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[Fenomen]

Executioner and Arctic Cheetah extra Variant Arm Omnipods will be needed to run the optimum builds. This is Clan Reeinforcements all over again. Actually even worse, unless you preorder now you will have to wait for mc release to even buy those extra Variants, which will be much less Value.

tldr: they want you to preorder the next 6-7 days or feel rekt later on

[Zordicron]

IMO, I am fine with that anyway. Buy really early get max value.

If you feel the mechs will not be "good" without the extras, then.... wait until you can buy the whole enchilada with c-bills. Thats the model, real money gets you more value then not giving any real money to the developers.

Note: I haven't bought the pack.... yet.

[Star Colonel Silver Surat]

The fact they have to keep dangling these gigantic rewards in front of players in order to secure immediate payment makes me worried they're literally living paycheck to paycheck.

[Brody319]

Or! you can just buy the omnipods when the mechs are released....because all the variants will be released at the same time...so you are losing nothing by waiting...at all..you just gotta spend a little extra to get the other omnipods.

Litterally all you are getting is getting 1 extra mech, thats it.

[Widowmaker1981]

The Arctic Cheetah will be more than usable without the C, but you have a point with the Gladiator

[FupDup]

Cheetah: You get 1 less energy in the right arm and 1 less energy in the left torso (if you wanna give up ECM)

Scat: You can't build the 2 LPL/ERLL+ 6 MG "Clan Arrow"

Cauldron Born: You don't get the arms with 1 ballistic and 1 missile each

Gladbag: You don't get left arm missiles, left torso energy (or anything really), second right torso energy, or the crazytown 7 energy right arm


Overall, the Cauldron Born doesn't gain much from the early adopter. The Gladiator however is dramatically superior with the D variant, and the Scat gets a fun new troll build option. The Cheetah gets slightly stronger but is still good without.

Edited by FupDup, 21 February 2015 - 10:10 AM.

[Brody319]

1. order when you want
2. wait for order
3. buy the fourth variant's omnipods

boom!

[FupDup]

Brody319, on 21 February 2015 - 10:08 AM, said:

1. order when you want
2. wait for order
3. buy the fourth variant's omnipods

boom!

Then you'd have to deal with 3 of the robots not having their maximum effectiveness for all those months... The Gladiator-D is the worst offender by far, for obvious reasons...

[Brody319]

FupDup, on 21 February 2015 - 10:09 AM, said:

Then you'd have to deal with 3 of the robots not having their maximum effectiveness for all those months... The Gladiator-D is the worst offender by far, for obvious reasons...

what are you talking about? The omnipods and variants will be released at the same time as the main 3

[FupDup]

Brody319, on 21 February 2015 - 10:12 AM, said:

what are you talking about? The omnipods and variants will be released at the same time as the main 3

If somebody preorders the packs but doesn't get early adopter, do they get the ability to use the 4th variant omnipods on their shiny new robbits?

That's what I'm referring to.

I.e. If I bought an a Shadow Cat sometime in March, would I still get to use the Machine Gun boat pods before the MC/C-Bill releases?

[Brody319]

FupDup, on 21 February 2015 - 10:15 AM, said:

If somebody preorders the packs but doesn't get early adopter, do they get the ability to use the 4th variant omnipods on their shiny new robbits?

That's what I'm referring to.

I.e. If I bought an a Shadow Cat sometime in March, would I still get to use the Machine Gun boat pods before the MC/C-Bill releases?

FAQ says all variants are released at the same time. and before the Timberwolf was available for C-bills and MC, I could put on pods from all of them with no issue. so I imagine so. might ask PGI though.

[Mcgral18]

Brody319, on 21 February 2015 - 10:17 AM, said:

FAQ says all variants are released at the same time. and before the Timberwolf was available for C-bills and MC, I could put on pods from all of them with no issue. so I imagine so. might ask PGI though.

But you cannot put the Nova-A LT on your Prime, can you? Or the Timby-D STs.

It's going to be the same way, restricted for a month instead of three.

[Brody319]

Mcgral18, on 21 February 2015 - 10:19 AM, said:

But you cannot put the Nova-A LT on your Prime, can you? Or the Timby-D STs.

It's going to be the same way, restricted for a month instead of three.

I don't know about that. Sounds like someone should ask a dev. I know they are lurking!

[FupDup]

Brody319, on 21 February 2015 - 10:17 AM, said:

FAQ says all variants are released at the same time. and before the Timberwolf was available for C-bills and MC, I could put on pods from all of them with no issue. so I imagine so. might ask PGI though.

In the announcement thread I found this:

Alexander Garden, on 20 February 2015 - 06:46 PM, said:

I want to confirm this on Monday just to be sure, but from what I know in-game purchasing of the Early Adopter Variant OmniPods will only be available once the respective 'Mechs from Wave 3 have hit their in-game purchase dates.

So the answer is...probably not.

[Widowmaker1981]

nevermind

Edited by Widowmaker1981, 21 February 2015 - 10:26 AM.

[Brody319]

I don't know.

oh well. not like we aren't waiting about as long for the clan reinforcements.

[Mcgral18]

Widowmaker1981, on 21 February 2015 - 10:24 AM, said:

Yes, you can. Take them off the A and save, go to the prime and equip them. You can even buy a second copy on the A afterwards

Only if you buy the A. I don't own the A, which is exactly how this bonus variant will act. I can't touch those pods.

[PurpleNinja]

OK, we all know the drill...

"I hate this pay to win game and I will keep playing everyday until they shut down the servers"

[LordKnightFandragon]

Star Colonel Silver Surat, on 21 February 2015 - 07:58 AM, said:

The fact they have to keep dangling these gigantic rewards in front of players in order to secure immediate payment makes me worried they're literally living paycheck to paycheck.

Its not the players fault the game isnt really that amazing..

Work on content to draw in more new players, dont keep putting out sub optimal crap and hope for return business.....

They should kinda put new mechs on the back burner and work 100% on new and better maps, improving current maps, adding new game modes, PVE, proper new player experience improvements, economy improvements and the like. Make alot of players want to spend a little money on your game instead of a few spending a bunch....I thought that was the whole idea behind micro transactions and the F2p model in the 1st place? lots of small purchases makes more money then smaller, monthly larger purchases.

[Brody319]

because not like game development has multiple teams working on the same game. I mean that would make sense, nope gotta throw every single person at a single issue and problem. can't have a few people doing maps, a few doing mechs, and a few doing balance.