as she called herself Katrina she never gave up the Steiner-Davion name (obviously not because she did not care for any of those, she just wanted the power granted by those names).

And, for the record, while Katherine was an incredibly bad ruler she was not insane. Just bad.

Anyway, since it is a fictional universe I allow myself to like the RWR and its imagery, especially as some of its personnel is actually quite likeable but fighting for the wrong side. Think of Patrick Scoffins who was kind of a Rommel-character.

I couldn't agree more about Cersei lannister Kathrine Stiner-Davion....

I really should get around to seeing if you could do one like that for the Fox, Hanse Davion (that or M.I. 6, the Rabid Foxes)... I'm not much for skill when it comes to sigs...


Edit:

As for Kathrine, she did don a uniform, when she won her trial of position in Clan Wolf.... It likely would've looked like this:

Edited by Metus regem, 14 August 2017 - 12:12 PM.

[FLG 01]

Metus regem, on 14 August 2017 - 12:08 PM, said:

I couldn't agree more about Cersei lannister Kathrine Stiner-Davion....

I really should get around to seeing if you could do one like that for the Fox, Hanse Davion (that or M.I. 6, the Rabid Foxes)... I'm not much for skill when it comes to sigs...

As for Kathrine, she did don a uniform, when she won her trial of position in Clan Wolf.... It likely would've looked like this:

True, I sometimes forget her warrior status among the Clans. Says a lot about the Clans if you ask me...

Btw., I can do a sig for you if drop me a PM and tell me what you want.

Edited by FLG 01, 14 August 2017 - 12:20 PM.

[Odanan]

FLG 01, on 14 August 2017 - 12:20 PM, said:

True, I sometimes forget her warrior status among the Clans. Says a lot about the Clans if you ask me...

Says a lot about the writers if you ask me...

[Brain Cancer]

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True, I sometimes forget her warrior status among the Clans. Says a lot about the Clans if you ask me...

She literally took a Warhawk out, alphaed a smaller 'Mech to death in a one-shot, and then shut down from the heat load and was taken down.

That, however qualifies as passing, if in a pathetic fashion. She did end up in a solhama unit after Khan Ward died and ended up stabbed to death by her incestous-but-not-really "son" after living over a century.

[Karl Streiger]

Isn't Alaric Clone the ultimate Mary sue?
Btt wonder how the Savage Wolf would work in mwo l
20% more armor but dies with st loose and its a smaller but wider

Another question: Is there a reason that MWO does not have asymetrical arm configs (warwolf, shootist, starslayer)
Arms of Victor, highlander etc. Should have no ellbow

[Odanan]

Karl Streiger, on 14 August 2017 - 08:16 PM, said:

Another question: Is there a reason that MWO does not have asymetrical arm configs (warwolf, shootist, starslayer)
Arms of Victor, highlander etc. Should have no ellbow

I think is just about aesthetics. The first Dragon concept art had the arm done correctly, but somewhere sometime they changed it.

[Metus regem]

Odanan, on 15 August 2017 - 04:36 AM, said:

I think is just about aesthetics. The first Dragon concept art had the arm done correctly, but somewhere sometime they changed it.

The way I heard the tale go, PGI was going to go with this model, but people on the forums back then threw up a stink about it not showing the LAA that is in the RA of the Dragon... thing is in all the official art work, it's never clear if the arm does actually have an elbow.... Personally I'm of the thought that it lacks an elbow and that the LAA is used to give it some yaw in addition to pitch from the UAA.

I like the raised arm and if you ask me it'd make the Dragon better, if it actually had that kind of arm.

[Odanan]

Metus regem, on 15 August 2017 - 06:44 AM, said:

The way I heard the tale go, PGI was going to go with this model, but people on the forums back then threw up a stink about it not showing the LAA that is in the RA of the Dragon... thing is in all the official art work, it's never clear if the arm does actually have an elbow.... Personally I'm of the thought that it lacks an elbow and that the LAA is used to give it some yaw in addition to pitch from the UAA.

I like the raised arm and if you ask me it'd make the Dragon better, if it actually had that kind of arm.

Yep. That's another of that circumstances when the TRO concept art doesn't match the mech sheet.

I don't blame PGI for doing that way, though. Clan omnimechs (those you can add/remove lower hand actuators) would be specially tricky to implement.

[Metus regem]

Odanan, on 15 August 2017 - 08:32 AM, said:

Yep. That's another of that circumstances when the TRO concept art doesn't match the mech sheet.

I don't blame PGI for doing that way, though. Clan omnimechs (those you can add/remove lower hand actuators) would be specially tricky to implement.

Well just look at a Timber Wolf, doesn't mater if you have a PPC / AC/s in it, it still has an elbow just like it does with it is packing lasers....

[FupDup]

Odanan, on 15 August 2017 - 04:36 AM, said:

I think is just about aesthetics. The first Dragon concept art had the arm done correctly, but somewhere sometime they changed it.

Unfortunately it seems that MWO's current arms/torso system can't support mechs that have one high arm and one low arm. Every mech in MWO has either both arms low or both high.

[Odanan]

FupDup, on 15 August 2017 - 10:03 AM, said:

Unfortunately it seems that MWO's current arms/torso system can't support mechs that have one high arm and one low arm. Every mech in MWO has either both arms low or both high.

That's not a technical issue, just a cosmetic choice. Some mechs do have very different arms, like the Summoner and Bushwacker.

Edited by Odanan, 15 August 2017 - 10:15 AM.

[Odanan]

So, how are those Arctic Cheetahs with 8xMGs doing? (test for Piranha)

[SuperFunkTron]

Odanan, on 15 August 2017 - 01:36 PM, said:

So, how are those Arctic Cheetahs with 8xMGs doing? (test for Piranha)

Why worry about the Arctic Cheetah when the Gargoyle has just inherited so much power with its torso mounts!?

You've actually made me curious about the cheetah so I'll pick one up soon.

[Metus regem]

Odanan, on 15 August 2017 - 01:36 PM, said:

So, how are those Arctic Cheetahs with 8xMGs doing? (test for Piranha)

Going by the thread:

https://mwomercs.com...ting-mgs-is-op/

The OP thinks they are OP when used en-mass, most posters don't.

That's fair they are a weapon system with a very small window of usefulness. That being said, I have had fun with Bulletstorm for a while now.


Edit:

And a big thanks to FLG01 for the signature.

Edited by Metus regem, 15 August 2017 - 02:09 PM.

[Bishop Steiner]

Metus regem, on 15 August 2017 - 02:08 PM, said:

Going by the thread:

https://mwomercs.com...ting-mgs-is-op/

The OP thinks they are OP when used en-mass, most posters don't.

That's fair they are a weapon system with a very small window of usefulness. That being said, I have had fun with Bulletstorm for a while now.


Edit:

And a big thanks to FLG01 for the signature.

I thought it was te Mist Lynx that had 8 MG?

[FupDup]

Bishop Steiner, on 15 August 2017 - 02:49 PM, said:

I thought it was te Mist Lynx that had 8 MG?

It's both.

[Metus regem]

Bishop Steiner, on 15 August 2017 - 02:49 PM, said:

I thought it was te Mist Lynx that had 8 MG?

More saying that a difference of 1MG does not render them OP when boated, doubly so when they can be hard countered with range.